Sam Kitch

Experimental Spatial Capture
Dynamic + Immersive Storytelling




ABOUT

I am an artist, researcher, and senior lecturer in transmedia storytelling. I have experience in public-facing live projects and facilitation of practice research within cultural spaces, working with stakeholders, arts councils, and local communities.

My practice explores transmedia storytelling as an emerging practice within heritage, visual communication, and interaction design disciplines. My interests centre on the interstices between computation, instrumentality, and human experience.
The application of remote sensing techniques fosters a relationship with virtual environments that embrace indeterminacy over exact representation. Instead, they are investigated as spatial-critical mediums that reveal hidden narratives and reconstruct collective memory.  




PROJECTS
Lost For(\r)est    
Here We Are    
Digital Monoliths    
Sublime Temporality    
Visualising Sound    
H0ly Ωsland    
British Steel    
Go Local    
FENTY    
D&AD    




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H0ly Ωsland



           H0ly 1sland 2018
‘H0ly Ωsland’ explores the cultural constructs of natural and virtual landscapes and the notion of a contemporary sublime. The project utilises digital topographies and remote sensing GIS systems as tools for dynamic storytelling of folklore and collective memory in capturing the changing historical perceptions of Holy Island, Lindisfarne. This historic site, dating back to around 634 AD when an Irish monk established the first abbey, offers a rich tapestry for digital topographical reinterpretation.

GIS systems become tools to augment and reconstruct new narratives by intentionally misusing remote sensing techniques against instrumental precision, exact representation of scale and volumetric totality.

Images gathered from NASA Land SAT and Google Earth.