Interested in Augmented Reality?

Are you 13-19 yrs?

Then this short course is for you! Design your own augmented reality filter and transform the face of user-participants into hybrid human beings.

During these 4 workshops with visual artist MV Brown, you will learn to design an AR face filter utilising drawing and craft skills, and how to translate these digitally for Instagram using 3D design software.

The workshop will give you foundational skills in designing AR filters around the human face and visualising the filters in 2D and 3D using a free AR software.

Bring a friend along with you and sign up now to this free course!

Workshops are held digitally on Zoom. Email learning@southwarkparkgalleries.org for enquiries and to book your place.

Programme //

Saturday 5 October 2024, 11am-2pm
Intro to MV’s practice, where they will share their work including previous filter examples. MV will show how you gather source material on moodboards, and then flesh out initial ideas using AI with text to image prompts. This session is intended to introduce the group to some tools to help conceptualise ideas based on a theme.

Saturday 12 October 2024, 11am-2pm
Using the AI generated images from the previous week as references, MV will show how to translate these into unique designs onto a 3D face template, using the a free software. This session is intended to help visualise how the filter will be builtaround a human face and teach participants how to digitally paint onto a 3D surface.

Saturday 19 October 2024, 11am-2pm
MV Brown will troubleshoot any issues participants have run into previously with Substance Painter and guide them through various texturing techniques, including UV Maps, and how to create your own digital paint brushes, and stamps. They will also show participants how to export settings for use in Meta Spark Studio.

Saturday 26 October 2024, 11am-2pm
Participants will have finalised their designs and in this session be shown how to integrate them with Meta Spark software (free), this session will focus on tweaking and testing their designs before uploading to Instagram.

Biography //

Rooted in performance, MV Brown’s practice uses the human body and new technologies to explore tensions across embodied subjectivity, the body as spectacle and socio-techno constructs of gender and sexuality. Their practice builds upon questions around the (non)performance of daily life and identity in a post-internet context. Drawing on cyberfeminist, glitch-feminist and transhumanist approaches, they investigate avatars, prototypes, ‘false-self’hoods and the fallacy of the ‘IRL’.

Brown has an MA in Film & Television Studies and English Literature from the University of Glasgow, and an MLitt in Fine Art Practice from Glasgow School of Art. Previous exhibitions and performances include French Street Gallery, Glasgow; Glasgow International; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Celine Gallery, Glasgow; and Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy.

Young People’s Short Courses are generously supported by Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund