A courtyard with stone pavings. Transparent pages from medieval illuminated manuscripts hang like tapestries.

The Decameron Collective

The Decameron Collective is a group of nine scholars and artists who have engaged in a weekly practice of collaborating, co-creating, and curating since March of 2020. Together, we have built and exhibited two digital storyworlds, run workshops, write scholarly papers, and experiment with AI.

Projects:

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2023
Memory Eternal | Вічна Пам'ять

Memory Eternal | Вічна Пам'ять (2023) is a VR world designed for Oculus. This work emerges in the wake of a global trauma, and expresses grieving at two scales – personal and collective. In the wake of crises, what do we want to remember and how? What futures should we imagine? How does care ground a wounded world?

Exhibitions: Electronic Literature Association Conference and Media Arts Festival, Coimbra, Portugal, July 12-15, 2023.

New Media Prize Unconference, UK, May 15, 2024.

Interactive Film and Media Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 11-14, 2024.

I imagine and it

becomes a memory..."

Two ancient books sit on a table in a dimly lit room

2022
The Decameron 2.0

The Decameron 2.0 (2022) is an interactive explorable web-based world that takes its cue from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval narrative set in Florence during the Black Plague. Featuring 100 co-created poetic thought experiments, it offers an audio, video, and textual living archive of life during the pandemic that centers women's experience.

Exhibitions:

Toronto Metropolitan University RUBIX Catalyst, Jan 27, 2022
Electronic Literature Association Conference and Media Arts Festival, Como Italy, May 30-June 1, 2022.
ICIDS: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Kobe Japan, November 12-17, 2023.
PhiloSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism - Feminist Making, Doing, & Sensing conference, Mount Royal University, Calgary, March 14-17, 2024.