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The Decameron Collective

The Decameron Collective is a group of nine scholars and artists from Canada who have, since March of 2020, engaged in a weekly practice of collaborating, co-creating, and curating.  ​​

Projects:

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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.​

I imagine and it

becomes a memory..."

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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.

News

Award

2023

The Decameron 2.0 was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2022 Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature by the Electronic Literature Organization.

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