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Raquel Salvatella de Prada

Associate Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
114 S. Buchanan Blvd, Smith Warehouse [BAY12, Room 218], Durham, NC 27708
Office hours

Mondays 1-3pm or by appointment

  

Scholarly Works


Beyond

Digital art · 2023 Beyond addresses, in animated form, the history of Taiwan’s White Terror, possibly the darkest period in Taiwan, that started with the declaration of the martial law in 1949 and ended in 1987. The story was inspired by The February 28 Incident art series b ... Link to item Cite

Murmurs

Digital art · 2023 This experimental short dance film in collaboration with Linda Belans and Shirin Maleki is a meditation on memory – real, imagined, assumed – and the power and the weight of what is passed down to us by our forebears. Murmurs premiered with whose eyes i ha ... Link to item Cite

Resonance

Digital art · 2022 Inspired by the aridest landscapes in southern Utah, those of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and the many contrasts these landscapes present, this experimental film, looks at the sacred qualities and fragility of our environment. It depi ... Link to item Cite

Spectral Seas

Fine art · 2021 Arts and the Anthropocene was a year-long interdisciplinary teaching project at Duke University that explored how visual, theatrical, and sonic arts can play a role in educating various publics, provoking action, and prefiguring resilient futures in the er ... Link to item Cite

Cornered

Digital art · 2019 Link to item Cite

LANDeSCAPES

Fine art · 2019 LANDeSCAPES is a multi-media collaboration with printmaker Merrill Shatzman, and musician Jonathan Henderson that examines the fragility of our environment and how it is threatened by global warming, industrial exploitation, and overpopulation. In addition ... Link to item Cite

Cornered

Fine art · 2018 Cornered is a video installation that represents the motivation and struggles of migrants leaving their home country and making an attempt, most often failed, to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish cities of Melilla and Ceuta, the only European ci ... Link to item Cite

If My Feet Have Lost the Ground

Artistic production · 2017 2013-2017 // Integrated performance with video projection and puppetry. ... Link to item Cite

The Paper Hat Game

Artistic production · 2016 2011-2016 Integrated performance with video projection and live puppetry in collaboration with Torry Bend ... Link to item Cite

veoveo, children at play

Digital art · 2016 veoveo is an online application with an educational focus that documents, visualizes and promotes traditional games across cultures through design and interactive visualization. The application relies on research as well as data sourced from the online com ... Link to item Cite

Solitary Confinement

Digital art · 2015 2013-2015 // This animation is a visual representation on an excerpt from prisoner Chris McBride’s letter to the newspaper Indy Week dated on July 4th 2012. This piece attempts to visually communicate, in less than 2 minutes, the amount of time a prisoner ... Link to item Cite

ARTPOEM – The Letters Project

Digital art · 2010 The Letters Project is a multi-media collaborative project by Merrill Shatzman (graphic artist), Raquel Salvatella de Prada (animator) and Deborah Pope (poet). Supported by a Duke University Council for the Arts Collaborative Development Grant in 2008. ... Link to item Cite

Raquel Salvatella de Prada: Video Work, 2009

Digital art · 2009 1) Video work for Theater performance (La Vida es Sueño), Duke University. 2) Logo Studies and animations for AMI. 3) Logo Studies for CDS. 4) Logo Animation for VSI. 5) Video Animation for Wired!course. 6) Video for 2009 Majors Fair (Art, Art Histo ... Cite

Raquel Salvatella de Prada: Hg Media, 2005 - 2009

Digital art · 2005 Hg Media, Princeton, NJ. TV Commercials, Logo Animations, web design, Music Videos, DVD Production, Business Identity. ... Cite