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Email: svetlana.atlavina @ gmail com Art portfolio: original prints, ceramics, mixed media installation and workshops.
Clay and Augmented Reality (CAR)
Clay and Augmented Reality (CAR) is a multidisciplinary project exploring how tactile clay sculpting and digital AR technologies can evoke and process personal childhood memories.
Drawing on artistic research, psychoanalysis, embodied cognition, and inspiration from both artists and literature, CAR’s outcomes are presented in digital 3D form through the Museum of My Mother and I—a publicly available platform offering an open-access archive of tactile memory objects.
The digital repository is not static; it evolves through continual revisiting and re-questioning the meaning and significance of childhood events in light of present-day perception and understanding.
CAR integrates tools such as Magic Leap, HoloLens, and ARVID to extend the sculptural experience beyond gravity-bound space. Workshops invite participants to sculpt memory fragments in clay and explore their virtual echoes through soundscapes, body movement, and augmented environments.
By merging tactile practice with immersive media, participants—encouraged by a gentle focus on positive recollection—embark on a journey through memory, emotion, and play.
The research has developed across 24 interactive sessions, public workshops, and collaborations with psychologists, psychoanalysts, and artists. These encounters offer potential frameworks for enhancing creativity and attention through collaborative art processes.
A growing digital collection of memory artefacts is available on Sketchfab, offering an evolving, open-access library of digitised tactile forms.
CAR aims to expand how we engage with the past—inviting playful, immersive reconnection with early experience and proposing new forms of memory care, creativity, and storytelling across both physical and digital realms.