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Art For and From Community: A Review of The Digital Mural

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(Homepage,  The Digital Mural )      With the continued growth of internet-based creative spaces and digital art and styles, online art exhibitions have also begun to pick up traction. This transition to online media is not always implemented smoothly, but The Digital Mural art exhibition website, from the Canadian Roots Exchange and the Red Beans Group, executes the platform with simplicity in both policy and format. The online mural is a space where the work of Indigenous artists is promoted and showcased across a variety of mediums and also functions as a well-constructed and easy to navigate website. Through both the online platform and the artistic works themselves, The Digital Mural excels at fostering their messages of inclusivity and community through a well-executed digital environment.      The Digital Mural is an online exhibition featuring a large collection of multi-media artwork. All artwork is curated from Indigenous artists consi...
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Experimentalism and Discovery: Pascal Spadinger-Fengler on his musical process

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A Vancouver-born musician, Pascal is a fourth year SFU student completing his third year in the music composition program. In the midst of his studies at SFU, he has also branched out into other programs such as philosophy and cognitive science while his primary artistic medium remains to be music composition, improvisation and performance. Whether working collaboratively or individually, Pascal enjoys creating multi-faceted musical pieces and experimenting with music creation and editing. Here he speaks on his evolving experiences working with music, digital collaboration and some of his favourite parts about his artistic processes. Is there a certain way you compose your music? If so, why do you return to it? How I go about writing music depends heavily on whether I am composing music for someone else to play or whether I am composing music for myself. If it's the latter, I don’t really have any sort of fixed process that I go by. However if it's the former, I usually be...
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