User galleries: User interviews (Published gallery owners)
- Julie Van Oyen
Interview 1: 24 September 2024, Corina, (creative)
Recording can be found here.
Independent artist/creator of fire-related visual and video artworks.
Took a Europeana Academy course back in June; creating a gallery was part of the lesson.
Her priority is to be able to upload her own content and add it to a gallery. This gallery was just to ‘test it out’ - check with Henning how we approach this.
Galleries express her work and style of expression.
She is inspired by fire and how it represents transformation.
Even if she could upload her own work, she would still create galleries of content from Europeana’s existing collections.
To express the art, to study, and to educate the public about fire, her process and work.
She primarily has used desktop & chrome to create her gallery. She has used the website on her laptop too; she hasn’t tried on mobile.
She is interested in using videos to study fire art techniques; the technical and scientific side of fire.
She will start with the search term ‘fire’ in the main search bar on the home page of the site (not the top search bar).
Once she has created a gallery and added items to it, she will drag and drop them to create flow in the gallery itself.
‘You need to make the public feel and think; you need to transmit something.’
Interest in thermal science items, there are many in the gallery (less visual, as items, which is interesting)
Artistic inspiration:
‘It’s not about burning for fun', it’s about transformation and expression.
She is interested in ‘controlling [herself] and knowing her limits’.
Why publish it? ‘More people will find and study these materials’.
‘Fire is not only mine, it’s something we all use.'
She wants people to know that fire is not about destruction, but transformation.
Some audio items were not playing? Check with team.
Her video work is more impactful, and thus she wants to upload and share it.
To educate the public about fire art, fire control and safety.
Her main audience is for adults, not for kids.
‘It’s too emotional'
She doesn’t want kids to play with fire to try and copy her
Interview 2: 25 September 2024, Susanna (CH professional)
Recording can be found here.
Interview 3: 27 September 2024, Daniela (primary/secondary teacher)
Recording can be found here.