Maritina Keleri is an artist-researcher and architect, currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Westminster. Her research concerns the connection of VR practices to Visual Arts. Her art practice explores spatial cognition, visual perception, and the sense of Self via several different media, including analogue viewing devices, installations, performances and others. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins UAL, MA Art & Science. Her work has been exhibited in the Aesthetica magazine, the Joya Art&Ecologia Residency (Spain), the Cognitive Sensations Residency (UK) and other group shows in the UK and Greece. Some of her recent work has been presented at the Tate Modern London (Tate Exchange); Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre of Neural Circuits & Behaviour; International Immersive Learning Conference. She is the founder of the Studio-Lab of Art & Science initiative, an innovative programme bringing together students of art and science aiming to redefine future interdisciplinary collaborations.

This series of 3D prints is an exploration of the digitization of the physical world. In Google Earth, we already have the chance to explore a relatively detailed version of Earth. On platforms like NextEarth.io, we can even buy pieces of “land”. Now we have the means to copy almost anything. Some detail though will be lost. Therefore, I 3D scan nature and 3D print it. Then scan that copy and 3D print it again and again and again. How much information is lost? Our nature is unique every single second, changing perpetually. Digital data are to live forever, or not?