DIGITROPICA
2025 Animation and Moving Image Festival
UNSW Art & Design Student Work Showcase
The Digitropica 2025 UNSW Animation and Moving Image Festival is a student-led exhibition showcasing the talents of students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation and Moving Image. This festival features a diverse array of incredible student works across various practices, including animation, moving image, visual effects, 3D visualisation, sound, game art, interactive art, and installation.
In 2025, the festival explored the theme of Techno-Organic, inviting students and audiences to reflect on the intersection of the digital and natural worlds through the collaboration between humans, nature, and machines.
Artworks were displayed throughout campus in Term 3 with the support of the School of Art and Design, and have now been archived in this online exhibition, where you can experience their creativity and imagination.
We believe that these student festivals are vital to our community. Without these public showcases of coursework, the wider student cohort would not have been able to witness and be inspired by these amazing works, which might otherwise be lost to folder archives, portfolios, and assessment submission boxes. It is thanks to the generosity of the student volunteer team, faculty staff, resource centre and the School of Art and Design that makes all of this possible.
Our goal is to provide students with meaningful first steps and valuable opportunities as they embark on their journeys as emerging practitioners. No matter your current skill level or progression in your degree, we all have to start somewhere as artists, and everyone should be proud of what they have accomplished this year. We are excited to showcase the dedication and achievements of our students, and we warmly invite you to join us in celebrating their imaginative journeys.
Please be aware that some of the works featured engage with themes and imagery that may be confronting or cause distress.
STUDENT ARTWORKS
THANK YOU
This festival was led by a student committee with support from UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture faculty staff. Congratulations to Lucia Fan’s Little Michi – The Mischief Diary and Marissa Keierleber’s Fish Eye for winning the festival awards! Prizes were generously provided by the UNSW Computer Graphics Society and recent UNSW alumni.
Big shout out to the festival student committee:
- Martin Madrid
- Sam Vaynman
- Adharsh Anandpathi
- Anoushka Rahman
- Gargi Khanna
- Hannah Kook
- Kairav Dontamsetti
- Leah Lu
- Linh Huynh
- Meher Pawaskar
- Parmita Yenikapati
- Serena He
- Soomin Jeong
- Yuxi Guo
With special thanks to Melody Li, Associate Professor Grant Stevens and all of the faculty staff who helped to facilitate and promote this festival, we are grateful for the support of:
- UNSW School of Art & Design
- UNSW Audio Visual Resource Centre
- Arc UNSW Student Life
- UNSW Computer Graphics Society
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
