The COVID-19 Pandemic and Art (2020/21)

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This project aims to focus on cartoons coming from print and online media as a form of visual and, possibly, educational art. These usually critically depict events and emotions in a timely manner, and they can be linked to particular sociopolitical contexts, both nationally and internationally. Data analysis will be multidisciplinary, comparing cartoons and pandemic measures with each other, as well as across countries and regions.

Visit the project’s website here: www.19and.ART

Outcomes

Interim Report 2022

With the help of research assistant Alva and student assistant Julian, this activity group has assembled a global collection of short, animated videos about the COVID-19 pandemic on YouTube. They have collected over 800 videos of different styles and topics. You can find the 19and.ART playlist on YouTube by visiting the www.19and.ART or by clicking this link.
The 19and.ART video collection might inspire academic and popular science writing. If you have ideas for analysing and writing about animated COVID-19 short films based on the 19and.ART video collection, get in touch with the group’s project lead Stefan Kohler anytime. The group welcomes feedback and would be delighted to brainstorm about how this video collection could be made useful.

Interim Report 2021

In an interim report submitted in March, database work completed in the first half of the grant period, and plans for the next 6 months are outlined. Read about the project’s progress here: ‘COVID-19 and Art’ project visualises dataset | Global Young Academy.