Multitudes

Charlotte Triebus

Graphic Novel, Augmented Reality

A graphic lecture on perception, bias, embodiment and the interpretation of bodies.

Format: Printed comic with augmented-reality elements
Structure: Five chapters
Context: Precious Camouflage

An open copy of Multitudes with drawings and a transparent water-like layer extending beyond its pages.

Developed through the research of Precious Camouflage, Multitudes brings mythology, computing and dance into a five-chapter graphic lecture. Drawings and fragments explore perception, embodiment and the aesthetics of misunderstanding.

Augmented-reality elements extend the printed pages into movement, sound and the surrounding space.

Charlotte Triebus develops the concept, text and drawings in collaboration with the MIREVI team for the AR elements.

Four ways beyond the page

Document overlays
Documents become an additional layer of the reading experience.
Embodied spaces
Bodily and spatial elements extend the printed work into the reader’s surroundings.
Interactive reflections
The reader enters the work as a participant in how meaning is produced.
Animated loops
Moving visual fragments carry the drawings into time.

The title refers to Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism and its insistence on contradiction, fluid identities and irreducible multiplicity. Multitudes becomes a speculative twin of Precious Camouflage: a parallel language of research rooted in drawing, fragments and poetic system failure.

The illustrated cover of Multitudes, photographed on a wooden chair.

An open copy of Multitudes stands on a table, with a blue augmented-reality water surface extending across the pages and into the room.

An open illustrated spread from Multitudes, with blue drawings of a basilisk and a bird, displayed with water droplets on a wooden surface.

Credits

Artistic direction, drawings and text: Charlotte Triebus
Assistance: Julie Farré
Tabby Flynn
AR Development: MIREVI Lab
Tabby Flynn
Bastian Kämmerer
Andi Zielecki
Mirkan Kayatürk
Alexandros Kiakos

Production & support

Multitudes is a production of Charlotte Triebus, supported by Julie Farré and Tabby Flynn, in collaboration with MIREVI, with kind comments of many friends.

This project was developed as part of the research project Precious Camouflage at the MIREVI Lab, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. It has been supported by the research project Theatre of Extended Realities, a collaboration between Theater an der Ruhr (Mülheim), MIREVI (Hochschule Düsseldorf), the Academy for Theatre and Digitality (Dortmund), and Dr. Jonathan Harth. It was funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the NEUE WEGE program, in cooperation with the NRW KULTURsekretariat. This work was also funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) within the The Future of Value Creation – Research on Production, Services and Work program (funding code: 02L19C402).