Tatiana Pentes is a digital media artist. Recently she has produced interactive media works that explore the meeting of documentary and narrative forms in an electronic context.
The projects she has worked on include
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blackBOX online/CD-ROM,
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Strange Cities CD-ROM,
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The Menorah of Fang Bang Lu online documentary, and recently,
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Scenes from a Shanghai Hotel digital DVD film, produced in association with the Australian Film Commission.
These projects focus on Shanghai as a cultural milieu in film and literature. Interest in working on these projects has evolved from exploring the émigré experience of her Russian grandparents in Shanghai, China. The legacy of her grandfather Serge Ermoll Snr, jazz musical scores and photographs, memorabilia from his orchestra which once played in the dance halls and cabarets of Shanghai, have inspired a journey back to Shanghai as ‘melting pot’, an idealised space, and place of refuge/ exile for Russians and Europeans following the second world war.
She is completing a doctor of creative arts in Humanities and Social Sciences (UTS).