The EVA lab brings together experimental game-making, co-creation, teaching, artistic research and public forms of knowledge sharing. Its focus is on the creative process: how ideas become interactive experiences, how co-creation supports learning and reflection, and how experimental digital works can be presented, mediated and understood within the field of contemporary art. EVA Lab’s activities bring together educational projects, research prototypes, exhibition formats, video documentation and interdisciplinary collaborations.
EVA Lab’s artistic research work is connected to Taavi Varm’s doctoral research at the Estonian Academy of Arts. The doctoral research focuses on how the co-creation of video games can support mental health awareness, psychological well-being and creative sustainability.
Small Lives
An augmented reality game project about wooded meadows. The project explores co-creation, ecological attention and the use of video games as an artistic research medium.
The Plant Walker
A slow and meditative walking game that explores psychological well-being, slowness and presence from the perspective of the artistic researcher.
Erasmus+ video game design workshop
An international co-creation workshop where participants developed video game prototypes around themes of mental health.
What is artistic research?
In 2021, the Estonian Academy of Arts, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University, as Estonia’s main centres for artistic research, signed the Estonian Artistic Research Framework Agreement. Its aim is to define, support and develop artistic research, and to recognise it as an equal part of academic research.