Selected Works
.: MODUS VIVENDI
Medium>Interactive Installation
Shown> New Forms Festival, Ecologies, Vancouver, Canada
Though an emotive user experience this installation explores how technology is merging with our environment and changing how we relate to our surroundings. The pattern is made up by a series of imagery combining aerial photographs some taken by Nigel Reeves and micro and macro abstractions of surface that include skin, light, and other terrains to create a kaleidoscopic surface.
‘Landscape becomes the space we inhabit somewhere in between the physical and the virtual.Landscape opening itself up to a new description. The digital merges with the beauty of natural
.: EYEJOT
Medium>Installation
eyeJOT is a context aware smart campus information system combining ambient wall-sized displays with location-aware, context-sensitive information sharing on mobile devices. My role on the team was as interface designer. eyeJOT is a metaphor for how we might want a birds eye view of the activities on and off the university campus to guide users through the plethora of information...more info
.: ONE RIVER RUNNING
Artists> Aleksandra Dulic, Kenneth Newby, Martin Gotfrit and Dinka Pignon With: Alex Mateesco, Phil Thomson, Milena Droumeva, So-Young Park, Layda Gongora, and Derek Robinson.
Medium>Interactive Installation
Shown at> Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
For this project I was an an animation assistant...more info
.: DEATH BY CHOCOLATE: WEST EDMONTON SHOPPING MALL (1986-05)
Artists> Dan Graham, Layda Gongora
Medium>Video
Shown>The Architecture Foundation ‘Architecture on Film’ Chain, Babican Centre, UK 2010
daadgalerie Berlin, Germany 2009.
Orchard Gallery New York, USA 2006.
Old as well as new footage of this video was edited for International American conceptual artist Dan Graham during a 3 month residency at Banff New Media Arts Centre in Canada. This video draws on nearly twenty years’ worth of footage shot in the bizarre yet familiar arena of the shopping mall. The resulting work provides a coldly beautiful view of mall culture: its architecture, its consumer public and its unique aesthetic world. This work also provides a corollary to Graham’s own prodigious writings and projects on the public spaces of corporate capitalism.
.: UNTITLED
Medium>Video Installation Camera>Nigel Reeves
This is a three channel video installation inspired by video artist Nam Jun Paik’s work which uses multiple video monitors. This work has a formalist painterly approach to the medium of video. It explores identity politics in Canada and the stereotyping of peoples within the rhetoric of multicultural context.
.: BENT ON UNITING DIFFERENCE
Medium>Poster/Magazine Layout Camera> Calliope Gazetas This is a magazine layout I designed as bit of culture jamming. The images are self-portraits and meant to be critical of the company Benetton’ proactive inter-racial campaigns in the early 90’s.
.: YiNG YANG PAVILLION
Artists>Dan Graham,Layda Gongora
Medium>Video/Installation
Shown> Sao Paulo Biennale 2006.
This video was done at Electronic Intermix in New York for American conceptual artist Dan Graham. The video accompanied an architectural model of his Yin/Yang Pavilion at MIT. Graham’s 2002 Yin/Yang Pavilion is made of concave and convex two-way mirrored glass — a material that creates constant fluctuations between transparency and reflection. Viewers who move through its curving spaces to experience anamorphic reflections of the sky, surrounding objects and landscape, and the superimposed images of other spectators.
.: INSIDE
Artists> Layda Gongora (Video and Sound), Dzze Louise (Sound)
Shown > Blinding Light Cinema The Female Gaze Screening, Vancouver, Canada 2000
This piece confronts the concept of ‘male gaze’ as discussed in the writings of Donna Haraway article “Persistence of Vision” using feedback, abstraction, and fragmentation of the female body it explores traditional concepts of femininity. The installation combines video and sound. The artists filmed their own bodies as well as each other as a way to explore traditional angles for filming the female body and instead experimented with more abstract ways of engaging with their own bodies.
.: DIASPORA
Medium>Video Installation
Camera> Juan Gaitan
Shown at> Nations and Pollinations Americas on The Verge, Vancover, Canada
By using highly stylized conventions of magic realism the viewer is guided through a metaphorical journey in which video and sound are woven together to bring into question stereotypes about culture. This work was projected onto a concrete floor and then the projection was surrounded with peacock feathers and candles. The projection was in the shape of a fan on the floor.