Designed for Oculus
First Exhibited 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal at the ELO Media Arts Festival
This work emerges in the wake of a global trauma, and expresses grieving at two scales – personal and collective. In the wake of crises, what do we want to remember and how? What futures should we imagine? How does care ground a wounded world?
Jolene Armstrong
Slava Ukraini
Film: Jolene Armstrong
Live combat recordings: Andriy Babichev
Sound: Brock Armstrong, Hendrick deHaan
Installation and Sound Design: Hendrick de Haan
—Dedicated to the defenders of Ukraine.
Jolene Armstrong
Just wondering how you're doing
Film: Jolene Armstrong
Poetry: Jolene Armstrong
Installation Design: Hendrick de Haan
Hendrick de Haan
In Memoriam
Music performed by Kari Maaren
Score: Vichnaya Pamyat, hymn, traditional
Kelly Egan
In the Weeds
Film: Kelly Egan
Sound: Rick Egan (arranged by Kelly Egan)
Additional Sound Editing: Monique Tschofen
Installation Design: Hendrick de Haan
Lai-Tze Fan
The Humble Book
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Caitlin Fisher
The Humble Book
Mourning
Caitlin Fisher
Requiem for Damon Loren Baker
Poetry: Caitlin Fisher
Original Sound: Damon Loren Baker: Birth Pangs [excerpt] Recorded at Gerrard Art Space (Eclec~Tic~Toc Fest, Vol. 1 – Night 2), July 15, 2017.
Caitlin Fisher
In the Studio
Live VR drawing and original illustrations: Wallace Edwards
Angela Joosse
Spell for Holding Time Together
Spoken word Performance: P. Megan Andrews
Angela Joosse and Siobhan O'Flynn
Spell of Solace
Spell: Angela Joosse
360 Video: Siobhan O'Flynn
Kari Maaren
Birds at the End of the World
Photography: Kari Maaren
Installation Design: Hendrick de Haan and Angela Joosse
Kari Maaren
The Humble Book
Weave
Wake
Submerged
Bird World
Nuthatch
Positive Thinking
Siobhan O'Flynn
The Humble Book
The Mother Tree
St. Brigid's Day (Co-created with Midjourney)
Siobhan O'Flynn
The Barrow
Poem: Siobhan O'Flynn
Composition: Kari Maaren, "Thought and Memory"
360 Video and 3D Object: Siobhan O'Flynn
World Building: Hendrick de Haan
Additional Editing: Monique Tschofen
Additional Audio Editing: Michael O'Flynn
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Weeping Willow
Music: Prélude no. 4 in E minor, op. 28 by Frédéric Chopin (performed by Ivan Ilić) CC https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivan_Ili%C4%87-Chopin_Prelude_Opus_28_n.4.ogg
Monique Tschofen
Seed Generator
Video: Monique Tschofen and Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Text: Homer, Iliad, Monique Tschofen, and Al Cunningham Rogers
Music: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater. The Bach Guild, with the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Mario Rossi, 1955
Sound effects: Monique Tschofen and © BBC
Design: Hendrick W. de Haan and Angela Joosse
World development and design: Diffusion CG
Acknowledgements
With support from:
Athabasca University
Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University
Immersive Media Lab, York University
Trent University
Centre for Digital Humanities, Toronto Metropolitan University
SSHRC
and the help of:
Jeremy Andriano, Harriet Fisher, Max Kronby, Savianna Armstrong, Remy Fisher, Soren Joosse-de Haan and Kai Joosse-de Haan.
