Celebrating the Return
gobo lights and sound installation
Featured Artists
ArtWalk Exhibition - “Celebrating the Return”
Images:
Tara Dunn, under the supervision and direction of Dr. Aleksandra Dulic
Audio:
Dr. Miles Thorogood
Yahvardhan Joshi
Video Exhibition @ KCT - “Okanagan Waterways”
Dr. Aleksandra Dulic and Dr. Miles Thorogood
Technical Infrastructure for ArtWalk:
Sound Installation and Gobo Lights
Dr. Miles Thorogood
Philip Wyness
Video Installation technical infrastructure for KCT:
Digital Projectors and Program Design
Dr. Yujie Gao
Dr. Miles Thorogood
The exhibition highlights the cultural and ecological significance of restoring Sockeye Salmon and the cultural imperative of restoring Okanagan habitats, riparian systems, and biodiversity. The exhibition consists of three elements viewed together: the gobo lights, the audio installation, and the three-channel video.
The digital imagery and sound experience @ the Kelowna ArtWalk
Celebrating the Return – Gobo lights and sound installation
The imagery created for Gobo Lights and Sound Walk celebrates the return of the Salmon to the Okanagan.
In response to the success of the salmon return to the Okanagan, École Okanagan Mission Secondary student Tara Dunn created the salmon imagery and symmetrical arrangement to mark this incredible initiative. Tara made this work as a math assignment for a tessellation project and a study of symmetry operations. Under the supervision of UBCO Associate Professor Aleksandra Dulic, this project was expanded to create variations across five Gobo lights.
UBCO Assistant Professor Miles Thorogood and his undergraduate research assistant, Yahvardhan Joshi, created a sound installation that immerses the salmon in a flowing river of sounds. The flexible and generative composition of audio materials, composed of the sounds of diverse Okanagan waterscapes, allows sonic imagery to create relational and emergent compositions continually recomposed as the sounds of the water fill the space of the Art Walk.
The video installation @ KCT celebrates the diverse ecosystems of Okanagan Waterways.
Okanagan Waterways, a three-channel video installation, is a flexible media journey that impresses the beauty and sensitivity of various ecosystems throughout the Okanagan region. The work addresses water sustainability in Okanagan from multiple perspectives to create an immersive cinematic experience that combines common themes of personal and collective water responsibilities. The media were collected through a four-year process of shadowing Indigenous Knowledge Keepers and experts on the Land at the En’owkin Center, focusing on Syilx values and land-based knowledge as reflected in the images of the sensitive Okanagan Ecosystems. The recorded material includes the environmental and cultural details of the Okanagan environments, soundscapes, and community events.
The media screens' flexible and generative composition allows video and photographic imagery to effectively create relational and emergent compositions that articulate new patterns through novel juxtapositions of media elements. This work embodies shifting innovations in hardware and software developed for Kelowna Community Theatre windows to enable a new expressive community platform for social and cultural interactions. New representational possibilities and cultural meaning are complex products constructed from multiple sources of visual imagery to create vivid, sensual narratives of Okanagan waterways. Drs. Aleksandra Dulic and Miles Thorogood recorded images and created an immersive environment through dynamic processes that respond in correlated and co-dependent ways to each other, expressing equilibrium, which acts as a central narrative device in this work.
