In this work, artists Aleksandra Dulic and Miles Thorogood explored light and physical material in a topological composition of the Okanagan Valley. The interplay of the tangible and intangible materials highlighted the duality of the earth and our place of being human within it – the external pastiche of object juxtaposing inner meaning and shared experience. Installed in the Alternator’s Window Gallery, Fields of Light brought together using fabric, woven aluminum, copper, optic fiber, electronics, and a Creative AI to generate a living, dynamic system.
This work was part of the 2020 Living Things International Arts Festival. This Kelowna arts festival featured groundbreaking theatre, art, and performances.
Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is an artist-scholar working at the intersections of interactive multimedia installation and live performance with research foci in cross-cultural media performance, interactive animation and computational poetics. She has received a number of awards for her short animated films and interactive media works. Her work is widely presented in exhibitions, festivals, conferences and television broadcasts across Europe, Asia and North America. These works include films, animated media performances, interactive computer installations and software tools for interactive animation. She is active as an artist, curator, writer, educator, teaching courses, presenting and publishing papers across North America, Australia, Europe and Asia.
Miles Thorogood is an artist/engineer at the University of British Columbia with research centered around the practice and theory in media arts for developing interactive experiences. He engages with quantitative and qualitative methods toward cutting edge research in the development of computational systems for community engaged artistic creation. Miles' research contributions have produced new knowledge in the fields of soundscape studies, affective computing, and cognitive science focusing on sound design practice. This research seeks to identify formal models of creativity as it is by investigating aspects of human perception and design process in order to encode creative structures for computer assisted technologies in art making environments. Building on this research, he has leveraged methods to multimedia systems that combine audio, video, and electronics that explore the human and community experience. As a service from the output of this research the work has been featured as interactive museum exhibits, installations, and performances. The interactive installation and performance works frame the research in creative practice that brings meaningful contexts of experience and environment to the foreground using algorithmic processes combining art making, audio and visual media, databases, artificial intelligence, and physical and network computing.