2025 | Interactive Installation
Particulate Matter x Midge Swarm is an interactive dual-channel projection responding to the environmental crisis in Sarnia’s Chemical Valley—home to Canada’s worst air quality. The project reflects on the harm caused by petrochemical industries, particularly to the Aamjiwnaang and Walpole Island First Nations. In Particulate Matter, viewers control a digital smog screen with an throttle controller, revealing a surreal industrial landscape—refineries, flare stacks—while triggering haunting sounds: sirens, local voices, and media clips. Midge Swarm, in contrast, immerses viewers in a vibrant wetland alive with midges, birds, and cattails. As people move, they animate a swarm of digital insects—reminders of the life still resisting. Together, the projections form a conversation between destruction, colonial extraction, environmental racism, resilience, and hope, asking viewers to recognize their own place within it.
This project is part of Pluriversal Worlding with Extended Reality, a research-creation project supported by Connected Minds, VISTA, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Mitacs, Queens University, and York University. Particulate Matter x Midge Swarm is a collaboration with Christina Dovolis, Jorge De Oliveira, Luka Kuplowsky, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, and Mary Bunch.
Screenings
2025 – Group Exhibition – Electronic Literature Conference – Toronto, Canada
2025 – Group Exhibition – University Art Association of Canada – Toronto, Canada
2025 – Group Exhibition – Connected Minds Conference – Toronto, Canada
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