https://haileyguzik.ca Hailey Guzik Mon, 25 May 2026 21:34:39 +0000 https://haileyguzik.ca en https://haileyguzik.ca/Home Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:33:26 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/Home ︎︎︎scroll︎︎︎ https://haileyguzik.ca/Info Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:09:46 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/Info About My research-creation practice imagines hybrid ecologies that investigate the impact of cultural systems and technologies on the ecological crisis. I use painting, video, 3D, light, sound, electronics, algorithms, digital fabrication, and XR technologies to create immersive installations that question capital, colonial, technoscientific, and gender-based systems affecting the environment. Refiguring the garden as a site of entangled intimacy and a space for staying with the trouble of worlding, my work intertwines fact/fiction, present/future, and real/virtual binaries through analog and digital technologies to explore what it means to tend to and with informatic systems through ongoing processes of alteration and transformation. Tending as a practice of care guides this approach, shaping speculative worlds composed of video, light, sound, computational systems, and both real and virtual plants. Experienced through exhibition, scenography and audiovisual performance, these works provide audiences with contemplative environments to reimagine on their relationship to nature and consider how worldbuilding shapes the affective and political realities of the climate crisis. ~~~ Hailey Guzik is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal, QC. Supported by ArtsNB, Canada Council for the Arts, and CALQ, their work has been presented at Confederation Centre Art Gallery, MUTEK, This Town is Small, Everyseeker, and HIFF, amongst others. Their research on queerfeminist technogardening, environmental care, and artistic practice has been presented at Wild Kin: Queer Ecologies Symposium (2025) and published in Shorelines: Climate Concerns and Creativity (2021). Originally from Menagoesg / Saint John, NB, Guzik holds a BFA from Mount Allison University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Intermedia at Concordia University, supported by SSHRC and the Peter N. Thomson Family Graduate Scholarship. Photo credit: Sarah Abdallah, 2026. Recent Press ︎ Concordia University, Studio Arts Graduate Profile, 2024. ︎ Ada X, Matricules Residency Interview, Touch Tank, 2023. ︎ Visitors, "The World of Hailey Guzik," 2020. https://haileyguzik.ca/axes-of-interference-2026 Mon, 25 May 2026 21:34:39 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/axes-of-interference-2026 axes of interference 2026&nbsp; <img width="3924" height="2208" width_o="3924" height_o="2208" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7720018706c26fcdd05f90a90d9cee727e908f512beebbcc8f7a17f745a03a9a/IMG_5954.jpg" data-mid="248742968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7720018706c26fcdd05f90a90d9cee727e908f512beebbcc8f7a17f745a03a9a/IMG_5954.jpg" /> series of animated graphic diagrams on computer monitors Drawing on aesthetics of biology and physics illustrations of plant epidermal cross sections and light simulations, this series of animated graphic diagrams conceptualizes the "iridescent operation" as a boundary object that creates navigational axes for moving across binary thresholds and conflicting temporalities. My current research focuses on iridescence as a structurally occurring phenomenon and survival mechanism in plants where color is not produced from pigmentation, and instead from nanoscale geometries found under the skin that interact with light, called photonic crystals. Recent scientific studies reveal that iridescence in certain plant species contributes to enhanced photosynthetic efficiency, suggesting potential for future biomimetic solar energy technologies and enhanced light harvesting in bioengineered plants. This serves as the speculative departure for the iridescent operation. Appropriating the phenomenon's optical logic, where conventional iridescence allures, deceives, and distracts, the iridescent operation moves through seduction to inhabit an intracellular terrain that illuminates the underlying structures of its making. Exploring a permeable exchange across axes, the operation seeks to reveal its own speculative relation to capital, energy, imaging, and networked infrastructures. <img width="4320" height="2560" width_o="4320" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67cb2afaa6e354899e2ed1645390594292410aad36c82f486da54f41f7a292c8/FinalImage.1.jpg" data-mid="248742794" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67cb2afaa6e354899e2ed1645390594292410aad36c82f486da54f41f7a292c8/FinalImage.1.jpg" /> <img width="4320" height="2560" width_o="4320" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d53d8cc9ecb1aac427d570def5d3ff540750beb9d1d3bff75be94475159c9c2e/FinalImage.0.jpg" data-mid="248742795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d53d8cc9ecb1aac427d570def5d3ff540750beb9d1d3bff75be94475159c9c2e/FinalImage.0.jpg" /> Exhibition History MAUREEN XI, 2026. Curated by students of the Concordia Curatorial Program Parquette, Montreal, QC. ︎BACK / NEXT︎ more projects ︎︎︎ https://haileyguzik.ca/a-total-internal-reflection-2026 Sat, 02 May 2026 16:06:43 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/a-total-internal-reflection-2026 a total internal reflection 2026&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1200" width_o="1920" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d244566dc4a3e901036a0505569572eaff70238a76e8908b536e1a59588fcf1a/total_internal_reflection-1484.JPG" data-mid="247797998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d244566dc4a3e901036a0505569572eaff70238a76e8908b536e1a59588fcf1a/total_internal_reflection-1484.JPG" /> an intracellular iridescent apparatus; CNC-fabricated wood structure, layered flesh tone mesh, motorized fresnel lens/light apparatus, chain, immersive sound. Situated within a speculative intracellular terrain where energetic and physical matter interact, this work explores iridescence as a diffractive phenomenon. The work draws on research that positions iridescence as a survival mechanism in plants, where colour is not produced from pigmentation, and instead from nanogeometries found under the skin that interact with light, called photonic crystals. Recent scientific studies reveal that iridescence in certain plant species contributes to enhanced photosynthetic efficiency, suggesting potential for future bio-mimetic solar energy technologies and enhanced light harvesting in bio-engineered plants. This serves as the speculative departure for the work, placing the audience at the bodily site of an iridescent transformation. Approaching iridescence through phenomenal considerations of duration, relation, and occurrence, the title of the work, a total internal reflection, derives from the optical phenomenon by which light meets a medium's edge and redirects back into itself rather than propagating outward. This concept structures the spatiotemporal nature of the work, inciting viewers to encounter iridescence from a recursive interior position. Where conventional iridescence appears as smooth surface which allures, deceives, and distracts, the work moves through seduction to inhabit iridescence from within and below the epidermal surface, illuminating the underlying structures of its making. Shifting from an exterior vantage point, to one of interior relation, the work expands scenographic space to create an immersive audiovisual environment. Viewers walk around a central arch-like structure to experience the work from different points of view. The wood structure echoes the shape of diffracted light cast from the central Fresnel lens/light apparatus, and layered flesh tone mesh references the epidermal layer where iridescence occurs. The motorized component of the lens casts additional light onto the surrounding walls, enveloping the viewer. An immersive sound world built from spectral distortions of low frequency sine wave oscillations, tuned as sonic parallels to the waveforms of light, are layered with granular synthesis and voice that speculates on the nature and poetics of light, energy, and iridescence. As the sound loops through its 12 minute duration, audio-reactive programming activates the lens apparatus to synchronize light and sound. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5d93afb7303ae226adfc3ff12a461ab4f5ecb3043696680f6c901062c444db6/total_internal_reflection-1500.JPG" data-mid="247797999" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5d93afb7303ae226adfc3ff12a461ab4f5ecb3043696680f6c901062c444db6/total_internal_reflection-1500.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="1200" width_o="1920" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d5b3015fdd0becf45015b46bd74492ca8204ff05397a748ace80e57842016be/total_internal_reflection-1505.JPG" data-mid="247798000" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d5b3015fdd0becf45015b46bd74492ca8204ff05397a748ace80e57842016be/total_internal_reflection-1505.JPG" /> <img width="1200" height="1920" width_o="1200" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4204c55983fc59b1f2a59a0555a90150b4aa88e31ee2b143b69e9f9be77d4b82/total_internal_reflection-1513.JPG" data-mid="247798001" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4204c55983fc59b1f2a59a0555a90150b4aa88e31ee2b143b69e9f9be77d4b82/total_internal_reflection-1513.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b1ec6fee5ca12bcd939e51857b909c202bbce941a328264da96679073cc692e/total_internal_reflection-1518.JPG" data-mid="247798002" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b1ec6fee5ca12bcd939e51857b909c202bbce941a328264da96679073cc692e/total_internal_reflection-1518.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3e96104ed47edf2b6910b18a7723da822b5b199967fb2f2256723e771247344/total_internal_reflection-1526.JPG" data-mid="247798003" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3e96104ed47edf2b6910b18a7723da822b5b199967fb2f2256723e771247344/total_internal_reflection-1526.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="1440" width_o="1920" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0626c9807632f2dae704baf0db9856113e3fc4675ebb1bdeade9b958609d79b4/total_internal_reflection-5843.JPG" data-mid="247798004" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0626c9807632f2dae704baf0db9856113e3fc4675ebb1bdeade9b958609d79b4/total_internal_reflection-5843.JPG" /> <img width="1580" height="1920" width_o="1580" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1596140574189209c8de9b5dbd2741c1dde6aa582842da2bb18260601e587e2/total_internal_reflection-5844.JPG" data-mid="247798005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1596140574189209c8de9b5dbd2741c1dde6aa582842da2bb18260601e587e2/total_internal_reflection-5844.JPG" /> ︎BACK / NEXT︎ more projects ︎︎︎ https://haileyguzik.ca/I-want-to-be-an-irid-essence-2025 Sat, 02 May 2026 16:37:44 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/I-want-to-be-an-irid-essence-2025 i want to be an irid essence 2025&nbsp; <img width="7952" height="4473" width_o="7952" height_o="4473" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8132e5e1f9879765397f6b61a60abd5a7654957e5f93fcc90f4189548da955f7/irid_essence.jpeg" data-mid="247798443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8132e5e1f9879765397f6b61a60abd5a7654957e5f93fcc90f4189548da955f7/irid_essence.jpeg" /> audiovisual installation; vertical screen, projection fabric, repurposed projection lens on metal stand, lighting, sound <img width="605" height="1078" width_o="605" height_o="1078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ed9bfa8c60c4c48762e52d0cb6d955bdf98a5fc8a922f3d629af8cabed3e642/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-16.45.16.png" data-mid="247798510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/605/i/9ed9bfa8c60c4c48762e52d0cb6d955bdf98a5fc8a922f3d629af8cabed3e642/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-16.45.16.png" /> <img width="2195" height="3903" width_o="2195" height_o="3903" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e69b538a039977722700f33f0f99b535ef8c32d6b7f292296a0bb74122b0ce7/IMG_5152.jpeg" data-mid="247798460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e69b538a039977722700f33f0f99b535ef8c32d6b7f292296a0bb74122b0ce7/IMG_5152.jpeg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d5915fe6e74aba29666b53d762bb2ea88ba70154cf09caa5094966e46817542/annotated_prologue.jpeg" data-mid="247798462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d5915fe6e74aba29666b53d762bb2ea88ba70154cf09caa5094966e46817542/annotated_prologue.jpeg" /> <img width="7952" height="4472" width_o="7952" height_o="4472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cdddc744c709090ffd426e15a07c1488315dd98964ce18752f26447450f9f28/irid_essence-4.jpeg" data-mid="247798455" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cdddc744c709090ffd426e15a07c1488315dd98964ce18752f26447450f9f28/irid_essence-4.jpeg" /> ︎BACK / NEXT︎ more projects ︎︎︎ https://haileyguzik.ca/SOS-2025 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:20:18 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/SOS-2025 SOS v.0.1.0 (Symbiotic Orchid Search) 2025&nbsp; <img width="3395" height="1919" width_o="3395" height_o="1919" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a374274d0daa9979c22c16833ed21c473bdfe068802a74f85ad0b69f2228e1b/SOS_2025_001.png" data-mid="236235367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a374274d0daa9979c22c16833ed21c473bdfe068802a74f85ad0b69f2228e1b/SOS_2025_001.png" /> A plant-machine symbiont; phalaenopsis orchids, semi-water culture ebb and flow hydroponics system, algorithmic programming, digital fabrication, water, light, and sound Symbiotic Orchid Search is a speculative plant-machine symbiont composed of Phalaenopsis orchids, a semi-water culture hydroponics system, and choreographically programmed light, sound, and water pumps. Inspired by evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis’ theory of ‘symbiosis,’ Donna Haraway’s concepts of ‘sympoeisis’ and ‘science-art worldings’, and a novel evolutionary algorithm called the Symbiotic Organism Search algorithm, this work explores a shared process of ‘making with’ between plants, humans, and technology to propose an entangled co-evolutionary future for the necessity of survival amid earth’s ecological collapse. Phalaenopsis orchids are one of the most widely cultivated orchid species in the global plant market today and can be found readily at most stores where plants are available for purchase. Despite their cultivated status, orchids maintain a perception of rarity, and their highly sought after and studied significance within the history of evolutionary and reproductive botanical theory has cemented them as a symbol of heteronormative beauty, desire, wealth, power, trade, and capitalism. Working from this context, SOS seeks to reroute the orchid’s existing cultural narratives through a speculative queerfeminist processual lens in recognition of the plant’s existing coevolutionary and symbiotic intelligences, while extending this role to its propositional co-habitants - the machine and myself as the gardener. Within this symbiotic proposition, the work seeks a reconciliation of time between the disparate pacings of the natural, human, and technological, and asks what it means to remain in continuously shifting, adapting, flowing, and looping relation beyond oneself. <img width="3698" height="1919" width_o="3698" height_o="1919" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c5e468cccb02aa16e10ce99be6765478dbe6c8f82ee44a827910a5aef653327/SOS_2025_002.png" data-mid="236235370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c5e468cccb02aa16e10ce99be6765478dbe6c8f82ee44a827910a5aef653327/SOS_2025_002.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3363ae7407712d8888cbf1f9df6d1cee185a64b754c9c19fd87256feae9b737/SOS_2025-04095.jpg" data-mid="236235369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3363ae7407712d8888cbf1f9df6d1cee185a64b754c9c19fd87256feae9b737/SOS_2025-04095.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b56073015e10f605e4d661ab7c20fa3f7fa9a530d424bf93e4890dd79cbf813c/SOS_2025-04062.jpg" data-mid="236235371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b56073015e10f605e4d661ab7c20fa3f7fa9a530d424bf93e4890dd79cbf813c/SOS_2025-04062.jpg" /> ︎BACK / NEXT︎ more projects ︎︎︎ https://haileyguzik.ca/alter-florescence-2024 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:20:47 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/alter-florescence-2024 alter_florescence 2024&nbsp; <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35ff27ccd34a0560af9c0749a7763ae40030a89dfbe6247524ec7f159c73dfee/alter_flor_003.png" data-mid="226598249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35ff27ccd34a0560af9c0749a7763ae40030a89dfbe6247524ec7f159c73dfee/alter_flor_003.png" /> infinitely iterating computer-generated animation with a real-time sound score; evolutionary machine, genetic algorithm, mutating flora species, and luna moth alter-agents in a virtual habitat alter_florescence is a speculative intervention in the function of a hypothetical evolutionary machine that is infinitely regulating the morphological features of a virtual flora species. The code assembles and re-assembles its virtual habitat over a series of generations, as seen through the projected lens of the machine. As the system attempts to evolve the plant population towards its ideal target, altering agents emerge to skew the machine’s optimizing calculations. Taking the form of nocturnal luna moths bestowed with mutagenic powers, these critters transform the flora species into newly adapted variants. This work is a response to research on the historical co-mingling of evolutionary Science and Capitalism, and the normative perspectives this union places on human and non-human species. Genetic algorithms are typically used to solve complex optimization problems in corporate and capital contexts. These algorithms are mathematical adaptations of the biological evolutionary processes described by Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Seeing these algorithms as proponents of cultural homogenization and a limiter of non-essentialist perceptions of nature, alter_florescence imagines an alternative world where machine calculations never resolve, systems remain in perpetual and dynamic flux, and populations flourish abundantly in their vivid variances. Exhibition History: On a Human Scale, 2026. Curated by Dounia Bouzidi for HTMlles Festival, Ada X, Montreal, QC. Undergrowth, 2025. Curated by Christiana Myers, Confederation Center Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI. Installation images courtesy of Sarah Abdallah (Ada X, 2026). Thank you to Conseil des Arts et Lettre due Quebec for their support in circulating this work. <img width="4597" height="3065" width_o="4597" height_o="3065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e950cc06f8cdcc44cc6b36d2782ddc7c7bc4eefb84722eac691b81a94320361/ADAx_EDITED-57.jpg" data-mid="249120218" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e950cc06f8cdcc44cc6b36d2782ddc7c7bc4eefb84722eac691b81a94320361/ADAx_EDITED-57.jpg" /> <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc1f9304e9bda9c95990f3ed92764ebffec9243960e45ff37d6bd74f1bc505e5/alter_flor_002.png" data-mid="226598248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc1f9304e9bda9c95990f3ed92764ebffec9243960e45ff37d6bd74f1bc505e5/alter_flor_002.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03c00b7c873060acd9f356f27e37b600f66aeb55a27537f3b37e82136262f60f/ADAx_EDITED-63.jpg" data-mid="249120219" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03c00b7c873060acd9f356f27e37b600f66aeb55a27537f3b37e82136262f60f/ADAx_EDITED-63.jpg" /> <img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fcf6d940ab4e0c6e5476180b922a54fc00ce523358f7d57bcc7eee85cd4ff81/alter_flor_001.png" data-mid="226598247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fcf6d940ab4e0c6e5476180b922a54fc00ce523358f7d57bcc7eee85cd4ff81/alter_flor_001.png" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a949dd2df510b98146e7ae67c5e08159d972cd744a4032968c1a421a0c830896/ADAx_EDITED-54.jpg" data-mid="249120217" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a949dd2df510b98146e7ae67c5e08159d972cd744a4032968c1a421a0c830896/ADAx_EDITED-54.jpg" /> ︎BACK / NEXT︎ more projects ︎︎︎ https://haileyguzik.ca/Sowing-Seeds-2024 Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:41:14 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/Sowing-Seeds-2024 Sowing Seeds 2024&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="865" width_o="1920" height_o="865" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5633be7d6fa279646305f704929a394600535b300fa734f0dbc7a0eb07fb782b/sowing_seeds.jpg" data-mid="226598318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5633be7d6fa279646305f704929a394600535b300fa734f0dbc7a0eb07fb782b/sowing_seeds.jpg" /> virtual reality + AI image generation + sound sowing seeds a peony returnsalien pink roots thrusting through bare soil the fennel self-seeds a rhizome as subterranean stem the vicissitudes of nourishment sowing seeds reimagines the garden in a speculative future where bio-technical convergence has led to a dissolving of boundaries between humans, technology, and Nature. The garden disorients through the alteration of time, scale, and experience, inviting you to arrive as you are. Botanical remnants of cross pollination and grafting are left as traces of slow process and the evolution of plant life. Approaching virtual space-making through experimentation, care, and collaboration, we drew freely from textual fragments and visual research – unearthing chimeric interactions of machine, plant, and human ways of being. Passing these fragments to an AI image generation model trained on environmental and painterly sources collected by the artist, machine perspectives on hypothetical plant life were generated then reinterpreted through 3D modeling. In dialogue, sound was created by spectrally morphing longform co-improvisations with text recitations and field recordings to grow an ever changing dynamic soundscape. This web of reference, collective play, and experimentation is reflected in the garden’s current inhabitants. Questioning the notion of the garden as a place of purity, or an object of human control, and dismissing the illusion of a pristine natural world to be conserved, we attempt to steward a half-wild garden - a hybrid space both feral and managed, acknowledging the entanglements of the natural and artificial in and beyond the Capitalocene. A collaboration between Hailey Guzik, Noah Sherrin, and Fili Gibbons <img width="3840" height="1994" width_o="3840" height_o="1994" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ab46bb7d540fba054bfb269ef152d49ec601a9cea59deaabb7ca1249a08a232/HighresScreenshot00002.png" data-mid="222671767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ab46bb7d540fba054bfb269ef152d49ec601a9cea59deaabb7ca1249a08a232/HighresScreenshot00002.png" /> <img width="3840" height="1994" width_o="3840" height_o="1994" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcc5e4098dde6d908de2a9637c1273ada7a956c8c20f5cf6a75ed7177341db14/HighresScreenshot00001.png" data-mid="222671763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcc5e4098dde6d908de2a9637c1273ada7a956c8c20f5cf6a75ed7177341db14/HighresScreenshot00001.png" /> ︎BACK / NEXT︎ more projects ︎︎︎ https://haileyguzik.ca/Touch-Tank-2022 Sun, 15 May 2022 20:10:17 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/Touch-Tank-2022 Touch Tank 2022&nbsp; <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50e805d7433ac1f05fc731fba1bba731362f74c69395a6584f076da117d8a8c1/HG-TouchTank-Video1.00_00_49_27.Still001.jpg" data-mid="145433156" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50e805d7433ac1f05fc731fba1bba731362f74c69395a6584f076da117d8a8c1/HG-TouchTank-Video1.00_00_49_27.Still001.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="721" width_o="1024" height_o="721" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0beef52708e6da1f23d29b3800073f2c7544ff364e320cdf23ac9dcdc7a55d16/HG-TouchTank-2022-5.jpg" data-mid="145433151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0beef52708e6da1f23d29b3800073f2c7544ff364e320cdf23ac9dcdc7a55d16/HG-TouchTank-2022-5.jpg" /> research + virtual reality + painting + video projection + haptic audio-visual design Touch Tank is a mixed reality installation that includes a virtual reality environment viewable through a VR headset, projection-mapped videos, and an interactive audio-visual controller made from a fish tank, water, and an arduino-based capactive touch sensor. The work invites audiences to wander within the complexities and manifold possibilities of human and non-human interaction. Reimagining empirical experiences of Nova Scotia’s coastal intertidal zones, Touch Tank explores embodied notions of looking, touching, sensing, and remembering to propose an experiential digital framework for ruminating on the interconnections of painted, virtual, and touristic simulations of landscape.The creation of panoramic landscape paintings is considered one the earliest attempts to achieve “virtual reality”. These paintings, called cycloramas, immerse viewers in a scene by using props, large curved support surfaces and painting techniques that simulate a sense of depth between background and foreground. Modern day panoramas exist as documentations of historical landscapes at museums and heritage sites, ranging from war reenactments to natural history dioramas. The grandiose nature of these cycloramas engage ideas of the sublime, spectacle, staged realism, and world-building, tools which have historically been used in art and history to establish problematic idealizations of nature. In a contemporary context, the tourism industry relies heavily on these artistic tropes to engage audiences in regional discourses surrounding settler histories, environmentalism and ecology, with the aim of reconnecting visitors to their natural surroundings. Growing up near the Bay of Fundy in Saint John, New Brunswick, I spent summer holidays with my family touring the Maritimes: going to national parks, museums, and interpretive centers. Reflecting on this, I am now critical of the way these sightseeing experiences objectify nature to attract visitors and often reinforce boundaries between what is perceived as "natural" and what constitutes "human" or "cultural" space. This project uses the touch tank tourist experience to dissect these ideas. While visibly lacking key features of the panorama, the touch tank is a variation on the theme of world-building where the tank itself acts as a staged adaptation of intertidal ecosystems. Expanding on this concept, the work invites viewers to engage sensuously with the installation to think critically about the spectacle of touch. Touch Tank was developed through intensive research and experimentation on translating my practice in landscape painting into virtual reality. Using techniques such as photogrammetry, or the process of taking overlapping photographs of an object to create 3D digital models, the virtual reality operates as an abstracted panorama of Nova Scotia's coastal environment. Based on data collected from site visits to local beaches, including photographs, 3D scans, audio recordings, videos, and plein air paintings, I combined 3D models with oil painted textures taken from paintings of the same objects, sites, and places to produce a transmogrified 3D landscape. In the installation, the audience can watch a randomly shifting landscape reconfigure itself in real-time at two stations -- (1) an interactive touch tank with built-in capactive touch sensors and (2) a VR headset.&nbsp; While using headphones to listen to the accompanting soundscape made from layered virtual synths and field recordings, viewers can touch the tank and the water in various ways to activate capacitive touch sensors, thus affecting the appearance of the virtual landsape. They can then put on a VR head-mounted display to explore the shifting landscape in 360 degrees, experiencing effects caused by those simultaneously interacting with the tank. This project was developed over two years in co-production with Centre for Art Tapes and Ada X through their artist residency programs. “Touch Tank” has been exhibited at Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, presented on the Halifax Waterfront, in conjunction with Develop NS, June 9-12, 2022 and at Radiant Rural Halls through This Town is Small, hosted at the Kings Playhouse in Georgetown PEI, March 4-5, 2023. <img width="731" height="1024" width_o="731" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19b45b69dbf5941930313d75ffb6e6a5a683992a7efca84a4095abc77df8ea01/HG-TouchTank-2022-4.jpg" data-mid="145433150" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/731/i/19b45b69dbf5941930313d75ffb6e6a5a683992a7efca84a4095abc77df8ea01/HG-TouchTank-2022-4.jpg" /> <img width="731" height="1024" width_o="731" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16c7cabf81f85410889835569766493ffafadab09447082fc67438879f9ae2b1/HG-TouchTank-2022-2.jpg" data-mid="145433148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/731/i/16c7cabf81f85410889835569766493ffafadab09447082fc67438879f9ae2b1/HG-TouchTank-2022-2.jpg" /> <img width="683" height="1024" width_o="683" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6491894b4371e7a444159148338d04e422fae33e40c4b701d08f229b69045113/HG-TouchTank-2022-9.jpg" data-mid="145433155" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/683/i/6491894b4371e7a444159148338d04e422fae33e40c4b701d08f229b69045113/HG-TouchTank-2022-9.jpg" /> <img width="683" height="1024" width_o="683" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae1f7ebf15f8ffa1d0cea1dbe496a62353f5d824a9d9e242fe21c024a7e5f7f7/HG-TouchTank-2022-8.jpg" data-mid="145433154" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/683/i/ae1f7ebf15f8ffa1d0cea1dbe496a62353f5d824a9d9e242fe21c024a7e5f7f7/HG-TouchTank-2022-8.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9e6788b7b1a3adc982bdaa900fda4a74e52905debc8b2080f01f6a35cdaa13a/HG-TouchTank-2022-6.jpg" data-mid="145433152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9e6788b7b1a3adc982bdaa900fda4a74e52905debc8b2080f01f6a35cdaa13a/HG-TouchTank-2022-6.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6427bdce22a979224fade8e63c6dc48108c615e9019662f1ccc9412e66a87fb9/HG-TouchTank-2022-7.jpg" data-mid="145433153" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6427bdce22a979224fade8e63c6dc48108c615e9019662f1ccc9412e66a87fb9/HG-TouchTank-2022-7.jpg" /> <img width="731" height="1024" width_o="731" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f83513977a4eeb4b52e327421e42ce2ab9691333519fce0ca245981bce020f33/HG-TouchTank-2022-1.jpg" data-mid="145433147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/731/i/f83513977a4eeb4b52e327421e42ce2ab9691333519fce0ca245981bce020f33/HG-TouchTank-2022-1.jpg" /> <img width="683" height="1024" width_o="683" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7e61e4174730b6e547305390c787a3905fc3b9376df6efb78e82037aa1970de/HG-TouchTank-2022-3.jpg" data-mid="145433149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/683/i/a7e61e4174730b6e547305390c787a3905fc3b9376df6efb78e82037aa1970de/HG-TouchTank-2022-3.jpg" /> ︎BACK / NEXT︎ more projects ︎︎︎ https://haileyguzik.ca/Erosion-Preservation-2020 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:30:46 +0000 Hailey Guzik https://haileyguzik.ca/Erosion-Preservation-2020 Erosion / Preservation 2020 <img width="3091" height="4636" width_o="3091" height_o="4636" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/372ed98acbf43256226e117362553db62cd1fc255ffd1b4119ae14f351e81e61/HG-ErosionPreservation-1.jpg" data-mid="111104825" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/372ed98acbf43256226e117362553db62cd1fc255ffd1b4119ae14f351e81e61/HG-ErosionPreservation-1.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5a7b098e857453db540100ec41986727d6b05d13f413779fd33cf6f556b07ce/IMG_3041.JPG" data-mid="111104891" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5a7b098e857453db540100ec41986727d6b05d13f413779fd33cf6f556b07ce/IMG_3041.JPG" /> Research Text + Time-Based Installation + Performance Part sculpture installation, research, and live-streamed performance,&nbsp; Erosion / Preservation intertwines geography, ecology, and history within artistic metaphors of matter, process and technology to explore an embodied approach to care and resiliency for the Tantramar salt and diked marshes. Within realities of the climate emergency, this work brings attention to the affects and effects of coastal erosion. Drawing parallels between myself as an artist and the paradox of erosion and preservation, I navigate my relationship to nature using processes such as osmosis, crystallization, oxidization, and evaporation as my artistic allies. This project was developed during the remote residency program “Isolation Projects II” at Connexion ARC (Fredericton, NB), and shared in real time at the end of the residency using internet-based platforms and a live-streamed event, where audiences could join in to reflect on their role within these themes. Erosion / Preservation was included in Third Space X ACAP Saint John’s collaborative publication Shorelines: Climate Concerns and Creativity, and featured online in a group exhibition of the same name in March 2021. [Click here to access the publication Shorelines, which features the complete research text for this project] <img width="2560" height="1446" width_o="2560" height_o="1446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3d00faf6a492039fa2ee56812ed8cca873e689e574c50cedf14a7ba78cc10ba/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-10.48.30-AM.png" data-mid="111104463" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3d00faf6a492039fa2ee56812ed8cca873e689e574c50cedf14a7ba78cc10ba/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-10.48.30-AM.png" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/086bfd1a636a838ab1fa227275fcfd90185585f5b822f853a4a1ba0cba536b16/HaileyGuzik_ErosionPreservation_2020-12.jpg" data-mid="111104471" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/086bfd1a636a838ab1fa227275fcfd90185585f5b822f853a4a1ba0cba536b16/HaileyGuzik_ErosionPreservation_2020-12.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1406" width_o="2500" height_o="1406" 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width_o="2500" height_o="1406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc01d3fef463bcf07f74e1bc0b971bb8ae018710cf3554838f161018f25c15cd/HaileyGuzik_ErosionPreservation_2020-17.jpg" data-mid="111105320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc01d3fef463bcf07f74e1bc0b971bb8ae018710cf3554838f161018f25c15cd/HaileyGuzik_ErosionPreservation_2020-17.jpg" /> I acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts and the following organizations that made this work possible: <img width="1489" height="758" width_o="1489" height_o="758" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78c3bd3c78940b8b2de9f2b59093c443f7505f0133b532eccda6f1cc45743565/cca.jpg" data-mid="111105528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78c3bd3c78940b8b2de9f2b59093c443f7505f0133b532eccda6f1cc45743565/cca.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39c9c599d1a9a7e706ffcf85e36b51fb5d118e981795fd29ea79cde8cd258e6f/acap-wave-logo-no-drip-sq-new-blue.png" data-mid="111105529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39c9c599d1a9a7e706ffcf85e36b51fb5d118e981795fd29ea79cde8cd258e6f/acap-wave-logo-no-drip-sq-new-blue.png" /> <img width="225" height="225" width_o="225" height_o="225" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bcf38082396815273d5115e0d13b541679da78d12d024225fe54d2508f6335f/thirdspace.png" data-mid="111105531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/225/i/6bcf38082396815273d5115e0d13b541679da78d12d024225fe54d2508f6335f/thirdspace.png" /> <img width="300" height="120" width_o="300" height_o="120" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccea348b1433518abe7a1814f3ffe8e64e50f7c00be716c3f279c5bed3e07d19/connexionlogo.png" data-mid="111105532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/ccea348b1433518abe7a1814f3ffe8e64e50f7c00be716c3f279c5bed3e07d19/connexionlogo.png" /> And Special Thanks to Isabel Francolini for their work capturing video of the Tantramar Marshes, and Struts and Faucet Media Arts Center for the equipment loan for this endeavor. ︎BACK / NEXT︎ more projects ︎︎︎