EVANGELINE Y BROOKS恩华
Evangeline (she/her) is a postcyber artist interested in how we talk with computers and how they talk back to us.
PROJECTS
202?Speculative PekingCustom Image GANSupported by Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council
2020-24Blue Dot
Blue Dot (Diary, 2024)
Blue Dot (Shadow, 2024)Interactive narrative (2020), locally hosted website (2024),
interactive projection (2024)Supported by Solidarity Infrastructures @ SFPC (2024); exhibited at the Illuminarium as part of Entangled Dimensions, curated by Ryan Kelln
2024with Pegah PeivandiDigital animationCommissioned by xoTO for a TIFF party @ STACKT Market, exhibited with InterAccess as part of Geary Art Crawl 2024, & forthcoming as part of Toronto Arts Foundation In Bloom Gala
2024Digital Double (but fun!) Live face tracking animation Commissioned by Geary Art Crawl for Luminato Festival
2024Juu/u/ook Python, hand-painted acrylicExhibited at Ed Video, Doors Open TO 2024
2023PapercutsAR, 3D animated model
Supported by the Artivive Mentorship Residency Program
2021ponyHAUS x ReplicatorLivestream AV performance
DJ set by Replicator
2019-24High Honey!360 video (2019), acrylic (2024)
Exhibited with the Wollesen Memorial Symposium (2021), Contact Photography Festival (2024)
2018YOU, SKYInteractive LED matrix
Exhibited with Folio Magazine
IN SUPPORT
2021-24Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI
Beth ColemanExhibition, symposium, & book
Studio lead, web designer, assistance editorial
2021The Beyond WithinAnnie MacDonell
Exhibition (2021) & book (2024)
Animator and illustrator
2020typetheirnames.comChassidy David WebsiteInteraction designer
COMMUNITY
2019 ponyHAUSDIY A/V performances
Co-host & visual curator
2019-23 FrequenciesElectronic music series
Visual lead
2022-23UKAI ProjectsRestructuring Futures
New Strategist
FACILITATION
2024 Design TechnologistCCT395: Topics in Communication, Culture, Information & Technology.
ICCIT, University of Toronto Mississauga
2023Adjunct ProfessorART466: Professional Practices in New Media and Design
ART496: Special Problems Studio
ART345: Interactivity I
College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of North Carolina Greensboro
2023-22Instructor“Visuals from Instanced Geometry in TouchDesigner: using pixels as data”
Camp Summer Studio, The Creative School Innovation Studio, Toronto, ON
NYC Resistor, Brooklyn, NY
Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
2022Adjunct ProfessorART240: Foundations Design II
ART345: Introduction to Web Design
ART433: Interactive Web Design
College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of North Carolina Greensboro
2022Instructor“Audio-Reactive Visuals with TouchDesginer”
ponyHAUS, PIX FILM Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021Facilitator“Executing Your Vision as a Production Designer: Notes on Building a Sustainable Career and Being a Self-Advocate”
In My ToolKit, Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
SPEAKING
2024 “Did You Eat?”Symposium Panel Discussion
Ed Video Media Arts Centre. Guelph, ON
2024 “Data Visualization and Physicalization: A Very Loose How-To Guide”Topics in Communication, Culture, Information & Technology
University of Toronto Mississauga. Mississauga, ON
2023Alumni SpeakerIntegrated Digital Thesis Class
Toronto Metropolitan University School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON
2023Visiting Artist: Defining Your Personal Artistic FrameworkProfessional Practices Class
College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of North Carolina Greensboro
2022Visiting Artist: After GraduationInteractive Web Design Class
College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of North Carolina Greensboro
2022Alumni SpeakerImage Arts Orientation
Toronto Metropolitan University School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON
2021Featured Alumni ArtistProfessional Practices Photography Thesis Class
Toronto Metropolitan University School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON
2021“Reception and Exhibition”
Matrix of Mobility: Networks of Objects and ExchangeSymposium Panel Discussion
Eighth Annual Wollesen Memorial Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2020Featured Video ArtistNew York Summer State School of the Arts, Alfred, NY
2019“A Black Hole is a Black Hole in the Ground“Panel discussionImages Festival, Toronto, ON
2018“Film, After Effects, and Foley”Sinoway International Education, International Summer Sessions, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
EXPERIENCE
2023InterAccessProgramming ManagerTO
2022-23ArtiviveArtist in ResidenceVienna
2023Ed VideoDMX Artist in ResidenceGuelph, ON
2019Tori FosterArtist Assistant
202? Speculative Peking - WIP
Research and reimagination of Peking Opera masks through AI’s cultural ignorance
Custom image GAN
Supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council
2024 Juu/u/ook
A collection of remixed recipes, embracing the beauty of generational dissonance in cultural dishes
Custom python code, acrylic
Exhibited with “Did You Eat?” (2024), curated by Maddie Lychek at Ed Video
2023 Papercuts
A 3D animation bringing feelings of depersonalization into physical space using chinese papercut aesthetics
AR, 3D animated model
Supported by the Artivive Mentorship Residency Program
2021 ponyHAUS x Replicator
Livestreamed audio reactive visual performance
DJ set by Replicator
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Touchdesigner, twitch.tv
2020 Blue Dot
Interactive narrative about a robot in high school. Inspired by the short story, “Transfer Student” by Davy Brooks.
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2019 Good Morning!
A diaristic attempt to discover what makes a morning "good" through distorted webcam footage of morning routines
Custom java code, images on silk
Supported by an RCDS Project Grant
Shown with Geary Art Crawl + Geary Winter Fest
2019 High Honey!
An immersive video that finds similarity in the spaces between a multi-racial identity and family relationships maintained in a digital landscape
360 video, Wooden lantern, soundscape
Shown with Beaver Hall Artists Gallery
2018 YOU, SKY
An interactive work that turns the user into a digital sky through a series of questions LED matrix board, Custom processing code
Shown at Folio Magazine Launch
WEB DESIGN
realitywaswhateverhappened.comWeb native project and book documentation of Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds
beth-coleman.comStraightforward archive of Dr. Beth Coleman’s research practice
adamhm.comSimple CV style audio portfolio
seks-tapes.comFor Canadian techno label SÉKS TAPES; feat. track archive and online store