Herland
February 14 - 18, 2019
GLOW Winter Light Festival, Calgary, AB, Canada
Herland (Winter's Oasis)
An illuminated realm of glowing light, pulsing, whimsical 3D printed leaves and plants, crystalline structures, black-light lit mushrooms, birds, and reflecting mirrored floor rocks, all encapsulated in a snow globe-like geodesic dome. Viewers are encouraged to walk around and approach the outside of the globe activating proximity sensors causing interior plants and flowers to glow, change colour, and bloom. This tropical environment acts as a contradictory oasiswithin our downtown Calgary snowy winter landscape and invites viewers to gather, engage, and experience their perceptions of our city and our northern climate through the use of technology, light, and colour
Phi : Illuminated
PHI is a new-media art collective focusing on performance, wearable art, and wearable technology. Interested in the crossroads between art, fashion, and technology, PHI is constantly seeking methods and media that engage and empower cultural participants through technology.
Members Stacey Morgan and Kenzie Housego met while attending the Alberta College of Art and Design, where they both received Bachelor of Fine Art. They began collaborating in 2013 on wearable art pieces featuring bright colourful classic dress forms and accessories that all reacted to sound, touch, movement, or the wearer’s heartbeat. PHI’s third member Sophie Amin joined the collective in 2015 and brings to the team over seven years of experience as an Electronics Technologist as well as a shared passion for leveraging new technological tools to facilitate visual expression and participant engagement. The pieces that PHI has created have housed LEDs, sensors, and microcontrollers that collect and output data about the wearer’s environment, and relationship to others.
Since 2014, PHI has had the opportunity to showcase their performative wearable art/tech collections nationally and internationally, notably at GLOW Fest 2017, Calgary, MakerFaire Bay Area in California, CES New York, CES Las Vegas, Xiamen Fashion Week, China, The Festival of Curiosities in Dublin, Ireland, and at a two-week art residency in Shenzhen, China.
An illuminated realm of glowing light, pulsing, whimsical 3D printed leaves and plants, crystalline structures, black-light lit mushrooms, birds, and reflecting mirrored floor rocks, all encapsulated in a snow globe-like geodesic dome. Viewers are encouraged to walk around and approach the outside of the globe activating proximity sensors causing interior plants and flowers to glow, change colour, and bloom. This tropical environment acts as a contradictory oasiswithin our downtown Calgary snowy winter landscape and invites viewers to gather, engage, and experience their perceptions of our city and our northern climate through the use of technology, light, and colour
Phi : Illuminated
PHI is a new-media art collective focusing on performance, wearable art, and wearable technology. Interested in the crossroads between art, fashion, and technology, PHI is constantly seeking methods and media that engage and empower cultural participants through technology.
Members Stacey Morgan and Kenzie Housego met while attending the Alberta College of Art and Design, where they both received Bachelor of Fine Art. They began collaborating in 2013 on wearable art pieces featuring bright colourful classic dress forms and accessories that all reacted to sound, touch, movement, or the wearer’s heartbeat. PHI’s third member Sophie Amin joined the collective in 2015 and brings to the team over seven years of experience as an Electronics Technologist as well as a shared passion for leveraging new technological tools to facilitate visual expression and participant engagement. The pieces that PHI has created have housed LEDs, sensors, and microcontrollers that collect and output data about the wearer’s environment, and relationship to others.
Since 2014, PHI has had the opportunity to showcase their performative wearable art/tech collections nationally and internationally, notably at GLOW Fest 2017, Calgary, MakerFaire Bay Area in California, CES New York, CES Las Vegas, Xiamen Fashion Week, China, The Festival of Curiosities in Dublin, Ireland, and at a two-week art residency in Shenzhen, China.