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MYRA: A GIFT FOR RYM

MYRa combines digital underwater worlds with performance art, where viewers remain still amidst a virtual tidal wave. This virtual wave evokes the Caribbean’s complex relationships with water: from geographical dependency to environmental precarity. It is also inspired by the loss of a close friend, suggesting the feeling of being submerged by grief.


No language
3'52
All ages
2020
Canada
360

ARTIST


Olivia Mc Gilchrist (she / her) is a white French-Jamaican multimedia artist and doctoral candidate exploring how colonial legacies extend their reach to Virtual Reality (VR) technology. She completed a Fine Art Photography MA at London College of Communication (2010) and has since been working primarily with video, multimedia installation and VR since 2015 both as an artist and a consultant on interdisciplinary and performance based projects. She has exhibited in the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America and is pursuing the Individualized PhD at Concordia University (2017-). Her thesis project is entitled “Virtual ISLANDs, hybrid identities in Virtual Reality.”

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COMPOSITION/SOUND DESIGN | Olivia Mc Gilchrist, Diego Bermudez-Chamberland ■  SOUND DESIGN | Yanik Temblay-Simard VR DEVELOPMENT – UNITY3d | Scott Smith and Dougy Hérard ■  COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION | Canada/Québec PRODUCTION SUPPORT | Decoy Magazine (CA) Hexagram (CA/QC) Milieux Institute (CA/QC) Canada, 2019-2020