synthesis - created in collaboration with Angelina Almanza, Yves Al-Sharifi, Finch Gabriel, Mad Holl, Chau Nguyen, and May Yu - is an interactive networked art installation that illustrates the symbiotic relationship between human presence, technology, and living systems, highlighting the vital role of art in societal wellbeing. Informed by site-specific live data collection, the work seeks to subvert the typical connotations of human presence, offering instead that a higher volume of people leads to a collective vitality. By distilling the traffic of a location to a single, leverageable value, synthesis creates community-informed interactions, reminding audiences of the intrinsic power found not only in numbers, but also in our existence as creatives. This project was exhibited in front of the Creative School Window in front of the SLC at Toronto Metropolitan University.
I worked on the video art portion of this project, in which I utilized TouchDesigner to create a collage of different videos that change with human activity recorded in another site.
