November 2024 - March 2025
October 2025 - January 2026
Celebrating the Return
Visuals: Tara Dunn & Dr. Aleksandra Dulic
Audio: Yahvardhan Joshi
Techincal Set Up: Dr. Miles Thorogood, Chris Anderson, & Yahvardhan Joshi
Gobo Light + Sound Installation at Kelowna Art Walk
The exhibition consists of three elements viewed together: the gobo lights, the audio installation, and the three-channel video.
The exhibition highlights the cultural and ecological significance of restoring Sockeye Salmon and the cultural imperative of restoring Okanagan habitats, riparian systems, and biodiversity.
The Sound Installation
Kelowna Art Walk
Soundscape by Yashvardhan Joshi Recordings by Dr. Miles Thorogood
The sonic inspiration behind the soundscape is the celebration of the return of the Salmon. The piece consists of sound motifs native to the Okanagan region and includes field recordings of the soundscape recorded by Dr. Miles Thorogood. These sonic elements are nestled between droning synthesizers which change their character as the soundscape progresses towards its final moments. The piece being exhibited at the Soundwalk further opens a conversation regarding how urban planning of cities need to be considerate about the soundscape that gets altered apart from the landscape during urbanization of small towns to cities.
The Gobo Lights
Kelowna Art Walk
The imagery created for Gobo Lights and Sound Walk celebrates the return of the Salmon to the Okanagan.
In response to the success of the salmon return to the Okanagan, École Okanagan Mission Secondary student Tara Dunn created the salmon imagery and symmetrical arrangement to mark this incredible initiative. Tara made this work as a math assignment for a tessellation project and a study of symmetry operations. Under the supervision of UBCO Associate Professor Aleksandra Dulic, this project was expanded to create variations across five Gobo lights.
About the Artists
Yashvardhan Joshi (Sound)
Yashvardhan Joshi is a fourth-year undergraduate student from India in the Bachelor of Media Studies program at UBC Okanagan. He is an undergraduate research assistant at the Sonic Production Intelligence Research and Applications Lab (SPIRAL), researching deep learning methods in audio generation for Packet Loss Concealment, specifically for ambient audio. His work also involves recording audio for creating narrative driven soundscapes of the Kelowna area. This has led him to work with the Arts Council of the Okanagan and the City of Kelowna to develop soundscapes for urban spaces within Kelowna.
Aleksandra Dulic (Visuals)
Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is an artist-scholar working at the intersections of interactive multimedia installation and live performance with research foci in cross-cultural media performance, interactive animation and computational poetics. She has received a number of awards for her short animated films and interactive media works. Her work is widely presented in exhibitions, festivals, conferences and television broadcasts across Europe, Asia and North America. These works include films, animated media performances, interactive computer installations and software tools for interactive animation. She is active as an artist, curator, writer, educator, teaching courses, presenting and publishing papers across North America, Australia, Europe and Asia.
