About the Artists

Yashvardhan Joshi (Soundscape)

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. 

Tara Dunn (Gobo Light Visuals)

Tara Dunn is an interdisciplinary artist, and grade 12 high-school student in Kelowna Secondary School. Her work encompasses a substantial body of work as singing singer-songwriter with a unique alternative, atmospheric and nostalgic experimental style, and an impressive creation of visual arts works. Tara’s work has been features in live performances and public art installation in Western Canada and is being explored online through major music streaming platforms. Tara Dunn created the salmon imagery and symmetrical arrangement for the display in celebration of the salmon successfully returning to the Okanagan during this year’s run.

Aleksandra Dulic (Visual Supervisor)

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.

Miles Thorogood (Audio Recordings)

Miles Thorogood is an artist/engineer at the University of British Columbia with research in the practice and theory of sound design and interactive digital art. His research seeks to identify formal models of creativity as it is by investigating aspects of human perception and design process in order to encode creative structures for computer-assisted technologies in art-making environments. Miles specializes in quantitative and qualitative methods from Music Information Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence toward cutting edge research in the development of novel computational models and systems for artistic creation. Research contributions include new knowledge in the fields of soundscape studies, affective computing, music information retrieval, and media arts. The research has been featured as interactive museum exhibits, installations, and performances. The interactive installation and performance works frame the research in creative practice that brings meaningful contexts of experience and environment to the foreground using algorithmic processes combining art-making, audio and visual media, databases, artificial intelligence, and physical and network computing.