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A documentary made on my exchange at the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

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Imaging Vancouver is a sub-project from the performance work Mesoshpere.  Imaging Vancouver is a further investigation to the intersections between body, environment, and technology. Specifically, we explore relationships between individual identity and place through technology mediated representations. 

Participants are invited to interact with the system.  A persons body in space is mapped using the Kinect 3D capture camera.  The depth map data is combined with pixel information from video footage of street level activity in Vancouver.  The resulting artifact, somewhat reminisce of the brain scans reading peoples dreams, is the viewers body seen as individual of components of the video, like a real-time stencil.

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“An isolated girl deplores her captivity, not realizing just how closely entwined she actually is to the flight of freedom, as her tears spawn escape devices for disenchanted corporate peons.”

This surreal, existential fairytale explores themes of consciousness and its disconnection; the mind being caged by the inability to achieve one’s dreams; the Self as confronted by just-out-of-reach freedom. Leaving Ground is a stop-motion HD short starring handmade puppets and digital rotoscoping.

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http://www.heidimay.ca

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A brand for an art show featuring the works of students who had recently completed student exchange programs. A concept for branding was created in collaboration with Nicole Pizarro and Yuriy Rzhemovskiy. Photos were collected from participants from their exchanges, and placed into 3/4 squares, representing the unfinished feeling of an exchange student. Each image is captioned with the location of each photograph, and each shape is oriented on a virtual compass to point from Vancouver to that location. The final concept featured invitations, screen-printed and digitally printed posters, exhibition design and motion graphics.

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It has been said that the canine sense of smell is hundreds of times more sensitive to that of human beings. It can be argued that this uniquely detailed perceptual experience points to an empirical intelligence that humans can only imagine. Some canine experts speculate that the pleasure the dog experiences from traveling in a car with his head out the window is like a psychedelic experience – fantastic rush of the senses. In Rockstar, the artist's dog Tom is portrayed in close-up as he travels in this way. The soundtrack is constructed from studio recordings of Tom's voice and from car engine recordings.

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Screen Test: Tom is one of a pair of videos of the artist's dogs, Tom and Sugi.  The title quotes the series of works by Andy Warhol depicting close-up living portraits of his friends and acquaintances. As in Warhol's works, the portraits are shown as slow-motion studies detailing minute changes of expression and the subject's self-consciousness in front of the camera. Screen Test: Tom provides a view of interspecies intimacy through the gaze of the animal looking back at the human. The viewer has an opportunity to witness the subtleties of an animal's highly developed perceptual sense, normally visible below the threshold of human perception.

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Screen Test: Sugi is one of a pair of videos of the artist's dogs, Tom and Sugi.  The title quotes the series of works by Andy Warhol depicting close-up living portraits of his friends and acquaintances. As in Warhol's works, the portraits are shown as slow-motion studies detailing minute changes of expression and the subject's self-consciousness in front of the camera. Screen Test: Sugi provides a view of interspecies intimacy through the gaze of the animal looking back at the human. The viewer has an opportunity to witness the subtleties of an animal's highly developed perceptual sense, normally visible below the threshold of human perception.

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Bikeride is informed by the artist’s everyday activities with her dogs, Tom and Sugi. This project shows close-up video of the dogs running against the landscape of the city of Vancouver.  The dogs are pictured as the central subject of the image with the changing landscape behind them. The process of making the video involved video recording using a small HD camera mounted at dog height on the artist's bike. Recording the bikerides in various locations in the city captured the physical engagement of the dogs with the geography, and recorded the varied uses, architecture and geography of Vancouver.

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Aria shows the artist’s companion dogs, Sugi and Tom, exploring the natural world; a journey through a forested landscape ending with Tom vocalizing his enthusiasm as a kind of “aria.” Aria, the operatic form, is defined as a long accompanied song by a solo voice, with origins in 18th century Italian music. The form of the aria and the imagery in Aria recall historical romanticism which, in art, emphasized personal inspiration and individual subjectivity. These ideas coincide with the objectives of Aria, which is to present the emotional connection of Tom and Sugi to the natural world.