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New Stories: Aurora Borealis and the Melting Tundra

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

New Stories: Aurora Borealis and the Melting Tundra, 2008 Installation Staller Center for The Arts, Stony Brook, NY, USA This sound and tactile installation is based upon stories and experiences of climate change and global warming in northern Canada. Fur and gravel create a pseudo-landscape on the floor with the “northern lights” above. The ground is made of faux bear fur laced with butterflies and the gravel is mixed with sparkles and barely-discernible litter. Furry plants with music boxes inside, […]

Categories: Art • Tags: art, climate change, environmental art, installation art, narrative, northern Canada, sound art installation, stories

Abundance

August 5, 2013 by Max Liboiron

I used early woodcuts of the New World as source material to redraw a three-dimensional stage-like environment and create flash animations. Many 16th to 18th century depictions of the New World are skewed towards lushness and adventure, including a tendency to depict an overpowering sexuality or monstrosity in plants, Native Americans, and the landscape. Woodcuts and engravings were the first images able to be mass produced and distributed, and were instrumental in popularizing the New World as being wild and […]

Categories: Art • Tags: animation installation, colonialism, installation art, landscape, natural history, New World narratives, science fiction, science friction, wood cuts

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