Asaimîna ᐊᓴᐃᒼ ᐄᓇ All Over Again, (2020) is a generative new media projection piece that negotiates abstract spaces and places through a multiplicity of circular notions to contemplate direction. Sensing, intuiting, or knowing comes from understanding and are dynamic concepts that describe the continuum of a sequence of embodied experiences.

Asaimîna ᐊᓴᐃᒼ ᐄᓇ All Over Again activates the local and cosmological to serve as a digital compass for our future.

The reward for interactivity is that abstractions appear. Abstractions are landscape inspired which also include Cree syllabics that also reference place. Audio interactivity triggers changes in the soundscape as the participant moves the cursor with the rolly ball to the north, where the sound of the wind occur. If the cursor is moved to the south, the sounds of waves break.

If you move the cursor to the East where the sun rises, crackles of fire are summoned and if the cursor is moved to the west, sounds of tectonic plates rumble. The central orb is comprised of four stacked transparent video channels, which are composites produced by the animated outcomes of experiments made by feeding images in AI software of Indigenous trees to the local area in Tkaronto, representing the dense forest that once lived here, with current images of this city.

Made with Funding fom the Toronto Arts Council.