Abstract (Long paper)

Keywords: LocoMotoArt, place, digital eco-art, technologically mediated experiences, urban environment

In contrast to the spectacle of large-scale projections onto urban architecture, digital eco-art offers intimate experiences in reciprocity with the largeness of the sensorial realm of nature. Digital eco-artists position work in natural settings for the exhibition of interactive computer generative sound and visual installation works. In doing so, they push traditional boundaries of urban public art to be more socially interactive, immersive, and inclusive of place they offer a means for re-visioning urban natural green space.

• Laura Lee Coles, MA Artist-in-Resident Vancouver Park Board – Aberthau Mansion, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Laura Lee is an arts-based researcher and exhibiting multi-disciplinary artist. She holds a Master of Arts from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests are: Human, Technology and Nature Interaction and Re-visioning Public Space. She is a published author and presents her research internationally at conferences. Her arts practice consists of photography, video installations (interactive, contemplative and site specific), and naturalist collage making. She has exhibited her work in Canada, United States and Europe. Laura is the founder of the arts group LocoMotoArt, and currently artists-in-residence at Aberthau Mansion via the Vancouver Park Board- Arts, Culture and Environment studio program (2013-2016). locomotoart.weebly.com

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