Abstract

Keywords: Invisible animals, non-human animals, hallucinations, fabulations, ghosts, media art, video art, geolocation, immanence, artist-research.

My research-creation on invisible animals explores what is invisible in the visual realm in order to explore immanence, power, and non-visual knowledge. Utilizing digital technologies, I create media artworks that I think about as being transformational objects, objects that can shift us into new ways of perceiving. The leap of perception through these media art experiences changes our understanding of the world, challenging notions of the utility of animals and the
function of technology. My work offers an ethics of care as liberation from instrumental rationalism.

• Donna Szoke creates expanded animation, video art, drawing, and printmaking. She investigates immanence, embodied perception, and the fluidity of lived experience. Her
  work has exhibited in Canada, USA, France, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, Croatia, Cuba, and UAE. She has received awards including SSHRC, Canada Council for the Arts, BC and Ontario Arts Council. She is Chair & Associate Professor, Visual Arts, Brock University where she received the Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity in 2017.

Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council, Niagara Artists Centre, Grimsby Art Gallery, and Humanities Research Institute (Brock University) for their generous support of these artworks.

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