The natural world is burning. Psithaura is a ritualized experience inspiring reflection on our relationship to nature. It asks how we frame nature in the current geological age where human activity has been the dominant influence on the environment. Through collaborative gestural participation, the installation awakens, transforming the gallery into a communal meditative space. Breath and C02 manipulate the visuals in real-time, producing direct feedback about the current state of this relationship.

 

Director : Evan Tedlock

Interactive Designer and Engineer : Keshav Prasad

Composer : Jaco Wong

Sound Designers : NoctVRnal

Sensor Engineer : Karl Erickson

 

Exhibition:

- Graduate Exhibition | Installation | April 27-29, 2018 | The University of Southern California| Los Angeles, California

- Byte of Science | Presentation | July 11, 2018 | Hamed Mirzaei Foundation | Wurstküche | Los Angeles, California

- Summer Series | Music Performance by KC Vitas | August 3, 2018 | Atonement Lutheran Church | Overland Park, Kansas

- Summer Series | Music Performance by KC Vitas | August 5, 2018 | Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church | Kansas City, Missouri

- Balance / Unbalance 2018 | Presentation &  Installation | September 20-21, 2018 | V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media | Rotterdam, Netherlands

- Consciousness Reframed | Presentation & Installation | June 7-9, 2019 | Universidade Catolica Portuguesa | Porto, Portugal

- Thailand New Music and Art Symposium | Presentation & Installation | December 17-19, 2021 | Bangkok Art and Culture Center | Bangkok, Thailand

 

Press:

- June 19, 2018 | Derivative TouchDesigner Blog | 'USC Students Drive Interactive Installation Psithaura with Breath and Cooperation'