Manufactured Ecosystems: A virtual look into the 2025 Exhibition
Program Guide and Educational Booklet
By Dave Dowhaniuk
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Introduction to the space:
Panoramic Gigapan:
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We asked visitors to reflect on…
Reflections
Responses
Digitial Artwork
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Artist: Amanda Amour-Lynx
Nasunikejk (elmitukwi’k) (2025)
Virtual Reality
3D Digital Landscape
(Video Documentation: Sheri Osden Nault)
This exhibit is located in cyberspace and is available using STYLY, using virtual reality. Check it out here!
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“Nasunikejk embraces sensations of both hope and grief surrounding habitat restoration and the complex relationship between expropriated unceded territories that hold matrilineal and ancestral histories.” - Amanda Amour-Lynx
Sqmoqniejk | I’ll find you in every lifetime (2025)
Digital Animation
“The subject purports that much of nature is dimorphic, both biologically and genomically expansive, resisting the current moment in history that actively challenges free gender expression.” - Amanda Amour-Lynx
Netukulimk | Rewilding (2025)
Augmented Reality, Wheatpaste Installation
This exhibit is located in cyberspace and is available using STYLY, using virtual reality. Check it out here!
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“Vivid colourful illustrations and dreamlike fantasy landscape is used to depict spirit-science connection, portraying the animacy of plant connections through playful kinship. In this AR scene, you can interact, forage and learn about native plants local to this area.” - Amanda Amour-Lynx
This exhibit can also be experienced via mobile on STYLY! Scan the QR codes using a phone to access.
Additional Connecting Artworks by Amanda Amour-Lynx
Exhibition Artworks: Gigapans
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The Boreal Trees (2025)
Wool yarn on cotton cloth
46” round
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Artist Statement:
“Plants assemble to form ecosystems that participate in climate regulation in a variety of ways such as storing carbon, affecting weather through transpiration, cycling nutrients and water, supporting soils, and more.” - Amanda White.
Artist: Ele Willoughby
Multimedia & Linocut Prints of varied sizes
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Artist Statement:
“Between these extremes is a world where we work to preserve pollinators but pragmatically employ some artificial pollination in agriculture.” - Ele Willoughby
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Artist Statement:
“Homes are wrapped in skirts of aspen trees that were left to stand. Their roots stretch under the soil of the vast fields reaching like fingers under the earth, waiting to grasp the hands of their kin.” - Melanie Barnett
Artist: Pablo Rios
Network Directive (2025)
Refined petroleum products
JavaScript
Hydroelectricity
(Coding assistance provided by Santiago Smith)
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Artist Statement:
“Research for the Manufactured Ecosystems project has highlighted a major threat to social culture: the commodification of resources, language, and survival means by corporations with autocratic and oligarchic ambitions.” - Pablo Rios
Artist: Yulia Shtern
Leaf Sheep (2025)
Upcycled materials gathered at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, USA
56x34x17 cm
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