TOUCH TANK
MIXED-REALITY PRESENTATION
AVAILABLE AT THE SALT YARD ON THE HALIFAX WATERFRONT
JUNE 9–12, 2022
Touch Tank intertwines painting, virtual reality, video projection, and haptic audio-visual design, inviting audiences to wander within the complexities and manifold possibilities of human and non-human interaction. Reimagining empirical experiences of Nova Scotia’s coastal intertidal zones, the work explores embodied notions of looking, touching, sensing, and remembering to propose an experiential digital framework for ruminating on the interconnections of painted, virtual, and touristic simulations of landscape.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Hailey Guzik
Hailey Guzik is a visual artist based in Montréal, QC. Her work expands painting into practices of sculpture, installation, and digital media. She holds a BFA from Mount Allison University (2017) and was the Virtual Reality Intern at Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) in Halifax, NS, winter 2022. Past projects have been supported by ArtsNB, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, and Canada Council for the Arts.
This project was made possible thanks to the partnership of CFAT and HIFF through the Independent Media Arts Alliance’s Digital Skills for Youth Internship Program.