Soft Ground: Back to the Swamp Forest
Currently based in Los Angeles, Breanna was raised in the mountains of Southern Appalachia where the landscape has been endlessly worked by technologies of extraction. Left behind is a scarred, soft ground.
The cartographic images in her “Soft Grounds” series present bits as matter and landscapes as information through the manipulation of tools engineered to digitize physical conditions. These unearthed and unwrapped visions of the landscape present both a familiar softness and an uncomfortable awareness of geological violence.
Exhibited at Vellum, Los Angeles. Curated by Jesse Damiani and Sinziana Velicescu.
The cartographic images in her “Soft Grounds” series present bits as matter and landscapes as information through the manipulation of tools engineered to digitize physical conditions. These unearthed and unwrapped visions of the landscape present both a familiar softness and an uncomfortable awareness of geological violence.
Exhibited at Vellum, Los Angeles. Curated by Jesse Damiani and Sinziana Velicescu.
digital image on Luma Canvas
4000x4000px
Soft Ground: XL Images from Breanna’s “Soft Grounds” series, presented in maximum resolution at Vellum, Los Angeles. Curated by Jesse Damiani and Sinziana Velicescu.
digital image on xl led screen
~12 ft x 12 ft
variants (with Pierre Huyghe ; technical artist)
Variants is a multipolar entity that perceives, generates and modifies. It is simultaneously an island and what that island could be in an alternate reality...
The island has been scanned to become the environment of a live simulation. The two milieux, physical and digital, are permeable...A fictional narrative gives a set of rules and prompts, played out by an artificial neural network that generates unpredictable mutations in the simulation, of what is present on the island, animate or inanimate, sounds or things, such as trees, trash, animals, or humans. Learn more here.
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large scale installation
dronopod (with Keith Kaseman) explores a possible future where automation of airspace is ubiquitous, leading to the development of an entirely new type of infrastructure. Through methods of advanced digital modeling and fabrication, augmented reality application development, and speculative mapping, dronopod provides physical and spatial evidence of what that utility infrastructure might look like.
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12 ft x 6 ft x 4 ft
