Diana Lynn VanderMeulen

Canada

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her practice is fluid between analogue and digital mediums with a focus on extended reality and cyclical material use as she develops expansive, multisensory environments. Through an artist creation residency at Société des arts technologiques (Montreal) Diana was granted the time and tools to adapt ongoing project, A Boundless and Radiant Aura, into an immersive audio visual performance alongside collaborator Stefana Fratila. The final show entitled “I want to leave this Earth behind” was formatted specifically to the Satosphere’s immersive 360-degree projectors and multi-channel sound system. A Boundless and Radiant Aura premiered as a multimodal Extended Reality with Debaser at SAW Gallery in Ottawa, and with Toutoune Gallery in Toronto. Other recent works include a solo hybrid physical-virtual exhibition Shimmer of a Petal, Now a mountain Stream, with Sky Fine Foods & ArtGate VR, and self released Augmented-Reality application Swampy GoGo which extends digital realities from a series of 2D mixed media landscapes.

Alongside a collaborative representation with Sky Fine Foods, VanderMeulen has been involved in many public and DIY ventures. She has shown at The AGO, The Canadian Embassy (Tokyo, Japan), CADAF Paris, Constellations Festival Metz, The Gardiner Museum, and Idea Exchange.


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Pixel as a Seed 2.1

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This past year I have stepped into a land stewardship role as I learn to care for an overgrown section of my family farmland. It has been incredibly profound and healing for me to reconnect with the soil & to self guide this learning process, as I gather knowledge from my family, explore heirloom techniques (such as scything!), look to microbial ecology, seed saving, cover crops & weeds as indicators of soil health. This work feels like a natural extension of my arts practice, just as art was a response to my hands on rural upbringing.


Within this digital landscape, I have built upon my visual lexicon with documentation from my farming diary. Notably, I have included montanta morado maize, sorghum sudangrass seed, red clover, chicory, goldenrod & a variety of grains and grasses I have I grown or collected over the past year.

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3d

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landscape

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05:00

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2024

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