(curation, architectural video mapping)
For a third year, Manufacturing Entertainment curated and produced three large-scale projections for Lights on the Exchange, an outdoor winter art festival in the Exchange District of Winnipeg. The 2024 festival ran from January 21 to March 21, 2025. Find out more
LIST OF ARTWORKS
Photos are in the order of the artwork descriptions.
Aderemilekun “Oluuji” Olusoga (Winnipeg)
LOCATION: 80 Rorie Avenue (map link)
TITLE: “Feedback from Room 101”
ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
“Feedback from Room 101” is an excerpt from Oluuji’s SLFMAE residency at Videopool in the summer of 2024. During this residency, he explored feedback synthesis with analog video mixers, combining these techniques with generative AI tools, creating machine-mediated visuals with technologies spanning nearly 30 years of technological advancement. This body of work confronts the discomfort and anxieties surrounding AI art and the potential implications of AI systems on society while exploring the potential of a novel space in media art. The title “Feedback from Room 101” is a tongue-in-cheek nod to “Room 101” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), a room where prisoners are sent to face their biggest fears, to break down their resistance against The Party. In Oluuji’s video, transient 3D-rendered eyes and faces emerge and dissolve ceaselessly amidst a mesmerizing storm of “AI Feedback” in perpetual motion.
ARTIST BIO:
Aderemilekun “Oluuji” Olusoga is a self-taught Nigerian visual artist currently living in Canada, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from The University of Winnipeg in 2022. His affinity for philosophy, religion, and science deeply informs his multidisciplinary approach, which he uses to explore complex, existential themes. Oluuji’s work invites viewers to reflect on the human condition through a dualistic, existentialist lens, examining concepts of identity, community and time, with a particular fascination for zeitgeist.
Find Oluuji on Instagram, TikTok, X:_@oluuji
Scott Leroux
LOCATION: 54 Albert Street (map link)
TITLE: “Pepper Green Pepper“ (in quadruplicate)
ARTWORK:
Using simple methods of screen capturing low-resolution images, video feedback and retrogressive transitions. Scott Leroux created “Pepper Green Pepper“, a dense pallet of ever-changing visuals drenched in subconscious efforts through the exploration of older video techniques.
Leroux has imparted to the Winnipeg arts community a legacy of exceptional experimental artwork.
ARTIST BIO:
Scott Leroux (1988-2016) earned his BFA (honours) from the University of Manitoba where he studied photography, video, painting, and improvised music. As a self-taught organist and composer, Scott’s use of mediums delves deep into the subconscious, seeking beauty and harmony in the banal.
Lydia Yakonowsky (Montreal)
LOCATION: Walkway between The Centennial Concert Hall and the Manitoba Museum (map link)
TITLE: “Statistical Bouquet 4”
ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
In
“Statistical Bouquet 4”, data points, models, and statistical graphs
converge to form a vibrant, intricate bouquet, transforming the
practical utility of economic analysis into a visual experience. Through
this process, the structured language of data is reconfigured, losing
its rigid form and acquiring new layers of significance: each point,
curve, and function becomes a luminous, iridescent artifact in its own
right. The spectator’s gaze is drawn into a colourful composition, where
these newly minted objects of fortune—sparkling relics of data and
abstraction—unfold into a luminous and dynamic landscape.
ARTIST BIO:
Lydia
Yakonowsky is a Canadian visual artist based in Montreal, working at
the crossroads of digital arts, immersive short films, and performance.
She
utilizes digital technologies to create real-time visual compositions,
which she then captures and transforms into standalone pieces. Lydia
specializes in the fulldome format. Her work reinterprets the visual
elements of graphics and econometric models, which are the foundation of
her training. This approach questions the utility and reliability of
modern economic models. The result is a vast statistical choreography
where dismantled grids, wandering parabolas, and strings of data
intertwine, all freed from their original functions.
http://www.lydiayakonowsky.ca
IG: @kaminska.visuals
