Factory Media Centre is thrilled to announce that Viridian Sylvae will be joining us as our final 2025 &NOW Artist-in-Residence!
SAPPHOMANTIC//HOMOGOETIA will be a 3D immersive installation and performance exploring queer/trans goetia—a real-time, generative multimedia experience meant to evoke a summoning and communication with our honored dead. S//H is a multi-channel audio/video installation which doubles as a venue for an expanded cinema/musical performance inviting audience participation within an immersive aesthetic interrogation of a queer affective longing for death and connection with the dead. The experience will be presented as a one-time performance of live music electronics, programming, and projection-mapping—with audience-artist interaction through object-controllers and motion sensing determining the final shape and function of the experience itself.
About the Artist
Viridian Sylvae (she/her) is a transsexual dyke with a Master of Arts in Media Studies from The New School in New York City. She is currently an international PhD student of CNMCS in the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University, where she conducts vital research on living trans and dying trans in North America through critical media analysis and artistry in research-creation and oppositional tech design. An article exploring the theories and concepts behind her newest multimedia installation work, Pharmakon, my becoming-toxic, is soon to be published in the July 2025 issue of (un)Disturbed: A Journal of Feminist Voices from University of Waterloo.
About the Project
SAPPHOMANTIC//HOMOGOETIA is a 3D immersive experience exploring queer/trans goetia—a real-time, generative multimedia experience meant to evoke a summoning and communication with our honored dead. This will be presented as a one-time performance of live music electronics, programming, and projection-mapping, with audience-artist interaction determining the shape and function of the experience itself.
About the Residency
Our &NOW Production Residency and Scholarship is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at Factory Media Centre to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.