Voices Unheard
Voices Unheard: The Church and Marginalized Communities is part of the Inter/Access IA 360° Showcase Exhibition curated by Kyle Duffield and Terry Anastasiadis.
Voices Unheard: The Church and Marginalized Communities is a video collaboration by Nyle Migiizi Johnston, Nigel Nolan and Emmanuel Umukoro - members of Highness Generates a division of Highness Global Inc. Voices Unheard: The Church and Marginalized Communities uses AI Generated imagery created by Umukoro from data sets of Johnston’s and Nolan’s artwork. The objective during the creative process was to create a machine generated collaboration of Johnston’s and Nolan’s work while employing Umukoro’s immense knowledge in animation and digital media.
The final video brings a maximalist vision of patterns, colours, plant life, astronomy and architecture into a new “church” for Indigenous, Queer and POC folks. Voices Unheard: The Church and Marginalized Communities layers imagery of the future and thoughts from our past to bring the viewer into a space to contemplate new modes of creation, awareness and unity.