Projects
In conversation with soil
In conversation with soil
An immersive XR installation prototype that translates woodland ecological data into a living forest environment responsive to water, carbon and human presence.
The proposed responsive environment will investigate the dynamic exchanges between trees, forests and soils, as they regulate water and carbon cycles, and examine how these systems respond to pressures from human land use practices and climate change stressors. This prototype will foster an embodied engagement with environmental issues and more-than-human agents in an ecological manner, with a focus on making scientific research accessible to neurodivergent visitors, and bridging art, embodiment, environmental studies, and technology.
Experiment
£20,000
Aims of the project
The installation will combine photographic approaches to observation, plant-based sonic signals and procedural visuals to reveal processes that usually remain imperceptible. Long-term environmental monitoring and remote sensing data of ecosystem and Anthropocene researchers will inform the structure of the virtual environment, interpreted through spatial computing, XR and multi-software pipeline.
Developed as an immersive, real-time environment, the work will respond to visitors’ presence while maintaining its own ecological logic. Rather than positioning the audience as controllers, the system will unfold as a living ecosystem, inviting embodied engagement with more-than-human processes.
Meet the artist
Anna Komitska
Solo Artist
she/her
Anna Komitska is a Bulgarian new media artist and producer working with real-time environments and generative art based in London.
Her art practice spans game worldbuilding, immersive and interactive design, audiovisual animation, analogue photography and film. She explores dissolving binaries like human-environment, natural-synthetic, abstraction-embodiment. She has a keen interest in more-than-human agency, entangled forms of knowledge, meaning and memory at the intersection of art, science, technology and multi-sensorial experience.
She holds an MA in Game Art from Escape Studios, and a BA in Photography from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Her work has been exhibited at AMP Gallery, Copeland Gallery, Little Bird Place, RCCA Toplocentrala, Credo Bonum Gallery, KO-OP in London and Sofia, Bulgaria.
