Casey Koyczan

Yellowknife's Casey Koyczan was longlisted for one of Canada's leading visual arts awards, occupying a new category designed to better amplify northern work.

Casey Koyczan provides a brief history of his art practice and breaks down his installation, "idii : past in time". He reviews the processes of harvesting and preparing the driftwood, scanning trees, creating 3D animations, and installing the artwork within the AGSM Main Gallery space.

This body of work was created by re-imagining materials from Indigenous culture and Canada’s Arctic as an embodiment of human and creature characteristics within a 3D environment that brings out their spirit. Drawing inspiration from such mediums and materials as moose/caribou hair tufting, beadwork, hide-tanning and quillwork, these works showcase surreal transformations of how they are interpreted and appreciated. As an artist who has loved these materials since childhood but has not avidly used them in a physical sense, my approach has allowed me to work with them in a completely different way with digital influence and being able to implement physics properties. In creating these walk cycles, even though the materials I am working with are digital, I am treating them with the same amount of respect as if they were physical in the real world. In order of appearance: ANTLER QUILLS ANCESTORS DENTALIUM BEADWORK v2 TUFTING SPRUCE GUM Thank You / Mahsi Cho, Casey Koyczan

How Tłı̨chǫ Dene artist Casey Koyczan blends culture and technology to render a new kind of reality As a teenager, Casey Koyczan asked a question: …

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Casey Koyczan's most recent installment, Ełexiìtǫ ; Ehts'ǫǫ̀ / Connected: Apart From Each Other, was part of his master of fine art degree from the University of Manitoba.

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