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2025-08 Exhibition Header New-Media-Architectures
Dreamscape Hatchlings
Exhibition:

New Media Architectures: Vancouver

Artist(s):
Darya Ramezani
Gene Anthony Santiago-Holt
Medium: Augmented Reality
Category: Augmented Reality
Year Produced: 2025
Artwork Description:

Dreamscape Hatchlings transforms the “Heron’s Dreamscape” mural by artist Priscilla Yu, into a living nursery where the urban facade gives birth to new winged life. By way of a browser‐based WebAR platform, visitors discover and hatch eggs across the mural, setting graphic herons in flight.  This simple three‐stage interaction (appearance, hatching, flight) embodies the core themes of “Heron’s Dreamscape”: the quiet, cyclical rhythms of non‐human life that persist inside a metropolis, and the invitation to “embrace a slower pace to notice the nature that surrounds our urban spaces.” Visitors’ interactions with the augmented mural reframe the mural as a breathable habitat, dissolving the boundary between painted illusion and living ecosystem. The tactile pleasure of hatching overlays an ethic of guardianship, every egg placed is a quiet bond to notice and nurture the overlooked wildlife that shares our skyline.