Imagined Islands

Viborg Animation Festival 2024, AI Art Festival, Warsaw 2024, Simultan Festival, Timișoara, Romania 2024, Forum des images, Paris 2025, Future Frames Exhibition University of Maryland, Herman Maril Gallery 2025, Synthetic Narratives Conference, New Jersey 2025. Threshold: Human/AI, Unstable Partnerships, Hungary 2026. Vectors of Care in Experimental Arts, Podgorica, Montenegro 2026. International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art ISEA, Dubai 2026.

Imagined Islands is a digital art sculpture that explores the unique topology of small outcrops on the coasts of Europe. The project examines the ever changing landscape in these communities and the challenges they face from coastal erosion and climate change.

A durational audio-visual projection work that changes and reacts to the presence of people, the installation immerses the audience and gives them a sense of agency while viewing the work.

It aims to create an interactive experience that invites the public to imagine a new set of landscapes and alternative paths that could have formed. The work is a restless panorama, combining animation, machine learning explorations, soundscapes, and dreaming.

Created By
Leon Butler

Creative Technologist
Mads Vadsholt 

Produced by
Leon Butler & PLASTIC Collective (Lana Tankosa Nikolic & Martina Scarpelli)

Supported by PLASTIC Collective, Viborg UNESCO Creative City, The Animation Workshop, Viborg Animation Festival.

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Imagined Islands

Imagined Islands is a digital art sculpture that explores the unique topology of small outcrops on the coasts of Europe. The project examines the ever changing landscape in these communities and the challenges they face from coastal erosion and climate change.