Media Art

Projects and Performances

A bird rises above skeletal glowing hands against a background of a city park

interactive
projection art
community art

Turn words into birds just by pointing to their names. Poems and images flock across the wall in this interactive celebration of urban biodiversity.

Glowing vines, stars and a tree shaped like a pinecone are projected across three stories of the nighttime facade of an old factory building

projection
live coding
audioreactive

Urban Arboretum

Speak life into art with a whole wall for your canvas! Computer generated plants projected on a building grow and dance, responding to live audio.

An LED sign in the gallery windows reads LIVE CODE

live coding
projection art
curation

Planet Tkaronto

An electrifying night of live coded music, art and storytelling in a 360° immersive environment, with performers from Toronto, Hamilton, London, Boston and Montréal

A modular synth performer stands in front of organic light forms

live coding
projection art
performance

Live Concert Visuals

I live to collaborate. Live coded and audio-reactive visuals performed with musicians, evolving dynamically with every beat

A theatre stage with the cast standing at the front holding hands; behind them is a large projection of a vast golden sky.

projection
animation

Journey Through Grief and Healing

“I don’t want to live in sorrow, I want to live in hope and joy.”
Theatrical projections for a play in the Hart House Drama Festival

A pattern of glowing dots radiating and intersecting around a radiant central core.

live coding
performance

Frequency Flower

A mesmerizing field of dots unfolds intricate floral patterns synced harmoniously with a live-coded musical performance by Alicia Champlin

A mural at nighttime, featuring dynamic characters, each highlighted in a different colour of glowing patters from the projection that also lights up the leaves of an overhanging tree.

projection mapping
live coding

Projection Mapping

Bringing new light to a local mural by Elicser and Other in Alexandra Park

TSV gallery with wall and rafters lit with flowing projections, reflecting down on the hardwood floor

live coding
projection
community arts
performance

TSV Live Coding Jam

Members of the public came out to TSV to experiment with live coding and jam, improvising music and lighting up the gallery with projections

live coding
generative art
procedural animation
performance

IA 360

Immersive 360-degree visuals paired with a live DJ for gallery parties

Screen divided to show four computer screens each with code and showing different visual effects

live coding
performance

Quad Entropic Conversation

Four live coders explore maintaining an unravelling conversation

Viewers wave in front of a store window; inside the window a projection screen shows their glowing images on top of an animated scene

projection
animation
motion sensor

Unconscious Collective

There is much more to our roots than we can ever know: an interactive celebration of what lies beneath us

A brightly coloured low-poly 3D forest scene

generative art
twitter bot
installation

botinthewoods

Wander with my bot through colourful imaginary generative forests

A yellow creature wearing a human face and riding in a small yellow submarine, passes in front of the curious eye of a giant blue whale. 3D / video game art.

game design
game programming
ludopoetics

Soundmarine

Breathe deeply, then dive with whales and use your poetic problem solving to decode their songs

Face and shoulders of a white woman with dark hair and glasses wearing a black blazer, superimposed on visuals with code

sarah@artcodelove.com

Sarah Imrisek (she/her) makes art in the streets and with the community in and around Tkaronto. Her work upends traditional boundaries, blending interactive media installations, live coding performances, murals, and canvases, all while engaging with the community.

Infused with vibrant colors and hallucinatory elements, her art seeks inspiration from nature to find pathways to personal and collective healing after trauma.

Rooted in the legacies of avant-garde art and liberation movements, Sarah's practice explores the transformative power of creative play, inviting us to reimagine our connections to ourselves, our communities, and the land we inhabit.

(you might also like to check out my murals and community arts facilitation projects)