Debora Alanna
An INDI Masters candidate at Concordia University (2025), Debora is an intermedia artist focusing in Virtual Reality (VR). Debora’s digital practice began with American digital researchers and the Vancouver Film School collaboration, Digital Investigations: Differential Space, shown at the Teck Gallery, SFU (1994). She lectured on art and technology throughout India in the 90s. In 2020, Debora received a Canada Council Digital Originals grant for Escapades. Co-founder of the Ora4art collective, she has been creating VR psychogeographies as liminal VR narratives since 2018. Her work employs intermedia: laser scanning, microscopic imagery manipulation, stereolithography as VR objects; poetics; soundscapes and video. Her VR has been showcased through VRForward, a Canada Council funded project at the Odyssey Gallery in VRChat, 2nd Life, and at the Wrong Biennial (2023).
Lullaby dwells on Icelandic mythic sensibilities while bringing forth a conversation about infanticide. Pratique historique, les berceuses étaient chantées aux nourrissons sur le point d’être relâchés dans les éléments. Masked characters, Trú, a raven that used to be a man, his friend Vilborg, and a narration chorus tell the story of one lullaby event. Throughout the piece, an improvisational cohort supported by visual and audio multiplexes incorporates 3D print art and original music with projections made in Virtual Reality (VR), to expound on Lullaby.