Mentor Information



Ingrid Koivukangas

Location:Vancouver, Canada
Genres: Interactive art, Interdisciplinary art, performance, environmental art.
Languages:English


E-mail:inkaroo[at]yahoo.com
Website: www.ingrid-koivukangas.com

Interest:My work is classified as environmental art and encompasses many mediums including site specific
ephemeral & permanent works, interventions, installation, video, sound, web, photography, painting,
printmaking, and drawing. My work ranges from large environmental works embedded into, and left at,
sites to gallery installations that have incorporated GPS, web and video combined with natural materials.
Many of these works continue to exist online in an interactive digital format.

In a world that is constantly changing via incredible leaps in technology and unbelievable strains upon
the environment I am constantly questioning our connection to the land and our loss of connection to that land.
How do we arrive at a place where a balance has been found between technology and nature? At what point do
we begin to realize that we are not moving through a passive landscape, but through a landscape that is a reflection
of our having lost touch with the sacredness of the earth itself. I am interested in issues of identity, especially indigenous
cultures including my own, the environment, technology and globalization – questioning how our identities are shaped
by the land while also exploring how technology can be integrated into that understanding. Much of my work is an
attempt to provide the viewer with a starting point to begin contemplating their own landscape and possibly their
part in its preservation.


Bio:Ingrid Koivukangas lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and is an environmental artist whose works are
based in the land, and created in response to the land. She teaches New Media/Digital Design at Langara College in Vancouver.
When she is invited to an area to create new works, she does not know what will emerge before she arrives -- the site, the land,
dictates the work, which has taken the form of site specific permanent and ephemeral sculpture, interventions, gallery installations,
video, television, digital, photography, sound, web and 2D works -- all land-based. She has worked both nationally and
internationally and welcomes opportunities to create new works around the world.