Circadian Rhythem Series
Pluto-Rex and Pluto-Rex 2.0
Live Cultures of bioluminescent Algae
Digital Paintings • Biosensors • Film • Light Box
360/Virtual Reality Video
Immersive Total Solar Eclipse Project
Total Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017 - Eastern Idaho, USA
Virtual Reality/VR • 360 • Video
Fulldome • Outreach
Video / Virtual Reality / Experimental Film (25 min.)
2018 Eruption (started May3, June 6 on-location video)
An awe-inspiring natural and powerful event ends in contemplation and disaster for those who lost homes, land, communities and uncertainties of their future living on the edge of an active volcano, Kilauea. Kilauea is one of the worlds most active volcanoes. Kilauea is Pele's home.
We see our Earth in motion. And no one knows what's next.
Three decades of eruptions of Kilauea, P'u'u'o'o, and a new Fissure 8, 2018
on location, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Screenings: Sharjah Art Film Platform, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 2019
Video | 8:11 min | 2022
Illumination by JoAnn Gillerman © 2022
After Darkness, Light Returns. Being in the Moon's shadow. A Total Solar Eclipse is immersive, humbling, awesome, amazing, magical, surreal, profound, intense, powerful, and cosmic! Mythology and folklore of this universal phenomenon often describe it as frightening and unsettling for peoples throughout cultures, history, and time, trying to give reason for the unnatural darkness when the sun disappears and day is plunged into night revealoing planets and stars during the day. Animals become agitated, quiet, sounds intensify and temperatures drop as the shimmering corona of the sun is exposed in all its glory. A beautiful sight to behold. Magically, light follows dark giving us place in the Universe.
Produced in HD Video and 360/Virtual Reality.
(Translations in Arabic, French, English)
Total Solar Eclipses recorded on location:
360/VR Total Solar Eclipse 2017, Idaho, USA,
Hawaii 1991, Bolivia 1994, India 1995, Venezuela 1998, Turkey 1999, Libya 2006, Siberia 2008
Contact: JoAnn (Jody) Gillerman
jo.artpodorg@gmail.com
NFT
Ethereum-Based Crypto Artwork
Virtual Reality Vignettes and Imagry
Published on OpenSea NFT Marketplace
NFT Collections created by JoAnn Gillerman
(AKA: VRbits by Hot Lava)
https://www.tritoniadesigns.net/other
© 2021-current
Social Practice, Social Justice, Nonprofit
Art-Pod is a nonprofit organization bringing innovative, experiential and virtual explorations of integrated Art, Science, Culture and Technology and STEAM education to the public, including underserved, disadvantaged communities. Art-Pod works in social justice and collaborations with multigenerational communities. Please visit Art-Pod Webiste to view more about Art-Pod and projects.
JoAnn Gillerman is Founder/Director of Art-Pod/Theatre of Man Nonprofit 501(c)3 - 2019-current
"Four Elements" Art Exhibition, San Pablo Art Gallery, California
Three Artist Show (2019)
The works on view in this "4 Elements" exhibition reflect the artists' creative processes as concrete media for expressing what they feel and see in the natural world
and our place in it. In observing the earth and oceans, the sky and stars from each of their individaul perspectives the artists come to the shared themes of
earth, water, air, fire which speak of change and transformation happning on our planet and within ourselves. Ephemerally captured and recorded changes of light
in natural environments
are represented in digital forms and imagry, while Virtual Reality places the viewer in the center looking out - a conduit touching and reaching
beyond the body - a bridge between the real and virtual to experience our Earth in motion.
JoAnn Gillerman artworks shown above: Digital Prints, Light Panels, Aerial Photography (Collage,Video and Virtual Reality not shown)
Our Location in the Universe '21 - Project Collaboration of Art-Pod and K-12 Astronomy Studies Group (Art, Virtual Reality, Science/Astronomy, Culture)
Virtual/Hybrid Project 2021
Video | 11 min | 2023
TOTALITY by JoAnn Gillerman © 2023
Celebrating beauty of Cultural and Environmental Diversity of our Planet, Universe and Life Forms inhabiting them, TOTALITY is an experimental textured and layered montage of on-location recordings during total solar eclipses around the world over decades. Immersively experienced and recorded on-location during Total Solar Eclipses in Hawai’i/USA/1991, Bolivia/1994, India/1995, Venezuela/1998, Türkiye/1999, Libya/2006, Siberia/2008 and USA/2017, TOTALITY takes us around the world observing cultures and environmental diversity through these universal humbling, powerful and awe-inspiring natural events that are that are surreal and very real at the same time.
As seen from Earth, TOTALITY is the time when the Sun is completely covered – or eclipsed – by the Moon. We are in the shadow of the moon as day becomes night. Reflected in myths and folklore, it is no wonder that this universal phenomenal is frightening and unsettling for peoples throughout cultures, history, and time, trying to give reason for the sudden disappearance of the Sun. Light is plunged into darkness, temperature drops, planets and stars appear in the sky, animals become quietly confused, sounds intensify... and the shimmering glowing corona of the sun is visible in all its glory surrounding the jet-black disk of the moon.
Media | 360/VR/Video | Metal/Steel | Light | Interactive Sculptures
JoAnn Gillerman © 2023-2024
Artist Statement
We live in a special place. Nowhere else in the universe, do the Moon, Earth and Sun align perfectly to create a total solar eclipse. Though volcanic activity exists throughout the Universe, here it holds primal and fertile mysteries of Earth's past, present and future. It is on this visual visceral (cosmic) level that I personally relate to Earth as a delicate, amazing planet, worth preserving in all its beautiful diversity of habitats and inhabitants, taking our place in the shared Universe. Through art, I hope to bring a visceral visual awareness to the unique and extraordinary processes of our planet, connecting with viewers, audience and the public to see our Earth in motion!
