UNDERSKY
A future-historical reenactment of Earth's flora and fauna, long after we've gone.
audiovisual performance collective
immersive futures · ecological memory · sound & image
A future-historical reenactment of Earth's flora and fauna, long after we've gone.
Onwards and upwards. Unmask, unwind, untether.
Exploring how AI-driven vision systems capture and erase human presence.
A kingfisher's odyssey from northern coast to southern shore.
A future-historical reenactment of Earth's flora and fauna, long after we've gone.
UNDERSKY is an immersive installation and performance staging a future-historical reenactment of Earth's flora and fauna long after humanity has departed. Created using public-domain scientific illustrations, the work imagines immersive entertainment as both a memorial to and a mediation of ecological loss. Currently in development.
Dance as the sun and the moon go by.
Onwards and upwards. Unmask, unwind, untether. Dance as the sun and the moon go by.
Exploring how AI-driven vision systems capture and erase human presence.
The Handprint and the Hand is an interdisciplinary new media dance performance that explores how AI-driven vision systems capture and erase human presence. A dancer performs accompanied by a projected feed of their performance. The feed uses AI-powered motion capture and human driven visuals to produce scenes that display or omit the dancer's body in digital space. The performance questions what is rendered visible, what is discarded, and how technology reframes authorship. Where does meaning reside when human labor is reduced to machine-readable fragments?
A kingfisher's odyssey from northern coast to southern shore.
migration's only natural (2024) follows the journey of a kingfisher on its odyssey from northern coast to southern shore.
each landscape it traverses unveils a new sonic world, echoing the rhythms of its passage over land, through air, across—and even beneath—the water, until it reaches its long-awaited destination.
All songs written, produced and mixed by Graham Steinman
Recorded by Graham Steinman in his home in Montreal, and by Steinman and Daphne Copper at Copper Sound Studio in Guelph, Ontario
Mastered by Phillip Shaw Bova at Bova Lab in Ottawa, Ontario
Released December 13, 2024
MANYBIRDS is an audiovisual performance collective based between Toronto and Montreal, founded in 2025 as a vessel for ongoing collaboration between new media artist Tara Rose Morris and musical composer Graham Steinman. The collective explores film, immersive installation, and performance as a site of ecological memory, speculative futures, and sensory entanglement.
Traditional animation inside visual performance systems; traversable three-dimensional collaged landscapes; body misrecognition and ecological estrangement.
Morris has shown works with arts institutions across North America including Gray Area, InterAccess, SXSW, VIFF, Nuit Blanche, and MAPP. She has a BA in Media Studies from Pomona College and a MSc in Fiction & Entertainment from the SCIArc.
Augmented field recordings; hybrid acoustic–synthetic composition; auditory worlds that blur organic and artificial sound.
Steinman has released two EPs and an album, Migrations Only Natural. He has a BA in Music and Anthropology from the University of Guelph, where he received the Norman and Audrey Harley Music Scholarship, the Gloria Guthrie Memorial Music Prize, and the Honours Music Prize.
Available for festivals, domes, residencies, and commissions.