Faculty of Art
Integrated Media
Meet the Artist
Brigita
Gedgaudas
aka. "Bri" "Pretzl", New Media/Interactive Art
“Welcome to the glitch, a goopy, vacuous, indeterminacy of non-being. I'm happy to join you in the void and be your tour guide as we travel between the real and digital, the past and the present, the physical and ephemeral. Join me in becoming a monster.”
Brigita Gedgaudas (e/he/they) is an emerging, interdisciplinary, trans*, and diasporic-Lithuanian artist working in so-called Toronto. Eir work engages with in-betweenness as they explore contradictory experiences of gender and cultural heritage through realms of dance and digital worldbuilding. Using glitches as mechanisms for queering Lithuanian folk dance, they are interested in translating the body between physical and digital worlds through interactive and immersive installations. Brigita’s practice is informed by his engagement in the queer street dance style, W*acking, the performance collective, PriXm, and the Lithuanian folk dance group, Gintaras.As a movement artist Brigita has screened/exhibited/performed at Trinity Square Video, Ada Slaight Gallery, Ignite Gallery, Sage Theatre, The Bentway, F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement), Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, and the Toronto Queer Film Festival. Their work resides in Diasporic Futurism’s database, “Temporal Tempest”, and has been spot-lit in Feature Creep’s anthology of “Queer Horror from a Hypermodern World”. Eir work is set to exhibit at Whippersnapper Gallery as part of Dirty Dishes Collective’s “Comfort Zone” and they will take part in Toronto Dance Theatre’s “Plug-N-Play” residency. Brigita has received awards from Vtape and grant funding from The Canada Council for the Arts.Existing between disciplines and artistic communities, Brigita has collaborated and worked with Hercinia Arts Collective, PriXm, Chimerik 似不像, and Meaningful Movement in myriad capacities ranging from collaborator, designer, and artistic associate.
University of Toronto
Art History
Major Transferred
Projection Design Interactive Art Folk Dance New Media Installation
2023, Chat GPTea
Ignite Gallery
2023, Room to Breathe
OCAD U
2022, Interplace
Ada Slaight Gallery
2023, Video Fever 2nd Place Prize
Vtape
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