Elizabeth Littlejohn

Statement

Elizabeth Littlejohn focuses on visualizing the psychogeography of historic buildings in cities. As a Toronto-based augmented reality artist, she creates fantastical facades from recording details of buildings through photogrammetry and audio interviews. As Elizabeth stitches together these stories, she creates these building facades in virtual reality to view their multilayered transformation, then re-incorporates these facades into augmented reality.

Accessed through AR smartphone applications, these virtual facades and interviews can be viewed on buildings in situ as memory palimpsests.

GlogauAIR Project

Elizabeth Littlejohn’s project proposes re-creating facades of Berlin buildings, carefully chosen to have a complex history, as fantastical projections and memory palimpsests for a smartphone augmented reality tour, and as part of a screen-based, interactive exhibition at GlogauAIR. This further develops her work for the “The Toronto Island Puzzle Tour” and “Theater Palimpsest”, and develops a Berlin-based augmented reality tour as a cross cultural project between Berlin and Toronto.

CV Summary

• Elizabeth is an augmented reality artist and documentary film maker.
• In 2018 she directed “Leelah’s Highway’, a broadcast half hour focusing on the loss of trans youth, Leelah Alcorn, and ‘Frolic’s Haunt’, a nine-minute documentary about a queer, accessible haunted house. Both have been shown international film festivals.
• In 2022 Elizabeth completed the feature documentary ‘The City Island’ about the Toronto Island’s history of resistance, and the City of Toronto’s Artworx Grant for the ‘Toronto Island Puzzle Tour’.
• Recipient of numerous arts councils grants, she has shown at ISEA 2020/2021.

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