HOLLY VESELKA: H.O.W.L. (HYBRID OF OCEANIC WORLD LOOPS)

H.O.W.L. (Hybrid of Oceanic World Loops) (2026) is a five-screen video installation that explores regeneration and possible futures through the moving waters of the Gulf Stream. Across a digitally constructed ocean, marine life, drifting objects, and offshore infrastructure inhabit a shifting world of currents, turbulent waves, and changing light. Connections form, break, and emerge again, bringing ecological rhythms into contact with the structures and remnants of human industry.

Expanding on The Rig (2023), developed in Shetland, H.O.W.L. grows from an earlier investigation of oil platforms as both instruments of extraction and unexpected habitats for marine life. It extends this inquiry into an ocean in motion, where the legacies of extraction mingle with possibilities for renewal. Moving through cycles of flow, disruption, and regeneration, H.O.W.L. invites viewers to imagine how life might reorganize around what we leave behind.

About the Artist

Holly Veselka is a new media artist whose work engages with emerging technologies, speculative futures, and ecological systems through video, installation, and interdisciplinary media. Her projects construct narrative environments that examine the relationships between technological perception and environmental change.

Her work has been presented at numerous venues, including the Torrance Art Museum, FotoFest, Currents New Media, Artpace, Wave Hill, NARS Foundation, AURORA, and Lage Egal. Her films have screened at festivals such as the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival in New York.

Veselka has received numerous residencies and fellowships, including the British Council-supported X-Change program in Shetland, ACRE, Lawndale Art Center, and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża. Her work has been supported by the Puffin Foundation and the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation.