The Birth of the Hyperforest is a video installation about trees that are evolving to transcend the three-dimensional world in order to escape human destruction. Combining footage of clear cuts in the Coburg Hills with hand drawn and digital animation, Oldham takes us on a drive through a forest peppered with trees behaving strangely: they grow and regress, break down into geometric abstractions, and disappear into black holes.

In the narrative video “Dendrostalkers,” which begins with an emergency warning from the National Forest Service, two sisters attempt to film higher dimensional trees called “dendrotopes” to post them on an online forum. They find themselves in competition with a stranger whose username is @dendrostalker1992 and taking risks to acquire the most daring footage. Three additional video projections show examples of dendrotopes in the wold. Music and additional voice acting by Erin Oldham (the artist’s actual sister).

This project has taken various forms, incorporating multiple channels of video that include non-narrative animations of dendrotopes.