Curatorial
2008 Maximum Exposure 2008, Gallery 1313, Toronto
2008 Refractions, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto
2006 Buildings That Spin, p|m Gallery, Toronto
2006 Fuse New Media Festival, Ryerson School of Image Arts, Toronto
Photographic
2007 - 2008 Views From My Balcony
2007 - 2008 Environmental Portraits
Writing
2008 Review - Give It Up (Toronto vs. Buffalo) at p|m Gallery (Jessica Thompson)
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Refractions
New Media Student Exhibition at the Ryerson Gallery
Guest Curated by Malka Greene
January 9 - 26, 2008
Click here to download the Now Public review by Jordan Yerman, or read it online here.
Click here to download the The Eyeopener review by Amy Greenwood, or read it online here.
Click here to read the curatorial essay, Refracting the Mood.
Refractions explores the distinctions between how one sees, experiences, and remembers the world via media-assisted sensing. Each of the three projects in the exhibition—Befriend, Breathe, and cITY of iNFORMATION—slows and bends the visual and auditory information that passes through it. In so doing, each offers a unique and playful view of the manner in which people interact with and experience their immediate environment.
Befriend is an interactive video projection by third year new media students Bryan Adare, Nathan Garvie, and Ella Myers. It brings the audience together in a playful scenario in which they find themselves immersed in the present while simultaneously seeing the echoes of their actions multiply and “go deeper and deeper as each image catches up with the present.”
Fellow third year students Jeanette Kennedy, James Lee, and Priscilla Vogl have created Breathe, a sculptural installation that allows the visitor to activate and transform their surroundings. Inside the soft enclosure of the piece, participants can experience shifts in air current in respond to their speech or song.
Daniel Garcia, a recent graduate of the Ryerson Photography program, is currently completing a second degree in New Media. His cITY oF information photographic series is comprised of three segments, two of which are included in this exhibition: cITY oF information and the pEOPLE oF tHE cITY oF iNFORMATION. These photographs call to mind Marcel Duchamps’ Nude Descending A Staircase (1912), visually capturing both the cacophony and clutter of the contemporary urban world in a way that draws attention to how inadequate our immediate visual perceptions of such spaces can be.
Click to view the e-vite, designed by Malka Greene
Click to view the brochure and read the curatorial essay.
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