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Andrew J. Paterson now has a fantastic new website with an archive of his works, video clips, writing, and more.
Fringe Online has archived sites for a whole pile of Canadian media artists: Sarah Abbott, Roberto Ariganello, Phillip Barker, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Christina Battle, Deanna Bowen, Colin Campbell, Aleesa Cohen, Donigan Cumming, Mary Daniel, Daniel Dugas, Franci Duran, Ellie Epp, Richard Fung, Vincent Grenier, Rick Hancox, Nelson Henricks, Philip Hoffman, Clive Holden, Mike Hoolboom, Istvan Kantor, Richard Kerr, Valerie Leblanc, Helen Lee, Deirdre Logue, Alex MacKenzie, Peter Mettler, Kent Monkman, Monique Moumblow, Midi Onodera, Andrew Paterson, Paulette Philips, John Porter, John Price, Steve Reinke, Gerald Saul, Steve Sanguedolce, Barbara Sternberg, Ho Tam and Wayne Yung. It's a really great resource.
L.M. is away so I can post bees.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery 840 First Avenue West, Owen Sound, ON
May 1 to June 21, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1 at 7pm.
Nigel Nolan - Amuse-Bouche at LE Gallery 1183 Dundas St. W., Toronto until May 3, 2009
Sunday - Bulgarian Choir Music
This one is full of video artifacts and noise that we web 2.0 types just fucking love
Ed Pien current Installation at the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, U.K.
(found with the file name elephanthands.jpg)
(found with the file name krilliant.jpg)
Oliver Laric's new video Versions is online now.
The found images seen above do not actually appear in Oliver's video, so we shall patiently await the sequel.
John Massier's recent purchase:
Alfonso Volo - What's the measure of your success?
As well as a solo exhibition, Thrifting For Beauty at Hallwalls in Buffalo, opening May 2, his work can currently be seen at Harbourfront in Toronto, until May 3, 2009.
Sunday - The Cowsills
Silver Threads and Golden Needles
The rain, the park, and other things
Hair
E.V.E. Absolute Matrix, a 60 minute looping video installation by Gunilla Josephson in collaboration with Eve Egoyan at Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond St West, 3d floor, Suite 376, Toronto, ON. until May 2, 2009.
Closing Reception: Saturday April 18, 7 - 10pm for ANDREW HARWOOD's "Psychic Friends" and JANET MORTON's "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day" at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 980 Queen St W., Toronto, ON
We are approaching the final week of these two exhibitions and have scheduled a closing "salon" to enable more friends of the gallery to participate in a psychic reading with Andrew Harwood's performance persona, Madame Zsa Zsa, and to meet with Janet Morton who will be coming to Toronto for this closing event.
That's the official version, the real reason is that there isn't enough attention in the universe for Harwood.
But go anyway, and cuddle with Paul Petro's cute little doggy.
This in from Liav Koren
(click it to see the animated ogg file)
Images of Kristin Lucas's work from Deadpan Exchange's current incarnation in Izmir, Turkey:
Sholem Krishtalka loved this video, as do I.
Ben Coonley - Valentine for Perfect Strangers
Cory Arcangel and Hanne Mugaas' performance/lecture at Images last Friday was an unfortunate event for several reasons.
1) Most artists I know do have some self-doubt about what they are doing. Arcangel prefaced his performance by declaring the possibility of its failure, and a history of its past failures. Unfortunately, it didn't come across as self-doubt, it came across as an attempt to inoculate the audience against a subsequent failure.
2) uhhmmm ok ....ummm...ok...OK...no....uhhhhhhhhhmmmmm..ok...um...wait...ok... A few more nouns and verbs were needed. Or else just click on the youTube links a bit faster. I'll argue that it's not brave or interesting to surf in real time while speaking to an audience. (We all figured that out a long time ago during phone conversations with our mothers.)
3) Do not mistake the email links that you and your friends sent each other in 1997 and 1998 as an early universal web meme experience. That could actually be a perfect definition of a local experience. (For Christ sake, Vera Frenkel and Michael Snow were in the audience, he wasn't a 15 year old performing for 12 year olds)
4) I was a little confused by the proposition that an old dance clip's appearance on youtube was a direct influence on a later Beyonce music video. In the past I have been guilty of assuming that dancers and choreographers weren't the brightest bulbs, but I think it's safe to assume that they all know who Bob Fosse is. (it's not an obscure youTube reference that some choreographer discovered from an email link in 1997 - 1998.) [eta: Tim Comeau provided this link from NPR that does state that Beyonce learned about the Fosse choreography from a youTube video: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97356053. I stand corrected - L.M.]
5) The premise of the evening was that he would dealing with a clash between the art word and art on-line, that's a great subject, but that's not what was presented there. (as one friend in the audience pointed out it was a squandered opportunity) Again in the preface, he asked the question about whether it should be done at all? Obviously the audience was there to hear about it, so the question we have to ask back: are you the one equipped to present this?
Sunday - Compelling Dancing Guy with Requisite Canadian Content (33.333%)
Some Sing, Some Dance - Michel Pagliaro
You, Me & Mexico - Edward Bear
Dirty Work - Steely Dan
(found)
Images Festival is wrapping up this week and you can read about it on their blog with writers and artists we like such as Andrew J. Paterson, Gabrielle Moser and Sholem Krishtalka. But no blingees, so from our Himalayan heights of Web 2.0 art practice, we can't take it very seriously as an art site.
Libby Hague's excellent installation One Step at a Time is on at the
Art Gallery of Mississauga until May 10 (click the link for an essay by me).
An exhibition with Julia Abraham, Nicole Clough, Lauren Dzenis, Kira Kastner, Duaa Mansour, Alexandra Sandison, Dianne Shawcross, Macy Siu, Jol Thomson, and Rachel Wallace at the University of Toronto, 1 Spadina Crescent (North of College at Spadina Circle, Entrance via East doors), Toronto. APRIL 9 to APRIL 18, 2009
Opening: Thursday, April 9, 7-11pm, Performance at 8pm
Jol Thomson - Reflex 2009 video still
Je vous en pris...
Years ago I wrote about one of the kookiest and most famous experiments in brain science (by Benjamin Libet) for my website project The Trouble With Oscillation. I was working from these texts by Stuart Hameroff, Stan Klein, Fred Alan Wolf, Dick J. Bierman and Dean Radin. In the experiment, patients were poked on the arm, and asked to note the exact moment when they became conscious of the stimulus. Brain activity was recorded. Next, the patients were poked directly on the area of the brain that had previously been stimulated. Astonishingly, the brain pokes were "noticed" significantly later than the arm pokes were. This suggested that the brain was receiving information after it was first perceived, but sending that information back in time to coincide with the moment of stimulus. I've just been reading an essay by Brian Massumi, who describes this phenomenon more beautifully than anyone else.
The researcher speculated that sensation involves a "backward referral in time" — in other words, that sensation is organized recursively before being linearized, before it is redirected outwardly to take its part in a conscious chain of actions and reactions. Brain and skin form a resonating vessel. Stimulation turns inward, is folded into the body, except that there is no inside for it to be in, because the body is radically open, absorbing impulses quicker than they can be perceived, and because the entire vibratory event is unconscious, out of mind. Its anomaly is smoothed over retrospectively to fit conscious requirements of continuity and linear causality. Brian Massumi, "The Autonomy of Affect," in Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2002) pp.28-29The follow up experiment was even more interesting and for some people more disturbing.
Brain waves of healthy volunteers were monitored by an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. The subjects were asked to flex a finger at a moment of their choosing and to recall the time of their decision by noting the spatial clock position of revolving dot. The flexes came 0.2 seconds after they clocked the decision, but the EEG machine registered significant brain activity 0.3 seconds before the decision. [...] Asked to speculate on what implications all this might have for a doctrine of free will, the researcher, Benjamin Libet, proposes that "we may exert free will not by initiating intentions but by vetoing, acceding or otherwise responding to them after they arise." Brian Massumi, ibid., p.29
Sunday - Edwin Hawkins Singers
Lay down - Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers (I love this footage)
Father's House
Email from Rob Cruickshank:
(repaired)
(found)
Matt King's got a show opening soon in Portland.
Feedback Reflux Lite, 2009
Painted and chromed steel, acrylic with print, height indicator strips, mirror
84" x 132" x 100"
Welcome to the Terrordome - Jubal Brown, Mark Essen and Wafaa Bilal at MOCCA, 952 Queen Street W., Toronto, April 3 - 12, 2009
Opening: Friday, April 3, 7 - 10 p.m.
Jubal Brown - Total War 2009 (detail) © Jubal Brown.
Mark Essen - The Thrill of Combat (detail) © Mark Essen.
Wafaa Bilal - Virtual Jihadi (detail) © Wafaa Bilal.
Stan Krzyzanowski and Carolyn Tripp at
347 Montrose Ave., Toronto. Friday April 3, to Saturday April 18, 2009
On view Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m., or by appointment.
Opening: Friday April 3, 7 to 9 p.m.
Lyla Rye - Topsy Turvy until may 3, 2009 at Harbourfront, 235 Queens Quay W., Toronto
