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Not confined to one medium or strategy, look for the work that operates on both a visual and phonic level. Paying tribute to Marshall McLuhan this year, the theme is the collision of old and new technologies.
Bata Shoe Museum. Take a couple of ordinary street lights and replace them with theatre spotlights and all of a sudden a portion of the streetscape is transformed into a platform for performance art that challenges the rigid distinction between artist and viewer. Grosvenor Street, just west of Yonge Street. Sonic Spaces the kinetics of sound — Shawn Pinchbeck This sounds like it could be fun. Pichbeck's audio installation converts human movement into sounds via multichannel outputs.
Wychwood Barns, Christie Street. In the words of the curator: Of her zone, Shirley Madill says "The Future of the Present presents work by artists who use new technologies to form a vocabulary for a non-pictorial art.
The art projects in Nuit Blanche are connected through unique interplays between the spiritual, material, and social spheres. Whatever the scale, the physical or psychological interaction they invite has some form of intimacy achieved through technical illusion and artificiality.
Paparazzi Bots — Ken Rinaldo This one is sure to activate people's vanity. Ken Rinaldo's paparazzi bots, which are made up of "multiple microprocessors, cameras, sensors, code and robotic actuators on a custom-built rolling platform," choose select viewers to photograph, thereby exalting them to "celebrity" status. Others are ignored. Tip: make sure you smile; the bots like that.
Through the Gorilla Glass — Spencer Rand, Patrick Svilans, Andrea Ling, Jonah Humphrey, GUILD Another exhibit that brings together light, sound and movement, Gorilla Glass is a sculpture that allows viewers to interact with it by moving its mechanical arms, which when touched, emit waves of music and patterns of light.
It might get old fast, but at least it sounds like a truly interactive experience. Oh, and it's bound to get some serious traffic based on its proximity to Flightpath.
City Hall Roof Garden. Taking place on a stationary TTC streetcar, Ride the Rocket will use sound and video effects to give the illusion that "riders" are taking a trip to places where no streetcar has gone before. Caveat emptor: this could be a line-up magnet. Designed to recreate the experience of urban exploration, Residue might offer an exhilarating nighttime experience, or fall flat if the facades and props don't hold up to scrutiny.
Having said that, the photographs on display might be worth the trip all on their own. Composed of four arteries, this exhibit will shoot up 25 foot flames when touched by viewers. What does it mean? Who cares, there's fire! Be that as it may, this artist-run painting competition might appeal to those who are tired of all the light, video and sound installations. The Futuristic Institute of Collective Happenings — Thom Sokoloski Although the lack of an interactive component to this animated installation might make it less stimulating than other exhibits on offer, the look back at Futurism seems wholly appropriate for an event that in many ways is the product of these early 20th century challenges to Romantic and Classic conceptions of the artistic object.
Distillery District, 60 Mill Street. We're about to find out, as Luc Courchesne and the Society for Arts and Technology stage McLuhan's famous text as an interactive exhibit in which the graphic elements of the printed page are no longer contained by the book's covers. To borrow a phrase from another 20th century thinker who challenged conventional ways of thinking, this installation plays with the idea that there is nothing outside the text. Drawing with Frames — Group Exhibition I suppose one always draws with his or her eyes in some way, but this exhibit makes this a literal proposition via eye-tracking software that projects eye movements onto a wall.
Here, Trimalchio becomes a luxurious hotel where guests called masters and servants engage in hedonistic pursuits, projected as a panoramic video installation comprised of more than 70, still images. Rating: 3. Rating: 4. Rating: 1. This exhibit is a companion to the equally intriguing Paparazzi Bots, which goes on across the street in the Eaton Centre.
The exhibition is inspired by the centuries-long religious pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, where the bones of St. James are allegedly enshrined. Kelli Korducki. For full participatory effect, it is recommended that anyone planning to spend the night here bring their own pyjamas, sleeping bag, and toothbrush.
We suspect the piece will prove tempting to weary souls as 4 a. Jamie Bradburn.
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