Nina Czegledy on Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:52:39 -0500 (EST) |
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Dear All, I would like to extend a virtual invitation to visit the Touch:Touché project. best regards nina *** Touch:Touché *** Interactive installation works by Thecla Schiphorst and Daniel Jolliffe. @ INTERACCESS, 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 444 Toronto, Ontario (Queen & Spadina) OPENING: Friday, January 22 @ 6-10pm ARTISTS TALK: Saturday, January 23 @ 2pm exhibition continues until Friday, February 26th GALLERY HOURS: 12-5 Tues-Sat www.interaccess.org/touch Touch:Touché is curated by independent media artist, curator and writer, Nina Czegledy. czegledy @interlog.com Touch:Touché the touring exhibition of interactive works is presented in Toronto January 22 to February 26, 1999 InterAccess:Electronic Media Arts Center 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 444 Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8 Telephone (416) 599 7206 www.interaccess.org/touch Montreal March 6 to April, 1999 Oboro 4001, rue Berri, Local 301 Montreal, Quebec, H2L 3El Telephone (514) 844 3250 www.cam.org/~oboro Regina November 19, 1999 to January 19, 2000 MacKenzie Art Gallery 3475 Albert Street Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 6X6 Telephone (306) 522 4242 www.uregina.ca/macken/ The central works of the show are Thecla Schiphorst's "Body Maps: Artifacts of Touch" and Daniel Jollife's "Room for Walking". Due to technological reasons Daniel Jollife"s "Shift"is shown in the Toronto exhibit. The works explore the exchanges between the corporeal body and the sensitive work of art. --- "Bodymaps: artifacts of touch", employs electric field sensor technology, in which the viewers proximity, touch and gesture evoke moving sound and image responses from the body contained and represented within the installation space. Images of the body are stored on videodisk. The body of the artist (and a digitally represented body) are projected onto a horizontal planar surface. The surface is covered in white velvet creating a sensual and unexpected texture which leaves 'traces' of the hand prints that are left behind, creating a relationship to memory, an inability to escape the effects of one's touch. Thecla Schiphorst is currently based in Vancouver where she holds the post of Assistant Professor in Interactive Arts at the Technical University of British Columbia. She received her formal training in computer science and contemporary dance. A recent recipient of the PetroCanada Award in New Media (1998), Ms. Schiphorst has worked in electronic arts for the last fifteen years. Her work has been focused on notions of the body and questions of how technology mediates the representation and experience of the body. "Room for Walking" is a mobile sculpture consisting of a wheeled cart and video projection screen. By physically moving the wagon the viewer becomes involved in the control of the flow of images Room for Walking is the third in a series of works by Vancouver based sculptor Daniel Jolliffe which are based on the premise that interactivity should require stronger action than a just a simple point and click. "Shift" utilizes a small platform and a large bowl situated several feet apart. Standing on the platform, the visitor is able to transmit his/her movement across the room to the bowl, which responds via a radio system within the sculpture. The viewer's action is at once involved in the control of the sculpture, and displaced across the room by this same control. Not merely a slave to the viewer's desire, "Shift" demands that the viewer consider their own movement as well as their illusory, electronically created sense of control. Daniel Jolliffe is a Vancouver based artist whose sculptures using electronics have been seen across Canada and in The United States. His works examine the way in which electronic technologies have changed our bodily perception and human communication by employing the viewer's body in overtly physical acts mediated by this same technology. --- "Most of our experiences with computers involve our bodies only as handy sense receptors (for image and sound) and as a device for communicating decisions. The apparent intent is to get the computer and the brain communicating with as little interference from physical reality as possible. The mouse is an instrument designed to reduce the complexity of body gestures into a form that is suitably unambiguous... it reduces a gesture to the point where its intent is clear ? You can't "sort of" click on something." David Rokeby Where The Virtual Meets The Real from the Touch:Touché catalogue --- -- InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto (416) 599-7206 office@interaccess.org http://www.interaccess.org