Apologies for cross-posting this announcement regarding your last
chance to see the exhibition Database Imaginary, opening this week in
Montreal
DATABASE IMAGINARY
10.02.06 – 02.04.06
Cory Arcangel, Natalie Bookchin, Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, Alan
Currall, Graham Harwood/Mongrel, Agnes Hegedûs, Pablo Helguera, Lisa
Jevbratt/C5, Lev Manovich, Muntadas, Edward Poitras, Preemptive Media,
Thomson & Craighead, University of Openess, Angie Waller, Cheryl
L’Hirondelle Waynohtêw
CURATORS: Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz, Anthony Kiendl
VERNISSAGE:
Thursday, February 9, 6:30pm
Preceded by a tour of the exhibition with curator Sarah Cook at 6pm
The Liane and Danny Taran Gallery is pleased to present
the international touring exhibition Database Imaginary curated by
Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz and Anthony Kiendl. Responsive to the 21st
century, the 21 artists in Database Imaginary engage imaginatively with
the organization of data through their use of aesthetic, conceptual,
social and political strategies.
The term ‘database’ was coined in the 1970s with the rise of automated
office procedures. However, it is only with the rise of computing and
widespread access to vast quantities of organized information that the
term has come to the fore in the popular imagination. Database
Imaginary presents 16 art projects in a broad variety of old and new
media, including newly commissioned works, made by individual and teams
of artists in the last ten years.
The exhibition is co-organized by the Walter Phillips Gallery, The
Banff Centre and The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, with
financial support from the Department of Canadian Heritage (Museums
Assistance Program), the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Daniel
Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, the Canada Council
for the Arts and CRUMB.
http:://databaseimaginary.banff.org
TALK: DOT TUER
Thursday March 16 at 6pm
In the context of Database Imaginary - an exhibition which explores the
cultural form of the database - art historian and media theorist Dot
Tuer, Professor at OCAD and author of the recently published Mining the
Media Archive, discusses how the embodiment of memory and place is
being altered by the mapping of the archive in cyberspace.
Questions? Susannah Wesley, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (514) 739-2301
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