Futurist Love Song, 2020. Installation view
Futurist Love Song, 2020, detail of installation
Debaser, 2019. Hamilton Now- Object exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
Aluminum pour
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WONDER exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Sept. 23, 2023 to Jan.7, 2024
DataBodies plunges viewers into a multisensory world of digital installation art, where experimental and narrative works redefine the boundaries between physical and virtual realms. The exhibition harnesses an array of extended reality (XR) technologies, to blend, alter, or mirror the physical world in a virtual space. From food face filters to motion-sensor video installations to interactive kiosks, DataBodies invites playful experimentation and active engagement, urging viewers to engage bodily with the art, positioning the audience as a crucial participant that bridges the gap between the digital and the tangible.
The artists in DataBodies utilize domestic items, spaces, and imagery to cultivate a unique sense of absence in their work. That absence prompts reflection on what might have been, evoking nostalgia for things that may never have existed. It opens up space for the complexities and nuances of diasporic Asian identity. Artists give a glimpse of the foods from their childhoods; Chinese, Filipino, and Western foods swirl together, creating a concoction that can only be understood in hindsight. Rooms full of mundane items, either left behind or there for our use, tell fragmented stories of an individual’s life.
DataBodies highlights the tensions of digital and physical, of absence and presence, inviting the audience to fill the void in between. The artists raise questions about the spaces in XR and the bodies that inhabit them. Rather than offering answers, the works allow a novel view at the everyday items that shape our understanding of ourselves and our world. These pieces create a tapestry of stories that reveal the nuances of personal and communal identity and culture.
-Serena Walk, Curator
The Sari-Sari Xchange
is a project that seeks to amplify Asian representation in the creative emerging media industries in Canada, particularly through a community-building residency program that engages artists with digital and extended reality, 360 cinema, game-engine animation and 3D scanning. The artists-in-residence, mentors and creative research team will present a mini-symposium in the morning around issues and accessibility of XR technology, and a public exhibition of works-in-progress will follow in the afternoon. These works will also be presented in a bespoke virtual exhibition space created in Mozilla Hubs. Join us to find out more about the project!
WONDER: the real, the surreal, and the fantastic
September 23, 2023 - January 7, 2024
What is ‘reality’ today? What does it mean to be ‘real’? Is there even such a thing?
In an age of reality shows, fake news, and weakened social and political structures, our sense of reality is quickly shifting. Neither fixed nor factual, our individual realities can exist alongside one another’s and never meet.
This moment in time led to the idea of creating an exhibition around the idea of reality and sur-reality, or in art terms: Realism, Surrealism and the Fantastic. This exhibition explores the relationship between a logical view of life and the unconscious mind, fantasies, and the dream world.
The artists in this show find magic in the unexpected and the unnatural, the overlooked and the odd. Their work challenges values and norms in search of new realities and freedom. Here, imagination is front and centre and driven by the psychological rather than the logical.
Organized by theme, the exhibition brings together works by historical and contemporary artists who reflect and reimagine the body and the everyday in staging new and provocative worlds.
Artists Include: Kim Adams, Stephen Altena, Robin Arseneault, Iain Baxter&, Shary Boyle, Alex Colville, DaveandJenn, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Fausta Facciponte, Michelle Forsyth, Gilbert Garcin, Karine Giboulo, Richard Greck, John Hall, Peter Harris, Carmela Laganse, JeeYoung Lee, Louis de Niverville, Emmanuel Nwogbo, Meret Oppenheim, Evan Penny, Rick Pottruff, Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt, Cesar Santander, Sarah Sproule, stylo starr, Tim Whiten, Chloe Wise, Xiaojing Yan.
Cybernetic Orchestra Performance 24-4-23
Networked Imagination Laboratory (N.I.L. )
Cybernetic Orchestra improvisation from the final concert of the Winter 2023 semester. The performance features samples (provided by Carmela Laganse) recorded from a traditional Kulingtang set and cast bronze gongs referencing precolonial instruments (Kulingtang, Gaddang) from the Philippines, and originally produced as part of the project Futurist Love Song.
Participating Orchestra Members: Logan Delaney, Carmela Laganse, Nadia Lofaro, Jordan McClean, David Ogborn, Stephen Surlin, Serena Walk
For more information, click on above image for link
Re[new]All a Sensorium exhibition for The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) Annual Conference (30 Sept - 2 October, 2021)
Re[new]all explores the creative ecologies of matter and energy. The exhibition begins from a position of discomfort, of the sensory (dis)pleasures of our virtual modes of existence to explore themes of creative worldbuilding, virtual scenographics and adaptation within the renewed hybridity of online/offline environments. Hosted entirely in purpose-built Mozilla Hubs 3D “rooms,” the project features work by artists and researchers affiliated with Sensorium.
The exhibition Re[new]All is held as an inaugural partnership between Sensorium and the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. The project is an exhibition in virtual space that provides a cultural context to the public health crisis that we have all experienced this past year. The presented works are diverse and focus on artists that are marginalized, or approach topics of marginalization in their work, such as digital artworks and stories that explore the interconnections between Anishinaabeg ontologies and microscopic imagery, and others that explore Asian Futurist Diasporic aesthetics. The exhibition is also supported by other academic units such as VISTA, YCAR, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Betaspace and the AMPD Makerspace.
Featuring live performance events and curatorial tours nightly from Thurs Sept 30 to Sat Oct 2! - Links below
EXHIBITION LINK -
https://hubs.mozilla.com/TM9Ue3r/re-new-all-main-space
Room Code: 458499
View in browser or VR headset (further instructions on the Sensorium website www.sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/events/renewall )
Featuring live performance events and curatorial tours nightly from Thurs Sept 30 to Sat Oct 2!
Thursday 30 September @ 7pm EDT: Michael Palumbo’s “EXIT Points #19”
Watch the performance on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/exitpointsmusic
Exit Points is a monthly free improvisation performance series. Performers are arranged into one of two ensembles, each performing a 35-minute improvised set. For the third set, all performers are joined by guests from the audience, and everyone rearranges themselves into new groupings for a series of 5-minute pieces.
Friday 1 October @ 7pm EDT: Curatorial Tour with Joel Ong & Ian Garrett
The tour starts on Zoom and may include components in Hubs. https://yorku.zoom.us/j/93970878177?pwd=TEFlREZMUTQ5TUlLN3dHakNRRUVWQT09
The talk will feature an overview of the exhibition concept, introduction to the space, and a selection of artists will be available to talk about their work.
Saturday 2 October @ 7pm EDT: Dan Tapper’s “Floating Earth”
Attend the performance on Zoom: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/92428875910?pwd=N2hoem5od2hlUlRsWW92Y2lLSFhSZz09
Floating Earth is an audiovisual performance deconstructing and manipulating a series of 3D objects that carry nostalgic value for the artist. Floating Earth will consist of a combination of live and pre-recorded footage presented as a live stream from the Array Space.
Watch a trailer for “Floating Earth” - https://vimeo.com/embed-redirect/612308627?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=9275386
For more information go to www.sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/events/renewall
Curated by : Melanie Wilmink, Ian Garrett and Joel Ong
Hubs design: Justine Katerenchuk
Additional support: Simon Lynch
Poster Design: Lu Zhouyang.
Artists:
Patrick Alcedo
Tyler Graham and Jocelyn Graham
Racelar Ho
Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Mary Bunch and team
Ella Morton
Taien Ng-Chan and Carmela Laganse
Michael Palumbo and Kavi (Ilze Briede)
Jonathan Scott
Dan Tapper
Jane Tingley