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CPA [Consistent Partial Attention] offers a paradoxical meditation on what it means to be present in our contemporary screen-obsessed world. Developed through digital collage the CPA [Consistent Partial Attention] performance is guided by a video score of pre-existing / found Internet footage of individuals improvising in their homes. Comprised of performers/dancers Freya Björg Olafson, James Phillips, and Lise McMillan.
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XL Outer Worlds
XL-Outer Worlds will result in a four-day Festival Celebration in 2019 at the Cinesphere, the world’s first permanent IMAX movie theatre located in Toronto at Ontario Place. This festival will showcase the commissioned films celebrating the invention of IMAX, alongside curated programs of early IMAX films. The XL-Outer Worlds festival will later tour the first IMAX cinemas across Canada in Victoria, Sudbury, Edmonton and Montreal. Curated by Janine Marchessault and Christian Kroitor.
Artificial Nature: Conservation of Shadows
Artificial Nature: Conversation of Shadows is a site specific work for a gallery in the Seoul Innovation Center that was previously occupied by the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention for medicinal storage and animal experimentation. Created by Graham Wakefield and Haru Ji, with special thanks to Mark-David Hosale.
Endless Current
Endless Current is a visualization of a complex biologically-inspired system. Through immersive display it presents an infinitely explorable world sustaining a virtual ecosystem of multiple species. Created by Graham Wakefield and Haru Ji.
Joel Ong
Professor Joel Ong is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment, particularly with respect to sound and physical space.
Robert Allison
Rob obtained his Ph.D. in Biology from York University in 1998. His research interests include: psychophysical and computational methods to study depth perception in natural and virtual environments; the design of the human-computer interface for virtual reality and simulator systems; machine vision; the measurement and analysis of eye movements and related applications; and the measurement and perception of human motion.
Kenneth Rogers
Kenneth Rogers is the author of The Attention Complex: Media, Archeology, Method (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), which diagrams the complex of power relations that organizes the proliferating media technologies, knowledge systems, and social practices of human attention into a larger political strategy that governs the conduct of individuals.
Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage
MICH focuses on the contribution of Inuit visual culture, art, and performance to Inuit language preservation, social well-being, and cultural identity. Anna Hudson is the Principal Investigator.
Becoming Sensor
Becoming Sensor is a multisensory research-creation project that aims to decolonize the ecological sensorium. Created by Natasha Myers.
LAND|SLIDE: Possible Futures
LAND|SLIDE: Possible Futures, a groundbreaking large-scale art exhibition in Markham, Ontario, which responds to a world in transition where the past, present, and future collide. Curated by Janine Marchessault.
