• Homo Pilosus (forensic panorama), 2011, ink on photographic inkjet print, 97.8 X 25.4 cm, courtesy of the artist.

    The Dice that are Thrown and the Dice that Fall Back

    Thursday, May 23, 2013

    A Conversation with Dustin Wilson, Futurologist. David LaRiviere speaks with Dustin Wilson: artist, scientist, futurologist. Dustin Wilson’s Futurology is an ambitious hybrid investigation that draws on the future by way of wormholes and throwing dice. Now, some confusion may arise in the course of what follows   pertaining to the question of where Wilson is an artist [...]

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    Warblers

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013

    work by Kara Uzelman and Jeffrey Allport, at AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. By John G. Hampton AKA Gallery’s recent summer exhibition, Warblers, debuts the first collaborative installation by Nokomis-based artists and partners Kara Uzelman and Jeffery Allport. Allport, an accomplished sound artist who extracts uncanny acoustic anomalies from familiar places; and Uzelman, an internationally exhibited [...]

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  • Amalie Atkins, Three Minute Miracle: Tracking the Wolf, 2008, video, 13 mins., courtesy of the artist.

    Oh, Canada : Amalie Atkins

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013

    By Leah Taylor Exhibition curated by Denise Markonish, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MASS, USA On a warm weekend in May hundreds of artists, curators and critics descended onto the city of North Adams, Massachusetts to take in an exhibition that caused a flurry of excitement within the Canadian art community. “Oh, Canada” at the Massachusetts [...]

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  • Chris Watson recording in the field. Photo: Donald Strydom, courtesy of Touch Music.

    Foregrounding Background

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013

    By Christopher Olson Four listening instances in reverse chronological order: I. 2011. I’m at the kitchen table in Nara, Japan for my weekly headphone session with Framework:Afield, a radio show and podcast “consecrated to field recording and it’s use in composition.” It’s been a vital weekly ritual for a few years now. Instead of the [...]

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  • Annie Martin, Untitled, 2011. Installation views, from the exhibition "Horizon", courtesy of PAVED Arts.

    Sounding Spaces, Listening Bodies

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013

    By Ellen Moffat How listeners experience reverberation depends on whether the environment is primarily a social, navigational, aesthetic or musical space. Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter[i] Sound moves through the body as a physical vibration and a tangible felt experience that brings us back to our corporeality and reminds of our connectivity to our world. [...]

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Message Pictures: Adventures in Reading Images, Part One

Erika DeFreitas, A Teleplasmic Study with Doilies — Angie #3 (A selection), 2010-2011, archival digital print, 61 x 79 cm each photograph, courtesy of the artist.

The following is the first in a series of three texts that focus on the pleasures and frustrations, the rewards and dangers, of reading images and imagining readings. Part Two | Part Three By Michael Davidge I’ve always loved reading. Okay, so maybe I didn’t come out of the womb holding a New Yorker magazine, [...]

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Issue 29.3

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Choose one: 1 copy CAN $8.00 CAD 2 copies CAN $17.00 CAD 3 copies CAN $32.48 CAD 1 copy USA $13.00 CAD 1 copy INT’L $20.00 CAD   On the cover: Dustin Wilson, Homo Pilosus (forensic panorama), 2011, ink on photographic inkjet print.   Issue 29.3 Features: Picturing the West: Sheila Spence by Wayne Baerwaldt [...]

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2012 Optic Nerve Image Contest Winners

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Winner Nathan Cyprys, When Divided Several Times By a Ghost Honourable Mentions Chloë Ellingson, With You Marie-Andrée Houde, View #2 Isabel M. Martinez, Chevron #1    Christopher McLeod, Move Up or Move Out Brett Smith, Origin  Nathan Cyprys,  Stool Standing On Two Legs Hunched Over Hanging Arms Down In a Disdainful Manner Amidst Late Afternoon Sunlight When I [...]

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A guide to Canadian copyright for the artist: get copy right

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By Marcus Miller Last January, Wikipedia’s 24-hour blackout shed some light on the struggle for the freedom to copy and its cast of characters. (On January 18 Wikipedia shut down it’s English-language website for 24 hours to protest two bills before the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate: the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” SOPA and [...]

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May
16

Watch a brief history of John Baldessari

Narrated by Tom Waits. It’s fast, fun, and informative. Created by the guys that made Catfish.

Apr
27

Aram Bartholl’s projects

Through PBS’s online program Off Book, I recently discovered Aram Bartholl‘s work on the F.A.T. Lab website. The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab describes themselves at “an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media.” Bartholl’s work uses a special mix of humour and tech savy [...]

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