Opening reception: Wednesday, November 2, at 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Curators Sarah Cook and Anthony Kiendl will be present to give an introduction at 8:00 pm.
A free bus to the opening leaves the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, at 7:00 pm returning to Toronto at 9:00 pm.
The term "database: was coined in the 1970s with the rise of automated office procedures. However, it is really 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. The exhibition Database Imaginary presents twenty-two art projects in a broad variety of old and new media, including newly commissioned works, made by individuals and teams of artists between 1994 and 2004. Responsive to the 21st century, when databases have become ever-present, all the artists in Database Imaginary engage imaginatively with the organization of data through their use of aesthetic, conceptual, social and political strategies.
The exhibition presents works by Cory Arcangel, David Rokeby, Lisa Jevbratt, Edward Poitras, Lev Manovich, Natalie Bookchin, Antonio Muntadas, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Thomson & Craighead, Pablo Helguera, and many others from across Canada and internationally. It is co-curated by Anthony Kiendl, Director of Visual Arts and the Walter Philips Gallery; Sarah Cook, Curator/Researcher at CRUMB; and Steve Dietz, Director of ISEA2006 and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge.
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, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, CRUMB and the Canada Council for the Arts. The Blackwood Gallery acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $17.6 million in the visual arts.
For further information please contact Carmen Victor: 905-828-3789 or cvictor@utm.utoronto.ca
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