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At The Abbey bar, 989 College St. Toronto.
Saturday, Nov. 1st, from 10pm.
Danger Dogs from Nepal
Which one?
In my tiny perfect universe, the Americans are holding the most adorable election ever. (via Wonkette)
But that's because Damon Weaver is my only news source.
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Photo: Anthony Easton
Sunday Devotionals - Leningrad cowboys and The Red Army Choir (the greatest concert that ever was)
So Happy Together
Those Were the Days
Sweet Home Alabama
My Way
Oct. 17- Nov. 15, 2008
The Torrents of Spring 2008 galvanized steel, 119.5"x117"
Albatross 2007-2008 galvanized steel with monitor and DVD, 129.5"x33"x21"
Albatross / The Torrents of Spring installation view
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Sandra Rechico and Gwen MacGregor - MAPS IN DOUBT, a collaborative installation at Mercer Union
1286 Bloor Street W. Toronto ON
Friday Oct. 24 at 7 PM: The artists in conversation with curator Dan Adler. Reception follows at 8 PM.
What do you like better, the ventral (purple, what, temporal) or the dorsal (green, where, parietal) stream? What do you like better, the parvo (ventral, colour, shape, associations) or magno (dorsal, edges, discontinuities, spatial relations) pathway? Hint: they've probably got more in common than people originally thought. Confession: I'll never learn these terms, but at least now that I've made this post I can come back here and look at them.
Thanks to wikipedia for the very helpful diagram.
A ONE NIGHT ONLY LIVE PERFORMANCE OF WINNIPEG BABYSITTER by Daniel Barrow
Monday, Oct. 20, 2008 at 8:00pm at Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West, Toronto
OVVLvverk is one year old! (thanks to LM for the O RLY gif)
A couple of years ago, Tom Moody linked to this molecular biology video, "The Inner Life of the Cell." There was a tiny little bit of discussion on Moody's blog about the questionable merits of science porn (I love it, myself).
Right now I am reading a great essay by Natasha Myers called "Animating Mechanism: Animations and the Propagation of Affect in the Lively Arts of Protein Modelling" (available for download here). Myers is an anthropologist with a background in dance and choreography who studies molecular biology. In her work, she applies her experience from dance to advocate for more embodied modes of visualisation in biology. One problem being that living organisms are killed and then studied as static images as if they were alive, exemplifying a level of violence and detachment from nature that is rarely critiqued or questioned within the discipline. Another problem being that scientists as subjective observers are often not implicated as part of the process of generating meaning from scientific images.
But, says Myers, all molecular modeling is an "act of interpretation" that involves analogies between the "scale of human experience and that of molecular life" (p.15). She addresses this video specifically, and here are some of the things she says:
...this 3d fly-through set to ambient, orchestral music does more than just pull mechanical objects into time: these animations also provide glimpses into the scientists' and animators' molecular imaginations. (p.16)
I see these animations as pulling their users' and viewers' bodies into new understandings by entraining them to molecular temporalities and other ways of moving. In this sense, animations may be thought of as narratives that lure their users into new modes of embodiement through their play with time (see Stengers, 1999, on "lures"). I propose that it is through moving images and bodies that protein modellers are able to propagate their tacit knowledge of molecular structures and mechanisms. Entangled with this tacit knowledge is a range of affects that turn out to be central to how researchers learn and communicate molecular knowledge. (p.17)
This in from Rob Cruickshank. The object is a dollar store toy called Beast Growing.
See Rob perform tonight with Little Oak Animal (link has video) at the
AMBiENT PiNG
Oct 16 2008, 8pm
the Renaissance Café
1938 Danforth Ave Toronto.
So, Canada, did we get our $300,000,000.00 worth tonight? As Rick Mercer just mentioned on the CBC, the only national leader that emerged with any strength from this election was Gilles Duceppe, and he's the leader of a separatist party.
(I could have used that money to make art for at least the next 3 months and buy oodles of blow for all my friends. But not for Ordinary Canadians. It's cheap meth for you, and stay away from my glittering galas.)
Me at glittering gala. I am so lovely. So elite. So unattainable.
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found jpeg with the title: the_loveliest_lonliest_shoe
Sunday Devotionals - Julie London (Nurse Dixie!)
Daddy
Cry Me a River
Fly Me to the Moon
1948 Eaton's Window image from the Ontario Government Archives sourced by Rob Cruickshank
Lisa Neighbour - Redhead Gallery Promo 1991
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Hand Embroidered Thread on Fabric 2008 each approx 9" x 9" |
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Official Report on Nuit Blanche
Over all, we liked it.
Miklos Legrady - No Bad Art 2008 poster project for Nuit Blanche
Didn't we.
Sunday Devotionals- YOU ROCK!! I ROCK!!! WE ALL ROCK TO GUITAR HERO! (mostly I just rock)
I'd like to dedicate one of the greatest CRTC sanctioned Can-con rock tunes ever to our friend Kate Wilson
And this goes out to all those guys who knew, in the 70's, that this song was really written for them
And finally ...for all you dreamers out there. Dream on. Rock on. Never leave your house.
I like this video of a piece by Mitchell F Chan & Brad Hindson part of nb tonight at AGO
Zombies in Condoland an all night performance by Jillian McDonald from 7pm to 7am. Saturday, Oct. 4th at College Park, College and Yonge St. Toronto, ON.
A found image that accurately depicts an Ordinary Canadian after he's come into contact with art or artists. Please note, Ordinary Canadians are always male, so play along ladies, it's easier for everyone.
In case you didn't notice, tonight is Nuit Blanche and for you Ordinary Canadians, this is an all night event where close to a million Ordinary Canadians like yourselves, spend all night walking around the city of Toronto, hating art and artists in the way that Ordinary Canadians do.
It's sponsored by either a bank or a grocery chain, I get so confused, but at least Ordinary Canadians like money and groceries. Art and artists hate money and groceries.
Paris Air Show GIF by Lorna Mills at Fly Gallery 1172 Queen St. W., Toronto. Until Oct. 31st, 2008
Wil Murray's details of unfinished works from his studio blog
Tanya Read: 10 Years of Being Nobody
Tanya Read, Walking in the Rain (film still), 2008
There is an excellent Mr. Nobody archive on display at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Project. See it before the closing on October 18. Tanya Read has some great images of the show up here.
John Dickson - Mountain 2008 de-commissioned Science Centre exhibit plus plaster, plastic trees, wood, metal, water, pump
Shown as part of ARCADE also with Panya Clark Espinal, Alex Geddie, Gordon Hicks, Annie MacDonell, and Sally McKay
at Harbourfront Centre
BEATRICE'S CENTRE FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS, OR, HOW I LEARNED THAT MY MOTHER WAS RIGHT ABOUT MAKING ART IN A PRAIRIE TOWN DURING THE RISE AND FALL OF GRUNGE MUSIC.
with Jo-Anne Balcaen, Daniel Barrow, and Evan Tapper, at INTERACCESS: Electronic Media Arts Center
9 Ossington Ave. Toronto ON
Curated by: Jennifer Cherniack
Jo-Anne Balcaen - Long Shot 2007 Digital Video still
Jo-Anne Balcaen - Backmasking 2008 Digital Video still
Evan Tapper will be performing High Holiday Office Hours with the Almighty Creator of the Universe
October 4, 2008, 7 PM to 7 AM at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts
Presented by the Koffler Gallery of the Koffler Centre of the Arts