Midforms: NeoGraf – Virtual Graffiti
February 28, 2008
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NeoGraf – Virtual Graffiti
March 7th & 8th, 2008 – various downtown locations
check www.newformsfestival.com for full details…
in the spirit of NeoGraf Locations will be released one day prior to the performance…
laser tagging, projection throw-ups, photoshopped murals; the next
generation of open-source light-based writing, recoding the city bulb
by bulb.
The NeoGraf project will transform the city with nondestructive laser
graffiti technologies. Through the use of image and light projection,
graffiti artists will `paint’and tag buildings in realtime without
violating the property. In order to present the diversity and
evolution of graffiti, the project will work with different writers
and artists from around Vancouver, and invite the collaboration of
NomIg and Graffiti Research Lab to propagate this open-source technology.
NeoGraf Artists:
Fri, Feb 7th – Laser Tagging – Rhek & Virus
Sat, Feb 8th – Muralling – Neal Nolan
The Rosemary Initiative
February 21, 2008
What are the affects of contemporary surveillance technologies on social interaction? How might they be re-circuited to enhance social connectivity and awareness within open societies?
The Rosemary Initiative probes conditions of social networks within panoptic environments. It explores influences of location mapping and analysis technologies on social interaction via a series of staged events ..
To a certain extent, contemporary social networks can be described as an economy through which personal relations propagate, and within which identities form, cultures emerge and establish themselves, and eventually dissolve. Within this context, one’s social identity becomes (in part) a function of relations, defined by strong and weak ties explicitly established by an individual or inferred through a history of transactions.
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Exponential Future
February 7, 2008
Exponential Future
Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver
Artworks by Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger, Elizabeth Zvonar
Curated by Juan Gaitan and Scott Watson
18 January – 27 April, 2008
Reviewed by Christopher Brayshaw
Exponential Future, the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery’s new survey of emerging Vancouver art, is a failure of artistic and institutional nerve. “Curators Juan Gaitan and Scott Watson chose artists working in different media whose work involved a wide range of issues to give an overview of the new artistic thinking of our time and place,” claims an unsigned gallery press release. “The curators were interested in works that engaged the complex reality of urban life at the beginning of the twenty-first century.” This thesis would make a first-rate show, but bears only passing resemblance to the exhibition Gaitan and Watson have assembled….more
