Database Imaginary, Exhibition Opening
November 3 – December 18, 2005
Database Imaginary
Opening reception: Wednesday, November 2, at 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Anthony Kiendl will be present to give a Curator’s 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. Database Imaginary presents twenty-one art projects in a broad variety of old and new media, including newly commissioned works, made by individual and teams of artists between 1971 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, 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 of New Media, Baltic; and Steve Dietz, Banff International Curatorial Institute Fellow.
Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto at Mississauga
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