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Friday December 12th
@ Whipper Snapper Gallery
(located at 587A College St. - TORONTO)
Advance tickets available at Rotate This & Soundscapes....
Opening Party: 7:00 - 8:30PM - FREE - Children Welcome! ....
Featuring Art Works By: ....
Germaine Koh - Traffic, 2008
Traffic is a domestic light fixture modified to act as a light that monitors and responds to current traffic conditions rather than directs them. In this case it will react to foot traffic in the gallery space. The standard traffic-light colours have been expanded by the use of red-green-blue LEDs, to include magenta, cyan and blue. The closer to red the light is, the more congested or slow-moving the traffic is. Colours closer to blue indicate little or no traffic, and colours in the middle of the spectrum (yellow, green, cyan) indicate flowing traffic or transitional states. The work relates to many other projects by me that are concerned with communication systems and everyday behavoiurs. www.germainekoh.com....
Gordon Hicks - Whirl, 2008
Spinning the disk sets in motion an electronic drawing machine. Simple circular motions, originating with the disk, are combined by the machine to produce volatile drawings of surprising intricacy. www.gordonhicks.com....
James Mejia
James Mejia is a Toronto based artist/designer. He has worked with many diverse independent and major label artists including Feist, Ron Sexsmith, By Divine Right, Great Lake Swimmers, Wintersleep and Holy Fuck. James received a nomination for a 2006 ..JUNO.. Award for CD Artwork Design Of The Year. www.jamesmejia.com ....
Jenny Mitchell
Giving birth to her first child, Otis, also gave birth to a fun and friend filled baby album, 'Charlotte or Otis: Duets for Children, Their Parents and Other People Too'. Jenny Mitchell will be showing a number of the original artworks from her various duet partners used to create the albums cd package. www.myspace.com/jennyomnichord....
Julie Fader
Besides playing music in a number of bands, Sarah Harmer, Great Lake Swimmers, Chad Van Gaalen, Julie is a wonderful artist who will be displaying a number of new works. www.juliefader.com....
Michael Klein - Citizen Dandy, 2008
Citizen Dandy uses as its raw material, the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time. All the films included in the list were made in the first 100 years of American cinema (1896-1996). Citizen Dandy is an attempt at a new, seemingly random narrative made by assembling segments from each of the 100 films on AFI's list. The strategy used to construct this new narrative was to edit together segments in order as they appear on AFI's list. The segment used from each film also relates to ranking on the list. For example, the opening segment comes from the #1 ranked film, Citizen Kane. The segment used includes the first edit that appears in the film, as well as the shots that this first edit ties together. The second segment comes from the #2 ranked film, Casablanca and includes the second edit that appears in the film, as well as the shots that this second edit ties together. This strategy is followed all the way through until the 100th edit from the 100th film on the list (Yankee Doodle Dandy) is reached.
Citizen Dandy is both homage and critique of American Cinema. Although the various segments have been assembled in a seemingly random pattern, coincidences occur, narrative threads can be read and meaning can be interpreted. www.mkg127.com
Music Show: 9:00PM til 1:00AM $8 ADV / $10 DOOR -19+
Featuring Live Music Performances By:
Jenny Omnichord - 9:00PM
Charlotte Cornfield - 9:30PM
Julie Fader - 10:00PM
Kate Maki - 10:30PM
Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers) - 11:00PM
FemBots - Midnite
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