sub-genre
In my art practice, I pay particular attention to investigating the experiential nature of time and perception. Perception is often thought of as merely staring at things, yet it can encompass a greater range of experience and physicality: subjectivity, duration, temporality, anticipation. Interested in inhabited interpretations of perception, I attempt to alter a viewer’s awareness by shifting attention away from the merely represented toward peripheral features drawn out over time.
sub-genre (2006)
background (2004)
cryolite (2000)
a la derive/drifters (1999)
single bed, spice rack, and tv table (1999)
sub-genre comprises a year’s list of musical sub-genres. Reading musical terms can be evocative, provoking one to imagine sound. Almost opposing the notion of categorization, this list seems to expand the limits of music.
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background is a web-based project fading through 16,777,216 possible RGB colours. This long-form atmospheric work projects shifting colour sequences into the viewers’ ambient and changeable environment. I created background with the assumption that it could be ignored or just left looping in your home as you went in and out of the space throughout the day.
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cryolite is comprised of a structural object and a 3D animation of a melting iceberg, whose structure is predicated on its degradation. Despite the apparent weight and density of the visible iceberg, 7/8 of its mass remains submerged underwater and left to our imagination.
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In a la derive/drifters, I programmed computerized zooplankton to drift, according to location and solar intensity, in a looping circadian migration throughout a simulated day. Endlessly, the plankton drift across the computer screen, their travels periodically punctuated by images of actual microscopic zooplankton.
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single
bed, spice rack, and tv table
single bed, spice rack, and tv table was included in 48 Rooms/48 Hours, a series of installations in a Montreal rooming house slated for demolition. As I decided not to bring anything into the abandoned room, my work consisted of responding to remaining traces and patterns of dirt and use, by reconstructing a sense of the minimal furniture that had once been there.
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