November 03, 2005
CodeZebra: Sifting Time, Shifting Space
An Exhibition from the CodeZebra Archive
Code Zebra: Sifting Time, Shifting Space is an exhibition, panel discussion and fashion/costume show taking place in Toronto, Canada from November 5-26, 2006.
CodeZebra is a collaborative project led by Sara Diamond. CodeZebra draws upon debates about the relationship between art and science, the behaviors and characteristics of the inhabitants of those disciplines to create a series of provocations. CodeZebra includes spoken word and dance performances, club nights, games, workshops, and software development. In 2003 Diamond locked up pairs of artists and scientists in Habituation Cages for 24-hour periods and asked to discover new inventions, art works and concepts while real time video streams, documentary footage and online chats captured their every move. Such events and processes are captured in DVD form and on the CodeZebra website and are the core of this exhibition. CodeZebra OS software uses data visualization to provide analysis of dialogue and conversation taking place on the Internet. Responsive garments and costumes of CodeZebra bring communication, display and social camouflage back to the body. [Related]
Exhibition: November 5-26, 2005; WARC Gallery Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut, 401 Richmond St.W. Suite 122 Toronto, Ontario 416 977-0097. Presentation of Code Zebra curated by Nina Czegledy. Opening--Saturday November 5th, 5:00 pm; Artist's Walk through followed by reception.
Panel Discussion:
Saturday November 26, 3-5 pm; Goethe-Institut, Knowelt Hall, 163 King St. W. Toronto, Ontario 416 593 5257: Sara Diamond, Ontario College of Art & Design; Dr. John Dubinski, University of Toronto, Dr. Markopoulo-Kalamara, Perimeter Institute; Andy Patton, Artist; Co-moderators Sara Diamond and Nina Czegledy.
This panel of artists, scientists and curators considers the ways that current questions of space/time have opened new parameters in scientific research, visualization, popular culture and art and curatorial practice. The panellists will discuss their discoveries and reflect on the ways that art and science provides new insights into the operations of space and time whether at the universal or human scale.
Sara Diamond is an artist and researcher. She will frame the panel discussion and discuss her own work. In 2003 CodeZebra included a series of twenty-four hour Habituation Cages in which artists and scientists were locked up together and asked to invent new processes or products. Over the twenty-four hours time became a malleable medium, raising questions about linear, parallel and simultaneous forms of time and space, although constrained, became limitless.
Dr. John Joseph Dubinski mixes an award-winning career in astronomy with his work as a visualization and simulation scientist, studying problems of galaxy interactions and cosmology. He teaches and researches in the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics in Toronto. He is currently developing a current project Gravitas, a synthesis of art and science.
Dr. Markopoulou-Kalamara is a broadly talented researcher who recently shared First Prize in the Young Researchers competition at the Ultimate Reality Symposium in Princeton, New Jersey and is currently at the Perimeter Institute. Her research interests include Pre Quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, and discrete structure of space, causality, string theory, topological quantum field theory, quantum computing, category theory and logic.
Andy Patton is an artist and curator who recently assembled the exhibition Dimensionality. It takes the assumption of perspective coming to an end, or mutating under new environmental pressures -video games, computer animation, 3-D computer models- as its generative trope. Artists in the show declare an involvement with information-a space that's only convincing if it streams rapidly by, before its too-generalized surfaces can be inspected. As Patton states, "Star Trek was wrong: space is the initial frontier."
Nina Czegledy, media artist, curator and writer, has collaborated on international projects, produced digital works and has lead and participated in workshops, forums and festivals world-wide. Resonance, Digitized Bodies and the Aurora projects reflect her art&science interest. She exhibited as part of ICOLS and the Girls and Guns Collective and curated over 35 media programs presented internationally. Her academic lectures lead to numerous publications. Czegledy is the president of Critical Media, Senior Fellow of KMDI, University of Toronto, member of LEA auhors and Leonardo SpaceArt Network. A key advisor to the UNESCO DigiArts Portal and the current Chair of the Inter Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA).
CodeZebra Fashion and Costume Show, the Closing Party:
CodeZebra Fashion and Costume Show, the Closing Party--Saturday November 26 6 pm, WARC Gallery, 401 Richmond St. W. Suite 122 Toronto, Ontario 416 977-0097.
Put on your spots and stripes and let the fur fly! Join us for a thematic closing cocktail party where models fluff and preen in samples of responsive garments and costumes from the CodeZebra collection.
Sara Diamond Biography: Sara Diamond is an artist, researcher and educator who was born in NYC. Her work as a video and installation artist began in the early 1980s and investigated problems of social history and memory. It resides in collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Canada. She is currently a software and experience designer. She writes extensively on the history and practice of media art. Diamond led Media and Visual Arts and created the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre. She has moved recently to Toronto, to become the President of the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Posted by jo at November 3, 2005 09:08 AM
