April 21, 2006
Willy Le Maitre
Edia and Context Gardens
Saturday, April 22nd, 7pm at The Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West, Toronto: Images 06 will be premiering Edia and Context Gardens, two new works by Toronto based media artist Willy Le Maitre. Both are performed cinema presentations that utilize stereographic video projection. The image is comprised of real time manipulations of volumetric scenes in conjunction with prepared segments of stereo-video. The navigable form of the projected audio and video provide a unique iteration of the work at each viewing.
Edia presents a dynamic psychological space. Resembling a hybrid diagram of molecular structures and astropataphysic theory; the visualization continuously reconfigures itself through the discrete interactions of its¹ constituent parts. Myriads of particles that swarm, hover, interpenetrate are coated in video texture. Through them we glimpse into images of distinct and diverse subject spaces. The spaces segue, meshing one place into another. Where Edia evokes a biological dimension to image; it does so in its¹ depiction of multifaceted matter being foremost a carrier of energy that characterizes reality as being primarily; a play of forces.
Context Gardens is a stereographic visualization of being between cosmos and the quanta. At the center of Context Gardens; the audience converges to board a craft, understood as time. Context Gardens configures an image space in an ecliptic of emergent archetypal influences that exert a tidal power over craft. Charged with event radiation; sonic gas permeates the scene while tiny vesicles form a battery of chemical messengers; conjuring memory¹s image channel. Time is shown volumetrically and revealed to be circular, its¹ present vectored to every past.
Willy Le Maitre has created media art works since 1988. He has been oriented to video as a live form that has served as a pivot point in collaborations between him, musicians, writers and other visual artists. Currently based in Toronto he enjoyed a creative dialogue for over 10 years with New York based composer Eric Rosenzveig. Located in different cities their collaborative system was incubated over the network. Notably with The Appearance Machine; an autonomous system that generated media assets and content streams from the reanimation of consumer refuse and distributed its live results to logged galleries. More recent efforts involved the development of Playlist, a collaborative authoring application and its compliment; disPlaylist a 3d visualization of the multi-threaded media work created collectively by a number of media artists using Playlist. His work has been presented, among other places, at The New Museum, the Kitchen, FIMA in Victoriaville Qc., ICMC in Banff Canada and ISEA. The work has received numerous grants and awards including LIFE 3.0 competition for artificial life artworks and The Telefilm Canada prize at Images Festival of Independent Film, 2000, Toronto.
Posted by jo at April 21, 2006 11:10 AM
