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2009 Images!

The Images Festival, “Toronto’s 2nd oldest film festival and North America’s premiere integrated media arts festival,” has launched their 2009 website, and their extensive list of programming looks fantastic and daunting. Take a look at their calendar for a complete list of exhibitions, art talks, parties, satellite shows, tours and more. Images run from April [...]

Caroline Langill, Shifting Polarities

In a refreshing departure from the U.S-heavy Western canon, Shifting Polarities highlights the contributions of Canadian electronic media artists such as Murray Favro, Vera Frenkel, Norman White and Jana Sterbak, among many others. The history Langill constructs is one she describes as uniquely Canadian, though in her conclusion she laments that it took until now [...]

How New Media Figures in a Gallery

The evolution of new media has reached a point where it is now being sought out by photography-based galleries to fill their spaces. Why this shift? There is definitely a lack of art spaces to represent new media works, and I am in no way dissenting this shift. But to me it is curious that [...]