CFC Media Lab Alumnus, Faisal Anwar, exhibits “Odd Spaces” at VANOC’s CODE Live (Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition), a festival celebrating Canadian culture and talent into the digital sphere running
February 4-21, 2010. Odd Spaces will be exhibited at Emily Carr University (1399 Johnston St., Vancouver).
Odd Spaces is a real-time multi-disciplinary installation, with Karachi, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
This project seeks to connect people separated by geography, social and cultural status by using new technologies to help facilitate their exchange. Using multiple projectors, screens, and locations, the task of linking an assortment of people and places becomes an almost seamless act. Yet despite the use of large-scale audio-visual networks, the people connected by it are far from familiar to the idioms, social gestures and practices of those they are interacting with. Odd Spaces attempts to show the unease that can arise through technologically mediated interactions. …The viewer is both the participant and observer of the exchange, and as a result s/he is made aware of their own role, culture and attitudes.
- NADIA KURD | PhD Candidate McGill University (Montréal)
Odd Spaces has been awarded a self-directed residency @ Banff NewMedia 2008, and Ontario Arts Council’s project grant 2007.
Artist Biography:
Faisal Anwar‘s diverse background includes design, puppeteering and theatre which support his interests in fictional narrative, social interaction, “edutainment” and interactive design. His immersive environments currently focus on accessibility issues for all children including those with limited mobility.
Partners and Collaborators:
CFC Media Lab – Toronto, Canada
VASL Artists’ Collective – Pakistan
Britto Artists’ Collective – Bangladesh
Techniques collaborators: Hassan Mustafa, Karachi, Pakistan and Salman Bari, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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