The CFC Media Lab in partnership with the Toronto Free Gallery is excited about presenting ‘together you and i are like a thousand languages…’ and exhibit about love and technology. Curated by Siobhan O’Flynn and Anthea Foyer this exhibit also showcases CFC Media Lab Faculty – Matt & Susan Gorbet as well as work by Alumni James Milward, Jonathan Resnick and Trevor Shaikin, and Alumni Tom Kuo will be DJing on opening night. We would love to see you there!
together you and I are like a thousand languages….
Curated by Anthea Foyer & Siobhan O’Flynn
Presented by: Toronto Free Gallery in partnership with CFC Media Lab
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Opening Reception: Thursday, July 2nd 8pm to 1am
together you and i are like a thousand languages…
technology + art + love = ? leads us into the spaces that explore what it is to love and to express love, longing, lust. New innovations in technology both enhance communication and some argue isolate us further, yet in the midst of our crazy, complicated, busy lives we still create room for communicating love and lust, for touching and being touched, for being present and together. The emotions that make us so strongly human drive the need for our connection and mutual recognition and new forms can amplify old emotions in surprising ways.
This is a love story….
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Opening Night:
DJ TOM KUO & LEE LEE MISHI
MY DOKI DOKI
James Milward, Jonathan Resnick and Trevor Shaikin
who will be asking:
Can you feel the beating of your heart? When was the last time you felt it pound, or skip a beat? Was it from excitement? Fear? Attraction? Can we interact with people on a deeper level by tuning in to a whole new channel of body language?
Exhibition runs from – July 2nd to July 31st
Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M6H 1N7
416-913-0461
Hours: Wed-Fri. 11-5 and Saturday12-6
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ARTISTS | ARTWORKS
SMOKs |SMOKs, an XS Labs project by Joanna Berzowska, with Marcelo Coelho, Ali Gorji, Vahid Giahi, Hanna Söder, Sarah-Anne Fork, Shirley Kwok-Choon, Marguerite Bromley, and Shermine Sawalha.
SMOKs are a pair of electronically enhanced suits that act as an experimental platform for constructing individual and collective memories, for creating and nurturing social networks, and for personal communication and intimacy. By capturing physical memories, representing traces of human touch, recording and playing sounds, and by providing hiding places for physical mementoes, the SMOKS use fashion and our interactions through clothing to accumulate and display traces of physical memory in personal and playful ways. We are particularly concerned with the exploration of simple interactions that emphasize natural expressive qualities of electronic circuits and of the body, spawning modes of interaction that are not normally associated with computing technologies.
XS Labs research is funded by Heritage Canada, the Hexagram Research Institute in Montreal, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, and Concordia University.
FROM ME TO YOU | Matt Gorbet > Susan Gorbet > Rob Gorbet
This retro-styled interactive work playfully explores the power of words
in a relationship, where individual characters are significant. From the
lyrical to the absurd, unexpected changes evoke suddenly powerful
imagery. The piece explores the ephemerality of our emotions as well as
the internal process of meaning-making that defines our evolving
relationships to the people we L-O-V-E.
(with custom cabinetry by Rex Lingwood)
WONDER BIKES | David McCallum
Bikes are, for many North Americans, a forgotten pleasure. They remind us of times when life was filled with a little more wonder. Remember being in a gang of bike-riding children when our spokes tinkled from rattling decorations and our bicycle frames buzzed with playing cards?
The Wonder Bikes turn riders into unwitting interventionists, unwitting sound artists, and unwitting playmates. The bikes are equipped with generators and lo-fi sound circuits, each rider controlling their companions’ sound with electronically modified bike bells. Collaboratively, they are pedal-powered lo-fi screaming machines.
MAPPING NATURAL AND UNNATURAL DISASTERS | The Notary Public (Erika Hennebury and Laura Nanni)
The Notary Public invite audiences to explore the secret emotional topography of our city. Our approach to psychogeography takes, from the participating viewers, a sampling of fragile and often hilarious incidents and physically imprints them on a map of the city where we are; highlighting a complex web of human interactions. Negotiating with a projected image, audiences are invited to physcially deposit their own personal memories and interactions on a living landscape of Toronto using a legend that indicates sites of mishap, phenomenas of love and landmarks of our everyday lives to create a new urban cartography.
Together You and I Are Like A Thousand Languages will feature both a performance/ installation version of this project on opening, and an ongoing installation that will build in the gallery over the course of the exhibition.
The Notary Public is a creative collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Laura Nanni and theatre artist/producer Erika Hennebury. The collaboration began in 2006 with Hub 14’s Pick 7 artist lecture/performance series. Laura and Erika collaborated on their first performance work for Pick 7 experimenting with psychogeography and public participatory performance/installation. Since Pick 7 The Notary Public have been engaged in series of public performance events under the banner: Mapping Natural and Unnatural Disasters. Mapping Natural and Unnatural Disasters has been presented in Toronto at Hub 14, as part of Pick 7, at the Manifesto Cabaret Series and as part of the Theatre Centre’s Block In One Spot.
I LOVE IT WHEN YOU… | Anthea Foyer > Rob King
I love it when you… sneak glances at me, get mustard all over your chin when you eat your favorite sloppy cheeseburger, let me dream of possibilities, when you read to me in bed, when you come to visit no matter how sick I am, remember to pick up your socks, are kind to my crazy aunt, etc.
Call in and let them know how you feel.
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Toronto Free Gallery is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the Trillium Foundation
