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    The Artist Project Celebrates Five Years of Supporting New & Emerging Artists

     

    (Toronto, January 16, 2012) From seasoned collectors and first time art buyers, to gallerists and interior designers, The Artist Project offers visitors a rare opportunity to meet and purchase work directly from Canadian and international artists. This face-to-face approach allows patrons to experience the thrill of discovering new talent and take home a great story along with their artwork. Special features such as Art Chats, the Untapped Emerging Artist Competition and expert-led tours also give visitors an insider’s view on new trends in the art world.

     

    This March, The Artist Project marks its fifth anniversary with yet another exciting show featuring original works by a juried selection of over 200 independent contemporary artists. The fair has grown dramatically through the years – from 90 to over 200 artists, and more than 12,000 visitors are expected to attend in 2012.  For four days (March 1-4, 2012), artists from a variety of geographic and creative backgrounds will converge and connect with patrons looking to get a glimpse of tomorrow’s Art Stars.

     

    WHAT’S ON AT TAP:

     

    Opening Night Preview Party Thursday, March 1, 7-10 PM (restricted19+) – Be among the first to view and purchase original works of art from top independent contemporary artists. Enjoy a decadent evening of art, music, and treats! A portion of the ticket proceeds from the Opening Night Party will be donated to the Canadian Art Foundation. For media passes, please RSVP to Sheryl So at sso@artcom.ca.

     

    Untapped Emerging Artist Competition – 17 of the best up-and-coming emerging artists will be invited to participate in this special exhibition for FREE. Visitors are asked to vote for their favourite Emerging Artist and the winner will be awarded a free booth in the Main Section for 2013!

     

    Installation Alley – Explore large-scale sculpture, conceptual art, and installations from the country’s most exciting emerging artists!

     

    The Energy Competition – Every artist in the show will have the opportunity to create a piece in their medium based on this year’s theme: energy. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges and awarded cash prizes. There is also a People’s Choice Award!

     

    “Take-12 SONY Studio” – TAP is pleased to welcome back SONY as the creator of the brand NEW “Take-12 SONY Studio” featuring the SONY A77 Translucent Mirror Camera, which takes 12 shots per second. This year, five photographers will use this revolutionary camera to develop exciting works. Editions will be available for purchase at the show.

     

    “Artists-at-Work” Presented by SONY – With the help of SONY’s latest camcorder, which features a built-in projector, five artists will document their artistic practices, their studios and techniques. The videos will be projected in the form of an installation in the “Artists-at-Work presented by SONY” feature space. 

    ART CHATS Series – Features a variety of engaging and inspiring seminars hosted by leading art and design experts. This year, the series features topics such as The Art Detectives by writer Joshua Knelman and an artist panel hosted by Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes.

     

    Art Walks – Docents take visitors on an informative exploration of the show where they will meet the artists and ask the questions that visitors never think to ask! Art Walks are complimentary with admission and last approximately 30 minutes.

     

    Event Details

     

    WHEN: March 1 – 4, 2012

    WHERE: Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place - 180 Princes’ Blvd | Toronto, ON

    Come by: TTC, GO, or car (Paid Parking on-site)–MAP

     

    DETAILS: Admission:  $14 (adults) | $10 (seniors / students)

    Free: Children 12 years of age or under

    Free Re-Admission

    $25 Opening Night Preview (open to 19 + years of age)

    ONLINE DISCOUNTS ON TICKETS

     

    About The Artist Project:

    The Artist Project is a meeting ground for artists, art collectors, dealers and enthusiasts and produced by MMPI. As one of the largest trade show producers in the world, MMPI is committed to the continued development and enhancement of the art world through collaboration and partnership. As international purveyors of fine art, craft, and design exhibitions, our experienced staff of art fair coordinators are credited with Art Chicago™, Volta, The Armory Show, and NEXT. MMPI Canada is also responsible for Art Toronto, the One of a Kind Shows, Interior Design Show and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada.

     

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    For media inquiries and accreditation, please contact:

    Sheryl So | sso@artscom.ca| 416-966-3421 ext. 206

    For tickets / info about the show, visit: www.theartistprojecttoronto.com 

     
    Jan 19
    MEDIA ADVISORY   The Artist Project Celebrates Five Years of Supporting New & Emerging Artists   (Toronto, January 16, 2012) From seasoned collectors and first time art buyers, to gallerists and interior designers, The Artist Project offers visitors a rare opportunity to meet and purchase work directly from Canadian and international artists. This face-to-face approach allows patrons to experience the thrill of discovering new talent and take home a great story along with their artwork. Special features such as Art Chats, the Untapped Emerging Artist Competition and expert-led tours also give visitors an insider’s view on new trends in the art world.   This March, The Artist Project marks its fifth anniversary with yet another exciting show featuring original works by a juried selection of over 200 independent contemporary artists. The fair has grown dramatically through the years – from 90 to over 200 artists, and more than 12,000 visitors are expected to attend in 2012.  For four days (March 1-4, 2012), artists from a variety of geographic and creative backgrounds will converge and connect with patrons looking to get a glimpse of tomorrow’s Art Stars.   WHAT’S ON AT TAP:   Opening Night Preview Party Thursday, March 1, 7-10 PM (restricted19+) – Be among the first to view and purchase original works of art from top independent contemporary artists. Enjoy a decadent evening of art, music, and treats! A portion of the ticket proceeds from the Opening Night Party will be donated to the Canadian Art Foundation. For media passes, please RSVP to Sheryl So at sso@artcom.ca.   Untapped Emerging Artist Competition – 17 of the best up-and-coming emerging artists will be invited to participate in this special exhibition for FREE. Visitors are asked to vote for their favourite Emerging Artist and the winner will be awarded a free booth in the Main Section for 2013!   Installation Alley – Explore large-scale sculpture, conceptual art, and installations from the country’s most exciting emerging artists!   The Energy Competition – Every artist in the show will have the opportunity to create a piece in their medium based on this year’s theme: energy. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges and awarded cash prizes. There is also a People’s Choice Award!   “Take-12 SONY Studio” – TAP is pleased to welcome back SONY as the creator of the brand NEW “Take-12 SONY Studio” featuring the SONY A77 Translucent Mirror Camera, which takes 12 shots per second. This year, five photographers will use this revolutionary camera to develop exciting works. Editions will be available for purchase at the show.   “Artists-at-Work” Presented by SONY – With the help of SONY’s latest camcorder, which features a built-in projector, five artists will document their artistic practices, their studios and techniques. The videos will be projected in the form of an installation in the “Artists-at-Work presented by SONY” feature space.  ART CHATS Series – Features a variety of engaging and inspiring seminars hosted by leading art and design experts. This year, the series features topics such as The Art Detectives by writer Joshua Knelman and an artist panel hosted by Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes.   Art Walks – Docents take visitors on an informative exploration of the show where they will meet the artists and ask the questions that visitors never think to ask! Art Walks are complimentary with admission and last approximately 30 minutes.   Event Details   WHEN: March 1 – 4, 2012 WHERE: Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place - 180 Princes’ Blvd | Toronto, ON Come by: TTC, GO, or car (Paid Parking on-site)–MAP   DETAILS: Admission:  $14 (adults) | $10 (seniors / students) Free: Children 12 years of age or under Free Re-Admission $25 Opening Night Preview (open to 19 + years of age) ONLINE DISCOUNTS ON TICKETS   About The Artist Project: The Artist Project is a meeting ground for artists, art collectors, dealers and enthusiasts and produced by MMPI. As one of the largest trade show producers in the world, MMPI is committed to the continued development and enhancement of the art world through collaboration and partnership. As international purveyors of fine art, craft, and design exhibitions, our experienced staff of art fair coordinators are credited with Art Chicago™, Volta, The Armory Show, and NEXT. MMPI Canada is also responsible for Art Toronto, the One of a Kind Shows, Interior Design Show and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada.   -30-   For media inquiries and accreditation, please contact: Sheryl So | sso@artscom.ca| 416-966-3421 ext. 206 For tickets / info about the show, visit: www.theartistprojecttoronto.com   

    EDITION29 Architecture Issue 008 for iPad continues with the spirit of the previous issues, showcasing modern houses from Sao Paulo to Nagoya, Japan. Architect Shigeru Fuse tells us about the concrete sculpture he created as the house in Akibo, with ultra modern sculptural interiors that seemed carved from cement walls. Architect Takeshi Hosaka brings abundant natural light into the Daylight House with glass blocks fitted onto the roof that make up segments of the roof providing rays of light into the house.

    Canadian architect Michael Taylor creates a simple wooden cabin in the forested regions of Ontario as a private module for the owners of a larger compound. Several slanting roofs arranged to point in two opposing directions provide the small rooms of the Complex House their own independent roofs with abundant natural light seeping in, giving this design a look of two rows of roofs sheltering a family in a tiny plot of land in Nagoya created by the architect Tomohiro Hata.

    The Desert House in Paradise Valley, Arizona is a 20 year old structure re-imagined and resurrected by Peter M. Koliopoulos to be a building in tune with its desert setting while also being a low impact construction with many recycled materials. The roof and the surrounding one acre plot was regraded to maximize capture of rainwater.

    This issues rounds out with stunning residential structures by architect Robert Edmonds in Kenwood, California to the curved glass wall embedded Lake Lugano House in Switzerland by architect Jacopo Mascheroni.
    Dec 16
    EDITION29 Architecture Issue 008 for iPad continues with the spirit of the previous issues, showcasing modern houses from Sao Paulo to Nagoya, Japan. Architect Shigeru Fuse tells us about the concrete sculpture he created as the house in Akibo, with ultra modern sculptural interiors that seemed carved from cement walls. Architect Takeshi Hosaka brings abundant natural light into the Daylight House with glass blocks fitted onto the roof that make up segments of the roof providing rays of light into the house. Canadian architect Michael Taylor creates a simple wooden cabin in the forested regions of Ontario as a private module for the owners of a larger compound. Several slanting roofs arranged to point in two opposing directions provide the small rooms of the Complex House their own independent roofs with abundant natural light seeping in, giving this design a look of two rows of roofs sheltering a family in a tiny plot of land in Nagoya created by the architect Tomohiro Hata. The Desert House in Paradise Valley, Arizona is a 20 year old structure re-imagined and resurrected by Peter M. Koliopoulos to be a building in tune with its desert setting while also being a low impact construction with many recycled materials. The roof and the surrounding one acre plot was regraded to maximize capture of rainwater. This issues rounds out with stunning residential structures by architect Robert Edmonds in Kenwood, California to the curved glass wall embedded Lake Lugano House in Switzerland by architect Jacopo Mascheroni.

    Spotlight on “Question Bridge: Black Males,” Innovent’s Transmedia Partner at the Sundance Festival 2012

    Blessings come in threes. The artist-producers behind “Question Bridge: Black Males,” an immersive art installation turned educational transmedia project, are still spinning from the events at Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab in Utah. The Story Lab provides creative storytelling support to artists contributing to the emerging field of multi-layered, multi-formatted, immersive narratives. Question Bridge creators Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair couldn’t be more thankful for the honor of taking part in this inaugural Story Labs. But now they have another humbling blessing - Question Bridge is now on the roster of the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier exhibition line up for January 2012.

    Maybe blessings come in threes. Prior to being chosen to take part in Sundance’s Story Lab, Question Bridge, partnering with transmedia firm Innovent, has secured exhibit partners in Brooklyn and Oakland. The Question Bridge art installation is scheduled to open at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Oakland Museum also this January.

    “Talk about multiple entry and exposure points,” said Innovent CEO Antonio Kaplan. “We’ve always been developing transmedia strategies with the Question Bridge team on enriching the project’s outreach platforms - via online presence, mobile app, art installations, street teams, and as an educational curriculum. What a better way to kick off the transmedia campaign then at the Sundance film festival.”

    The New Frontier Story Lab is founded on the Sundance Institute Lab model, which offers intensive, residential retreat focused on creative support. These include daily keynotes, case-studies, group sessions, and the scenic, invigorating mountainous outdoors of Sundance Resort in Utah.

    “It was really amazing to be in the room with such legends of storytelling and masters of technology all figuring out how to tell a compelling story or create spaces for compelling stories to manifest in a transmedia world,” said Kamal Sinclair, collaborator and media lead for Question Bridge. “This must have been what it was like to be one of the early filmmakers experimenting with how to tell a story through ‘moving pictures,’ only we are dealing with smart phones, tablets, computers, interactive objects of all kinds and our audience isn’t sitting still in a theatre, they are constantly moving through multiple environments in real time. It is exciting to be part of a paradigm shift.”

    Creative Advisors for the New Frontier Story Lab includes, among many others, Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact), Richard Lagravenese (The Fisher King, Water for Elephants), Aaron Koblin (Johnny Cash Project, Google Data Arts Team), Wesley Strick (Cape Fear), David Gale (MTVX), Takaaki Okada (Condition ONE), Susan Bonds (42 Entertainment), Nick Fortugno (Playmatics), Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country), Noland Walker (Citizen King), and Lance Weiler (Pandemic, The WorkBook Project).

    “We’ve been completely inspired by the Sundance Lab and mentors,” said Kamal. “Nick Fortugo gave a brilliant presentation on storytelling in gaming. Susan Bonds is a guru of Alternate Reality games. Lance Weiler walked us through his massive thoughts on transmedia. We’d shout paragraphs on Twitter if we could. There’s so little space to convey all that warmth and gratitude.”

    Innovent’s co-founders have now partnered in several of Sundance’s transmedia firsts. Pandemic 1.0 (Sundance January 2011 selection), market the first time the lab supported a feature film / transmedia project. As for another first, Question Bridge took part in the first ever New Frontier Story Lab in Utah and will now set a precedent in cross-nation dialogue via art installations.

    Six artist teams and projects were chosen for the 2011 Sundance New Frontier Story Labs - “Follow Back,” “Kill Shakespeare,” “The Last Hijack,” “Rome,” “Question Bridge: Black Males,” and “18 Days in Egypt.” The last two have partnered with Innovent in pulling out a transmedia engagement plan - from sketches to actual implementations.

    “18 Days in Egypt” is a collaborative, crowd-sourced interactive documentary and worked with Innovent to design an interactive web portal that covers the last 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution. The project features thousands of videos, photos, emails, tweets supplied by eye witnesses and participants. 18 Days is also a recipient of the first-ever Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund, having been awarded a 100,000 USD grant.

    “We’re happy to work with such innovative teams,” said Innovent CCO Elise Baugh. “We seem to be drawn to projects that vehemently push the envelope. They dream up the twistedly engaging and the poignantly arresting.”

    “Question Bridge: Black Males” and “18 Days in Egypt” question the fabric of the status quo using new media alternatives, and in the process unweave them. Innovent is a transmedia company that takes on projects that aim for social change.

    Nov 11
    Spotlight on “Question Bridge: Black Males,” Innovent’s Transmedia Partner at the Sundance Festival 2012Blessings come in threes. The artist-producers behind “Question Bridge: Black Males,” an immersive art installation turned educational transmedia project, are still spinning from the events at Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab in Utah. The Story Lab provides creative storytelling support to artists contributing to the emerging field of multi-layered, multi-formatted, immersive narratives. Question Bridge creators Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair couldn’t be more thankful for the honor of taking part in this inaugural Story Labs. But now they have another humbling blessing - Question Bridge is now on the roster of the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier exhibition line up for January 2012. Maybe blessings come in threes. Prior to being chosen to take part in Sundance’s Story Lab, Question Bridge, partnering with transmedia firm Innovent, has secured exhibit partners in Brooklyn and Oakland. The Question Bridge art installation is scheduled to open at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Oakland Museum also this January. “Talk about multiple entry and exposure points,” said Innovent CEO Antonio Kaplan. “We’ve always been developing transmedia strategies with the Question Bridge team on enriching the project’s outreach platforms - via online presence, mobile app, art installations, street teams, and as an educational curriculum. What a better way to kick off the transmedia campaign then at the Sundance film festival.”The New Frontier Story Lab is founded on the Sundance Institute Lab model, which offers intensive, residential retreat focused on creative support. These include daily keynotes, case-studies, group sessions, and the scenic, invigorating mountainous outdoors of Sundance Resort in Utah. “It was really amazing to be in the room with such legends of storytelling and masters of technology all figuring out how to tell a compelling story or create spaces for compelling stories to manifest in a transmedia world,” said Kamal Sinclair, collaborator and media lead for Question Bridge. “This must have been what it was like to be one of the early filmmakers experimenting with how to tell a story through ‘moving pictures,’ only we are dealing with smart phones, tablets, computers, interactive objects of all kinds and our audience isn’t sitting still in a theatre, they are constantly moving through multiple environments in real time. It is exciting to be part of a paradigm shift.” Creative Advisors for the New Frontier Story Lab includes, among many others, Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact), Richard Lagravenese (The Fisher King, Water for Elephants), Aaron Koblin (Johnny Cash Project, Google Data Arts Team), Wesley Strick (Cape Fear), David Gale (MTVX), Takaaki Okada (Condition ONE), Susan Bonds (42 Entertainment), Nick Fortugno (Playmatics), Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country), Noland Walker (Citizen King), and Lance Weiler (Pandemic, The WorkBook Project).“We’ve been completely inspired by the Sundance Lab and mentors,” said Kamal. “Nick Fortugo gave a brilliant presentation on storytelling in gaming. Susan Bonds is a guru of Alternate Reality games. Lance Weiler walked us through his massive thoughts on transmedia. We’d shout paragraphs on Twitter if we could. There’s so little space to convey all that warmth and gratitude.”Innovent’s co-founders have now partnered in several of Sundance’s transmedia firsts. Pandemic 1.0 (Sundance January 2011 selection), market the first time the lab supported a feature film / transmedia project. As for another first, Question Bridge took part in the first ever New Frontier Story Lab in Utah and will now set a precedent in cross-nation dialogue via art installations. Six artist teams and projects were chosen for the 2011 Sundance New Frontier Story Labs - “Follow Back,” “Kill Shakespeare,” “The Last Hijack,” “Rome,” “Question Bridge: Black Males,” and “18 Days in Egypt.” The last two have partnered with Innovent in pulling out a transmedia engagement plan - from sketches to actual implementations. “18 Days in Egypt” is a collaborative, crowd-sourced interactive documentary and worked with Innovent to design an interactive web portal that covers the last 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution. The project features thousands of videos, photos, emails, tweets supplied by eye witnesses and participants. 18 Days is also a recipient of the first-ever Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund, having been awarded a 100,000 USD grant. “We’re happy to work with such innovative teams,” said Innovent CCO Elise Baugh. “We seem to be drawn to projects that vehemently push the envelope. They dream up the twistedly engaging and the poignantly arresting.”“Question Bridge: Black Males” and “18 Days in Egypt” question the fabric of the status quo using new media alternatives, and in the process unweave them. Innovent is a transmedia company that takes on projects that aim for social change.

    What happens when you deliver great art to an unsuspecting public? That is the focus of The Craigslist Project. A diverse collection of photographic work delivered through a series of postings on the social medium.

    View the ads, read actual responses, and discover how great images and alluring text can evoke unexpected emotions and reactions.

    ————————————
    Featuring the work of Samantha Allen.
    November 10th - 13th, 2011Reception: Thursday November 10th, 6 - 10 pmGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 - 7 pmSunday by appointment only
    Artscape Triangle Gallery38 Abell StreetToronto, ON3 blocks east of Dufferin Street    just south off Queen St West across from the Drake Hotel
    For more information:416.889.1820samantha@getfreshphotos.com
    Oct 25
    What happens when you deliver great art to an unsuspecting public? That is the focus of The Craigslist Project. A diverse collection of photographic work delivered through a series of postings on the social medium. View the ads, read actual responses, and discover how great images and alluring text can evoke unexpected emotions and reactions. ————————————Featuring the work of Samantha Allen.November 10th - 13th, 2011Reception: Thursday November 10th, 6 - 10 pmGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 - 7 pmSunday by appointment onlyArtscape Triangle Gallery38 Abell StreetToronto, ON3 blocks east of Dufferin Streetjust south off Queen St West across from the Drake HotelFor more information:416.889.1820samantha@getfreshphotos.com

    Art PR Wire

    Posted on Thursday January 19th 2012 at 02:06pm. Its tags are listed below.

    MEDIA ADVISORY   The Artist Project Celebrates Five Years of Supporting New & Emerging Artists   (Toronto, January 16, 2012) From seasoned collectors and first time art buyers, to gallerists and interior designers, The Artist Project offers visitors a rare opportunity to meet and purchase work directly from Canadian and international artists. This face-to-face approach allows patrons to experience the thrill of discovering new talent and take home a great story along with their artwork. Special features such as Art Chats, the Untapped Emerging Artist Competition and expert-led tours also give visitors an insider’s view on new trends in the art world.   This March, The Artist Project marks its fifth anniversary with yet another exciting show featuring original works by a juried selection of over 200 independent contemporary artists. The fair has grown dramatically through the years – from 90 to over 200 artists, and more than 12,000 visitors are expected to attend in 2012.  For four days (March 1-4, 2012), artists from a variety of geographic and creative backgrounds will converge and connect with patrons looking to get a glimpse of tomorrow’s Art Stars.   WHAT’S ON AT TAP:   Opening Night Preview Party Thursday, March 1, 7-10 PM (restricted19+) – Be among the first to view and purchase original works of art from top independent contemporary artists. Enjoy a decadent evening of art, music, and treats! A portion of the ticket proceeds from the Opening Night Party will be donated to the Canadian Art Foundation. For media passes, please RSVP to Sheryl So at sso@artcom.ca.   Untapped Emerging Artist Competition – 17 of the best up-and-coming emerging artists will be invited to participate in this special exhibition for FREE. Visitors are asked to vote for their favourite Emerging Artist and the winner will be awarded a free booth in the Main Section for 2013!   Installation Alley – Explore large-scale sculpture, conceptual art, and installations from the country’s most exciting emerging artists!   The Energy Competition – Every artist in the show will have the opportunity to create a piece in their medium based on this year’s theme: energy. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges and awarded cash prizes. There is also a People’s Choice Award!   “Take-12 SONY Studio” – TAP is pleased to welcome back SONY as the creator of the brand NEW “Take-12 SONY Studio” featuring the SONY A77 Translucent Mirror Camera, which takes 12 shots per second. This year, five photographers will use this revolutionary camera to develop exciting works. Editions will be available for purchase at the show.   “Artists-at-Work” Presented by SONY – With the help of SONY’s latest camcorder, which features a built-in projector, five artists will document their artistic practices, their studios and techniques. The videos will be projected in the form of an installation in the “Artists-at-Work presented by SONY” feature space.  ART CHATS Series – Features a variety of engaging and inspiring seminars hosted by leading art and design experts. This year, the series features topics such as The Art Detectives by writer Joshua Knelman and an artist panel hosted by Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes.   Art Walks – Docents take visitors on an informative exploration of the show where they will meet the artists and ask the questions that visitors never think to ask! Art Walks are complimentary with admission and last approximately 30 minutes.   Event Details   WHEN: March 1 – 4, 2012 WHERE: Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place - 180 Princes’ Blvd | Toronto, ON Come by: TTC, GO, or car (Paid Parking on-site)–MAP   DETAILS: Admission:  $14 (adults) | $10 (seniors / students) Free: Children 12 years of age or under Free Re-Admission $25 Opening Night Preview (open to 19 + years of age) ONLINE DISCOUNTS ON TICKETS   About The Artist Project: The Artist Project is a meeting ground for artists, art collectors, dealers and enthusiasts and produced by MMPI. As one of the largest trade show producers in the world, MMPI is committed to the continued development and enhancement of the art world through collaboration and partnership. As international purveyors of fine art, craft, and design exhibitions, our experienced staff of art fair coordinators are credited with Art Chicago™, Volta, The Armory Show, and NEXT. MMPI Canada is also responsible for Art Toronto, the One of a Kind Shows, Interior Design Show and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada.   -30-   For media inquiries and accreditation, please contact: Sheryl So | sso@artscom.ca| 416-966-3421 ext. 206 For tickets / info about the show, visit: www.theartistprojecttoronto.com   

    MEDIA ADVISORY

     

    The Artist Project Celebrates Five Years of Supporting New & Emerging Artists

     

    (Toronto, January 16, 2012) From seasoned collectors and first time art buyers, to gallerists and interior designers, The Artist Project offers visitors a rare opportunity to meet and purchase work directly from Canadian and international artists. This face-to-face approach allows patrons to experience the thrill of discovering new talent and take home a great story along with their artwork. Special features such as Art Chats, the Untapped Emerging Artist Competition and expert-led tours also give visitors an insider’s view on new trends in the art world.

     

    This March, The Artist Project marks its fifth anniversary with yet another exciting show featuring original works by a juried selection of over 200 independent contemporary artists. The fair has grown dramatically through the years – from 90 to over 200 artists, and more than 12,000 visitors are expected to attend in 2012.  For four days (March 1-4, 2012), artists from a variety of geographic and creative backgrounds will converge and connect with patrons looking to get a glimpse of tomorrow’s Art Stars.

     

    WHAT’S ON AT TAP:

     

    Opening Night Preview Party Thursday, March 1, 7-10 PM (restricted19+) – Be among the first to view and purchase original works of art from top independent contemporary artists. Enjoy a decadent evening of art, music, and treats! A portion of the ticket proceeds from the Opening Night Party will be donated to the Canadian Art Foundation. For media passes, please RSVP to Sheryl So at sso@artcom.ca.

     

    Untapped Emerging Artist Competition – 17 of the best up-and-coming emerging artists will be invited to participate in this special exhibition for FREE. Visitors are asked to vote for their favourite Emerging Artist and the winner will be awarded a free booth in the Main Section for 2013!

     

    Installation Alley – Explore large-scale sculpture, conceptual art, and installations from the country’s most exciting emerging artists!

     

    The Energy Competition – Every artist in the show will have the opportunity to create a piece in their medium based on this year’s theme: energy. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges and awarded cash prizes. There is also a People’s Choice Award!

     

    “Take-12 SONY Studio” – TAP is pleased to welcome back SONY as the creator of the brand NEW “Take-12 SONY Studio” featuring the SONY A77 Translucent Mirror Camera, which takes 12 shots per second. This year, five photographers will use this revolutionary camera to develop exciting works. Editions will be available for purchase at the show.

     

    “Artists-at-Work” Presented by SONY – With the help of SONY’s latest camcorder, which features a built-in projector, five artists will document their artistic practices, their studios and techniques. The videos will be projected in the form of an installation in the “Artists-at-Work presented by SONY” feature space. 

    ART CHATS Series – Features a variety of engaging and inspiring seminars hosted by leading art and design experts. This year, the series features topics such as The Art Detectives by writer Joshua Knelman and an artist panel hosted by Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes.

     

    Art Walks – Docents take visitors on an informative exploration of the show where they will meet the artists and ask the questions that visitors never think to ask! Art Walks are complimentary with admission and last approximately 30 minutes.

     

    Event Details

     

    WHEN: March 1 – 4, 2012

    WHERE: Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place - 180 Princes’ Blvd | Toronto, ON

    Come by: TTC, GO, or car (Paid Parking on-site)–MAP

     

    DETAILS: Admission:  $14 (adults) | $10 (seniors / students)

    Free: Children 12 years of age or under

    Free Re-Admission

    $25 Opening Night Preview (open to 19 + years of age)

    ONLINE DISCOUNTS ON TICKETS

     

    About The Artist Project:

    The Artist Project is a meeting ground for artists, art collectors, dealers and enthusiasts and produced by MMPI. As one of the largest trade show producers in the world, MMPI is committed to the continued development and enhancement of the art world through collaboration and partnership. As international purveyors of fine art, craft, and design exhibitions, our experienced staff of art fair coordinators are credited with Art Chicago™, Volta, The Armory Show, and NEXT. MMPI Canada is also responsible for Art Toronto, the One of a Kind Shows, Interior Design Show and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada.

     

    -30-

     

    For media inquiries and accreditation, please contact:

    Sheryl So | sso@artscom.ca| 416-966-3421 ext. 206

    For tickets / info about the show, visit: www.theartistprojecttoronto.com 

     

    Art PR Wire

    Posted on Friday December 16th 2011 at 02:43pm. Its tags are listed below.

    EDITION29 Architecture Issue 008 for iPad continues with the spirit of the previous issues, showcasing modern houses from Sao Paulo to Nagoya, Japan. Architect Shigeru Fuse tells us about the concrete sculpture he created as the house in Akibo, with ultra modern sculptural interiors that seemed carved from cement walls. Architect Takeshi Hosaka brings abundant natural light into the Daylight House with glass blocks fitted onto the roof that make up segments of the roof providing rays of light into the house. Canadian architect Michael Taylor creates a simple wooden cabin in the forested regions of Ontario as a private module for the owners of a larger compound. Several slanting roofs arranged to point in two opposing directions provide the small rooms of the Complex House their own independent roofs with abundant natural light seeping in, giving this design a look of two rows of roofs sheltering a family in a tiny plot of land in Nagoya created by the architect Tomohiro Hata. The Desert House in Paradise Valley, Arizona is a 20 year old structure re-imagined and resurrected by Peter M. Koliopoulos to be a building in tune with its desert setting while also being a low impact construction with many recycled materials. The roof and the surrounding one acre plot was regraded to maximize capture of rainwater. This issues rounds out with stunning residential structures by architect Robert Edmonds in Kenwood, California to the curved glass wall embedded Lake Lugano House in Switzerland by architect Jacopo Mascheroni.

    EDITION29 Architecture Issue 008 for iPad continues with the spirit of the previous issues, showcasing modern houses from Sao Paulo to Nagoya, Japan. Architect Shigeru Fuse tells us about the concrete sculpture he created as the house in Akibo, with ultra modern sculptural interiors that seemed carved from cement walls. Architect Takeshi Hosaka brings abundant natural light into the Daylight House with glass blocks fitted onto the roof that make up segments of the roof providing rays of light into the house.

    Canadian architect Michael Taylor creates a simple wooden cabin in the forested regions of Ontario as a private module for the owners of a larger compound. Several slanting roofs arranged to point in two opposing directions provide the small rooms of the Complex House their own independent roofs with abundant natural light seeping in, giving this design a look of two rows of roofs sheltering a family in a tiny plot of land in Nagoya created by the architect Tomohiro Hata.

    The Desert House in Paradise Valley, Arizona is a 20 year old structure re-imagined and resurrected by Peter M. Koliopoulos to be a building in tune with its desert setting while also being a low impact construction with many recycled materials. The roof and the surrounding one acre plot was regraded to maximize capture of rainwater.

    This issues rounds out with stunning residential structures by architect Robert Edmonds in Kenwood, California to the curved glass wall embedded Lake Lugano House in Switzerland by architect Jacopo Mascheroni.

    Art PR Wire

    Posted on Tuesday November 15th 2011 at 09:11pm. Its tags are listed below.

    Photorama turns 25: Gallery TPW’s 25th Annual Affordable Art Fundraiser begins December 2nd This year marks the 25th anniversary of Gallery TPW’s annual Photorama fundraising exhibition featuring over 70 artists exhibiting contemporary photography and lens-based work. Photorama has become one of the most successful seasonal art sales in the city, and this year’s selection will not disappoint. Photorama 2011 is open to the public from December 2 – December 10, 2011 with an exclusive Collectors Preview on December 1st, 6 – 9 pm. Photorama features work by some of Canada’s most accomplished artists and promising young photographers. With most works priced below $600, Photorama offers seasoned collectors and first-time buyers alike the opportunity to buy limited edition photographs and artwork. Each sale from Photorama directly assists with the operations and programming at Gallery TPW, while also supporting local artists and culture in Toronto. Highlights at Photorama 2011 include works by some of Canada’s most esteemed photographers such as Edward Burtynsky, Suzy Lake, Robyn Cumming, and a new piece by Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge. A complete list of participating Photorama artists is available online at gallerytpw.ca/photorama2011 On Thursday, December 1st, 6 – 9 pm Gallery TPW invites Collector Members to attend an exclusive Collectors Preview of Photorama 2011. Collector Members are given first opportunity to purchase art works before Photorama opens to the public. Collector Memberships can be purchased online for $75 at gallerytpw.ca/membership or by contacting the gallery at 416.645.1066. Photorama opens to the public on Friday, December 2nd, 26, 6 – 9 pm with an opening reception. Photorama is Gallery TPW’s major annual fundraising event featuring artists selected by Gallery TPW’s Board of Directors. Photorama 2010 was the most successful year ever, with sales exceeding $57,000. Nearly $20,000 was paid out to artists in sale fees and $30,000 was raised in direct support of the gallery’s programming and operations. This year, Gallery TPW hopes to raise $35,000 towards the support of its innovative programming and community building events. About Gallery TPW Gallery TPW is an artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation and critical investigation of contemporary lens and screen-based art. Gallery TPW operates an exceptional exhibition space located in the heart of Toronto’s West Queen West Art and Design District. The gallery’s programs address the vital role that images play in contemporary culture and explore the exchange between photography, new technologies and time-based media. Gallery TPW facilitates critical discourse through its exhibitions, screenings, live events, public discussions and commissioned critical writings. Dates December 2 - 10 Collectors Preview: Thursday, December 1st, 6 – 9 pm Opening Reception: Friday, December 2nd, 6 – 9 pm Sale continues: Saturday, December 3, Noon – 6 pm Tuesday December 6 – December 10, Noon – 6 pm Admission to PHOTORAMA is free. Follow us Online Gallery TPW will be blogging and tweeting during Photorama. We post staff picks, information about the artists, sales updates, images from the opening and more. Follow us at tpwphotorama.wordpress.com, on Twitter at twitter.com/GalleryTPW, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GalleryTPW.Toronto. Media Contact: Gary Hall, Executive Director 416-645-1066 / photorama@gallerytpw.ca Gallery TPW 56 Ossington Ave. Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7 gallerytpw.ca Gallery TPW would like to thank the sponsors of Photorama 2011: Circuit Gallery, BlogTO, NOW Magazine, Onestop Media, Magenta Foundation, Kronenbourg 1664, The Apartment, Union Restaurant, Diamond Wines and De Sousa Wine Cellars.
    Photorama turns 25: Gallery TPW’s 25th Annual Affordable Art Fundraiser begins December 2nd This year marks the 25th anniversary of Gallery TPW’s annual Photorama fundraising exhibition featuring over 70 artists exhibiting contemporary photography and lens-based work. Photorama has become one of the most successful seasonal art sales in the city, and this year’s selection will not disappoint. Photorama 2011 is open to the public from December 2 – December 10, 2011 with an exclusive Collectors Preview on December 1st, 6 – 9 pm. Photorama features work by some of Canada’s most accomplished artists and promising young photographers. With most works priced below $600, Photorama offers seasoned collectors and first-time buyers alike the opportunity to buy limited edition photographs and artwork. Each sale from Photorama directly assists with the operations and programming at Gallery TPW, while also supporting local artists and culture in Toronto. Highlights at Photorama 2011 include works by some of Canada’s most esteemed photographers such as Edward Burtynsky, Suzy Lake, Robyn Cumming, and a new piece by Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge. A complete list of participating Photorama artists is available online at gallerytpw.ca/photorama2011 On Thursday, December 1st, 6 – 9 pm Gallery TPW invites Collector Members to attend an exclusive Collectors Preview of Photorama 2011. Collector Members are given first opportunity to purchase art works before Photorama opens to the public. Collector Memberships can be purchased online for $75 at gallerytpw.ca/membership or by contacting the gallery at 416.645.1066. Photorama opens to the public on Friday, December 2nd, 26, 6 – 9 pm with an opening reception. Photorama is Gallery TPW’s major annual fundraising event featuring artists selected by Gallery TPW’s Board of Directors. Photorama 2010 was the most successful year ever, with sales exceeding $57,000. Nearly $20,000 was paid out to artists in sale fees and $30,000 was raised in direct support of the gallery’s programming and operations. This year, Gallery TPW hopes to raise $35,000 towards the support of its innovative programming and community building events. About Gallery TPW Gallery TPW is an artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation and critical investigation of contemporary lens and screen-based art. Gallery TPW operates an exceptional exhibition space located in the heart of Toronto’s West Queen West Art and Design District. The gallery’s programs address the vital role that images play in contemporary culture and explore the exchange between photography, new technologies and time-based media. Gallery TPW facilitates critical discourse through its exhibitions, screenings, live events, public discussions and commissioned critical writings. Dates December 2 - 10 Collectors Preview: Thursday, December 1st, 6 – 9 pm Opening Reception: Friday, December 2nd, 6 – 9 pm Sale continues: Saturday, December 3, Noon – 6 pm Tuesday December 6 – December 10, Noon – 6 pm Admission to PHOTORAMA is free. Follow us Online Gallery TPW will be blogging and tweeting during Photorama. We post staff picks, information about the artists, sales updates, images from the opening and more. Follow us at tpwphotorama.wordpress.com, on Twitter at twitter.com/GalleryTPW, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GalleryTPW.Toronto. Media Contact: Gary Hall, Executive Director 416-645-1066 / photorama@gallerytpw.ca Gallery TPW 56 Ossington Ave. Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7 gallerytpw.ca Gallery TPW would like to thank the sponsors of Photorama 2011: Circuit Gallery, BlogTO, NOW Magazine, Onestop Media, Magenta Foundation, Kronenbourg 1664, The Apartment, Union Restaurant, Diamond Wines and De Sousa Wine Cellars.

    Photorama turns 25: Gallery TPW’s 25th Annual Affordable Art Fundraiser begins December 2nd

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of Gallery TPW’s annual Photorama fundraising exhibition featuring over 70 artists exhibiting contemporary photography and lens-based work. Photorama has become one of the most successful seasonal art sales in the city, and this year’s selection will not disappoint. Photorama 2011 is open to the public from December 2 – December 10, 2011 with an exclusive Collectors Preview on December 1st, 6 – 9 pm.

    Photorama features work by some of Canada’s most accomplished artists and promising young photographers. With most works priced below $600, Photorama offers seasoned collectors and first-time buyers alike the opportunity to buy limited edition photographs and artwork. Each sale from Photorama directly assists with the operations and programming at Gallery TPW, while also supporting local artists and culture in Toronto.

    Highlights at Photorama 2011 include works by some of Canada’s most esteemed photographers such as Edward Burtynsky, Suzy Lake, Robyn Cumming, and a new piece by Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge. A complete list of participating Photorama artists is available online at gallerytpw.ca/photorama2011

    On Thursday, December 1st, 6 – 9 pm Gallery TPW invites Collector Members to attend an exclusive Collectors Preview of Photorama 2011. Collector Members are given first opportunity to purchase art works before Photorama opens to the public. Collector Memberships can be purchased online for $75 at gallerytpw.ca/membership or by contacting the gallery at 416.645.1066. Photorama opens to the public on Friday, December 2nd, 26, 6 – 9 pm with an opening reception.

    Photorama is Gallery TPW’s major annual fundraising event featuring artists selected by Gallery TPW’s Board of Directors. Photorama 2010 was the most successful year ever, with sales exceeding $57,000. Nearly $20,000 was paid out to artists in sale fees and $30,000 was raised in direct support of the gallery’s programming and operations. This year, Gallery TPW hopes to raise $35,000 towards the support of its innovative programming and community building events.

    About Gallery TPW

    Gallery TPW is an artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation and critical investigation of contemporary lens and screen-based art. Gallery TPW operates an exceptional exhibition space located in the heart of Toronto’s West Queen West Art and Design District. The gallery’s programs address the vital role that images play in contemporary culture and explore the exchange between photography, new technologies and time-based media. Gallery TPW facilitates critical discourse through its exhibitions, screenings, live events, public discussions and commissioned critical writings.

    Dates

    December 2 - 10

    Collectors Preview: Thursday, December 1st, 6 – 9 pm

    Opening Reception: Friday, December 2nd, 6 – 9 pm

    Sale continues: Saturday, December 3, Noon – 6 pm

    Tuesday December 6 – December 10, Noon – 6 pm

    Admission to PHOTORAMA is free.

    Follow us Online

    Gallery TPW will be blogging and tweeting during Photorama. We post staff picks, information about the artists, sales updates, images from the opening and more. Follow us at tpwphotorama.wordpress.com, on Twitter at twitter.com/GalleryTPW, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GalleryTPW.Toronto.

    Media Contact:

    Gary Hall, Executive Director

    416-645-1066 / photorama@gallerytpw.ca

    Gallery TPW

    56 Ossington Ave.

    Toronto, ON M6J 2Y7

    gallerytpw.ca

    Gallery TPW would like to thank the sponsors of Photorama 2011: Circuit Gallery, BlogTO, NOW Magazine, Onestop Media, Magenta Foundation, Kronenbourg 1664, The Apartment, Union Restaurant, Diamond Wines and De Sousa Wine Cellars.

    Art PR Wire

    Posted on Saturday November 12th 2011 at 11:29pm. Its tags are listed below.

    Art PR Wire

    Posted on Friday November 11th 2011 at 11:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

    Spotlight on “Question Bridge: Black Males,” Innovent’s Transmedia Partner at the Sundance Festival 2012Blessings come in threes. The artist-producers behind “Question Bridge: Black Males,” an immersive art installation turned educational transmedia project, are still spinning from the events at Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab in Utah. The Story Lab provides creative storytelling support to artists contributing to the emerging field of multi-layered, multi-formatted, immersive narratives. Question Bridge creators Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair couldn’t be more thankful for the honor of taking part in this inaugural Story Labs. But now they have another humbling blessing - Question Bridge is now on the roster of the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier exhibition line up for January 2012. Maybe blessings come in threes. Prior to being chosen to take part in Sundance’s Story Lab, Question Bridge, partnering with transmedia firm Innovent, has secured exhibit partners in Brooklyn and Oakland. The Question Bridge art installation is scheduled to open at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Oakland Museum also this January. “Talk about multiple entry and exposure points,” said Innovent CEO Antonio Kaplan. “We’ve always been developing transmedia strategies with the Question Bridge team on enriching the project’s outreach platforms - via online presence, mobile app, art installations, street teams, and as an educational curriculum. What a better way to kick off the transmedia campaign then at the Sundance film festival.”The New Frontier Story Lab is founded on the Sundance Institute Lab model, which offers intensive, residential retreat focused on creative support. These include daily keynotes, case-studies, group sessions, and the scenic, invigorating mountainous outdoors of Sundance Resort in Utah. “It was really amazing to be in the room with such legends of storytelling and masters of technology all figuring out how to tell a compelling story or create spaces for compelling stories to manifest in a transmedia world,” said Kamal Sinclair, collaborator and media lead for Question Bridge. “This must have been what it was like to be one of the early filmmakers experimenting with how to tell a story through ‘moving pictures,’ only we are dealing with smart phones, tablets, computers, interactive objects of all kinds and our audience isn’t sitting still in a theatre, they are constantly moving through multiple environments in real time. It is exciting to be part of a paradigm shift.” Creative Advisors for the New Frontier Story Lab includes, among many others, Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact), Richard Lagravenese (The Fisher King, Water for Elephants), Aaron Koblin (Johnny Cash Project, Google Data Arts Team), Wesley Strick (Cape Fear), David Gale (MTVX), Takaaki Okada (Condition ONE), Susan Bonds (42 Entertainment), Nick Fortugno (Playmatics), Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country), Noland Walker (Citizen King), and Lance Weiler (Pandemic, The WorkBook Project).“We’ve been completely inspired by the Sundance Lab and mentors,” said Kamal. “Nick Fortugo gave a brilliant presentation on storytelling in gaming. Susan Bonds is a guru of Alternate Reality games. Lance Weiler walked us through his massive thoughts on transmedia. We’d shout paragraphs on Twitter if we could. There’s so little space to convey all that warmth and gratitude.”Innovent’s co-founders have now partnered in several of Sundance’s transmedia firsts. Pandemic 1.0 (Sundance January 2011 selection), market the first time the lab supported a feature film / transmedia project. As for another first, Question Bridge took part in the first ever New Frontier Story Lab in Utah and will now set a precedent in cross-nation dialogue via art installations. Six artist teams and projects were chosen for the 2011 Sundance New Frontier Story Labs - “Follow Back,” “Kill Shakespeare,” “The Last Hijack,” “Rome,” “Question Bridge: Black Males,” and “18 Days in Egypt.” The last two have partnered with Innovent in pulling out a transmedia engagement plan - from sketches to actual implementations. “18 Days in Egypt” is a collaborative, crowd-sourced interactive documentary and worked with Innovent to design an interactive web portal that covers the last 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution. The project features thousands of videos, photos, emails, tweets supplied by eye witnesses and participants. 18 Days is also a recipient of the first-ever Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund, having been awarded a 100,000 USD grant. “We’re happy to work with such innovative teams,” said Innovent CCO Elise Baugh. “We seem to be drawn to projects that vehemently push the envelope. They dream up the twistedly engaging and the poignantly arresting.”“Question Bridge: Black Males” and “18 Days in Egypt” question the fabric of the status quo using new media alternatives, and in the process unweave them. Innovent is a transmedia company that takes on projects that aim for social change.
    Spotlight on “Question Bridge: Black Males,” Innovent’s Transmedia Partner at the Sundance Festival 2012Blessings come in threes. The artist-producers behind “Question Bridge: Black Males,” an immersive art installation turned educational transmedia project, are still spinning from the events at Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab in Utah. The Story Lab provides creative storytelling support to artists contributing to the emerging field of multi-layered, multi-formatted, immersive narratives. Question Bridge creators Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair couldn’t be more thankful for the honor of taking part in this inaugural Story Labs. But now they have another humbling blessing - Question Bridge is now on the roster of the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier exhibition line up for January 2012. Maybe blessings come in threes. Prior to being chosen to take part in Sundance’s Story Lab, Question Bridge, partnering with transmedia firm Innovent, has secured exhibit partners in Brooklyn and Oakland. The Question Bridge art installation is scheduled to open at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Oakland Museum also this January. “Talk about multiple entry and exposure points,” said Innovent CEO Antonio Kaplan. “We’ve always been developing transmedia strategies with the Question Bridge team on enriching the project’s outreach platforms - via online presence, mobile app, art installations, street teams, and as an educational curriculum. What a better way to kick off the transmedia campaign then at the Sundance film festival.”The New Frontier Story Lab is founded on the Sundance Institute Lab model, which offers intensive, residential retreat focused on creative support. These include daily keynotes, case-studies, group sessions, and the scenic, invigorating mountainous outdoors of Sundance Resort in Utah. “It was really amazing to be in the room with such legends of storytelling and masters of technology all figuring out how to tell a compelling story or create spaces for compelling stories to manifest in a transmedia world,” said Kamal Sinclair, collaborator and media lead for Question Bridge. “This must have been what it was like to be one of the early filmmakers experimenting with how to tell a story through ‘moving pictures,’ only we are dealing with smart phones, tablets, computers, interactive objects of all kinds and our audience isn’t sitting still in a theatre, they are constantly moving through multiple environments in real time. It is exciting to be part of a paradigm shift.” Creative Advisors for the New Frontier Story Lab includes, among many others, Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact), Richard Lagravenese (The Fisher King, Water for Elephants), Aaron Koblin (Johnny Cash Project, Google Data Arts Team), Wesley Strick (Cape Fear), David Gale (MTVX), Takaaki Okada (Condition ONE), Susan Bonds (42 Entertainment), Nick Fortugno (Playmatics), Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country), Noland Walker (Citizen King), and Lance Weiler (Pandemic, The WorkBook Project).“We’ve been completely inspired by the Sundance Lab and mentors,” said Kamal. “Nick Fortugo gave a brilliant presentation on storytelling in gaming. Susan Bonds is a guru of Alternate Reality games. Lance Weiler walked us through his massive thoughts on transmedia. We’d shout paragraphs on Twitter if we could. There’s so little space to convey all that warmth and gratitude.”Innovent’s co-founders have now partnered in several of Sundance’s transmedia firsts. Pandemic 1.0 (Sundance January 2011 selection), market the first time the lab supported a feature film / transmedia project. As for another first, Question Bridge took part in the first ever New Frontier Story Lab in Utah and will now set a precedent in cross-nation dialogue via art installations. Six artist teams and projects were chosen for the 2011 Sundance New Frontier Story Labs - “Follow Back,” “Kill Shakespeare,” “The Last Hijack,” “Rome,” “Question Bridge: Black Males,” and “18 Days in Egypt.” The last two have partnered with Innovent in pulling out a transmedia engagement plan - from sketches to actual implementations. “18 Days in Egypt” is a collaborative, crowd-sourced interactive documentary and worked with Innovent to design an interactive web portal that covers the last 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution. The project features thousands of videos, photos, emails, tweets supplied by eye witnesses and participants. 18 Days is also a recipient of the first-ever Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund, having been awarded a 100,000 USD grant. “We’re happy to work with such innovative teams,” said Innovent CCO Elise Baugh. “We seem to be drawn to projects that vehemently push the envelope. They dream up the twistedly engaging and the poignantly arresting.”“Question Bridge: Black Males” and “18 Days in Egypt” question the fabric of the status quo using new media alternatives, and in the process unweave them. Innovent is a transmedia company that takes on projects that aim for social change.

    Spotlight on “Question Bridge: Black Males,” Innovent’s Transmedia Partner at the Sundance Festival 2012

    Blessings come in threes. The artist-producers behind “Question Bridge: Black Males,” an immersive art installation turned educational transmedia project, are still spinning from the events at Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Story Lab in Utah. The Story Lab provides creative storytelling support to artists contributing to the emerging field of multi-layered, multi-formatted, immersive narratives. Question Bridge creators Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair couldn’t be more thankful for the honor of taking part in this inaugural Story Labs. But now they have another humbling blessing - Question Bridge is now on the roster of the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier exhibition line up for January 2012.

    Maybe blessings come in threes. Prior to being chosen to take part in Sundance’s Story Lab, Question Bridge, partnering with transmedia firm Innovent, has secured exhibit partners in Brooklyn and Oakland. The Question Bridge art installation is scheduled to open at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Oakland Museum also this January.

    “Talk about multiple entry and exposure points,” said Innovent CEO Antonio Kaplan. “We’ve always been developing transmedia strategies with the Question Bridge team on enriching the project’s outreach platforms - via online presence, mobile app, art installations, street teams, and as an educational curriculum. What a better way to kick off the transmedia campaign then at the Sundance film festival.”

    The New Frontier Story Lab is founded on the Sundance Institute Lab model, which offers intensive, residential retreat focused on creative support. These include daily keynotes, case-studies, group sessions, and the scenic, invigorating mountainous outdoors of Sundance Resort in Utah.

    “It was really amazing to be in the room with such legends of storytelling and masters of technology all figuring out how to tell a compelling story or create spaces for compelling stories to manifest in a transmedia world,” said Kamal Sinclair, collaborator and media lead for Question Bridge. “This must have been what it was like to be one of the early filmmakers experimenting with how to tell a story through ‘moving pictures,’ only we are dealing with smart phones, tablets, computers, interactive objects of all kinds and our audience isn’t sitting still in a theatre, they are constantly moving through multiple environments in real time. It is exciting to be part of a paradigm shift.”

    Creative Advisors for the New Frontier Story Lab includes, among many others, Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact), Richard Lagravenese (The Fisher King, Water for Elephants), Aaron Koblin (Johnny Cash Project, Google Data Arts Team), Wesley Strick (Cape Fear), David Gale (MTVX), Takaaki Okada (Condition ONE), Susan Bonds (42 Entertainment), Nick Fortugno (Playmatics), Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country), Noland Walker (Citizen King), and Lance Weiler (Pandemic, The WorkBook Project).

    “We’ve been completely inspired by the Sundance Lab and mentors,” said Kamal. “Nick Fortugo gave a brilliant presentation on storytelling in gaming. Susan Bonds is a guru of Alternate Reality games. Lance Weiler walked us through his massive thoughts on transmedia. We’d shout paragraphs on Twitter if we could. There’s so little space to convey all that warmth and gratitude.”

    Innovent’s co-founders have now partnered in several of Sundance’s transmedia firsts. Pandemic 1.0 (Sundance January 2011 selection), market the first time the lab supported a feature film / transmedia project. As for another first, Question Bridge took part in the first ever New Frontier Story Lab in Utah and will now set a precedent in cross-nation dialogue via art installations.

    Six artist teams and projects were chosen for the 2011 Sundance New Frontier Story Labs - “Follow Back,” “Kill Shakespeare,” “The Last Hijack,” “Rome,” “Question Bridge: Black Males,” and “18 Days in Egypt.” The last two have partnered with Innovent in pulling out a transmedia engagement plan - from sketches to actual implementations.

    “18 Days in Egypt” is a collaborative, crowd-sourced interactive documentary and worked with Innovent to design an interactive web portal that covers the last 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution. The project features thousands of videos, photos, emails, tweets supplied by eye witnesses and participants. 18 Days is also a recipient of the first-ever Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund, having been awarded a 100,000 USD grant.

    “We’re happy to work with such innovative teams,” said Innovent CCO Elise Baugh. “We seem to be drawn to projects that vehemently push the envelope. They dream up the twistedly engaging and the poignantly arresting.”

    “Question Bridge: Black Males” and “18 Days in Egypt” question the fabric of the status quo using new media alternatives, and in the process unweave them. Innovent is a transmedia company that takes on projects that aim for social change.

    Art PR Wire

    Posted on Tuesday October 25th 2011 at 08:20pm. Its tags are listed below.

    What happens when you deliver great art to an unsuspecting public? That is the focus of The Craigslist Project. A diverse collection of photographic work delivered through a series of postings on the social medium. View the ads, read actual responses, and discover how great images and alluring text can evoke unexpected emotions and reactions. ————————————Featuring the work of Samantha Allen.November 10th - 13th, 2011Reception: Thursday November 10th, 6 - 10 pmGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 - 7 pmSunday by appointment onlyArtscape Triangle Gallery38 Abell StreetToronto, ON3 blocks east of Dufferin Streetjust south off Queen St West across from the Drake HotelFor more information:416.889.1820samantha@getfreshphotos.com
    What happens when you deliver great art to an unsuspecting public? That is the focus of The Craigslist Project. A diverse collection of photographic work delivered through a series of postings on the social medium. View the ads, read actual responses, and discover how great images and alluring text can evoke unexpected emotions and reactions. ————————————Featuring the work of Samantha Allen.November 10th - 13th, 2011Reception: Thursday November 10th, 6 - 10 pmGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 - 7 pmSunday by appointment onlyArtscape Triangle Gallery38 Abell StreetToronto, ON3 blocks east of Dufferin Streetjust south off Queen St West across from the Drake HotelFor more information:416.889.1820samantha@getfreshphotos.com

    What happens when you deliver great art to an unsuspecting public? That is the focus of The Craigslist Project. A diverse collection of photographic work delivered through a series of postings on the social medium.

    View the ads, read actual responses, and discover how great images and alluring text can evoke unexpected emotions and reactions.

    ————————————
    Featuring the work of Samantha Allen.
    November 10th - 13th, 2011Reception: Thursday November 10th, 6 - 10 pmGallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 - 7 pmSunday by appointment only
    Artscape Triangle Gallery38 Abell StreetToronto, ON3 blocks east of Dufferin Street    just south off Queen St West across from the Drake Hotel
    For more information:416.889.1820samantha@getfreshphotos.com

    Art PR Wire

    Posted on Saturday October 22nd 2011 at 08:08pm. Its tags are listed below.

    Leanne Eisen: Scan November 1st –16th, 2011Opening Reception: Friday November 4th, 6-10pmPikto Gallery, 55 Mill Street, 59-103 Toronto. Scan, at Pikto Gallery marks Leanne Eisen’s first solo exhibition and foray into new media installation, with her new piece while (true). while (true), consisting of a scanner, a computer monitor and an flat screen television, will create a real-time animation that will be left running the duration of the two week long exhibition from November 1st -16th. With each progressive scan, the computer monitor will be updated, then re-scanned, creating a feedback loop. The television will play an animated loop created from the scanned frames. The animation will be updated in real-time as the loop repeats. The exhibition will also include Eisen’s series Scan, a series “exploring the aesthetic effects of movement and reflection in a digital technology that renders the material into data. The resulting works resemble ethereal landscapes, floating apparitions or maybe distant galaxies, however the pieces are more than merely finding shapes in the clouds, there is the presence of sheer volumes of space and distance, and the photographic feeling of capturing the image of something living and breathing. The images stimulate more questions than answers, with the viewer unable to come to any concrete conclusions about the works, leaving them in a sublime limbo.” (Zachary Eastwood-Bloom) Contribute to this project on Rockethub.
    Leanne Eisen: Scan November 1st –16th, 2011Opening Reception: Friday November 4th, 6-10pmPikto Gallery, 55 Mill Street, 59-103 Toronto. Scan, at Pikto Gallery marks Leanne Eisen’s first solo exhibition and foray into new media installation, with her new piece while (true). while (true), consisting of a scanner, a computer monitor and an flat screen television, will create a real-time animation that will be left running the duration of the two week long exhibition from November 1st -16th. With each progressive scan, the computer monitor will be updated, then re-scanned, creating a feedback loop. The television will play an animated loop created from the scanned frames. The animation will be updated in real-time as the loop repeats. The exhibition will also include Eisen’s series Scan, a series “exploring the aesthetic effects of movement and reflection in a digital technology that renders the material into data. The resulting works resemble ethereal landscapes, floating apparitions or maybe distant galaxies, however the pieces are more than merely finding shapes in the clouds, there is the presence of sheer volumes of space and distance, and the photographic feeling of capturing the image of something living and breathing. The images stimulate more questions than answers, with the viewer unable to come to any concrete conclusions about the works, leaving them in a sublime limbo.” (Zachary Eastwood-Bloom) Contribute to this project on Rockethub.

    Leanne Eisen: Scan

    November 1st –16th, 2011
    Opening Reception: Friday November 4th, 6-10pm
    Pikto Gallery, 55 Mill Street, 59-103 Toronto.

    Scan, at Pikto Gallery marks Leanne Eisen’s first solo exhibition and foray into new media installation, with her new piece while (true).
    while (true), consisting of a scanner, a computer monitor and an flat screen television, will create a real-time animation that will be left running the duration of the two week long exhibition from November 1st -16th. With each progressive scan, the computer monitor will be updated, then re-scanned, creating a feedback loop. The television will play an animated loop created from the scanned frames. The animation will be updated in real-time as the loop repeats.
    The exhibition will also include Eisen’s series Scan, a series “exploring the aesthetic effects of movement and reflection in a digital technology that renders the material into data. The resulting works resemble ethereal landscapes, floating apparitions or maybe distant galaxies, however the pieces are more than merely finding shapes in the clouds, there is the presence of sheer volumes of space and distance, and the photographic feeling of capturing the image of something living and breathing. The images stimulate more questions than answers, with the viewer unable to come to any concrete conclusions about the works, leaving them in a sublime limbo.” (Zachary Eastwood-Bloom)

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    Posted on Tuesday October 18th 2011 at 06:13pm. Its tags are listed below.

    Decisive Moments, Uncertain Times at Gallery TPWOctober 20 - November 19, 2011 Opening Reception:Thursday, October 20, 7-9 pm Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (ZA/UK), Paolo Canevari (IT), Ken Gonzales-Day (US), Jannicke Laker (NOR), John Moore (US) Decisive Moments, Uncertain Times is a proposal within an ongoing curatorial dialogue between Kim Simon, curator of Gallery TPW, and Jean-Paul Kelly, programmer of Trinity Square Video. The exhibition responds to Kelly’s challenge to consider the “decisive moment” in contemporary visual arts; for photography in a time of video. If the origins of the “decisive moment” in photography lay in a consideration of holistic narratives captured within a single image, …Uncertain Times revises this moment as the un-resolvable narrative. Fictional and truth-bound photographic and video works depict troubling figurative images whose narrative and historical context lay outside the frame of what is visible. …Uncertain Times wonders out loud if the contemporary “decisive moment” is embodied more by affect and the emotional implication of the viewer rather than authored narratives and documentary index. Works in the exhibition raise ethical questions about the relationship between formalism and politics, spectacle and engagement, and about image consumption and responsibility. Running concurrently to the exhibition at Gallery TPW is curator Jean-Paul Kelly’s proposal about the decisive moment, presented at Trinity Square Video: Decisive Moments, Somewhere Else, October 27 - December 9, 2011. www.trinitysquarevideo.com Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-5 pm Image credit:Ken Gonzales-Day, detail of The Wonder Gaze (St. James Park), 2006-present Media Contact:Kim SimonCurator Gallery TPW56 Ossington AvenueToronto, ON. M6J 2Y7p: 416.645.1066f: 416.645.1681w: www.gallerytpw.ca JOIN US ONLINE JOIN US ONLINE  

    Decisive Moments, Uncertain Times at Gallery TPW
    October 20 - November 19, 2011

    Opening Reception:
    Thursday, October 20, 7-9 pm

    Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (ZA/UK), Paolo Canevari (IT), Ken Gonzales-Day (US), Jannicke Laker (NOR), John Moore (US)

    Decisive Moments, Uncertain Times is a proposal within an ongoing curatorial dialogue between Kim Simon, curator of Gallery TPW, and Jean-Paul Kelly, programmer of Trinity Square Video. The exhibition responds to Kelly’s challenge to consider the “decisive moment” in contemporary visual arts; for photography in a time of video.

    If the origins of the “decisive moment” in photography lay in a consideration of holistic narratives captured within a single image, …Uncertain Times revises this moment as the un-resolvable narrative. Fictional and truth-bound photographic and video works depict troubling figurative images whose narrative and historical context lay outside the frame of what is visible. …Uncertain Times wonders out loud if the contemporary “decisive moment” is embodied more by affect and the emotional implication of the viewer rather than authored narratives and documentary index. Works in the exhibition raise ethical questions about the relationship between formalism and politics, spectacle and engagement, and about image consumption and responsibility.

    Running concurrently to the exhibition at Gallery TPW is curator Jean-Paul Kelly’s proposal about the decisive moment, presented at Trinity Square Video: Decisive Moments, Somewhere Else, October 27 - December 9, 2011. www.trinitysquarevideo.com

    Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12-5 pm

    Image credit:
    Ken Gonzales-Day, detail of The Wonder Gaze (St. James Park), 2006-present

    Media Contact:
    Kim Simon
    Curator

    Gallery TPW
    56 Ossington Avenue
    Toronto, ON. M6J 2Y7
    p: 416.645.1066
    f: 416.645.1681
    w: www.gallerytpw.ca


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    ART TORONTO 2011, CANADA’S ONLY MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, RETURNS TO TORONTO OCTOBER 28 TO 31 Toronto, September 12, 2011 — Collectors, curators and art enthusiasts will converge on Toronto at the end of October to experience the twelfth edition of Art Toronto - a four-day fair which showcases exhibits by 109 leading and emerging international galleries from 13 countries. Art Toronto 2011 runs from October 28 to 31, and features alternative spaces curated by The Drake Hotel, Canadian Art magazine, the Art Gallery of York University and the Art Dealers Association of Canada. Other highlights of the fair include solo exhibitions, installations and curated projects by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky, Chuck Close and many more. An Opening Night Preview to benefit the Art Gallery of Ontario will launch the fair on October 27. Media are invited to a special preview tour of the fair on October 27, before it opens to the public. “Art Toronto is more than a place to buy and sell art, it’s also about opportunity: opportunities for galleries to meet artists, fellow dealers and curators,” said Linel Rebenchuk, of Art Toronto.  “It also allows visitors to see the best of what the art world has to offer, and gives attendees the opportunity to learn and take part in forums, interviews, performances and panel discussions.” Special to Art Toronto 2011   Art Toronto 2011 Media Preview Tour – Thursday October 27th at 10am and Friday October 28th at 10am Join us for breakfast and be among the first to experience Art Toronto 2011, hear about the special programming and witness the unveiling of the BMW art car. This preview tour will feature the work of Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky and other hidden gems and exhibits you won’t want to miss. Please RSVP to tkuld@artscom.ca. Opening Night Preview On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, Art Toronto will host a celebratory launch of the fair and a benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario. At this special ticketed event, guests can preview and purchase works of art before the fair opens to the public, while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, and socializing with some of today’s leading artists whose work is featured at Art Toronto. Visit http://www.ago.net/art-toronto-2011 for details and to purchase tickets.   The Art Game - Commissioned Flagship Project by Kent Monkman Curated by Steven Loft, The Art Game is a life-size maze, constructed from booth walls identical to the Art Fair itself, which takes the audience through an art world “funhouse”. The meandering corridors are made more confusing with the use of double-sided mirrors, trick windows, and fake doors, forcing the audience into a challenging experience of disorientation and multiple choice – not unlike the real art world. Dispersed throughout the maze are four “dioramas”, in the form of four small rooms, each one presenting the four key players in the Art Game: artist, curator/museum director, gallerist, and collector. Art Toronto 2011 MOCCA Benefit Edition With the support of Art Toronto, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to announce Edward Burtynsky as the Art Toronto 2011 MOCCA Benefit Edition Artist. For more information go to www.mocca.ca or visit their booth during Art Toronto 2011. The BMW Art Car As the official vehicle of Art Toronto 2011, BMW Canada is proud to present iconic artist Andy Warhol’s 1979 Art Car – the BMW M1. Since 1975, artists from around the world have turned BMW automobiles into art, signifying a particular period through the Art Car program. The name Andy Warhol is the quintessence of pop art. He began his artistic career as a commercial artist and was successful in holding his own exhibitions in New York as early as 1952. BMW Canada is extremely proud to bring Warhol’s Art Car to Toronto as a means of sharing one of the company’s many cultural initiatives with Canadians. RBC Canadian Painting Competition Established in 1999, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition is a tribute to Canada’s artistic talent. The goal of the competition is to support and nurture emerging Canadian visual artists by providing them with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunities. Selected works from previous year’s semi-finalists are on exhibit at Art Toronto 2011 or see the paintings of all 15 semi-finalists by visiting www.rbc.com/paintingcompetition.   Curatorial Program Entitled Place, this initiative is curated by William Huffman and explores the notion of navigation as a unifying theme – ultimately moving people through the fair and activating existing elements with a four artist, intervention-based mechanisms. This initiative is a presentation partnership between Toronto Arts Foundation (TAF), Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) and Art Toronto.   Foodservices with Jon Sasaki: This commission initiative will be available exclusively through food services at Art Toronto. Sasaki will create artist multiples for take-away by altering cocktail napkins and paper plates in an effort to connect with the Art Toronto visitor and make unique, the banal consumables expected to be part of conventional hospitality service.   Mapping an Exhibition with William Huffman: This project is intended to highlight individual artworks already on display in the various booths by creating an exhibition that links the works physically and conceptually through route instructions. This component will be activated by a take-away map and instruction kit, which guides visitors through the fair occasionally highlighting works of particular interest at various gallery booths. Along with the map device, signage will identify the featured pieces and provide didactic or narrative information. The selection of works may change daily, thereby telling a different story and, incorporating as many galleries/artists as possible. Daily Lectures, Tours and Special Presentations Download the Art Toronto Show Guide at www.arttoronto.ca/show_guide/ for a complete list of daily programming.   Art Toronto 2011 could not happen without the support of our presenting sponsor, RBC Wealth Management, BMW – the Official Vehicle of Art Toronto, and AXA Art Insurance– the Official Art Insurer of Art Toronto.   About Art Toronto 2011 Join this gathering of some of the world’s best galleries and artists. Lectures and on-site events are free with admission tickets. General admission $18 (available online for $16); Groups/Students/Seniors $14; Four-day pass $44; Children under 10 are free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) North Building, 255 Front Street, 1-800-663-4173, www.arttoronto.ca, info@arttoronto.ca  Opening Night Preview will be held on Thursday October 27, 2011 - visit http://www.ago.net/art-toronto-2011 for details or call 416.979.6628 to purchase tickets.   To request media credentials for Art Toronto 2011 please visit http://www.arttoronto.ca/accred_form/   To RSVP for the media preview tour or for more information about Art Toronto, hi-res photos or to arrange an interview with one of our spokespeople, please contact: Talvi Kuld – Account Director Arts & Communications tkuld@artscom.ca (416) 966-3421 x 204
    ART TORONTO 2011, CANADA’S ONLY MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, RETURNS TO TORONTO OCTOBER 28 TO 31 Toronto, September 12, 2011 — Collectors, curators and art enthusiasts will converge on Toronto at the end of October to experience the twelfth edition of Art Toronto - a four-day fair which showcases exhibits by 109 leading and emerging international galleries from 13 countries. Art Toronto 2011 runs from October 28 to 31, and features alternative spaces curated by The Drake Hotel, Canadian Art magazine, the Art Gallery of York University and the Art Dealers Association of Canada. Other highlights of the fair include solo exhibitions, installations and curated projects by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky, Chuck Close and many more. An Opening Night Preview to benefit the Art Gallery of Ontario will launch the fair on October 27. Media are invited to a special preview tour of the fair on October 27, before it opens to the public. “Art Toronto is more than a place to buy and sell art, it’s also about opportunity: opportunities for galleries to meet artists, fellow dealers and curators,” said Linel Rebenchuk, of Art Toronto.  “It also allows visitors to see the best of what the art world has to offer, and gives attendees the opportunity to learn and take part in forums, interviews, performances and panel discussions.” Special to Art Toronto 2011   Art Toronto 2011 Media Preview Tour – Thursday October 27th at 10am and Friday October 28th at 10am Join us for breakfast and be among the first to experience Art Toronto 2011, hear about the special programming and witness the unveiling of the BMW art car. This preview tour will feature the work of Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky and other hidden gems and exhibits you won’t want to miss. Please RSVP to tkuld@artscom.ca. Opening Night Preview On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, Art Toronto will host a celebratory launch of the fair and a benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario. At this special ticketed event, guests can preview and purchase works of art before the fair opens to the public, while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, and socializing with some of today’s leading artists whose work is featured at Art Toronto. Visit http://www.ago.net/art-toronto-2011 for details and to purchase tickets.   The Art Game - Commissioned Flagship Project by Kent Monkman Curated by Steven Loft, The Art Game is a life-size maze, constructed from booth walls identical to the Art Fair itself, which takes the audience through an art world “funhouse”. The meandering corridors are made more confusing with the use of double-sided mirrors, trick windows, and fake doors, forcing the audience into a challenging experience of disorientation and multiple choice – not unlike the real art world. Dispersed throughout the maze are four “dioramas”, in the form of four small rooms, each one presenting the four key players in the Art Game: artist, curator/museum director, gallerist, and collector. Art Toronto 2011 MOCCA Benefit Edition With the support of Art Toronto, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to announce Edward Burtynsky as the Art Toronto 2011 MOCCA Benefit Edition Artist. For more information go to www.mocca.ca or visit their booth during Art Toronto 2011. The BMW Art Car As the official vehicle of Art Toronto 2011, BMW Canada is proud to present iconic artist Andy Warhol’s 1979 Art Car – the BMW M1. Since 1975, artists from around the world have turned BMW automobiles into art, signifying a particular period through the Art Car program. The name Andy Warhol is the quintessence of pop art. He began his artistic career as a commercial artist and was successful in holding his own exhibitions in New York as early as 1952. BMW Canada is extremely proud to bring Warhol’s Art Car to Toronto as a means of sharing one of the company’s many cultural initiatives with Canadians. RBC Canadian Painting Competition Established in 1999, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition is a tribute to Canada’s artistic talent. The goal of the competition is to support and nurture emerging Canadian visual artists by providing them with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunities. Selected works from previous year’s semi-finalists are on exhibit at Art Toronto 2011 or see the paintings of all 15 semi-finalists by visiting www.rbc.com/paintingcompetition.   Curatorial Program Entitled Place, this initiative is curated by William Huffman and explores the notion of navigation as a unifying theme – ultimately moving people through the fair and activating existing elements with a four artist, intervention-based mechanisms. This initiative is a presentation partnership between Toronto Arts Foundation (TAF), Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) and Art Toronto.   Foodservices with Jon Sasaki: This commission initiative will be available exclusively through food services at Art Toronto. Sasaki will create artist multiples for take-away by altering cocktail napkins and paper plates in an effort to connect with the Art Toronto visitor and make unique, the banal consumables expected to be part of conventional hospitality service.   Mapping an Exhibition with William Huffman: This project is intended to highlight individual artworks already on display in the various booths by creating an exhibition that links the works physically and conceptually through route instructions. This component will be activated by a take-away map and instruction kit, which guides visitors through the fair occasionally highlighting works of particular interest at various gallery booths. Along with the map device, signage will identify the featured pieces and provide didactic or narrative information. The selection of works may change daily, thereby telling a different story and, incorporating as many galleries/artists as possible. Daily Lectures, Tours and Special Presentations Download the Art Toronto Show Guide at www.arttoronto.ca/show_guide/ for a complete list of daily programming.   Art Toronto 2011 could not happen without the support of our presenting sponsor, RBC Wealth Management, BMW – the Official Vehicle of Art Toronto, and AXA Art Insurance– the Official Art Insurer of Art Toronto.   About Art Toronto 2011 Join this gathering of some of the world’s best galleries and artists. Lectures and on-site events are free with admission tickets. General admission $18 (available online for $16); Groups/Students/Seniors $14; Four-day pass $44; Children under 10 are free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) North Building, 255 Front Street, 1-800-663-4173, www.arttoronto.ca, info@arttoronto.ca  Opening Night Preview will be held on Thursday October 27, 2011 - visit http://www.ago.net/art-toronto-2011 for details or call 416.979.6628 to purchase tickets.   To request media credentials for Art Toronto 2011 please visit http://www.arttoronto.ca/accred_form/   To RSVP for the media preview tour or for more information about Art Toronto, hi-res photos or to arrange an interview with one of our spokespeople, please contact: Talvi Kuld – Account Director Arts & Communications tkuld@artscom.ca (416) 966-3421 x 204

    ART TORONTO 2011, CANADA’S ONLY MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY

    INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, RETURNS TO TORONTO OCTOBER 28 TO 31

    Toronto, September 12, 2011 — Collectors, curators and art enthusiasts will converge on Toronto at the end of October to experience the twelfth edition of Art Toronto - a four-day fair which showcases exhibits by 109 leading and emerging international galleries from 13 countries. Art Toronto 2011 runs from October 28 to 31, and features alternative spaces curated by The Drake Hotel, Canadian Art magazine, the Art Gallery of York University and the Art Dealers Association of Canada. Other highlights of the fair include solo exhibitions, installations and curated projects by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky, Chuck Close and many more. An Opening Night Preview to benefit the Art Gallery of Ontario will launch the fair on October 27. Media are invited to a special preview tour of the fair on October 27, before it opens to the public.

    “Art Toronto is more than a place to buy and sell art, it’s also about opportunity: opportunities for galleries to meet artists, fellow dealers and curators,” said Linel Rebenchuk, of Art Toronto.  “It also allows visitors to see the best of what the art world has to offer, and gives attendees the opportunity to learn and take part in forums, interviews, performances and panel discussions.”

    Special to Art Toronto 2011

     

    Art Toronto 2011 Media Preview Tour – Thursday October 27th at 10am and Friday October 28th at 10am

    Join us for breakfast and be among the first to experience Art Toronto 2011, hear about the special programming and witness the unveiling of the BMW art car. This preview tour will feature the work of Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky and other hidden gems and exhibits you won’t want to miss. Please RSVP to tkuld@artscom.ca.

    Opening Night Preview

    On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, Art Toronto will host a celebratory launch of the fair and a benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario. At this special ticketed event, guests can preview and purchase works of art before the fair opens to the public, while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, and socializing with some of today’s leading artists whose work is featured at Art Toronto. Visit http://www.ago.net/art-toronto-2011 for details and to purchase tickets.

     

    The Art Game - Commissioned Flagship Project by Kent Monkman

    Curated by Steven Loft, The Art Game is a life-size maze, constructed from booth walls identical to the Art Fair itself, which takes the audience through an art world “funhouse”. The meandering corridors are made more confusing with the use of double-sided mirrors, trick windows, and fake doors, forcing the audience into a challenging experience of disorientation and multiple choice – not unlike the real art world. Dispersed throughout the maze are four “dioramas”, in the form of four small rooms, each one presenting the four key players in the Art Game: artist, curator/museum director, gallerist, and collector.

    Art Toronto 2011 MOCCA Benefit Edition

    With the support of Art Toronto, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to announce Edward Burtynsky as the Art Toronto 2011 MOCCA Benefit Edition Artist. For more information go to www.mocca.ca or visit their booth during Art Toronto 2011.

    The BMW Art Car

    As the official vehicle of Art Toronto 2011, BMW Canada is proud to present iconic artist Andy Warhol’s 1979 Art Car – the BMW M1. Since 1975, artists from around the world have turned BMW automobiles into art, signifying a particular period through the Art Car program. The name Andy Warhol is the quintessence of pop art. He began his artistic career as a commercial artist and was successful in holding his own exhibitions in New York as early as 1952. BMW Canada is extremely proud to bring Warhol’s Art Car to Toronto as a means of sharing one of the company’s many cultural initiatives with Canadians.

    RBC Canadian Painting Competition

    Established in 1999, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition is a tribute to Canada’s artistic talent. The goal of the competition is to support and nurture emerging Canadian visual artists by providing them with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunities. Selected works from previous year’s semi-finalists are on exhibit at Art Toronto 2011 or see the paintings of all 15 semi-finalists by visiting www.rbc.com/paintingcompetition.

     

    Curatorial Program

    Entitled Place, this initiative is curated by William Huffman and explores the notion of navigation as a unifying theme – ultimately moving people through the fair and activating existing elements with a four artist, intervention-based mechanisms. This initiative is a presentation partnership between Toronto Arts Foundation (TAF), Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) and Art Toronto.

     

    Foodservices with Jon Sasaki: This commission initiative will be available exclusively through food services at Art Toronto. Sasaki will create artist multiples for take-away by altering cocktail napkins and paper plates in an effort to connect with the Art Toronto visitor and make unique, the banal consumables expected to be part of conventional hospitality service.

     

    Mapping an Exhibition with William Huffman: This project is intended to highlight individual artworks already on display in the various booths by creating an exhibition that links the works physically and conceptually through route instructions. This component will be activated by a take-away map and instruction kit, which guides visitors through the fair occasionally highlighting works of particular interest at various gallery booths. Along with the map device, signage will identify the featured pieces and provide didactic or narrative information. The selection of works may change daily, thereby telling a different story and, incorporating as many galleries/artists as possible.

    Daily Lectures, Tours and Special Presentations

    Download the Art Toronto Show Guide at www.arttoronto.ca/show_guide/ for a complete list of daily programming.

     

    Art Toronto 2011 could not happen without the support of our presenting sponsor, RBC Wealth Management, BMW – the Official Vehicle of Art Toronto, and AXA Art Insurance– the Official Art Insurer of Art Toronto.

     

    About Art Toronto 2011

    Join this gathering of some of the world’s best galleries and artists. Lectures and on-site events are free with admission tickets. General admission $18 (available online for $16); Groups/Students/Seniors $14; Four-day pass $44; Children under 10 are free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) North Building, 255 Front Street, 1-800-663-4173, www.arttoronto.ca, info@arttoronto.ca  Opening Night Preview will be held on Thursday October 27, 2011 - visit http://www.ago.net/art-toronto-2011 for details or call 416.979.6628 to purchase tickets.

     

    To request media credentials for Art Toronto 2011 please visit http://www.arttoronto.ca/accred_form/

     

    To RSVP for the media preview tour or for more information about Art Toronto, hi-res photos or to arrange an interview with one of our spokespeople, please contact:

    Talvi Kuld – Account Director

    Arts & Communications

    tkuld@artscom.ca

    (416) 966-3421 x 204

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    Posted on Saturday October 1st 2011 at 08:14am. Its tags are listed below.

    La Luz de Jesus Gallery celebrates 25-year anniversary with a monumental group show and companion book in Oct. - Nov. 2011   Billy Shire by Shawn Barber You are invited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of La Luz de Jesus Gallery Billy Shire has masterminded “La Luz de Jesus 25,” a monumental group show featuring more than 260 artists, each of whom have created a piece of art and written an essay about their experience with the gallery. In 25 years of groundbreaking exhibitions, this is La Luz’s first retrospective survey, featuring three generations of the most important artists working today. Never before have all these artists shown together in one exhibition. The book, a companion to the show, chronicles the rich legacy of La Luz de Jesus and the thriving art movements it helped launch. Opening events for the two-part group show “La Luz de Jesus 25” will occur during the weekends of October 7 and November 4, 2011. Specific information forthcoming. Participating in La Luz de Jesus 25 project is a who’s-who of art, including Robert Williams, Joe Coleman, Mark Ryden, Georganne Deen, Matt Groening, Manuel Ocampo, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Barminski, Daniel Martin Díaz, Glenn Barr, Elizabeth McGrath, Tony Fitzpatrick, Frank Kozik, Chris Mars, Massimo Giacon, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gary Panter, John de Fazio, Laurie Lipton, Ric Heitzman, Clayton Brothers, Dave Cooper, Judith Schaechter, Lou Beach, Calef Brown, Eric White, Shag, Tim Biskup, Gary Baseman and Sam Doyle. The companion book, La Luz de Jesus 25 (La Luz de Jesus Press/Last Gasp) features images of the complete show along with an essay written by each artist. The book also includes essays by Billy Shire and La Luz gallery directors, including Robert “El Vez” Lopez. Book pre-orders are being accepted now. Contact Soap Plant to reserve yours! Click here for the complete artist list and artist roster by month

    La Luz de Jesus Gallery celebrates 25-year anniversary with a monumental group show and companion book in Oct. - Nov. 2011


      Billy Shire by Shawn Barber

    You are invited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of La Luz de Jesus Gallery

    Billy Shire has masterminded “La Luz de Jesus 25,” a monumental group show featuring more than 260 artists, each of whom have created a piece of art and written an essay about their experience with the gallery. In 25 years of groundbreaking exhibitions, this is La Luz’s first retrospective survey, featuring three generations of the most important artists working today. Never before have all these artists shown together in one exhibition. The book, a companion to the show, chronicles the rich legacy of La Luz de Jesus and the thriving art movements it helped launch.

    Opening events for the two-part group show “La Luz de Jesus 25” will occur during the weekends of October 7 and November 4, 2011. Specific information forthcoming.

    Participating in La Luz de Jesus 25 project is a who’s-who of art, including Robert Williams, Joe Coleman, Mark Ryden, Georganne Deen, Matt Groening, Manuel Ocampo, S. Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Barminski, Daniel Martin Díaz, Glenn Barr, Elizabeth McGrath, Tony Fitzpatrick, Frank Kozik, Chris Mars, Massimo Giacon, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gary Panter, John de Fazio, Laurie Lipton, Ric Heitzman, Clayton Brothers, Dave Cooper, Judith Schaechter, Lou Beach, Calef Brown, Eric White, Shag, Tim Biskup, Gary Baseman and Sam Doyle. The companion book, La Luz de Jesus 25 (La Luz de Jesus Press/Last Gasp) features images of the complete show along with an essay written by each artist. The book also includes essays by Billy Shire and La Luz gallery directors, including Robert “El Vez” Lopez. Book pre-orders are being accepted now. Contact Soap Plant to reserve yours!

    Click here for the complete artist list and artist roster by month

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    EDITION29 THE MUSEUM FOR IPAD - ANISH KAPOOR, ZAHA HADID, JEAN NOUVELEDITION29 THE MUSEUM is an exciting new visual magazine for the Apple iPad platform. This highly collectible magazine is a visual diary of the art that surrounds and influences us, and the stories behind the people who create these marvels that fill museums and galleries. This magazine is like a new editorialized Catalog that is a must collect for any museum visitor, art enthusiast, and collector. Edited by Remi Carlioz, this first issue turns the spotlight on established artists such as Anish Kapoor, Sigalit Landau, Claude Lévêque and Michal Rovner, as well as younger figures like Mohamed Bourouissa. We also wanted to highlight some of the cream of recent and forthcoming architectural creations designed by some of the leading names in architecture, including, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Ron Arad and the architects responsible for the Serpentine Gallery’s 11 pavilions. With exclusive and never released tracks from Keren Ann and Joakim as the sound for the story on the LOUVRE ABU DHABI and as the soundtrack for the Issue.iTunes Link:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edition29-the-museum/id429072639?mt=8

    EDITION29 THE MUSEUM FOR IPAD - ANISH KAPOOR, ZAHA HADID, JEAN NOUVEL
    EDITION29 THE MUSEUM is an exciting new visual magazine for the Apple iPad platform. This highly collectible magazine is a visual diary of the art that surrounds and influences us, and the stories behind the people who create these marvels that fill museums and galleries. This magazine is like a new editorialized Catalog that is a must collect for any museum visitor, art enthusiast, and collector. 

    Edited by Remi Carlioz, this first issue turns the spotlight on established artists such as Anish Kapoor, Sigalit Landau, Claude Lévêque and Michal Rovner, as well as younger figures like Mohamed Bourouissa. We also wanted to highlight some of the cream of recent and forthcoming architectural creations designed by some of the leading names in architecture, including, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, Ron Arad and the architects responsible for the Serpentine Gallery’s 11 pavilions. With exclusive and never released tracks from Keren Ann and Joakim as the sound for the story on the LOUVRE ABU DHABI and as the soundtrack for the Issue.
    iTunes Link:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edition29-the-museum/id429072639?mt=8

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