Check out David McGinn's Where art and cinema meet: on the wall, all over town in the weekend Globe and Mail. McGinn overviews the idea behind all seven, including the gallery's "up-and-comer" Samuel Chow, of the Toronto International Film Festival's program linking film and the visual arts in its Future Projections program.
McGinn quotes Noah Cowan, Artistic Director of the (soon to be) new home of TIFF and co-curator of the Future Projections program with Laurel MacMillan:
"We've focused really strongly on what you might call a subset of media art which relates to the culture and legacy of film," he says. "Film began as spectacle," says Mr. Cowan. "It began as this weird, wild, overwhelming phenomenon at the end of the Industrial Revolution.
"And I think the visual artists we're featuring this year really capture that spirit.
"Our first priority is to ensure that Future Projections speaks to the diversity of art-going experiences in Toronto. So we work with what I call the leading public institutions in the city around art and culture, plus what we consider to be the more intelligent private galleries," says Mr. Cowan.
Note that the article references Chow's I'm Feeling Lucky exhibition as a "mash-up of online videos." The use of 'found' video is only part of the transformations that Chow engages in with his work. He also includes found photographs and audio, but just as importantly artistic renderings and transformations of the raw material of Internet surfingf experience through what can best be called new-media painting.
I'm Feeling Lucky opens 6-9 PM this coming Wednesday, September 3, at the gallery (all welcome).
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