May 17th, 8 -10 PM 
Innis Town Hall 
University of Toronto Campus
2 Sussex Avenue 
Toronto, Ontario 
(corner of St. George & Sussex)

Programme I:  8PM -9PM 

Artists' Video Screenings

Ra
by Tasman Richardson, 00:24, 1999, Canada
Ra: infatuation with solar might. The Japanese flag reanimated by the spectacle of the sun as viewed by inhuman eyes. The sun displayed in detail that the human eye cannot hope to look in on.

Réaction 26
by Charles Binamé, 4:00, 1971, Canada
Using electronic feedback, recognized film and video artist Charles BinamŽÕs RŽaction 26 is a crazy roller-coaster ride of images circling, bypassing and being super-imposed upon one another as they dance about the screen. Fascinating to the eye, the images resemble abstract geometric forms. Bursting and streaming images on the screen are supported with an extremely emotive soundtrack made by Michel Hinton.

Aquaeolian Whirlpool
by Gordon Mohanan, 5:00, 1990, Canada/Germany
Aquaeolian Whirlpool is a video documenting multi-media artist Gordon MonahanÕs installation of the same name. A ten-foot high vortex of water is pumped around one hundred-foot long piano wire that rises vertically to a suspended soundboard and amplifying system. The swirling vortex, which looks like a tornado, generates intense aquaeolian tones in the piano wires. This piece demonstrates that liquid can substitute for air as a medium for the generation and transmission of musical sound.

Perpetuum Mobile II
by Michael Bielicky, 4:00, 1990, Czech Republic
Perpetuum Mobile II is Prague artist Michael Bielicky's exploration of continual motion, representing the manifestation of permanent movement as an elemental condition of nature and human beings.

Hierarchy
by Christine Gorbach and Gary Lee Nelson, 12:00, 2000, USA
This is the first collaboration between painter/video artist Christine Gorbach and composer Gary Lee Nelson. The title and impetus for this piece come from Gorbach's 'Hierarchy', a matrix of sixteen small paintings selected and cut from a much larger canvas. Both artists have been concerned with layers of structure, ambiguities of meaning and the joy of chance. Now they meet in a new exploration of the relationships between sound and image.

Off and On 
by Michael Gitlin, 7:30, 1998, Canada
Documenting a double performance, the close up activity of hands painting and long action shot of a figure entering, dressing and leaving a space, Off and On addresses itself to issues of scale, figure and ground, surface and depth. Through its digital intervention in the two actions, playing forward and in reverse, video artist Michael Gitlin is able to investigate the emotional resonance of order, duration and repetition.

Extendris
by Esther Valiquette, 10:10, 1993, Canada
Constructed as a contemporary psalm, this experimental video reflects on the origins of life and the vast archival content of DNA. Extendris revolves around the ideas of Richard Dawkins (The Blind Watchmaker, 1987), according to whom, human beings, as well as all living organisms, are the temporary receptacles of the DNA code. We serve the DNA and not the reverse. Esther Valiquette died of AIDS in 1994 and is well remembered for her contributions to the Canadian film and video arts community.

Germ
by Tasman Richardson, 2:15, 1999, Canada
Germ: illustrating the microcosm in a macrocosmic way. Permutations into dense space layer upon layer.

A-Light
by Yan Breuleux and Alain Thibault, 4:30, 1997, Canada
Multi-media artist Yan BreuleuxÕs and electronic music composer Alain ThibaultÕs A-Light is a video/music project that explores experimental light and electronic sound effects in an extreme impact context. The function of the video is to project an image that is at the same time a form of movement and a form of light. The rhythm and the musical forms are the guidelines and parameters of time, from the micro to the macro structure.

Womb
by Tasman Richardson, 1:37, 1999, Canada
Womb: dense red space gradually unveiling cell dividing, the expression of horror, digital conception accompan by a piercing shrieking tone.

Remotely in Touch
by Laiwan, 13:30, 1998, Canada
Starting with a re-investigation of the five elements: earth, fire, water, air and love, Remotely in Touch explores how digital, visual and informational processes alter the way we perceive the world, the way we perceive ourselves, and the act of perception in general. Laiwan is a Vancouver based artist and writer recognized for her interdisciplinary practice based in poetics and philosophy.

Personal Human
by Tom Sherman, 4:30, 1999, Canada
Personal Human, by artist and theorist Tom Sherman, is a video contextualization of the lead track from Sherman's "Personal Human" audio CD. Set to this musical collaboration between Sherman and Montreal based composer Jean Piche, Personal Human portrays a person who aspires to be a machine - one who finds it confusing to contemplate his animal nature.

Programme II: 9PM -10PM 
Artist Presentations,  Moderated Discussion  and Performance 

Eric Rosenzveig, The Appearance Machine

Andrea Polli, Inside the Mask