Innis Town Hall
Ephemeral Towards Physical
Poster Exhibition
Curated by: Amanda Delorey
Venue: Innis Town Hall
Dates: May 29 - June 1
Reception: Friday May 30th 5:30 PM
The human eye compensates for variations in wavelength composition, permitting uniform perception of coloured objects under different forms of light; however, we can also understand subtle colour differences in light when reflected through transparent, curved, or oily surfaces. Since sight is closely linked to understandings of tangible matter - and we experience light primarily through vision - it is terminally difficult to appreciate light as a physical entity even though it undoubtedly is.
Exposing the imperceptible qualities of light presents a fascinating problem. The physicality of light is felt, even though it is not always visible. Light exists as a multi-sensory phenomenon, with highly elastic effects on our perceptions of architectural and aural spaces alike. When we move beyond the eye - from micro to macro visualization - we can actually see much more, and realize light as a physical entity. Stereopsis, the method by which our eyes interpret and record depth and thus solidity, prevents us from deciphering light as three-dimensional. The technology apparatus has the ability to look at light without the human eye’s proclivity towards perspectival and occlusive interference.
Collaborative and contextual functions between light and the media that can be used to represent it allows for a dynamic exploration of its complexity. The artists featured in this exhibit present multiple ways of interpreting, capturing, recording, and using the experiential and physical nature of light. Using various technologies to transform the invisible into visible, the intangible into material, and the inconceivable into reality, these representations provoke and shatter our previous conceptions of what light can be.
Paintings
James McArdle
School of Visual Arts and Design La Trobe University
website
Solar Drawings
Andrew Dodds
website
Other Lights - Poetic Interventions in Machinic Performance
Harry Smoak
Topological Media Lab (Concordia University)
website
Energie!
Thorsten Fleisch
website
inter.ferences
Martha Gabriel
Unicentro Belas Artes de São Paulo
website
Solargrafica
Andreas Zingerle
Interface Culture Dep., University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria
website
Making Audible the Music of ‘Photosynthesis’
Lorraine Berry
Environmental Change Network
website
Lo-Fi
Nell Tenhaaf
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University
website
Untitled (The Allegory)
Mahan Javadi
website
Light and Colour in Space/Form/Time
Doreen Balbanoff
Ontario College of Art & Design
website
Curator Biography
Amanda Delorey is a Toronto-based independent writer and curator. She is a graduate from the Ontario College of Art and Design’s Fine Arts program in Criticism and Curatorial Practice. Her current work explores the boundaries between performativity and objectivity, contemporary and conceptual architectural spaces, and visual culture.