Tuesday
Jun012010
Meta - Art Show
www.metaart.caMeta was a Ryerson University, 4th year New Media show. It was located at the Burroughs Building, 639 Queen St West, Toronto in 2009. Four of the New BEAT artists took part in Meta - from displaying work to branding the image.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
We, the artists of our generation, will take the knowledge that has been given to us in full stride. We want to use it, and make a change. Our works, ideas and attitudes are going to challenge society's prevailing structures, values and obsessions. We are moving toward the horizon and the revolutions of the wheels beneath our feet are spinning fast.
Our journey has allowed us to grasp the world of art through the eyes of our friends, our family, our professors, and the technologies of our newly digital world. Now, we twist and mold our ideas with an elasticity unknown to any other era in history. Instead of building edifices and institutions, we seek out opportunities—for innovation, transformation, creation, and change.
Through an exploration of ideas concerning the environment, the economy, family, scientific matter and even love, we have created stepping-stones into the future of art. We have changed the media, charged it with interactivity, and balanced innovation with the notion of conceptual beauty and artistic vision.
We will exploit the detriment of pollution, attempt to rearrange our cityscapes, shape family albums, challenge our notions of value, search for what matters, and move mountains. We will look for love in the city, watch enchanted scenes come to life, connect to music's fluidity, get up close and personal with the giants in the sky and experience the world through someone else's eyes. We will dance and play with a new take on an old interface, and experience the solitude that surrounds the defenseless player in this new age. We will remind ourselves of the limits of our own individual perspective, while expanding all of our minds through this kaleidoscope of concepts.
Experiencing META will give audience members a new vantage point, above and beyond their usual thinking patterns. It will change the familiar ‘look, don’t touch’ habits of art appreciation. Interaction lies at the core of these artworks and audience participation is needed to complete them. Our information becomes your knowledge.
META leaves the campus and branches out into the city. It mixes old with new, utilizing the renovated factory known as The Burroughs Building to highlight both local history and the possibilities of the future. The pieces created by the artists of the graduating class of Ryerson University's New Media program will jump from the woodwork, transforming the historical building into an innovative play-space of interactive technologies. A glimpse into the future will be possible; a leap into new thinking will be mandatory; an exploration of the inventive and imaginative experiences will be available to all who embrace this revolutionary moment.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
We, the artists of our generation, will take the knowledge that has been given to us in full stride. We want to use it, and make a change. Our works, ideas and attitudes are going to challenge society's prevailing structures, values and obsessions. We are moving toward the horizon and the revolutions of the wheels beneath our feet are spinning fast.
Our journey has allowed us to grasp the world of art through the eyes of our friends, our family, our professors, and the technologies of our newly digital world. Now, we twist and mold our ideas with an elasticity unknown to any other era in history. Instead of building edifices and institutions, we seek out opportunities—for innovation, transformation, creation, and change.
Through an exploration of ideas concerning the environment, the economy, family, scientific matter and even love, we have created stepping-stones into the future of art. We have changed the media, charged it with interactivity, and balanced innovation with the notion of conceptual beauty and artistic vision.
We will exploit the detriment of pollution, attempt to rearrange our cityscapes, shape family albums, challenge our notions of value, search for what matters, and move mountains. We will look for love in the city, watch enchanted scenes come to life, connect to music's fluidity, get up close and personal with the giants in the sky and experience the world through someone else's eyes. We will dance and play with a new take on an old interface, and experience the solitude that surrounds the defenseless player in this new age. We will remind ourselves of the limits of our own individual perspective, while expanding all of our minds through this kaleidoscope of concepts.
Experiencing META will give audience members a new vantage point, above and beyond their usual thinking patterns. It will change the familiar ‘look, don’t touch’ habits of art appreciation. Interaction lies at the core of these artworks and audience participation is needed to complete them. Our information becomes your knowledge.
META leaves the campus and branches out into the city. It mixes old with new, utilizing the renovated factory known as The Burroughs Building to highlight both local history and the possibilities of the future. The pieces created by the artists of the graduating class of Ryerson University's New Media program will jump from the woodwork, transforming the historical building into an innovative play-space of interactive technologies. A glimpse into the future will be possible; a leap into new thinking will be mandatory; an exploration of the inventive and imaginative experiences will be available to all who embrace this revolutionary moment.
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