EXHIBITION: Propeller Annual curated Show -
curated by David Rokeby

November 22 - December 3, 2006
"Drawings: Diagrams: Models"


Opening Reception:

Thursday, November 23, 6 - 9 pm

 

    
 

Blueprints:Diagrams:Models
 
David Rokeby, Curator
 
 
  A key focus of cultural discourse in the West
 
has lately been our evolving relationship
 
with technology and digital tools – and
   
yet drawing persists, even if only as a
    supplement to the process, or as preparatory investigation.

Blueprints:Diagrams:Models shows artists whose work with electronics, emerging digital and communication tools, programming, broader interventionist strategies, or automation/engineering, is informed by fundamental, traditional activities of art-making. Though contemporary artists preoccupied with technological production generally explore extra-traditional forms and environments in their practices, there remains an engagement with drawing – that is, the complexities of production are still developed through drawing, just as it supports the work of the architect or musician.

Focusing on visualizing processes which are germane to the work of art, while not part of the final experience, the exhibition presents low-tech, original, prototypal and primary source material that speaks as a supplement and extension of an artist’s larger explorations of technical media and processes.

David Rokeby is a sound and video installation artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has been creating interactive installations since 1982. He has focused on interactive pieces that directly engage the human body, or that involve artificial perception systems. His work has been performed / exhibited in shows across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.