YZO Blog
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02.01.2013
Subtle Technologies 2013: Call for Submissions
The folks at Subtle Technologies are looking for submissions that will live forever for their 2013 festival which explores the art and science of immortality: “Our 2013 festival takes place on June 8th and 9th at various venues throughout Toronto. In 2013 we will be exploring the theme of Immortality. Through history, concepts of immortality [...]
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12.24.2012
Season’s Greetings
Season’s Greetings from all of us at YZO! Om Shanti كل عام وأنتم بخير – Arabic Chinese (Cantonese) – 祝聖誕節快樂 Chinese (Mandarin) – 祝圣诞节快乐 Danish – Glædelig Jul og Godt Nytår Dutch – Prettige feestdagen Fijian – Bula Vinaka Finnish – Hyvää Joulua ja Onnellista Uutta Vuotta French – Joyeuses fêtes German – Frohe Feiertage! [...]
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10.22.2012
signal_ networked art symposium
SIGNAL (30 October-2 November 2012) brings together an internationally renowned group of artists, theorists, critics and curators to discuss the past, present and future of creative practice that employs network technologies. This symposium comes at a time when wireless technology spreads imagery and data like wildfire…the economy of networked devices is booming…regulatory bodies and [...]
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10.19.2012
SPLICE: At the Intersection of Art and Medicine
Blackwood Gallery 24 October – 1 December 2012 Opening Reception: Wednesday 24 October 2012, 5 – 9pm Performance: Khadija Baker, My little voice can’t lie, 6pm A FREE shuttle departs from OCAD at 5pm and returns for 8pm to Mercer Union (1286 Bloor W., Toronto) for the start of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance [...]
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12.20.2011
fontaine :: Anonymous Art in the Hive Mind
December 20, 2011 – February 11, 2012 curated by Moritz Gaede Galerie ZK fontaine is a curatorial project born from a Facebook conversation, Galerie ZK presents a selection of anonymous artwork shared through the social networks in the fall of 2011. A revelation is blossoming in the hive mind, in the seepage and sharing of [...]
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10.26.2011
sorrybot – KD Thornton
sorrybot Mcluhan assigned responsibility to the medium, the means of transmission of content. In Sorrybot, the medium is anthropomorphized… and the medium is sorry. The message is an apology. One for every person on earth. Sorrybot is sorry. Bio K.D. Thornton works with technologies: mechanical, electronic, biological and any others she might find interesting. Generally, [...]
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10.26.2011
Social Media Drawings – Donna Szoke
Please upgrade your browser As an artist, ‘updating my status’ isn’t a way to socialize that I find compelling: as a tool, facebook seems to normalize the isolating effects of consumer technology. I thought about the primarily haptic processes of the social experience in my studio: drawing or sculpting a friend, looking at an image [...]
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10.26.2011
Carnal Fury – Rafaël Rozendaal
Carnal Fury Carnal Fury is one of my websites. I make a lot of websites, and in each piece I try to research something. I don’t know if I should state the obvious, I guess I will. This piece is a vector shape that subtly distorts, like water floating in outer space. The user can [...]
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10.26.2011
The MOUCHETTE fanshop
The MOUCHETTE fanshop Is celebrity a message or is it a medium? For more than 15 years Mouchette has managed to maintain her celebrity status. Much longer than the 15 minutes of fame predicted by Andy Warhol, Mouchette does not only owe her fame to her fans, but she shares it with them in so [...]
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10.25.2011
McLu-uhms – Jhave
McLu-uhms McLu-uhms occur whenever someone is confronted by a theorist they should have thoroughly read, but know only thru aphorisms. I first read McLu-uhm when I was 14 because there was a photo of a naked cellist (wrapped intransparent plastic) on page 96 in the Medium is the Massage. There is a libidinal contradiction underlying [...]