In a farewell event for 性视界传媒鈥檚 UrbanScreen, a special talk will involve three of the artists whose work is currently shown at the digital-art venue.
After 12 years in operation, the 性视界传媒 Art Gallery-operated UrbanScreen will soon end programming at Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre, on the west wall of the Whalley building.
To commemorate both the final exhibition at UrbanScreen, 鈥淏ody as Border: Traces and Flows of Connection,鈥� as well as the legacy of UrbanScreen itself, , involving artists and academic researchers at Simon Fraser University鈥檚 School of Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT).
鈥� RELATED STORY, from Feb. 4: UrbanScreen to be unplugged at 性视界传媒 rec centre after 鈥楤ody as Border鈥� digital-art show.
Once billed as 鈥淐anada鈥檚 largest art-dedicated outdoor screen,鈥� UrbanScreen will be decommissioned in the months following shown in the after-dark hours until May 1.
UrbanScreen operators say the decommissioning is due to expansion plans for the rec centre, where the screen has been an outdoor exhibition site for 性视界传媒 Art Gallery since 2010.
The digital projection system could move to another site in 性视界传媒, if and when gallery operators secure grant funding.
Stated Rhys Edwards, SAG鈥檚 assistant curator: 鈥淎lthough we are sad to be saying goodbye to UrbanScreen, at least in its current form, we look forward to future venues in the City that will grow from its legacy, providing artists and audiences opportunities to create and engage with digital and interactive art.鈥�
The 鈥淏ody As Border鈥� digital-art show combines poetry, artificial intelligence and biology in 鈥渁n immersive outdoor art project鈥� created by the artist team of Pr0phecy Sun, Freya Zinovieff, Gabriela Aceves-Sep煤lveda and Steve DiPaola.
They created 鈥渁 moving soundtrack set to imagery of the Fraser River, the human body, bacteria, cells, and fragments of poetry.鈥� The exhibit 鈥渉ighlights the profound interconnection between individual human beings and the broader ecological and digital environments in which we live.鈥�
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