People doing strange things with electricity (Toronto Franchise)
Dave Kemp - "Image Matter"
Dan Zen - Zen Mix
Matt Mazur - Elftrance and Buddhatron
Image Matter is a photo-based art project produced through collaboration between Dave Kemp and Dr. Kevin Robbie at Queen’s University (Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials – Materials Physics Group).
The project makes use of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to image a variety of photographic materials edge-on. By displaying the edge view (thickness) of the photographic material on a very large scale, the physicality of the photograph is emphasized and all trace of the image contained within the photograph is eliminated. The only reference to the image content is through the use of captions and associated text. By removing the image, the viewer is left to consider the photograph on new grounds, as both a photographic object and a photographic image and to establish where different forms of value attributed to photographs actually exist.
Thanks to the support of the Project Open Source Open Access initiative at the University of Toronto, an online, digital version of this project will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Releasing the artwork in this manner will result in wider distribution and a much larger audience than could be achieved through a physical gallery exhibition. It will allow individuals to download, print and thus own a copy of the artwork (at not cost to the creators of the artwork) and allows for the images to be used as building blocks by other artists. Ideally, this project may help to set a precedent for other artists to release work in a similar fashion.
Dave Kemp is a Toronto-based visual artist currently working towards his Master of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. He is also the first Visual Studies candidate to be accepted into the Knowledge Media Design collaborative program. Prior to his studies at the University of Toronto, he earned his Image Arts (photography) BFA from Ryerson University after completing a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University.
Mad inventor Dan Zen, discusses Zen Mix - the number one vlogging tool listed on Google that lets you put Web video on a Web picture and apply cool effects to it in just a few minutes for free!
Matt Mazur - Elftrance.com
Matt will be showcasing several of his digital creations - full-spectrum
multimedia projects full of animation, music, multiuser programming. and
monkeys.
Elftrance.com is a unique website full of Flash animation and philosophy,
with the intent to encourage creative perspectives in human evolution and to
create a positive mythology for our global future.
Buddhatron.com is a work-in-progress site exploring multiuser interaction
via Flash Unity 2 multiuser server technology. The project is developing
online community in a graphical, avatar-based environment. Bring your laptop
for a live tour of the beta version.
These websites will be presented along with an exciting VJ video show, with
sound and photons that are sure to delight.
Matt has been an Internet multimedia developer for 6 years. He is a UofT
Computer Science graduate, and has an Interactive Multimedia diploma from
Sheridan College. For the past year he has been developing live visual shows
as a VJ at clubs & festivals in Toronto and abroad.
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