Jenn E Norton

International Film Festival Rotterdam

2012-02-09T14:33:00.003-05:00

Wee Requiem, single channel video, still, Jenn E Norton, 2010

Wee Requiem was included in the 2012 International Rotterdam Film Festival.

"DINAMO (Distribution Network of Artists’ Moving image Organizations) is a network of independent distributors of video art and experimental film from the USA, Canada and Europe. The IFFR presents four Press & Industry programme slots in which 12 of the DINAMO distributors will show recently acquired work. These titles can also be seen in the festival video library."

NO PLACE: Trinity Square Video and Pleasure Dome

2012-01-12T21:21:00.002-05:00

I will be showing a new body of work in a solo exhibition at Trinity Square Video Gallery this March (2012) in Toronto, Canada. The show is presented in partnership with Pleasure Dome and Trinity Square Video.

Comprised of photography, 3D animation and video, this new body of work is a playful indictment of realty consumerism through fantastical composites of delicate architecture integrated and in conflict with geological structures.

This image used for Pleasure Dome's Winter 2012 poster, is a sneak peak of a photo within the series included in the exhibition. For a full listing of Pleasure Dome's Winter Programme please follow this link.

SUPERMARKET

2012-01-06T12:24:00.000-05:00

This February Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins, Stan Krzyzanowski and I will be featured artists of Ed Video Media Arts Centre at the Stockholm Independent Art Fair, SUPERMARKET.

"SUPERMARKET has been arranged since 2007 by a small group most of whom are artists themselves. Supermarket is a development of Minimarket, which was held at Konstnärshuset in February 2006 in reaction to the new commercial art fair Market.

Initiated and organised by artists, this project has rapidly evolved from a modest group of local initiatives to a full-fledged international art exhibition that has made its mark and helped firmly establish Stockholm on the art world map.

SUPERMARKET started in small scale as MINIMARKET in 2006 in an art nouveau palace, the following year it became SUPERMARKET, with international presence in the same site, 2008 it moved to a run-down industrial space, then to a newly built first-class designer hotel (Clarion Hotel Stockholm) and 2010 to the very heart of Stockholm - Kulturhuset (House of Culture)."

Rendezvous with Madness: Artist Talk, Screening, Panel Discussion

2011-11-06T09:07:00.002-05:00

Rendezvous with Madness has invited me to speak at this year's festival. I will give an artist talk tonight at 7pm at the Workman Theatre. This precedes a screening "Wee Requiems" at 8pm and I will also be participating in a panel discussion afterwards. Here are the details.

Mirador, 2010, Detail, Still From 2 Channel Video Installation

"Please join us for two events at Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival (651 Dufferin Street) on Sunday November 6. At 7pm there will be an Illustrated Artist Talk by Jenn E Norton, to be followed with a program of experimental video curated by Deirdre Logue and Erik Martinson titled Wee Requiems at 8pm (title list below).

7pm
Artist Talk by Jenn E Norton:

The imaginative work of Jenn E Norton is not quite a surrealist dreamscape, but an actively dreamed scape, a place built with architecture of wonder and rumination. Ordinary objects and activities become strange through the bending of their longstanding expectations, often achieved through disjunctive content realistically glued together with composite editing. This uncanniness constructed through digital intervention invites new approaches and consideration to the familiar. Her cast may be her cats, inanimate objects or multiple versions of herself in situations that derive from her immediate experience, yet the formal considerations allude to greater ontological questions.

Jenn will discuss how working intimately with the technology used in the production of her practice in a DIY capacity marries intuitive and formal approaches to her creative process. Working in near isolation, honing her technical skill as an editor, animator, compositor and sound designer via online tutorials and trial and error, Jenn creates moving images outside of a rubric of traditional cinematic roles of director and producer.

Norton will also discuss the melancholy present beneath the visual glitter. Curator and artist Ufuk Gueray recalled a quote by Francis Bacon in an essay to describe Nortonʼs work, “Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.” There is no overt violence in Nortonʼs practice, but darkness lurks beneath the glittery surface [...].

8pm
Wee Requiems
Curated by Deirdre Logue and Erik Martinson:

Wee Requiems is a program of short experimental videos in lament. Mourning for the increasingly complex worlds of animals, plants and people, these works wander in and around both the real and alien, animated, mutated, recorded and illustrated. Fables of savagery and shame, death in the everyday, dilapidated interiors and microscopic utopias sit side by each, calling out for our sympathy, asking for our forgiveness, needing our attention.

Program:

How to Care for Introverts, Leslie Supnet, 2010, 1:48

An animated instructional video on how one should deal with people whose personalities are characterized by extreme shyness and reserve.

Exercises in Faith: Bird, Julieta Maria, 2010, 1:52

“Bird is a close up of my hand holding a canary, while it moves, trying to free itself from the grip…The video reflects on fragility, beauty and violence, questioning the limits of our ethical relationship to one another and to the world.” - Julieta Maria

Wee Requiem, Jenn E Norton, 2010, 7:03

Through recontextualized imagery, video can provide its viewer with the opportunity to remember an event differently. Wee Requiem explores the ability of the mediated moving image to articulate a propositional reality, or prosthetic memory. For seven minutes we observe a “wee requiem” for the passing of a fallen nuisance—a pest—who has been recast as a beloved protagonist.

Beauty Plus Pity, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, 2009, 14:19

The contemporary fables of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. In their richly textured videos, Duke and Battersby employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian worldview. Beauty Plus Pity is presented in seven parts, the video considers the potential for goodness amidst the troubled relations between God, humanity, animals, parents and children.

The Fire Theft, Isabelle Hayeur, 2010, 9:00

This video explores the themes of dispossession and repression. It was produced using sequences broadcast on the Web and scenes filmed in an abandoned house. It includes shots of the Olympic flame relay (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics) and the Keith Sadler Foreclosure Resistance. The degraded video signal mirrors the difficult social conditions evoked in the work, especially in the shots of dilapidated interiors. The Fire Theft reminds us that major sports events benefit a handful of corporations, and often are used as a pretext for real estate speculation and gentrification.

Thalé, Barry Doupé, 2009, 5:07

Thalé is a series of alien flowers modeled after decorative fiber optics ornaments.

Golden Room, Michael Stecky, 2008, 5:11

Beginning with images of flowers and insects, and ending with fantastic visions of microscopic utopias, Golden Room burrows itself deeper inward using disintegration as a metaphor for loss and the passage of time.

Cartoon For Those Who Have A Certain Fondness For Ideas But Are Tired Of Thinking, Steve Reinke, 2010, 2:15

Simple line drawings form and wriggle against a solid background, each linked to a verbal proposal. In the end, everybody's happy as the possibilities proliferate. Nobody gets hurt.

Total Runtime: 46:35

Q&A with panel to follow screening."

The Message: Gallery 1313

2011-10-31T15:32:00.000-04:00

"Gallery 1313 is pleased to present The Message, an exhibition of new media artists who explore the effects of technology on popular culture and society. The exhibition is also a celebration of the legacy of Marshall McLuhan.

Including installation, video and photo based works by artists Zeesy Powers, Jenn E . Norton, Myfanwy Ashmore, Robert Lendrum, Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman, Matthew Williamson and Nicholas Stedman.

There will also be panel discussion Wed Nov. 9 at 7pm which will address the future and effects of technology in artistic practice and society in general. Panelists to include Ed Slopek, Program Director for the New Media Option (Ryerson University), School of Image Works, Johanna Householder, Chair of Criticism and Curitorial Practice (Ontario College of Art and Design) and Judith Doyle, Chair of Integrated Media (The Ontario College of Art and Design) . The panel will be moderated by writer and cultural commentor, Russell Smith.

Main & Process Galleries
Nov. 2-13
Opening Reception: Nov. 3 at 7pm
Panel Discussion: Nov. 9 at 7pm

Gallery 1313
1313 Queen St. West
416-536-6778 www.g1313.org

The exhibition is sponsored by Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whiskey. We would like to thank Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whiskey for their generous support."

From the Gallery 1313 site.

Magenta Magazine: K-TOWN: Five karaoke videos by artists

2011-10-29T09:25:00.001-04:00

Wrik Mead, Johanna Householder, Kotama Bouabane, Edward Birnbaum and Michael Jacobs, and I were reviewed by K-TOWN curators Luke Painter and Meera Margaret Singh for Magenta Magazine. Originally shown at Angell Gallery in Toronto, then at XPACE for Toronto Nuit Blanche, this show is coming to Guelph's Ed Video Media Arts Centre this December. Here is the post with a playlist of artists and the songs they contributed to the exhibition.

Tesseract has been extended at Communitech

2011-10-15T13:16:00.001-04:00

I have been invited to extend the exhibition of my 3D interactive installation, Tesseract, at The Communitech HUB. The installation will be available to the general public throughout October, on Thursdays and Fridays at 4-7pm and on Saturdays and Sundays, from 12-5pm.
There will also be a closing reception on October 28, from 5pm to 7pm. This work was part of CAFKA.11, SURVIVE. RESIST. The Communitech HUB is located on the first floor of the Tannery Building on 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Here is the Facebook invite.

K-Town!

2011-09-23T10:33:00.004-04:00

"K-Town is a video and performance based event by Luke Painter and Meera Margaret Singh that transforms the east area of Angell Gallery into a karaoke lounge. Inspired by karaoke culture and the often disparate and melodramatic video content that accompanies singing in karaoke bars, artists have been invited to create video and animation content to musical hits of their choosing. With a catalogue of over 30 songs, the public can visit Angell Gallery September 21st-24th and sing along to their favourite tunes while enjoying the visual treatment of these songs by selected artists and designers. Echoing the current and pervasive adaptation and transformation of on-line content, K-Town irreverently takes pre-existing popular songs and asks artists to remix and respond to them using a variety of visual means."

Still From my newest video, created for K-Town. Domestic objects multiply when broken, defy the laws of physics and take over, set to Patsy Cline's 1961 song, "I Fall to Pieces".

Rewinder - 35 Years of Ed Video

2011-09-23T10:18:00.001-04:00

September 10 to 30, 2011

Reception on Saturday, September 10 from 8pm to midnight for Nuit Blanche

1976: the still-youthful medium of video was spreading fast among a new generation of artists. In Guelph, Ontario, a small group of video enthusiasts decided to create a place where practitioners of this new medium could share resources and exchange ideas. The Educational Video Creative Community Television Project, commonly and affectionately known as Ed Video, was born.

For 35 years, Ed Video has hosted hundreds of exhibitions, screenings, concerts and workshops, while helping to create thousands of videos. "A Friendly Rewinder”, curated by Ufuk Gueray, features vintage and recent works made by members.Eric

curated by Ufuk Gueray

SURVIVE.RESIST: CAFKA.11

2011-09-12T23:06:00.000-04:00

This year I have focused on an interactive installation that investigates the formal and metaphorical qualities of the tesseract. This work exists in two manifestations: one is a 3D interactive space (advanced visualization) exhibited at Communitech's HUB upon the completion of my residency at Christie Digital and CAFKA and the other is a public projection on Kitchener's City Hall. The site of projection is on an architectural feature of the city hall building affectionately referred to as the Cube. This was the perfect canvas for a tesseract to emerge, as Christie Digital has provided two high-end projector that envelopes two surfaces of the Cube in video.

The CAVE is a 3D video environment in which the viewer wears stereoscopic glasses, and their movement is tracked by sensors, triangulating reflective surfaces on the glasses, generating a unique perspective for the individual viewer. This enables the viewer to look around animated objects, to see around corners, and to engage with a virtual reality that physically surrounds them by simply moving their head. The CAVE consists of four surfaces (the floor and three walls) that receive twelve video projections that work interactively with the stereoscopic glasses. Viewers who are not wearing the glasses will see a shifting anamorphosis, as the point of view and movement is dictated by the primary viewer.

This installation is technically facilitated by the Research and Development department of the video display company Christie Digital, via Communitech's HUB, located in Kitchener, Ontario. Christie Digital, renowned for creating the best video projectors in the world, has a history of innovative sponsorships to media arts festivals (such as CAFKA) and galleries through the donation of their cutting edge HD display technologies.

Tesseract imaginatively translates phenomena that exists beyond our visual perception, yet is possible to glean through cognition. A cube in the fourth dimension is a hypercube, which has an aesthetic beauty that is easily appreciated for its hypnotic proportions. The concept is best explained by analogous illustrations presented in the 3rd dimension. According to hyperspace theory, objects in the 4th dimension remain elusive to the perception of humans, but can be conceptualized. Carl Sagan explained that we can see or imagine a hypercube in the 3rd dimension as a shadow of itself, but it loses its accuracy in the shadow's projection. The installation offers the viewer a translation of what cannot be perceived with our physical senses, but is present, in abstraction. My representation is not a defined illustration for the equation of a tesseract, but is where the imagination wonders in its attempt to see what it could be.

Les Poupées Russes at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery

2011-05-18T11:07:00.004-04:00

Les Poupées Russes will be exhibited at the Kitchener|Waterloo Art Gallery for its 5th Biennial curated by Robert Enright. Les Poupées Russes (Russian Dolls) is a two-channel video installation that creates a space of infinite regress using a mise en abyme structure. A self-reflexive space invites the viewer into its center, which is a continuous camera zoom through a set where the artist plays both roles of subject and director. The camera's movement travels infinitely into a mirror that is reflecting a video set in mid production. The set includes a field monitor that displays a camera's live feed, which is focused on the mirror. This creates a feedback loop, a Möbius strip that moves in and away in a continuous shot.

The Biennial, entitled, Black and White: An Allegory of Colour, also features the work of Ashleigh Bartlett, Hyang Cho, Susan Dobson, Maura Doyle, Brad Emsley, Will Gorlitz, Sarah Kernohan, Shane Krepakevich, Maha Mustafa, Martin Pearce and Ibrahim Rashid.

June 13th - September 5th 2011

Opening Reception June 17th at 7pm

Curator's Talk: June 16th at 7pm

CFC World Wide Short Film Festival Screens Wee Requiem

2011-05-12T11:45:00.008-04:00

Wee Requiem will be screening at The Canadian Film Centre's World Wide Short Film Festival on June 1st at Cineplex Odeon Varsity Cinema and again at this venue on June 3rd. The programme entitled 'Golden Girls' features films and videos produced by women from the Netherlands, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, the United States, Denmark and South Korea.

June is shaping up to be an exciting month as Wee Requiem shows in Toronto, New York and a two channel video installation of mine from 2007, entitled, Les Poupées Russes will be exhibited in the Kitchener Waterloo Gallery Biennial curated by Robert Enright.

Wee Requiem at Rooftop Films, Brooklyn, NY

2011-05-09T17:15:00.008-04:00

Wee Requiem will be screening at Rooftop Films: Underground Movies Outdoors on June 23rd, 2011, at Crown Vic. The doors open at 8pm, followed by live music at 8:30. The screening begins at 9pm and stick around for the after party. Rooftop Films takes place at multiple outdoor venues across New York City and has a reputation for screening smart, dynamic, creative films and videos. Here is a link for the 2011 schedule.

Tickets cost $10.00 at the door.

Very Good Advice in Montreal

2011-05-03T13:49:00.005-04:00

Hello Dear Ones,

Very Good Advice will be screening in Montreal, Québec, this Thursday, May 5th, at Groupe Intervention Vidéo, located at 4001 Berri #105. Chante-la ta chanson/This Song Is You, curated by Anne Golden, is this edition of The Vault series. Admission is free - so there are so many reasons to go. Free Advice and Montreal. Sounds pretty good to me.

New Toronto Works Show

2011-03-02T17:57:00.019-05:00

Wee Requiem, my most recent single channel work, will be screened at Pleasure Dome's New Toronto Works Show. This year's programme, entitled 'Bind Together', is curated by Laura Paolini and Guillermina Buzio. It will be held at The Poor Alex Theater at 7pm on Saturday, March 19th. There will also be installations exhibited at InterAccess from March 5th to March 20th, featuring Julieta Maria, Istvan Kantor, Tamara Palstisa and Sasa Rajsic and Sean Procyk.

Now in its 18th year, this member-curated program features the cutting edge of experimental film, video and installation produced in Toronto today.

Cinematheque: Winnipeg

2011-02-11T23:02:00.011-05:00

Very Good Advice will be screened at the Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque on Friday March 25th, 2011 at 7pm. 'Scenes From The Floating World' is a group screening, curated by Chris Gehman, that will also feature the works of Jude Norris, Alexandre Larose, Barry Doupé and John Price.

The cinema allows artists to construct spaces that cannot be experienced in any other way, to work with figures and images detached from their ordinary context and returned to life in an imagined cinematic space. With one partial exception, each of these works centres on the body as it inhabits the floating world of the cinematic screen.

- Chris Gehman

"sudden frost" Reviewed in Border Crossings

2011-01-12T15:16:00.006-05:00

The group exhibition of Southern Ontario artists, "sudden frost", curated by Pete Smith at Vancouver's Elissa Cristall Gallery has been reviewed in the current issue of Border Crossings (issue no.116) by Lee Henderson.

The show was thematically rooted in T S Elliot's "The Waste Land" and featured artists Will Gorlitz, Kevin Rodgers, Nicole Vogelzang, Sky Glabush, Patrick Mahon, David Merritt, Michel Daigneault and myself. My contribution to the show was a single channel video entitled "Very Good Advice". Please check out the review on pages 82-83.

Also, if you are in the Yukon or traveling to Whitehorse between now and March 12, 2011, please check out my new installation at the Yukon Arts Centre. The group exhibition, "Open Season" curated by the Trousseau Society opens tomorrow, January 13th, 2011.

"Open Season" at The Yukon Arts Centre

2010-12-19T16:35:00.014-05:00

Open Season
On January 13, 2011, I will be exhibiting a new two-channel video installation in a group show at theYukon Arts Centre. The installation, entitled Mirador, is an aerial voyage across a pastiche landscape, borrowed from the rural southern Ontario countryside and the route from Whitehorse to Dawson City, stitching these disparate vistas together with the composite glue of post-production. Architectural structures of leisure displaced from Western culture creep up on the horizon, strangely at home in this hybrid lieu, blending in with the manmade scars of mining and agriculture. Proposition or foreboding vision, the view is simultaneously eerie and whimsical in its disjunctive state. Open Season also features artists Douglas Drake, Elinor Whidden and Scott Price.

This exhibition is curated by the Trousseau Society. The Trousseau Society is a Toronto based collective, consisting of three women with a background of art, history and curatorial studies.

Open Season runs from January 13th, 2010 to March 12, 2010.

Jean-Paul Kelly (a short parenthesis in a long pause)

2010-11-06T14:28:00.009-04:00

Jean-Paul Kelly is a Toronto-based artist. He creates drawings, photographs and videos, often displayed together as installations. These exhibition projects engage with issues of representation and subjectivity through Kelly's exploration of contiguity, allegory, and replacement. He has had solo exhibitions at Gallery TPW, Toronto (2008) and at Ed Video Media Arts Centre, on November 13, to December 16, 2010. His work has been included in group shows in North America, Japan, and Europe, most recently in "Showcase.09", *Cambridge Galleries (2009). Under the collective moniker Fennel Plunger Corporation, Kelly has collaborated with artists Steve Reinke and Anne Walk on exhibitions at Gallery TPW (2005) and Mercer Union, Toronto (2010).

www.jeanpaulkelly.com

Ed Video is thrilled to feature the videos, photography and drawings of this multi-talented artist and curator. Some of the charming lures woven into his pristine line drawings are the bitter-sweet nostalgic references of postwar American animation partnered with Lacanian theory. The union of these two disparate allusions evokes the uncanny, a trait that bleeds throughout the exhibition, which examines how trauma is perceived through representation.

The familiar relationship we share with domestic content in the work is made strange through kelly's hybrid parings, both formally and contextually, as exemplified with drawings of upholstered pets, cushions that extrude bones, a car billowing smoke entitled, Chrysler (Dad). This dissociative tension in the work transports the viewer to a larger narrative than what the nostalgic references belie, a narrative of recent traumatic events, and how they are documented.

The opening reception of (a short parenthesis in a long period) is on November 13th, 2010, at Ed Video Media Arts Centre located at 40 Baker's Street, from 2pm-5pm. Jean-Paul Kelly will be in attendance.

"Eternity is not an everlasting flux of Tyme; but Tyme is a short parenthesis in a longe period; and Eternity had been the same, as it is, though time had never beene;"

John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Wee Requiem

2010-11-01T21:34:00.013-04:00

Images from my new video "Wee Requiem" -they are not in their narrative order. Video offers substitute memories, the opportunity to remember an event differently than originally experienced through re-contextualized imagery. 'Wee Requiem' pays reverence to the smallest and seemingly most insignificant, through digital gestures. For 6 minutes we observe a wee requiem for the passing of a fallen nuisance, a pest, who is recast as a beloved protagonist.

Videophagy/Videofagia: Inconsumable

2010-10-07T19:27:00.013-04:00

Tomorrow night, Friday October 8th, 2010, at Hot Shot Gallery Excess (2002) will be screening in a programme curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul entitled, 'Inconsumable', at 8pm.

'Inconsumable' is part of Videophagy/Videofagia, a three part project from the e-fagia collective.

Artists (some of my favourites) showing work include Allyson Mitchell, Alissa Firth-Eagland, Elisha Lim and Jen Aveeno, Farrah Khan, Heather Keung, Brenda Goldstein, Sarah Maple and Jesika Joy. Hot shot Gallery is located at 181 Augusta Avenue, Toronto.

Excess, Video Still, 2002

Antimatter Film Festival & I Heart Video Art III

2010-10-06T01:16:00.007-04:00

Very Good Advice will be screening at the 13th Annual Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, British Columbia, on October 10th, 2010. The program, entitled Losing Ground, is described as 'Strategies and warnings confront imminent loss of social and vernacular landscapes.' Antimatter is an awesome film festival for film and video art and I am thrilled to be apart of it. Losing Ground is screening at Open Space Arts Centre, 510 Fort St at 9pm.

From West to Central Canada, Very Good Advice will also be screening at I Heart Video Art III in Kitchener, Ontario. This instalment of CAFKA's I Heart Video Art includes the video work of Almerinda Travassos & Margaret Moores, Steve Reinke & Jesse Mott, Geoffrey Pugen, John Greyson, Zak Tatham, Terril Calder, Christiana Latham, Ariel Smith, Bear Witness & A Tribe Called Red. I Heart Video Art is curated by Rob Ring, Artistic Director of CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener & Area). For more details click here.

Teetering at the Void at the Art Gallery of Hamilton

2010-09-20T15:21:00.007-04:00

Teetering on the Void (2007) will be projected from the Sheraton Hotel and onto the face of the Art Gallery of Hamilton for the Art Gallery of Hamilton's World Film Festival on September 30th, 2010. Teetering on the Void references Yves Klein's 1960 photograph, Leap into the Void, in which the grand gesture of Klein leaping from a second story window and into the unknown is executed without hesitation. Teetering on the Void abandons the gusto helmed by the painter of space, as hesitation and the weight of self-consious awareness delicately anchors my toes to the ledge, precariously teetering between the safety of familiarity and the risk of oblivion. Other installations include Monokeros Fantastica, by Scott McGovern, Time Piece, by Adam David Brown, Water's Edge, by Jim Riley and STILLNESS; There is a way between Voice and Presence by Tony Vieria. For a full list of artists click here.

cmagazine #106

2010-07-10T13:40:00.008-04:00

Hello!

Last night's Tailgate Tarot party at the Power Plant was was an incredible mini-marathon of tarot readings. The FASTWÜRMS wore both witches hats of DJ and Skry-pod readers, while the rest of us read our way through the evening with our enthusiastic querents. Hopefully we will see some pictures of the evening up here soon. Annie Dunning's collaborative performance with homing pigeons, Air Time, spread their eerie woodwind song across the sky as they flew from the harbour front home and out of view.

Next Tuesday I will be participating on a panel with Peter Hobbs and Amish Morrell dedicated to the supernatural in art for C Magazine's current issue. This panel is part of the lecture series, C School, that accompanies each issue's release, featuring artists with practices that engage the current issue's theme. I am interested in hearing about Peter's work, as his process seems to use elements of the supernatural as process, whereas I use the supernatural as metaphor and reference.

Please check it out at the Drake Hotel on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010. Doors open at 6:30, no cover :)

Here is the official description of this issue:

C Magazine Issue 106 "The Supernatural" includes feature articles by Jennifer Fisher on psychometry, Lynn Crosbie on Michael Jackson, and Louis Kaplan on Nate Larson's photographic miracles; David Lillington interviews Paulette Phillips, and Leah Modigliani interviews The Center for Tactical Magic; book and exhibition reviews from Antwerp, Chicago, Toronto, Edmonton, Victoria, Charlottetown, Stratford Ontario, McIvers Newfoundland and Ridgefield Connecticut, with a special section covering Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics; artist project by Scott Treleaven, accompanied by an essay by Elijah Burgher.

FASTWÜRMS DJ set and Skry-pod This Friday at The Power Plant

2010-07-05T13:37:00.005-04:00

Bonjour mes amis,

Skry-pod is happening once again, this time at the Power Plant in Toronto, Friday the 9th, in conjunction with the summer exhibition, Adaptation: Between Species. The FASTWÜRMS are showing work in this exhibition, which is on display until September 12, 2010. This Skry-pod's line up of readers: Bradley Benedetti, R.M. Vaughan, Amber Landgraff, Jacob Ireland, Elinor Rose Galbraith, Beth Stuart and myself. Skry-pod events have previously taken place at Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2009, and at Art in General, Brooklyn, NYC, 2010.

Also not to be missed is a performance by Annie Dunning in collaboration with homing pigeons that are fitted with tiny homemade wind chimes that sound as the pigeons take flight, filling the air with a haunting melody. Here is a clip of Annie's work featured by CAFKATV.

Sudden Frost

2010-06-20T20:03:00.004-04:00

The Elissa Cristall Gallery will be presenting Sudden Frost, a group show curated by Pete Smith. The show is described as, "drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and video Incorporating a broad range of artistic mediums, the works share a whimsical yet somber lyricism that gives meaningful glimpses into the frenzied nature of now."

Featuring the work or Michel Daigneault, Sky Glabush, Will Gorlitz, Patrick Mahon, David Merritt, Kevin Rogers, Nicole Vogelzang and I. The exhibition begins July 2nd and will run to August 14th, 2010.

Subtle Technologies

2010-05-31T11:39:00.004-04:00

This Saturday I will be showing work at the Subtle Technologies Festival. Subtle Technologies presents an annual festival/symposium in Toronto Canada that provides a platform for research, art, workshops and discourse that engages the cross disciplinary practices of art and science. This year's theme is sustainability, and the show that I am is entitled Art and Science Cruise: in Water Colours, curated by Willy LeMaitre.

It is a first for me, as I have never shown my work on a boat before! I do have a tendency to turn green on the open seas, but maybe Lake Ontario will be more forgiving than the toss of salty water bodies. Gordon Monahan will be performing (I am a fan, can't wait to see it!) and Zev Asher, Dr Helen Cyr, Vera Frenkel, Gail Maurice and Paul Wong are the artist and filmmakers included in the program.

Will Munro

2010-05-25T17:12:00.004-04:00

I can't describe something so big. But other people can. Please visit:

Will Munro Remembered

Honoring the Heart of Will Munro

Will Munro, By Bruce LaBruce

Will Munro, 1975-2010: Toronto has lost a great city builder

TRIENNALE Montmartin Sur Mer 2010

2010-05-21T14:43:00.005-04:00

This week I will be exhibiting work in the TRIENNALE Montmartin Sur Mer 2010 , which is a show featuring French and Canadian visual artists, musicians and writers. The Triennial(e) will take place over two days on May 30th and 31st, 2010, in Montmartin Sur Mer, Normandy, France. I stayed in the area last year and was blown away by its beauty. The exhibit will inhabit private and public spaces (people's homes and city museums) in the aim to meet all artists.

Some of the amazing artists, musicians, writers and curators involved in the Triennial(e) are Gunilla Josephson, Aleesa Cohene, Eve Egoyan, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsy, Luc Benazet, Patrice Grente, Jaques Jouet, Deborah Lennie-Bisson, Jane Motin, Axelle Rioult and Doris Ung.

For more information about, times and locations, the Trienniale Montmartin Sure Mer 2010, please visit the website.

Kazoo! Opening Night at Ed Video

2010-04-21T11:57:00.009-04:00

Come to Kazoo! tonight at Ed Video.
There is too much happening for me to describe here, so please visit the Kazoo! website for more details.

The Kazoo! collective is made up of visual artists, musicians and community event organizers with a fever to showcase innovative performance, art and music.

Prolific is an understatement for these culture enthusiasts, who have hosted nearly a hundred new music events since 2006 in Guelph. They have also organized three five day events that include literary events, film screenings, car free day celebrations and gallery based works.

The lineup for this year's festival looks amazing:

Bruce Peninsula, Lullabye Arkestra, The D’urbervilles, Katie Stelmanis, Richard Laviolette & the Oil Spills, PS I Love You, Brides, Diamond Rings, Bocce, Lisa Bozikovic, Green Go, Flowers of Hell, Gregory Pepper & His Problems, Ryan Driver, Eric Chenaux, Sarah Mangle Buys A Bear, Ben Gunning, Rae Spoon, Silly Kissers, Rich Aucoin, Ghost Bees, Noah 23, Cousins, Rat Tail, Sean Nicholas Savage, Miles Jones, Soft Copy, Pop Winds, Betty Burke.

I am particularly interested in seeing what the collective, Broken City Lab, are showing at Ed Video, which has been described as a video installation that chronicles what the group has been up to over the past year and half.

CAFKA - Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area

2010-04-10T23:52:00.011-04:00

Hullo, hullo!

CAFKA will be screening Very Good Advice (oops - they actually screened the video Forced, an older video from 2006) at the Critical Media Lab next Friday, April 16th, 2010 at 7pm. Other artists featured in this program, a love letter to video art, entitled 'I Heart Video Art: Take II' are Liliana Velez Jaramillio, Manuel Saiz, Heath Faschina, Chris & Keir, Gabriel Graham, John Greyson, Ehren BEARwitness Thomas, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby and (I quote) much, much more. Sounds exciting!

Also, tomorrow is the last day to see Les soeurs Fox du 21e ciècle/21st Century Fox Sisters and Substitution Frame at the Elora Centre for the Arts. Thanks to the Elora Centre for the Arts, everyone who visited the exhibit and especially to Julie René de Cotret, who curated the show, for such a wonderful exhperience.

Elora Centre for the Arts

2010-04-06T12:53:00.005-04:00

Hi Everybunny.

This is the last week to see "Jenn E Norton & Scott McGovern: New Works" at the Elora Centre for the Arts. The exhibit draws to a close this Sunday, April 11th.

Vincent Moon

2010-04-01T15:55:00.004-04:00

Vincent Moon is a prolific video maker that provides moments of vicarious witness for music enthusiasts. Often one-take performances shot in a candid, hand held style, Moon features bands that include Grizzly Bear, Braids, St Vincent, Of Montreal, Dirty Projectors and many more in a series called "Un concert a emporter/A Take Away Show". I am drawn to the particular energy that comes from quick lo-fi video, when a magical event is captured as raw video, rather than dolled up in post, which is oddly not something that I do in my own practice. Opposites attract, I suppose.

Views of Montreal _ BRAIDS from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.

This video (below) almost made me weep with tears of joy. Watch it in it's entirety for your heart to crack and shoot rays of light. If that is your sort of thing.

Take Away Show #52 _ OF MONTREAL vs AXE RIVERBOY (part1) from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.

Art In General

2010-03-24T10:39:00.018-04:00

Returned this Sunday from New York City, which seemed like a wonderland drenched in golden sunshine, the air sang sweet breezes of promised spring, Central Park was blanketed in sprites of grass where crocuses reared their little heads in camps of purple and white. Just watch out for the vomit minefields on the sidewalks and one could float in the unseasonably warm March currents all the way through the Gallery District with a satiated milky grin. I live in Guelph, a university town, so vomit on sidewalks is as common as pigeons in a Greyhound station. No problem.

The spring benefit at Art in General was incredible, especially when located in the vault in the Williamsburg Bank, now known as 1 Hanson Place. The FASTWÜRMS were invited with a crew of artist tarot readers to perform at the event.

The evening began in the vault, next to the whispering room, which was pretty cool, if you are into acoustics and architecture. Video projections of the previous Skry-Pod in Toronto were viewable at the far end of the vault. Here is a description of Skry-Pod on the Art In General site:

"The 5th annual spring benefit will feature the Canadian artist collaborative, FASTWÜRMS’ U.S. debut of Skry-Pod, an intimate social exchange performance with a team of artist card readers using traditional Tarot cards and custom Skry-Pod iTouch and iPhone Tarot applications. “Skry” is a traditional term used to describe divination or clairvoyance by gazing into water, candle flames, and unique to Skry-Pod, touch LCD screens. Drawing on the artists’ exploration of the subversive “otherness” of Witch culture and its relationship to acts of resistance, Skry-Pod engages the public in a contained spectacle and tableaux of mediated and direct intimacy as participants take part in Skry-Pod Tarot readings and divination scenarios."

My readings that night were strangely optimistic, which is possibly why I am grinning ear to ear throughout the documentation. Nothing like getting the Ten of Cups for your final outcome. Later, we were treated to dinner before we read again in the main area. It was great to work with the Art In General crew.

Readers Shelly Marlow, Scott McGovern & me.______________March 16, 2010____________________ Dai Skuse of the FASTWÜRMS and I.

Photo credit: Kim Kozzi/FASTWÜRMS

Christy Langer Interview: XXXX Magazine

2010-03-22T17:28:00.017-04:00

Indira Cesarine, Creative Director of
XXXX Magazine caught up with Christy Langer in December, 2009, at Scope Miami to speak about her installation, Reprise. Here is a video of the interview with several artists including, Blake and Bruno, David Ellis, David Glaser & Magdalena Kunz , Stefanie Gutheil, Yigal Ozeri, Karelle Levy, Karim Hamid.

Christy also has a show in San Francisco with Kris Kuksi at Shooting Gallery April 3-25, 2010.

ARTISTS AT SCOPE MIAMI 2009 - INTERVIEWS BY INDIRA CESARINE FOR XXXX MAGAZINE

ARTISTS AT SCOPE MIAMI 2009 - INTERVIEWS BY INDIRA CESARINE FOR XXXX MAGAZINE from XXXX MAGAZINE on Vimeo.

Elora Centre for the Arts, TSV's Icon, Villain, Antihero catalogue, Ladyfest Toronto, Skry-Pod

2010-03-12T17:53:00.007-05:00

Wow, this has been a busy week of fun filled art. Scott McGovern and I set up our show at the Elora Centre for the Arts and had the opening last night, curated by Julie René de Cotret. Les Soeurs Fox du 21e ciècle/21st Century Fox Sisters and Substitution Frame played off each other in interesting ways and I am really excited to get back there to document it. As always, I will post it on Youtube and post it here. Julie was an amazingly involved curator, who is an incredible artist herself, and was with us helping throughout the entire install. Thanks, Julie!

Simultaneously in Toronto, the ICON, VILLAIN, ANTIHERO catalogue launched in conjunction with the ANTIHERO screening. I can't contain my excitement to see this catalogue, which I am included in, initiated by Trinity Square Video's former Program Director Aubrey Reeves and completed under the new director Jean-Paul Kelly.

On Monday night I will be in Ladyfest Toronto with the video Very Good Advice. It is at the University of Toronto's Hart House at 8pm. The screening, Journey Women, features the work of Jennifer Chan, Helena Kvanström & Kevin Marchand and myself followed by a panel discussion. It is a free screening!

The morning after, Scott McGovern and I will be leaving to be readers for the FASTWÜRMS' Skry-Pod event in Brooklyn, New York, for Art in General's Spring Benefit. Here is more information about the event.

Funeral for a Mouse

2010-03-07T12:50:00.015-05:00

Here is an image of the new video I am working on. It should be done soon. As mentioned before, Garry-Lewis James Osterberg is in the video. I won't be able to put the finished video up for a while, due to distribution, but I will post where it is screening when the time comes.

Cast:

Scott McGovern

Jack Glamville

Duncan The Great

Shari Hatt

Joan and Drew McGovern

Garry-Lewis James Osterberg

Jenn E Norton

The Mouse_______________________________________________________________Funeral for a Mouse (working title), Video Still, Jenn E Norton, 2010

ICON, VILLAIN, ANTIHERO: Trinity Square Video Catalogue

2010-03-05T16:07:00.013-05:00

Hello once again,

I am really excited about a catalogue, launching this Thursday, March 11th, by Trinity Square Video. The catalogue features the work of three themed commissioned screenings series. I was one of the artist for the first screening, ICON, with a video entitled, Chimera. The catalogue will launch in conjunction with the final screening, ANTIHERO. Unfortunately, I will not be there for the launch, as it coincides with the night of my show at the Elora Centre for the Arts. Still excited as all hell, though.

ANTIHERO
Trinity Square Video Themed Commission Program

New videos by Andrea Cooper, Kenneth Doren,
David Frankovich, Istvan Kantor and Tanya Read

ICON, VILLAIN, ANTIHERO Catalogue Launch

Texts by Marusya Bociurkiw, Andrew James Paterson
and Mariko Tamaki, Illustrations by Willow Dawson

Thursday, March 11, 2010
8pm
Polish Combatants’ Hall
206 Beverley Street

Hosted by Special Guest Keith Cole

Members $6 / Non-Members $8

TSV’s Themed Commission Trilogy, ICON, VILLAIN, ANTIHERO, concludes with the premiere of five compelling new videos created in response to the idea of the illusive figure of the antihero, and the launch of a gorgeous 50-page catalogue that profiles the entire trilogy.

The works in the ANTIHERO program explore the complexities of contemporary narrative characterization: Andrea Cooper’s Tell Your Mother uses the haunting elisions of anachronism to study ambiguity in a “real” character; Kenneth Doren’s Crap Days negotiates a complicated exchange between the familial and the foreign by using various UK football chants to charming–and malicious–effect; David Frankovich’s Sweet Interlaced Transvestite reveals form as technological medium for the trans-mission of a message; Istvan Kantor’s Song of the Anti-Hero employs the artist’s renowned aplomb, wit and song to showcase the consumption–and replication–of the cinematic antihero; Tanya Read’s Mr. Nobodyfeatures the artist’s notorious animated character caught up in a never-ending digital desert.

TSV’s Themed Commission Program offers selected artists the opportunity to make completely new work at TSV with full access to the centre’s facilities for production, postproduction, education and dissemination.

The ICON, VILLAIN, ANTIHERO Catalogue celebrates the realization of this trilogy of Themed Commission Programs, a project which has provided sixteen fascinating videomakers–both emerging and established–the opportunity to explore ideas of persona, as inspired by classic characters in genre-fiction, often challenging deep-seated notions of screen-based performance and characterization through processes unique to artists’ video.

Garry-Lewis James Osterberg

2010-03-01T18:06:00.011-05:00

My good pal Garry-Lewis James Osterberg was interviewed for the new issue of No More Potlucks,

by Nelson Henricks. He is such an amazing, smart little guy with a great appreciation for Iggy Pop and Elvis. Maybe some of you saw his work this fall at Paul Petro Contemporary Art. He has been getting a lot of shows and coverage these days. Congratulations, Garry!

Garry also made an appearance in my new video,

which I am fervently working on, entitled, The Mouse. I will post pictures soon.

Here is a picture of the artist, that I snagged from the Nomorepotlucks website. Be sure to check out his sculptural and video work at the Tom Thompson Gallery this June.

Video Exchange

2010-02-25T12:58:00.006-05:00

In alphabetical order, and not order of importance, Guelph, North Bay, Peterborough, Saskatoon, Syracuse and Toronto galleries have exchanged compilations of video work that are on currently on exhibit. Here is Ed Video's poster. I am one of the artists showing work at these venues.

Spark Contemporary Art Space

XPACE Cultural Centre

21st Century Fox Sisters : Video Documentation

2010-02-24T23:09:00.007-05:00

Here is the documentation of the installation shown at Le Labo.

For more interactivity and photographic work please come to the

show at the Elora Centre for the Arts on March 11, 2010, with new

installation work from Scott McGovern, entitled Substitution Frame.

21st Century Fox Sisters/Les Soeurs Fox du 21e ciècle

Skry-Pod in NY (Art in General)

2010-02-15T12:30:00.003-05:00

Skry-Pod, masterminded by the unstoppable FASTWÜRMS, is the reading of tarot cards and an app for the iPod Touch by Lukas Blakk, mixing traditional and conceptual intuitive practices. For those who braved the cold busy streets of Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2009, may have seen the FASTWÜRMS with their coven of artist tarot card and Skry-Pod readers at the Sheraton Centre from dusk till dawn. I was a lucky one of them, and luckier still, now that we are moving the Skry-Pod group to Brooklyn. We will be at the (former Williamsburg Bank) now the Hanson Place, deep in the vault. The event is the spring benefit for Art in General.

Here are some pictures of the event in Toronto.

Some Pictures from Les Soeurs Fox du 21e siècle/21st Century Fox Sisters

2010-02-12T17:42:00.015-05:00

The installation the 21st Century Fox Sisters is an interactive space where the Fox sisters, famous mediums of the 19th Century, are re-imagined as producers and directors of a multi-media spectacle. The Fox Sisters were influential mediums that arguably spearheaded the Spiritualist movement. Margaret and Kate Fox were young girls when they began performing séances under the guidance of their sister Leah. They wielded a power over their audiences with their phantasmagoric skills that earned them international celebrity, a place amongst Victorian socialites of Europe and North America. The girls were subject to the consequences of fame. Upon pressure from her Catholic fiancé, Margaret publicly decried their practice as fraudulent, and the sisters fell from favour. Margaret and Katy died penniless.

The installation 'Les Soeurs Fox du 21e siècle' re-imagines the sisters as producers of multimedia productions. Characters representing the sisters tell their story to a small audience within the installation space, through a pre-cinema illusion called Pepper's Ghost. A two-way mirror separates the video projection and the viewer, creating two rooms: one that the viewer occupies and a hidden room that provides the illusion. In the reflection, it appears that the viewer is in a shared space with the Fox sisters. This illusion is pushed further by a second mirror that is positioned behind the viewer, creating a mise en abyme. This is a disorienting aspect that causes a visceral experience when in the room. The lighting of the viewer and the lighting in the video are similar, blending the characters and the viewers in silhouette, making everyone a character upon a cinematic stage.

The video triggers a device that bangs on the walls of the installation when the sisters describe the technique to create convincing ‘rappings’. By imposing the past upon the present with women who lend their bodies to spirits in order to hold a captive audience, parallels are drawn between covert feminism of the Victorian era and 3rd Wave Feminism. Pairing pre-cinema technologies used in phantasmagoric displays with contemporary interactive video, viewers find themselves within a mise en abyme structure where the virtual and actual appear to share a single space.

La nouvelle installation de l'artiste médiatique Jenn E. Norton, sera bientôt présentée au laboratoire d'Art de Toronto, à la suite de sa résidence d'un mois. Avec « 21st Century Fox », Jenn E. Norton joue sur les anachronismes en créant un espace intime et interactif où les soeurs Fox, peut-être les médiums les plus reconnues du XIXe siècle, renaissent sous la forme de réalisatrices d'un dispositif multimédia. Jenn E. Norton explore le fragile équilibre des pouvoirs dans la lutte de ces femmes, qui en feignant d'incarner des esprits d'outre-tombe libérait leur propre parole et captivait l'auditoire. En fusionnant technologies vidéo contemporaines et techniques pré-cinématographique du spiritisme victorien et de leur images fantastiques, Jenn E. Norton fait le parallèle entre le féminisme caché du passé et celui d'aujourd'hui. Vernissage de 18h à 22h le 7 janvier au Labo.

Entrance to installation. The entire structure was 10'x10'x20'

Point of view of viewer, reflected self and video

Very Good Advice in Rotterdam

2010-02-08T11:33:00.006-05:00

Very Good Advice, 2009, video still

If you are in Rotterdam (lucky you), a video of mine, Very Good Advice, is playing at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

More Amazing Work from Mexico

2010-02-05T11:07:00.010-05:00

Cubilete, Marcela Armas______________________________________ i-Machinarius, Marcela Armas

Parasitic robots feed off stray energy

2010-02-05T09:40:00.000-05:00

Parasitic Robots by Gilberto Esparza.

2010-02-04T13:52:00.000-05:00

Dear Deer,

The show at Le Labo has drawn to a close. It was very much fun to work there and I am working hard to get the video documentation up on YouTube, as well as on this blog for all those that couldn't make it to the Distillery District. If you didn't get to see the installation, it will travel to the Elora Centre for the Arts on March 11th, 2010. There is additional photographic work not previously exhibited at Les Soeurs Fox du 21e siècle, and as a humongous bonus, the wonderfully talented Scott McGovern will also show new video work.

But my time isn't all used up at Le Labo. I am instructing a workshop in Adobe After Effects this Saturday (February 6th, 2010) to give away all my tricks. Ever wanted to switch heads with a friend, grow an extra extremity, swim through concrete, ride domestic cats the size of saber tooth tigers? Let me show you how to. On a 2d plane. On a computer.

The best part is it is $25 OR pay what you can. If you are interested contact Le Labo.

Also, one of the dearest deer of them all, Aubrey Reeves, has an exhibition at Ed Video Media Arts Centre in Guelph, Ontario this Friday (February 5th, 2010). It is a group show with Sara Angelucci and Riaz Mehmood. Aubrey is showing an animated film installation entitled, Glide, that I am really excited to see. The show is called 'Put the Moves On' and is described as a show about human movement. The opening is at 7pm.

That is all for now. Sweet dreams and realities.

Les soeurs Fox du 21e siècle/21st Century Fox Sisters

2009-12-26T12:55:00.004-05:00

Vernissage - Opening
- January 7, 6pm -

(english follows)

La nouvelle installation de l'artiste médiatique Jenn E. Norton, sera bientôt présentée au Laboratoire d'Art de Toronto, à la suite de sa résidence d'un mois. Avec « 21st Century Fox », Jenn E. Norton joue sur les anachronismes en créant un espace intime et interactif où les soeurs Fox, peut-être les médiums les plus reconnues du XIXe siècle, renaissent sous la forme de réalisatrices d'un dispositif multimédia. Jenn E. Norton explore le fragile équilibre des pouvoirs dans la lutte de ces femmes, qui en feignant d'incarner des esprits d'outre-tombe libérait leur propre parole et captivait l'auditoire. En fusionnant technologies vidéo contemporaines et techniques pré-cinématographique du spiritisme victorien et de leur images fantastiques, Jenn E. Norton fait le parallèle entre le féminisme caché du passé et celui d'aujourd'hui. Vernissage de 18h à 22h le 7 janvier au Labo.

The new work of Jenn E Norton will be exhibited upon the completion of her month long residency at Le Labo. Norton has built an interactive space where the Fox sisters, famous mediums of the 19th Century, are re-imagined as producers and directors of a multi-media spectacle. By imposing the past upon the present with women who lend their bodies to spirits to hold a captive audience. Using pre-cinema technologies used in phantasmagoric displays of the Victorian era with contemporary video, Norton draws parallels between covert feminism of the past and today. Please join us on January 7th, 2009 at 6-10 pm for the opening reception.

The Fire and The Knife - Heather Goodchild

2009-10-26T17:08:00.000-04:00

Please come see Heather Goodchild's newest work at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. Heather is incredible. Here is an image I grabbed from KM's website for The Fire and The Knife.

From "The Fire and the Knife" (lamb) wool rug hooking with wool felt

The opening reception is October 30, 6pm to 9pm, at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, 1082 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario.

World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

2009-10-24T10:09:00.001-04:00

Christopher Skinner Vigil

2009-10-24T09:30:00.000-04:00

A horrible crime occurred on October 18, 2009, at Adelaide and Victoria. A young man was beaten, run over by an SUV and died from his injuries. It is speculated by many that it was a hate-crime. There will be a vigil for Christopher Skinner this Sunday beginning at 8pm at Church and Wellesly that will travel to the scene of the crime. Bring candles, a sign or a flower. Here is the report of the incident by the Toronto Star.

Incredible Video by Patrick Daughters and Marcel Dzama for Department of Eagles: 'No One Does it Like You'

2009-10-19T13:56:00.000-04:00

Tour the opening of 'This View of Life: Evolutionary Art For The Year of Darwin'

2009-10-19T13:14:00.000-04:00

This View of Life: Evolutionary Art for The Year of Darwin had a novel little robotic camera that captured moments of the University of Guelph facet of the of the show, and later stitched it together by GigaPan. There are images of people with two faces, or legs and no torso because of the blending of collection of still images to create the panorama.
Neat-0!

Nuit Blanche: Skry-Pod

2009-10-19T10:47:00.000-04:00

Kim Kozzi & Dai Skuse, Skry-Pod, Nuit Blanche, 2009

This year at Nuit Blanche, 2009, the FASTWURMS invited eight artists to read Tarot for twelve hours for a commissioned project in Zone A, called Skry-Pod, curated by Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick. We used Skry-Pod to read, which is a new iPhone and iPod Touch app by Lukas Blakk. We used also used the Crowley-Thoth and Rider-Waite decks. I read beside the wonderful Nicolé Vogelzang and luckily she documented it. It was an amazing night, which surprisingly felt like a very short dusk to dawn.

Nicolé and me.

This is before dusk and before the long line ups of Nuit Blanche-ers waiting to see what the cards had to say. We were stationed in these tents in pairs. Behind me in this picture is RM Vaughan and Amber Landgraff.

This is Nicolé Vogelzang. She is an amazing painter.

Jacob Ireland and Bradley Beneditti.

Beth Stuart reading tarot.

Elinor Rose Galbraith read beside Beth Stuart.

Way down the Sheraton waterfall Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse, the FASTWURMS, prepare for the evening. Tarot readings with the FASTWURMS were pre-booked. If you want to see some video documentation, click here

Line ups. At one point in the evening there was a two hour wait. And they stuck it out until they got what they came for. One of the greatest responses I received was, "This was absolutely worth the wait."

Reprise - Christy Langer

2009-10-10T18:16:00.000-04:00

I am so excited for the solo show of my dear friend, Christy Langer. She is such an enormous talent. The show is at Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto on October 17. Come check it out!

2009-10-04T22:36:00.000-04:00

More Darwin

2009-10-04T22:32:00.000-04:00

Year of Darwin

2009-10-03T00:54:00.000-04:00

Here is a show coming up in Guelph, Ontario curated by the loveliest Scott McGovern.
I am really lucky to be in this show with these amazing artists.

Very Good Advice

2009-09-07T13:33:00.000-04:00

These are stills from my new video called
Very Good Advice. It will be screening at
VTape until October 9th, 2009.

Hello.

2009-09-07T13:31:00.000-04:00

My name is Jenn E Norton.
I live in Toronto, Ontario.
Here are some things I've been up to.

http://www.akimbo.ca/exhibitions/?id=16485

http://www.edvideo.org/gallery-events/exhibitions/on-site/this-view-of-life-evolutionary-art-for-the-year-of-darwin