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Vtape presents a special launch party and demo of

THE BOX PROJECT

a CD-anthology of commissioned interactive media works

by Canadian artists who typically work in a variety of media.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

2-5pm

Please join the commissioners of The Box Project Sharon Switzer and Sue Lloyd, the staff and Board of Vtape, and many of the artists whose works are included in this innovative anthology of lively and witty works of artistic engagement for a launch party and demonstration this Saturday at Vtape.

Vtape Creative Director, Lisa Steele, says of The Box project, "This CD-anthology reveals the surprising and supple ways that each artist has approached the idea of "navigation". Each project is a revelation, beautifully executed, filled with humour and wicked wit. The Box Project is an excellent teaching tool for anyone looking at how artists have approached a new media delivery system such as the CD-ROM."

A short text by Caroline Seck Langill will be available at the launch.

Vtape

401 Richmond St., #452

Toronto, ON M5V 3A8

416 351-1317

Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 12-4pm

For more information, contact info@vtape.org

www.vtape.org

Artists and Projects on The Box Project

Michael Balser and Andy Fabo: Game of Art in a Box

To summarize the rules of the Game of Art, Fabo quotes Ginsberg: "You can't win.", "You can't break even." and "You can't quit." Andy Fabo is a Toronto artist, writer and teacher who exhibits nationally, and internationally. Michael Balser (1952-2002) was an artist, writer, curator and teacher working in digital media.

David Clark: Less Time

A digital interpretation of an Andre Breton poem. David Clark is a media artist and filmmaker who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and teaches film and media arts at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. www.chemicalpictures.net.

Judith Doyle: fox : future

A chronicle of human / animal interactions, and the impact of 'seeing' technologies on our experience of nature. Judith Doyle is an artist, filmmaker and writer teaching at the Ontario College of Art & Design. http://www.readingpictures.com/foxthesis.

Michelle Gay: Experiments with a Reader (looploop, stretchpoem, futurenatural)

The genesis of installation works that use text and source code as an enterable virtual landscape Michelle Gay is an artist represented by Birch | Libralato Gallery. Art: www.michellegay.com; Design: www.steamworks.net

Sue Lloyd: Joybox

Hollywood love scenes between women are framed and looped: pleasure is prolonged, narrative punishment infinitely deferred. Sue Lloyd is a Toronto-based artist whose work has been shown across Canada and in the U.S.. She teaches in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto.

Steve Reinke: Finnegan's Wake (excerpt)

Reinke recited James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" into a word-recognition program, and then recorded his recitation of the resulting text. Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his single channel videos, which have been screened, exhibited and collected worldwide. He teaches at Northwestern Universityin Evanston, IL. www.myrectumisnotagrave.com

Sharon Switzer: Fortune

An automaton is paired with a series of fortunes that predict a mundane and humorously banal future. Sharon Switzer is a Toronto-based artist and curator whose media art has been shown across Canada and the U.S.

Barb Webb: Spirograph

Webb's Spirograph-inspired prose pieces are from her digital work with popular toys of the 1960s. Barb Webb lives in Coe Hill, Ontario and uses memory as a trigger for stories.

The Box Project received funding from the Toronto Arts Council