Cafe Culture
Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak have profoundly influenced the developments in video and media art in Canada, and received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2005 for lifetime achievement. Since 1983, they have collaborated on videotapes, performances, and photo/text works that explore and document social realities from subjective viewpoints. They are professors at the University of Toronto's Visual Studies Programme and co-founders of Vtape.
4:00 to 5:30 pm
Curators Sunny Kerr and Yam Lau of the WayUpWayDown Collective will speak about Titles 7 at Page & Turners Book Store (123 Dunlop Street E, downtown Barrie) and then tour visitors through a selection of artist books installed at Kerry's Book Store (25 Dunlop Street W, downtown Barrie).
Yam Lau is an artist and educator living in Toronto. He is on the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University and represented by Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto. Sunny Kerr is an artist, curator and educator living in Toronto. He manages student and educational programmes at the University of Toronto Art Centre. Tania Ursomarzo is an artist and architect based in Toronto. She is an architectural designer at Stantec Architecture and curator of the Stantec Window Gallery...