[microsound-announce] Fwd: [VIVO MEMBERS] [Fwd: Opening Reception Party for Arcade, Ryoji Ikeda, Infinite Egress and Optic Ear]

Wed Sep 23 14:21:38 EDT 2009

This Saturday evening we will be opening four exhibitions at the Surrey Art
Gallery. I hope you will be able to join us.

The exhibitions include: Ryoji Ikeda: data.tron/data.scan, Infinite Egress,
Optic Ear and Arcade.  The opening party should be a very fun event. There
will be live music with the electronic duo *Coin Gutter* <
http://www.coingutter.ca/> along with Japanese food and refreshments.

Liane

*Four new exhibitions: Ryoji Ikeda, Infinite Egress, Arcade and Optic Ear*

*Please join us at the Surrey Art Gallery for the opening reception party on
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September 26, 7–9pm.*

*Ryoji Ikeda: data.tron/data.scan**
*Paris-based artist Ryoji Ikeda’s data.tron/data.scan is an audiovisual
installation where visitors will experience the vast universe of data in the
infinite between 0 and 1. Each single pixel of visual image is strictly
calculated by mathematical principle, composed from a combination of pure
mathematics and the vast sea of data present in the world. These two works
are part of Ikeda’s datamatics project, a long–term programme of moving
image, sculptural, sound and new media works that take data as their theme
and material, exploring the ways in which abstracted views of reality – data
– are used to encode, understand and control the world. The exhibition is
produced in conjunction with the 10th Anniversary of the Surrey Art
Gallery’s TechLab digital art residency and exhibition program. data.scan is
co-produced by Surrey Art Gallery and Forma (forma.org.uk). data.tron is
co-produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains and Forma.
Continues to December 13

*Infinite Egress*
Considered by some to be the ultimate abstraction, the concept of the
infinite has compelled many modern and contemporary artists to try to
capture its essence. Infinite Egress presents work from two recent moments
of heightened interest in the infinite: the beginning of the 1970s and the
last half of this decade. Borrowing from visual languages associated with
fashion and commercial display, entertainment and spectacle, spirituality
and transcendental experience, optics and architecture, the artworks
presented here consider the concept of infinity in relation to the body and
its movement through space. Exhibiting artists: David Dyment & Roula
Partheniou, Babak Golkar, Robert Kleyn, Lucy Pullen, and Robert Smithson.
Continues to December 13

*Arcade: Kwantlen Fine Arts Faculty**
*Inspired by the arcade-like surroundings of the Arts Centre lobby, faculty
from Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Fine Arts department present
drawings, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, videos and installations that
surprise, excite and engage. Exhibiting artists: Gabriela Aceves, Kent
Anderson, Ana Black, Eryne O. Donahue, Sibeal Foyle, Robert Gelineau, Jake
Hill, Kitty Leung, David Lloyd, Paulo Majano, Scott McBride, PLAID: Nancy
Duff & Alison MacTaggart, Monique Silverman, Ken Singer. Continues to
November 1

*Optic Ear*
Building on the legacy of 1960s Op Art this exhibition presents three works
of media art (film, video and computer graphics) that strip down their
respective mediums to their bare essentials revealing the close link between
sound, image and geometrical abstraction in time-based media from the 1970s.
The artists in this exhibition are Norman McLaren, Steina and Woody Vasulka,
and Elizabeth Vander Zaag. Continues to December 13

*Opening Reception Party **
*Saturday, September 26, 7–9pm (formal remarks at 7:30pm)

Ryoji Ikeda, Babak Golkar, Robert Kleyn and the Kwantlen Fine Arts Faculty
will be in attendance.
Live performance by Coin Gutter. Refreshments provided.
Free admission

*A shuttle bus (with Surrey Art Gallery signage) designated for the Opening
Reception Party will pick up from Surrey Central Skytrain station (at the
Handy Dart bus stop beside Urban Expresso) at 6:20pm and 7pm. Alternatively,
visitors can take the #321 “Newton Exchange/ White Rock Centre/ White Rock
South” bus to 88 Avenue (leaving at 8 minute intervals from the Surrey
Central bus station).

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*Surrey Art Gallery*

604-501-5566 | www.arts.surrey.ca

13750 - 88 Avenue, 1 block east of King George Hwy., in Bear Creek Park

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*Directions are on our
website*<http://www.surrey.ca/Living+in+Surrey/Arts/Surrey+Arts+Centre/Visitor+Info/map.htm>
* which includes a map.*

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COIN GUTTER - PIGEONLESS and other downloads from: http://www.coingutter.ca
LAST-FM: http://www.last.fm/music/coin+gutter
JAPAN NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL (2009)
http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2008/recommend
CANARY ISLANDS SELECTED WORK
http://www.canariasmediafest.org/portal/publicaciones.cmf?categoria=171&codmenu=901&codidioma=38
http://desiringproductions.com/dontstop/
NOTYPE:
http://www.electrocd.com/cat.e/imnt_0310.html
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