November 29, 2001 - December 30, 2001
The Art Gallery of Sudbury is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Skins - versions by Toronto artist Michelle Gay. The exhibition is scheduled to take place from 29 November to 30 December 2001 with an opening reception Thursday 29 November at 7pm. This exhibition has been designed for the Art Gallery of Sudbury and will present a unique blend of visual art and technology.
Opening Reception: Thursday 29 November at 7pm
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Skins-versions: the work uses Tactex MTC
touch sensitive pads to create interactive skins |
Developed by brother and sister team, Michelle Gay and Colin Gay, the work uses Tactex MTC touch sensitive pads to create interactive skins. Custom computers, flat panel monitors join the MTC as integral elements to the artwork. The installation is intended to shift people's approach to computer generated art forms - literally and figuratively.
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| scheme for installation |
The artist/physicist team set out to create "poetic
moments" with and for the computer - making sport of the notion
that computers are 'just tools'. The MTC controllers allow each
viewer/participant to create their own subtle and evocative vignettes within
the digital skin environments.
Artist Biography
Michelle Gay is an artist living and working in Toronto, Canada,
works with a range of media from drawing to needlework to bookwork to CD-ROM
and web projects, investigating the junctures between bodies and technologies.
She received her B.A. in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto in
1989 and her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, in
1992. She has exhibited her work across Canada and pursues a practice in
digital media and design through her freelance company Steamworks Media.
Michelle has exhibited work at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (AB,) the
Power Plant, Mercer Union, (ON), Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery (NS), The
Museum for Textiles, YYZ Artists Outlet, Edward Day Gallery, among other
galleries. Upcoming exhibitions include a 200' digital tapestry that will be
shown in Prague (CZ) and Museum London (London, Ontario) in 2002.
Programmer's Biography
Colin W. Gay, a member of the Yale faculty since 1997, has been named
the Horace D. Taft Assistant Professor of Physics. A native of Canada, Gay
earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto, where he
majored in mathematics and physics. He continued advanced study there, earning
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. While at the University of Toronto he was a member of
the E769 (TPL) Collaboration at the Fermi National Accelerator. After earning
his doctorate degree, Gay was a paid associate of CERN, the European
Organization for Nuclear Research, where he was also a member of the ALEPH
collaboration, and was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada postdoctoral fellow. He became a research associate at Harvard
University in 1994, and began his affiliation with the CDF Group there. At
Yale, he has continued work begun at Harvard as co-convenor of the CP
Violation and Mixing Analysis Group. Gay's research has focused on elementary
particle physics, and he is currently studying B mesons to reach a greater
understanding of the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter. In particular,
he is exploring CP violations in B mesons, which create matter and anti-matter
and are one of the requirements for the universe to exist.
