Jeff Morton Doing Several Awesome Things at Artengine

May 3rd, 2011

Morton’s installation welcomes interactivity through the one irresistible object that begs to be pushed: the button. Toy farm animals (and the odd T-rex) have been re-wired and fitted with buttons and sliders, sorted into groups, and then presented on eight pedestals in a kind of fantasy tableau.

Percussion Afternoon

February 1st, 2011

It was an intimate setting for Jesse Stewart’s solo percussion performance at CUAG last Saturday afternoon. A hushed crowd gathered in the gallery space where David Rokeby’s interactive sound installation Very Nervous System is currently set up and Stewart, a local percussionist, curator, visual artist, and professor at Carleton University, entranced us with his improvised beats for the better part of an hour.

DAVID ROKEBY’S Very Nervous System @ CUAG and 3 Questions with Curator, Jesse Stewart

December 8th, 2010

First impression of Very Nervous System by David Rokeby, currently on view at CUAG: I’ve seen this before. It took me a few hours and eventually giving in to a quick Google search (a functioning external memory for many of us) to realize that I’d seen Very Nervous System at an exhibition in Linz, Austria […]