Local Exhibitions

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If you're in or around Charlottetown in the next few weeks, there are some great art and graphic design exhibitions to be seen. On Saturday I was at the Confederation Centre of the Arts where they are still displaying a very diverse collection of photos by George S. Zimbel. They stretch back over fifty years and include photos from New York City and from around Prince Edward Island. Also upstairs in the gallery is an installation piece by David Rokeby that caused us to run around ridiculously in circles around the room. If you see it, you'll know what I mean. Also this week, there is a graphic design exhibit in the foyer at the Atlantic Technology Centre with work by students at Holland College. It's an eclectic mix but there's some promising talent shown by some of the students. Definitely worth dropping in.

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Erin -

http://www.livejournal.com/users/nire_nagaf

This is Rokeby's homepage, containing blurbs on his similar projects as well as his full-text writings on interactive art.
Rokeby designed the software himself, modelling it off of current airport surveillance technology (I work at the gallery Sunday afternoons). The camera/computer records movements even when the projectors are shut off, so the cleaning staff is being filmed and looped unawares every weekend in a surreal waltz of mops. I would have loved to ask him questions about it, but his wife was expecting at the time of the exhibit's opening.

Will Pate -

http://www.willpate.org

Thanks for the tip, Daniel. I saw Zimbel on Compass a few months ago and you've reminded me to visit the Confederation Center of the Arts and to see some of the young graphic design talent at the ATC.

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