Lightening Talk
Dave Colangelo
York University and Ryerson University
Patricio Davila
York University, Ryerson University, and OCAD University
Biographies
Dave Colangelo is a Canadian artist and academic based in Toronto. His writing and practice begins at the border of media, communications, technology, public space, and art, and incorporates a wide range of media including urban screens, mobile devices, projection, and architecture.
Patricio Davila is a designer, artist, researcher and educator. He is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University (Faculty of Design) and member of the OCADU Mobile Media Lab. As an educator he has taught Interactive Design, Data Visualization, Typography, Research Methodologies, Thesis and Core Studio. As a researcher, Patricio has been involved in a variety of projects that incorporate design research, interactive and time-based media.
Abstract
As part of the currated exhibition for HASTAC 2013, Many Hands: The Archives of Ontario will transform the façade of the York Research Tower above the Archives of Ontario into the site of a large-scale projection for images from The Archives of Ontario.
With Many Hands, the second in a series of three future cinema/public data visualization projects, we continue to explore the role of digital media in shaping our relationships with public space, architecture, and data (see McQuire 2008). As experiments in research-creation (see Smith and Dean 2009), these works attempt to test and refine theoretical claims about the effects of interactive architectural public displays; namely the increased transversality of identity and subjectivity (see Murphie 2004), the re-embodiment of the experience of media that sees the body less as a point in a perspectival system and more as a vector in space (see Hansen 2004), and the radical contingency (see Harbord 2007) of surface effects experienced in public space. Through this work we also traverse and engage assemblages at various scales and levels of access in an attempt to allow viewers to witness interrelationships of environmental, social, political, technological, and human systems (see Latour 2005, Rancière 2000 and 2009). Many Hands is an attempt to contest and question the “anytime, anywhere, any device” impetus of digitization by using digital technology to create a time, place, and body position-specific experience of the equally embodied experiences that remain central to the archival process.