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Featured Artist: Annie Dunning
Guelph-based mixed-media and performance artist Annie Dunning negotiates ideas of space, urban wildlife, and her ecological place through the study of the world's oldest domesticated bird: the pigeon. In the creation of the work Air Time, Dunning collaborated with pigeon fancier Timothy Hume, who keeps a flock of 300 pigeons at his home on Salt Spring Island. Dunning built instruments from organic materials modelled after ancient Chinese pigeon flutes, attached her instruments to Hume's pigeons, and recorded in sound and video the birds' flight paths. Air Time is more than musical orchestration; it is a collaborative broadcast by Dunning and the pigeons. Air Time was featured in Woodlot: The 3rd KW|AG Biennial which ran until September 9th, 2007.
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CAFKA.18: Benoît Maubrey
Berlin-based artist Benoît Maubrey talks about his mobile interactive sound sculpture ARENA. ARENA is conceived in the shape of a small amphitheater, constructed with 320 recycled loudspeakers.... read more
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CAFKA.18: Marcia Huyer
Marcia Huyer's Negotiating +/- consists of 160 opaque white plastic bags which inflate and deflate at various times. Each bag is inflated by its own fan and positioned closely together with the... read more
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Big Ideas in Art and Culture: Michael Roberson
Michael Roberson (New York) is a public health practitioner, activist, and leader within the LGBTQ community. He will deliver a talk entitled ... read more