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<FONT FACE="Arial-BoldMT, Times, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4><B>Resurfacing
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<FONT FACE="Arial-BoldMT, Times, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4><B>An
interactive installation by Ben Bogart & Donna Marie Vakalis</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 0; orphans: 0"><FONT FACE="Helvetica, sans-serif">Opening
Reception Thursday October 6th 7:00pm</FONT></P>
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October 23rd</FONT></P>
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Mercury Lounge</FONT></P>
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Byward Market Square</FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2>Ottawa, september
29th 2005 -- On Thursday, october 6th, two Toronto's artists invites
the Mercury Lounge public to discover Resurfacing : By Ward Market.
Resurfacing : By Ward Market is an interactive new media
installation. This collaboration between Ben Bogart and Donna Marie
Vakalis explores new ways of understanding and conveying ideas about
the interconnected aesthetic, cultural and technological agencies
that shape our spatial experience of urban places.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2>The title
"Resurfacing" simultaneously implies the form, the metaphor
and the process of this project. A person can interact with the
installation as viewer and agent of resurfacing, or as one being
viewed and resurfaced.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT FACE="Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2>A viewer approaches a
touch screen mounted in a dark room. The touch screen depicts a
moving imageof the external scene - a crowded Byward Market
intersection - captured through a small camera perched on the second
story of a building. The images displayed on the touch screen exhibit
a strange disjointed quality; time lapse and cinématique
characteristics are fused. The viewer watches pedestrians and bar
hoppers stream over the screen's surface. As the viewer touches the
screen, a gradual and subtle shift occurs at the point of contact.
Non-permanent figures and objects appear to dissolve and become
incrémentation transparent. The permanent fixtures, such as
sidewalks, buildings and furniture, remain unaffected. The result
of the viewer surveying and resurfacing the urban market is projected
onto windows above. From the street, those surveyed can become aware
of themselves being resurfaced.</FONT></FONT></P>
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is devoted to the propagation of art on the internet and the artistic
exploration of new technologies. Since 1996, Artengine has been
active in the local arts community, commissioning several new media
exhibits by local and international artists, as well as hosting the
Artlist, a local arts events e-mail list.</I></FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 0; orphans: 0"><FONT FACE="Arial-ItalicMT, Times, sans-serif"><I>Artengine
and the artists wishes to thank its funders: the Canada Council for
the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Ottawa; in
particular, special thanks to the Ontario Trillium Foundation and
John Criswick for their support and assistance. Thank you to Axe Neo
7, Daïmon and Marc Lavallée</I></FONT></P>
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Contact:</B></FONT></P>
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<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 0; orphans: 0"><FONT FACE="ArialMT, Times, sans-serif">Andrée
Préfontaine curator</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 0; orphans: 0"><FONT FACE="ArialMT, Times, sans-serif">613.562.7923</FONT></P>
<P CLASS="western" STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 0; orphans: 0"><FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><FONT FACE="ArialMT, Times, sans-serif">info@artengine.ca</FONT></FONT></P>
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