Julie Andreyev will be showing her work "Stereoscope", a gallery-sized stereoscope based on nineteenth century 3D technology with imagery of a contemporary game arcade. Her video "Dustclouds", based on footage from 911 and a popular action film about terrorism in NY will also be shown at the same venue. On view November 1 through November 30, opening reception October 31. (Gallery 44: Center for Contemporary Photography, 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 120, Toronto).
Website:
www.eciad.ca/~jandreye
Julie Andreyev's work is influenced by forms within popular entertainment and car cultures, and interactive, mobile technologies. The most recent projects involve multi-media interactive cars: Four-Wheel Drift 1 was performed in 2004 at Interactive Futures, Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival. In 2003, VJ-Fleet was performed in the New Forms Festival in Vancouver and shown at: ORB//Remote: Global Scrambling, 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark; at MAD '03NET 2nd International Meeting of Experimental Arts in Madrid where it received a Project Award; and at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo in 2004. VJ-Fleet was nominated for a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Interactive Arts Installation Award. Four-Wheel Drift (re-mix) was performed during her residency at Splintermind, Stockholm in Spring 2004, sponsored by the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art. Andreyev was recently awarded a Strategic Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Andreyev is Associate Professor at the Emily Carr Institute of Art, Design & Media.
Gloria Sutton