Julie Andreyev will be showing her "Static Paintings" which are digital images produced from television static and cartoon sources, and her video "Beam Me" which uses as source material static and imagery of the dematerialization of the body as it appears in the Star Trek movies. November 16 through December 7, opening reception November 15 (Robert Birch Gallery, 241 King St. East, 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.
Michelle Sujai