[spectre] Database Imaginary

[Sarah Cook]

Apologies for cross-posting this announcement regarding your last 
chance to see the exhibition Database Imaginary, opening this week in 
Montreal

DATABASE IMAGINARY

10.02.06 – 02.04.06

Cory Arcangel, Natalie Bookchin, Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, Alan 
Currall, Graham Harwood/Mongrel, Agnes Hegedûs, Pablo Helguera, Lisa 
Jevbratt/C5, Lev Manovich, Muntadas, Edward Poitras, Preemptive Media, 
Thomson & Craighead, University of Openess, Angie Waller, Cheryl 
L’Hirondelle Waynohtêw

CURATORS: Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz, Anthony Kiendl

VERNISSAGE:
Thursday, February 9, 6:30pm
Preceded by a tour of the exhibition with curator Sarah Cook at 6pm

The Liane and Danny Taran Gallery is pleased to present 
the international touring exhibition Database Imaginary curated by 
Sarah Cook, Steve Dietz and Anthony Kiendl. Responsive to the 21st 
century, the 21 artists in Database Imaginary engage imaginatively with 
the organization of data through their use of aesthetic, conceptual, 
social and political strategies.

The term ‘database’ was coined in the 1970s with the rise of automated 
office procedures. However, it is only with the rise of computing and 
widespread access to vast quantities of organized information that the 
term has come to the fore in the popular imagination. Database 
Imaginary presents 16 art projects in a broad variety of old and new 
media, including newly commissioned works, made by individual and teams 
of artists in the last ten years.

The exhibition is co-organized by the Walter Phillips Gallery, The 
Banff Centre and The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, with 
financial support from the Department of Canadian Heritage (Museums 
Assistance Program), the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Daniel 
Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, the Canada Council 
for the Arts and CRUMB.

http:://databaseimaginary.banff.org

TALK: DOT TUER
Thursday March 16 at 6pm

In the context of Database Imaginary - an exhibition which explores the 
cultural form of the database - art historian and media theorist Dot 
Tuer, Professor at OCAD and author of the recently published Mining the 
Media Archive, discusses how the embodiment of memory and place is 
being altered by the mapping of the archive in cyberspace.

Questions? Susannah Wesley, swesley at saidyebronfman.org, (514) 739-2301 
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