David Rokeby speaks in Toronto

Interactive Art Pioneer David Rokeby speaks in Toronto December 2 as part of the Kodak Lecture Series

Kodak Lecture Series: David Rokeby
7:30 pm, Friday, December 2, 2005
Ryerson University, Centre for Computing and Engineering, Lecture Theatre 103, 245 Church Street (just north of Dundas Street East at Gould Street)
FREE. Arrive early for guaranteed seating.
Lectures are webcast live as well as archived at www.ryersonlectures.ca

The Kodak Lecture Series is pleased to announce that Toronto artist David Rokeby will present a talk about his work on Friday, December 2, at 7:30 pm at Ryerson University in Toronto.

David Rokeby has won acclaim in both artistic and technical fields for his new media artworks. A pioneer in interactive art and an acknowledged innovator in interactive technologies, Rokeby has achieved international recognition as an artist and seen te technologies which he develops for his work given unique applications by a broad range of arts practitioners and medical scientists.

Born in Tillsonburg, Ontario in 1960, Rokeby studied at the Ontario College of Art where he began to use technology to make pieces that directly engage the human body, or that involve artificial perception systems. His best known work, Very Nervous System (1986-90), premiered at the Venice Biennale in 1996, won the first Petro-Canada Award for Media Arts (1988) and is permanently installed in several museums around the world. Rokeby has twice been honored with Austria's Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction (1991 and 1997). He has been an invited speaker at events around the world, and has published two papers that are required reading in the new media arts faculties of many universities. He received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2002.

Current exhibitions of David Rokeby's work can be seen in Toronto at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre (9 Ossington Ave.) until December 4, Blackwood Gallery (U of T at Mississauga) until December 18, and Pari Nadimi Gallery (254 Niagara St.) until December 31. Upcoming projects in Canada include a major exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and a new commissioned work for the Hamilton Airport, both in Spring 2006.