Micah Lexier is a Toronto-based artist, collector and curator. He has a deep interest in measurement, increment, geometric shapes, display structures, found imagery, and the casual marks we make in our day-to-day lives. He has had over 100 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 200 group exhibitions, and has produced a dozen permanent public commissions. In 2013 The Power Plant presented a 15-year survey exhibition of Lexier’s work entitled One, and Two, and More Than Two, featuring a major curatorial project in which Lexier presented the work of over 100 Toronto-based artists. Lexier’s work is in numerous public and corporate collections including The British Museum (London, England), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Sydney, Australia), The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Vancouver Art Gallery, and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Micah Lexier is represented in Toronto by Birch Contemporary, Toronto.
Pierre-André Arcand is a multidisciplinary artist particularly active in writing, performance, poetry, experimental music, audio art. He is one of the founding members of Avatar, a self-run artist centre specialized in researching, creating, disseminating, publishing, and distributing audio and electronic art located in Québec City.
Kim Dawn received a BFA from NSCAD in 1996 and an MFA from the University of Western Ontario in 1999. Dawn's inter-disciplinary art practice includes performance, text, drawing, painting, installation, video and sound works. Her work has been shown at the eyelevel gallery, the Khyber Center for the Arts, the Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, the Secord Gallery, the Parentheses Art Gallery, Oboro, the Western Front, amongst others.
Dan Lander Over the years Dan Lander has earned a living through many occupations. A partial list would include administrative assistant, balloon delivery agent, bobcat operator, bookstore manager, eaves-trough installer, business analyst, cab driver, curator, deputy director of a TV business unit, gardener, farm worker, fork-lift operator, fruit picker, furnace installer, general labourer, media arts granting officer, photographer, rock drill operator, septic tank pump operator, steel worker, teacher, truck driver, factory worker, editor, writer and artist. After attending the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, he began to make works primarily in sound. His radio art program The Problem with Language (CKLN, Toronto) aired from 1987 to 1991. Published sound works include Zoo (empreintes DIGITALes, 1995), ‘Room’ on Radius #3: transmissions from broadcast artists (¿What Next? Recordings, 1995) and Habitation (Hrönir, 1998). He is co-editor of two anthologies on sound and art (Sound by Artists, 1990 and Radio Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission, 1994), and his writing is included in the anthology Music is Rapid Transportation (2010). Recently he has been involved in photographic and book projects.
Diane Landry was born in 1958 in Cap-de-la-Madeleine and maintains her studio in Quebec City, Canada. She initially studied Natural Sciences and worked in the agricultural field for five years. At age 25 she shifted course, feeling it would be easier to change the world through a career in the visual arts. Landry received her BA in Visual Arts from Laval University, Quebec, in 1987 and an MFA from Stanford University, California in 2006. She has exhibited and performed extensively in Canada, USA, Europe, China and Australia. Landry has also worked as artist-in-residence in New York City, Montréal, The Banff Centre (Alberta), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Marseille (France) and Utica (NY). In 2009 the Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec published a monograph marking the first retrospective exhibition of her work, The Defibrillators. Her first American retrospective The Cadence of All Things was on view at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC. Landry is represented by Galerie Michel Guimont (Quebec city) and Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Kelly Mark works in a variety of media including: sculpture, video, installation, drawing, photography, sound, multiples, performance & public interventions. She has exhibited widely across Canada, and internationally. Such venues include: The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), The Darling Foundry (Montreal), Musée d'Art Contemporain (Montreal); MSVU Art Gallery (Halifax), Bass Museum (Miami), University of Houston (Texas), Real Art Ways (Hartford), The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Ikon Gallery (UK), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Scotland), The Physics Room (NZ), Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art (Belgium). Represented Canada at The Sydney Biennale (1998) and Liverpool Biennale (2006).
Is represented in the public collections of The National Gallery of Canada, The Canada Council Art Bank, Canadian Foreign Affairs, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée D'Art Contemporain and many other public, corporate and private collections.
Christof Migone is an artist, curator and writer. His research delves into language & voice, bodies & performance, intimacy & complicity, sound & silence, rhythmics & kinetics, translation & referentiality, stillness & imperceptibility, structure & improvisation, play & pathos, pedagogy & unlearning, failure & endurance. He began doing radio in 1984 at CKCU-FM in Ottawa and between 1987 and 1994 he was active at CKUT-FM in Montreal and with the National Campus and Community Radio Association. Between 2008 and 2013 he was the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He has curated independently since 1990 and continues to do so. He has taught at NSCAD, NYU, Concordia, U of T and currently lives in Toronto and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University in London, Ontario.
Ryan Park uses shared objects, encounters, and cultural touchstones as starting points to produce work that oscillate between serious and playful, clinical and poetic. His interdisciplinary practice results in videos, photographs, and manipulations of found materials that suggest presences and absences, urges and constraints. His work is made in response to the processes of apprehension between an individual and the world. Working with sculpture, photography, found materials, or text, he attempts to give form to a state in which identity and function are constantly in flux, contingent on situation, private intentions, and social conventions. He currently lives and works in Toronto.
Charles Stankievech has lectured, performed and exhibited at such platforms as dOCUMENTA13 (Kassel), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Kunst-Werke ICA (Berlin), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2010 Germany), ISSUE Project Room (New York), MASS MoCA, Musée d’art contemporain Montreal, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and several art and architecture biennales (Venice, Berlin, Santa Fe and Montreal). His writings range from academic journals for MIT Press to experimental texts for art publications. His images have been published in a range of fields from the specialised NASA to the popular WIRED. He has participated in residencies with the Department of National Defence, Banff Centre for the Arts and Fieldwork in Marfa, Texas. He was a founding faculty member of the Yukon School of Visual Arts in Dawson City, Canada and is currently Assistant Professor in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto. Since 2011, he is co-director of the art and theory press K. located in Berlin.
Hildegard Westerkamp was born in Osnabrück, Germany in 1946 and emigrated to Canada in 1968. After completing her music studies in the early seventies Westerkamp joined the World Soundscape Project under the direction of Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver. Her involvement with this project not only activated deep concerns about noise and the general state of the acoustic environment in her, but it also changed her ways of thinking about music, listening and soundmaking. Her ears were drawn to the acoustic environment as another cultural context or place for intense listening. The founding of Vancouver Co-operative Radio during the same time provided an invaluable opportunity to record, experiment with and broadcast the soundscape. One could say that her career as a composer, educator, and radio artist emerged from these two pivotal experiences and focused it on environmental sound and acoustic ecology. In addition, composers such as John Cage and Pauline Oliveros have had a significant influence on her work. She taught courses in Acoustic Communication together with colleague Barry Truax in the School of Communication at SFU until 1990. Since then she has written articles and texts addressing issues of the soundscape and listening and has travelled widely, giving lectures and conducting soundscape workshops, internationally. She is a founding member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) as well as the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology (CASE). Between 1991 and 1995 she was the editor of The Soundscape Newsletter and is now on the editorial committee of Soundscape -The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, a publication of the WFAE.