THE POINT OF CONTACT GALLERY PRESENTS TOM SHERMAN

“MEDITATIONS ON VIDEO (&) LANGUAGE” CURATED BY PEDRO CUPERMAN

OCTOBER 25 – NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Opening night with the artist:  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012 at 6 p.m.  (Open to the public/free)

THE ART

Video is more than we think, it’s an existential instrument that alters the way we experience the world. Compared to the other media, for Tom Sherman, Video ‘sees’ and ‘hears’ the way we do as a species, engaging the senses of sight and hearing, describing actions and environments in visual and acoustic space simultaneously, in real time, in t e exact same time it takes things to happen outside the domain of video.

THE ARTIST

Tom Sherman is Professor of Art Video in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University. Sherman is an artist and writer.  He works primarily in video, performance and radio.  He was a founding co-editor of Fuse magazine, Toronto (1980); founding director of Media Arts for the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa (1983-87), and co-founder of Nerve Theory, an international performance art/recording collaborative (1997). In 1980, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale, and in 1986 was appointed international commissioner for the groundbreaking “Art, Technology and Informatics” exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Among numerous distinctions, Sherman received the Bell Canada prize for excellence in video art in 2003, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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