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<div><span><div><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><font color="#007f7f"><font face="Eurostile">
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</b>PLAN B [Marc Fournel and Thomas Ouelette Fredericks]<br>
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Curated by Caroline Seck Langill<br>
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</b></font></font></span><font size="1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9px;">Installation view of <i>FLOCK [in],</i> Plan B, 2006. <br>
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<b>Opening Reception Friday November 24th, 7:30 pm<br>
<i>lan B): Monday, November 20, 7-10 pm (please
read on for more information!)<br>
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</font><font face="Arial">Exhibition runs November 25, 2006 - January 13, 2007<br>
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InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, 9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto<br>
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InterAccess is pleased to present <b><i>FLOCK [in]</i></b>,
an exhibition of two new works that employ interactive immersive
technologies created by the collaborative PLAN B, (new media artists
Marc Fournel and Thomas Oulette Fredericks). Curated by Caroline Seck
Langill, this exhibition invites the viewer to pick up, hold, and
position a trio of colorful fur-covered spherical interfaces within the
gallery. Oddly reminiscent of techno-color Star Trek tribbles, these
interfaces trigger a barrage of imagery and sounds that migrate
throughout the space in an open-ended pattern, much akin to the
movement of a flock of birds. <br>
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Using a generic simulated flocking creature called "boids," the artists are exploiting abstract algorithms as a
distribution system for imagery and sound that is controlled by the
unpredictable actions of the viewer. <br>
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Please join us for a special opening reception on <b>Friday November 24, 7:30 pm</b>
at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, 9 Ossington Avenue.
Artists Marc Fournel and Thomas Ouelette Fredericks will be
present. <b><i>FLOCK [in] </i></b>is programmed as part of InterAccess' Year
Without Wires, a year of new media and audio installations that bring
focus to site-specific audio.<br>
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More information about the artists, curator, and works in the exhibition:<br>
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<b>Marc Fournel</b> is an "undisciplinary creator," a jack of all
trades and an independent coffee drinker active in media art since
1995. Fournel's artistic practice includes video and sound
single-channel works and interactive audio and video installations. His
present art research focuses on social dynamic, sound algorithms,
biological structure digital images, innovative interactive systems and
immersive environments. He curated and organized many media art events
(in production and presentation) and was deeply involved in the
Canadian independent media art scene. A founding member of the
collective Vitamin Beziehungen (an artists' and researchers' collective
focusing on cybernetic and art practice) and associate researcher of
the LMI (Interactive Media Lab, Department of Communication at the
Université du Québec à Montréal), Fournel lives, loves, eats and works
in Montreal. More information about Fournel can be found at <font color="#0000fe"><u><</u></font><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://ciam.dyndns.org/%7Emfco" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://ciam.dyndns.org/~mfco</a></font><font color="#0000fe">
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</font></u><b>Thomas Ouellet Fredericks</b> is an independent artist, a
part-time university teacher and a consultant. After completing a
Master's degree in communications at Université du Québec à Montréal in
2003, he specialized in the creation of interactive installations,
whose user interfaces are modeled on behavioural and psychological
contemporary research. Fredericks' work often uses biological elements,
or their simulation, and poses a definite emphasis on the sense of
touch. For the last year he has been investigating the emergence of
complex reactions from densities of simple agents propagated in the
physical space, resulting in the latest collaborative piece, <i>Flock</i>. He is a proud member and active participant of the open
source and Creative Commons movements. Fredericks' work has been shown
nationally and internationally. He lives and works in Montreal. More
information about Fredericks can be found at <
<font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://ciam.dyndns.org/%7Evitamin/danslchamp/mrtof" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ciam.dyndns.org/~vitamin/danslchamp/mrtof</a></u></font>
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<b>Caroline Seck Langill</b> is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and
independent curator living in Peterborough, Ontario. She is a doctoral
candidate in Canadian Studies at Trent University, where she is looking
at the contestation of the exhibitionary complex by artists working
with technology, and the exclusion of early electronic media from the
Canadian art historical canon. Langill is also a 2006 researcher in
residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and
Technology in Montreal. Her videos, films and installation works have
been exhibited nationally and in the U.K. <br>
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<b><i>FLOCK</i></b> uses the boids' Pure Data external (developed by
Eric Singer, Jasch & Andr Sier, Simon Fraser and Craig Reynolds).
Andy Farnell's Pure Data patches provided inspiration for parts of the
audio engine created for <i>FLOCK</i>. All other programming in <i>FLOCK</i> and <i>[in]</i> is original work from Plan B. The artists want to thank the Pure Data community and the Daniel Langlois Foundation.<br>
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InterAccess gratefully thanks the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario
Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Trillium
Foundation.<br>
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<b>Media Contact</b>: Swintak, Programming Coordinator (416) 599-7206 or email <<font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="mailto:swintak@interaccess.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<b>InterAccess is a not-for-profit, artist-run centre that enables
artists and the general public to explore the intersections of art and
technology. Our mission is to expand the cultural space of technology.<br>
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<b>InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre<br>
</b>9 Ossington Avenue<br>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 2Y8<br>
Telephone 416-599-7206<br>
Facsimile 416-599-7015<br>
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<br>-- <br>Marc Fournel<br><a href="http://ciam.dyndns.org/~mfco">http://ciam.dyndns.org/~mfco</a><br><a href="mailto:fournel.marc@gmail.com">fournel.marc@gmail.com</a><br>SKYPE: marcfournel