SCHEMATIC: ERIC RAYMOND

Canada House
Trafalgar Square, Cockspur Street
London SW1Y 5BJ

April 25 - June 6, 2008

A solo show presenting the work of the Montreal-based media artist, featuring his most striking robotic and electronic installations. Curated by Heather Corcoran, Michelle Kasprzak and Gillian McIver. Co-presented by Kinetica Museum.

Eric Raymond has been active in the field of electronic arts for over a decade, having exhibited widely in Canada and internationally, including the Absolut LA International Biennial Art Invitational (US) and Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria).

Raymond’s solo show explores the dynamic between technology and our natural world, and represents the first part of Schematic: New Media Art from Canada, a group exhibition opening in London later this year.

Schematic: Eric Raymond is part of Québec 400 celebrations in London.

Supported by:

THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS

Heather Corcoran is an independent producer/curator and formerly Emergent Technologies Producer at Space Media Arts in London. Recently she has curated "Tha Click" at E:vent Gallery featuring American artists Paper Rad and Beige (Cory Arcangel and Paul B. Davis); the game hack exhibition "Controller" at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto, where she was Communications Manager until 2005, and the "Tagged" series of eventsat Space Media Arts.  She is a core organizer of NODE.London, co-organizer of Dorkbot London and a member of OpenLab. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media at Ryerson University in Toronto. She recently joined FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) as curator.

Michelle Kasprzak is a curator, writer, and orator based in Edinburgh. Michelle has exhibited and lectured across North America and Europe. She has been featured in numerous publications and on radio and television broadcasts syndicated worldwide. She completed her MA in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in spring of 2006, and later that year was awarded a curatorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Finland. She has written critical essays for Spacing, CV Photo, Public, Mute, and several online journals. Currently, two video programmes that she has curated are on a worldwide tour. Formerly the Programmes Director of New Media Scotland, Michelle is now a Visual Arts Officer for the Scottish Arts Council. michelle.kasprzak.ca, www.curating.info

Gillian McIver is a UK-based Canadian writer, curator and film/video artist. Following studies in History and Philosophy in Canada (UBC, U of Toronto), she studied Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster. She is a founder of international art collective, Luna Nera, dedicated to site-specific media and live arts. Her recent projects include curating an exhibition of video art, "Postindustrial Baroque"; co-curating an exhibition of book and video art "Prospero’s Library" (Moscow 2007).  In 2006 she curated video programmes for the Vidifest Valencia,  and for the "Generalized Empowerment: Urban Interventions" conference at UCL, with Saskia Sassen et al. She has written for Variant, Crosswalk and Contexts, and for online journals. She recenlty lecurtred and presented work at "Digital Media 08" in Valencia.
www.luna-nera.com    www.artsite.org.uk