Reverse Engineered / Rétro-ingénerie
Alexandre Catonguay / Mathieu Bouchard
- Publisher
- Carleton University Art Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2012
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780770905316
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
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Description
Reverse Engineered / Réro-ingénerie presents the work of frequent collaborators Alexandre Castonguay (an artist) and Mathieu Bouchard (a mathematician). In this exhibition they have extended their collaboration by examining the early days of computer-generated art to create a new work. The exhibition presented two installation works: the first, Reverse Engineered, initiates a dialogue, facilitated by a custom computer program developed by Bouchard and Castonguay, between gallery visitors and a series of early silkscreen prints made by pioneers of this experimental genre, selected from the gallery's collection. The second, Drawing by Numbers, is a wall-mounted drawing machine that requires visitors' active engagement to set it to work engraving the gallery's walls. Guest writer Nicole Gingras brings a longstanding interest in new media and a fascination with the ways artists perpetually reinvent drawing to her investigation of the many ramifications of the exhibition. The innovative bilingual catalogue was recognized with a design award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries in 2010. Catalogue design by Kelsey Blackwell.
About the authors
Diana Nemiroff is a Canadian curator and art historian in the field of contemporary art. She holds an MA in art history from Concordia University where she was awarded the Alfred E. Pinsky Medal for the highest-ranking graduating student in the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 2012, she was the recipient of a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Nemiroff has held positions as director of Carleton University Art Gallery, senior curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and also held assistant and associate curator positions with the Gallery. She has numerous exhibitions to her credit, including the ground-breaking Land, Spirit, Power: First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada (1992), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (co-curated with Robert Houle and Charlotte Townsend-Gault), which was the National Gallery's first major exhibition featuring the accomplishments of a new generation of Aboriginal artists; Crossings / Traversées (1998), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Melvin Charney and Kzrysztof Wodiczko (1986) for the 42nd Venice Biennale.
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