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March 7 - 25  | ​ COLOUR: What do you mean by that? 

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COLOUR: What do you mean by that? | March 7 - 25  | ​ 
​Opening Reception: Thursday Mar 8, 6:30-9:30pm

Colour: what do you mean by that?  This cross-disciplinary exhibition presents work by artists, designers and scientists using or investigating colour phenomena, qualities, and meanings. What is colour: frequency, wavelength, energy… resonance, material, sensation... perception, illusion, association... emotive embodied experience? The question opens up connections between diverse understandings and ways of knowing.
 
artists: Laura Bisaillon | Julia Buntaine | Chris Burke | Emily Carriere | Nicole Clouston | Jayanne English | David Griffin | Karine Guyon | Sara Hartland-Rowe| Mark-David Hosale, James Madsen & Rob Allison | Kathy Kranias | Marie Lannoo | Michelle Letarte | Art Lucs | Hameeda Mahmoud | Jessica Massard | Giuseppe Morano | Francis Muscat | Irma Osadsa | Frances Patella | Robert Quance | Jordan Shaw | Matthew Thomas | Dori Vanderheyden
co-sponsored by: the Colour Research Society of Canada and Propeller Gallery
 
Curatorial team/jury: Doreen Balabanoff, Robin Kingsburgh, Janet Read & Judith Tinkl
International Colour Day Curators’ Talk & Social: Wed Mar 21, 7-9pm
Artist Talks: Sun Mar 25, 2-4pm

Additional Programming

TALKS

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Art-Science in the development of ICECUBE Volumetric LED Displays
by Mark-David Hosale & Rob Allison (York University), and James Madsen (University of Wisconsin-River Falls)
 
A conversation between artist, scientist and engineer about visualization and colour, in the conception and development of the ICECUBE LED Display [ILDm^3]. The ICECUBE LED Display [ILDm^3] is a cubic-meter (1/1000th scale) model of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer telescope made of ice just below the surface at the South Pole. While scientifically precise, the display uses art methodologies as an optimal means for expressing imperceptible astrophysical events as sound, light and colour in the domain of the human sensorium. The 45 minute talk will be followed by Q&A period.
​Date & Time: Sunday Mar 18, 1:30pm
Location: Propeller Gallery, 30 Abell Street, Toronto
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The ICECUBE LED Display is a cubic meter volumetric display that sits low to the ground. The base is constructed of wood and provides support for 86 acrylic rods, each with 60 LED’s, totalling over 5000 LED’s. The piece also makes sounds, which are the sonification of light events. 

Mark-David Hosale is a computational artist and composer work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as SIGGRAPH Art Gallery (2005), International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2006), BlikOpener Festival, Delft, The Netherlands (2010), the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF2012), Toronto’s Nuit Blanche (2012), Art Souterrain, Montréal (2013), and a Collateral event at the Venice Biennale (2015). His interdisciplinary practice that is often built on collaborations with architects, scientists, and other artists in the field of computational arts, resulting in the creation of interactive and immersive installation artworks and performances that explore the boundaries between the virtual and the physical world.

James Madsen is the chair of the physics department at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls and an associate director of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, where he leads the education and outreach team. He has deployed five times to Antarctica, and presented science talks on five continents. He enjoys providing opportunities to participate in astrophysics research that range from one-time talks for general audiences to extended research experiences for teachers and students, including field deployments at the South Pole.

Robert Allison is a Professor at the Centre for Vision Research and in the departnemnt of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University. My main work involves basic and applied research on stereoscopic depth perception and virtual reality. I study how the brain, or a machine, can reconstruct a three-dimensional percept of the world around us from the two-dimensional images on the retinas and how we use this information to move about and interact with our environment. I am also interested in the measurement and analysis of eye movements and the applications of this technology.
Artist, Mark-David Hosale (York University, Toronto, Canada), and Physicist, James Madsen (University of Wisconsin, River-Falls, USA) have been working regularly with each other since 2012 and have realized several projects that explores the visualization and sonification of data sets collected at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Rob Allison (York University, Toronto, Canada) joined the collaboration in 2015.

​Primary Dye Workshops with Tanya Love

Blue: a natural indigo dye workshop | March 10, 10-5pm
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​Red: plant sources of colour | April 14, 10-1pm
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Yellow: plant sources of colour | May 26, 10-1pm
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Special thanks to our community partners and on-going sponsors. 
Propeller Art Gallery is a non-profit artist-run centre in the heart of Toronto's West Queen West Gallery District dedicated to promoting contemporary Canadian artists.

​30 Abell Street
Toronto, ON M6J 0A9
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