David Rokeby - Artist

a "slice" of Hand-held (2012) produced at Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts contemporains

David Rokeby is an installation artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has been creating and exhibiting since 1982. For the first part of his career he focussed on interactive pieces that directly engage the human body, or that involve artificial perception systems. In the last decade, his practice has expanded to included video, kinetic and static sculpture. His work has been performed / exhibited in shows across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia, including:

• the Venice Biennale in 1986
• Ars Electronica (Linz Austria) in 1991
• the Mediale (Hamburg Germany) in 1993
• the Kwangju Biennale (Korea)  in 1995
• the Biennale di Firenze (Florence, Italy) in 1996
• Alien Intelligence (Kiasma, Helsinki) in 2000
• The National Gallery of Canada in 2002
• The Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002
• Ars Electronica in 2002
• Algorithmische Revolution (ZKM, Germany) in 2004
• Silicon Remembers Carbon (retrospective) (Fact, Liverpool, UK) in 2007
• Silicon Remembers Carbon (retrospective) (CCA, Glasgow, Scotland) in 2007
• Profiling (Whitney Museum, New York, USA) in 2007
• e-art (Museé des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada) in 2007
• Synthetic Time (Beijing, China) in 2008
• LuminaTO Festival (Toronto, Canada) in 2009
• Panorama 14, Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France) in 2012