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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:
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the Venice Biennale in 1986
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Ars Electronica (Linz Austria) in 1991
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the Mediale (Hamburg Germany) in 1993
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the Kwangju Biennale (Korea) in 1995
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the Biennale di Firenze (Florence, Italy)
in 1996
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Alien Intelligence (Kiasma, Helsinki) in 2000
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The National Gallery of Canada in 2002
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The Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002
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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
Awards include the first BAFTA
(British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award for Interactive
Art in 2000, a 2002 Governor
General's award in Visual and Media Arts and the Prix Ars Electronica
Golden Nica for Interactive Art 2002. He was awarded the first Petro-Canada
Award for Media Arts in 1988, the Prix
Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art (Austria)
in 1991 and 1997.
David Rokeby gratefully acknowledges generous and essential financial support from:
Installations
- information about my installations
Current Shows
- recent, current, and upcoming exhibitions of my work
Texts - texts
and article I have written about my work and interaction in general + video interviews
softVNS - information
about the VNS video motion tracking system used in much of my work
Interactive
Art - links to other pages related to interactive art
Images - higher
quality images of some of my work (for catalogs and PR)
CV and Bio - David
Rokeby's biography and curriculum vitae.
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