"DAMP: Contemporary Vancouver Media Arts," is a singular effort,
a visually exuberant work that is also on the vanguard of
theoretical engagement, a symbiosis of form and content, in
full-colour throughout, inclusive of extensive imagery, graphic
intrigues and typographical accent--a rare and desirable
art-infused statement of the city's media art scene--now. "DAMP" is
a long overdue critical engagement regarding the specificities of
contemporary Vancouver media arts. The editors' effort is not so
much to look to the past, nor to confine themselves within the
borders of a collective of one sort or another. Their intent is to
examine and speak to the now and the future of practice in
Vancouver, its relationship to world art-media, and to the
strategies of artists in this particular region. Origins of
thought--from First Nations source code onwards--create a framework
and starting point from which to study this mediacity. By
re-focussing on the relative unknowns of this scene--the hidden and
supressed histories, the city's internal and external mythologies
and imaginary futures--they are revealing a plainly visible but
unacknowledged praxis. "DAMP" will act as a catalyst for discussion
that stretches well beyond this locale, as it creates response and
reaction from points east, internal, and beyond nation borders.
"DAMP" includes over 25 contributions from such artists as
Laiwan, Fiona Bowie, Ann Marie Fleming, David Rimmer, Warren Arcan,
and Yum Lam Li, and critical essays by such well respected
Vancouver theorists as Clint Burnham, Jayce Salloum, and Randy Lee
Cutler.
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