Exposure Photography Festival Fundraiser

This year, the Exposure: Calgary Banff Canmore Photography Festival, is hosting its first fundraiser! Tickets go at $100 and $15 respectively. $100 guarantees you an original photographic print from a selection of 50 photographers (I've even got one in there!). Tickets are on sale now and the event takes place in Calgary at the Lougheed House on Friday, January 13, 2012. Check it out at:

Exposure Festival Blog

Pretty Pictures in the Banff Crag and Canyon

Thanks to Corrie for the post!

http://www.banffcragandcanyon.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3397058

Pretty Pictures show at Botega

Kodak + Ski Bunny = Cool

Found this old box of paper when I cleaning out my office last week. This pretty much describes my existence in Banff.

Article about Dream Lab

Review of Dream Lab exhibition at Les Territoires, courtesy of the blog ratsdeville.

Dream Lab at Les Territoires : Installation shots

Awakening. 2009. Installation View.

2 Hours of EEG activity during Hori Awakening Experiment. Approx. 350 feet. 2011. 

Installation View of Observation Chair and Becoming the Subject video

Four Self Portraits captured during Hori Awakening experiment. 30"x40". 2008.

Banff Morning

September 2011

Another Tree Hand

Giant Steps

Book of Dreams featured on Magenta's Imprint Blog

Here's the link:

Imprint: Tracking Magenta's Flash Forward Photographers

Thanks Katie for the post!

Ratti Factory : Altered Landscape

Flash Forward 2011 Exhibition Announced

If you happen to be in the Toronto area on November 9th, please check out the show!

Custom Made

Custom Made, 2006

Breakfast Scene

May 2011

Mixed Medium, curated by Anna and Tess Knoebel

Thanks to Anna and Tess at Abe's Penny and Culturehall for having my Book of Dreams project as one of four projects featured in this weeks' Culturehall Feature Issue 76.

Book of Dreams, Harry

Book of Dreams in the Textile Library

Seemed fitting to put this work in the Library at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti. After I installed the work, I realized that the books on the shelf above the work were photo books!

Thanks to Christian Roche for the photo documentation.

Casper David Friedrich

On the hike to Bellagio.

At the Ratti Factory

Italian Headstand

Fireworks Over Venice

I don't know why but I kind of like this lo-fi, point-n-shoot picture of fireworks in Venice. It's basically a crappy 35mm photo but I think I like the randomness after all the 4"x5" and medium format shots I've taken. It's kind of the same as using a pinhole camera in some ways.

Amici Della Montagna

Road to Sky

Rifugio a Riella

Wood pile

Sign

Landscape: Hill

Between foreground and background.

Landscape: Boulder as Mountain

In the garden at Fondazione Antonio Ratti.

Landscape : Ski Hill

Abandoned ski hill on the hike from Como to Bellagio.

Saturday Mornings, The Diner at Latitude 53

A few shots from the Latitude 53 installation.

Message Factory Workshop as part of Banff Culture Days

If you happen to be in Banff tomorrow, I'm doing a workshop from 11am- 3pm in the Bison courtyard called "The Message Factory" as part of Banff Culture Days I'll be showing people how to make cyanotypes , which can then be sent as postcards. There will also be three typewriters so you can type your own message on the front or back of the card. More information here:

Walter Phillips Gallery Public Programming 2011

Landscape 2

Landscape 1

Saturday Mornings, The Diner opening next Saturday at Latitude 53 in Edmonton

More info here. Opening reception is 7-9pm on Saturday, July 30th. Lindsay, Lia and I will be dressed as diner waitresses and serving coffee. Please drop in if you can!

Experiments

In the process of wrapping up the course in Italy and am reflecting back on the month that I've been here. I think the most valuable part of this experience has been trying things I would not normally have tried, including this little sculpture and installation. It was influenced by the communication within the group of artists and was build from model train lumber that I had leftover from the Banff Bubble project. I wouldn't exactly say I'm a sculptor now, but I did enjoy making this, for what it's worth.

I'm also including a triptych I prepared for my colleague Jagna's show, which was a show within a show. The images were taken in Italy and are about different types of landscape. In any case, I think I'll need to some time to process this experience before I can really understand the transformation in the Corso Aperto (ongoing open studio event) and the course in general.

CSAV blog

Blog from the XVII Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Antonio Ratti:

www.fondazioneratti.org/CSAV/blog

Dream Hotel

Did we really see this...

La Dorsale Del Triangolo Lariano

I'm not too keen to post iPhone jpegs, but here are two pictures from the Dorsale Del Triangolo Lariano trek I did this weekend. One is the view from Monte Croce heading down towards Pian Del Tivano yesterday evening and the other is a photo of a trail marker from today. Beautiful trek from Brunate to Bellagio and was a soulful break from the city. I missed the bus from Como to Brunate so slogged up a Grouse-grind-esque slope to the top of the hill. I don't think I've ever sweat so much in my entire life but a good weekend nonetheless!

Review of My Banff in Vue Weekly

Vue Weekly

by Carolyn Jervis

Dayna Danger opening at Botega Salon and Gallery, Banff, June 18th, 2011

Dayna Danger, the work study that I mentor in photography at The Banff Centre, is having an opening this Saturday in downtown Banff at Botega Salon and Gallery, from 7-9pm. Please come if you are in town. For more info:

Botega

Bumpers

Holding up the Earth

I don't know what this is all about but I do head stands at the top of mountain passes when hiking. This was at Burstall Pass last August following an epic day.. 18km slog through a very bad path in Height of the Rockies Provincial Park, a torrential downpour for a solid 45 minutes and redemption in a barely smoking campfire which we coaxed to a good fire after a lot of convincing. Colette may have use Jedi mind tricks. Anyway, this photo is from the next day - still moody and overcast, but not raining.

Flipped 180 degrees, I think it looks like I'm holding the earth.

Dayna

Pretty things

Indulging my ongoing interest in my kitchen table...again.

My Banff- A Few More Installation Images

The show opened on Friday and was a great event with lots of people. I think a lot of the crowd came to see the Andy Warhol exhibit (ha) but a few people came into my exhibition space as well. I got some great feedback and a lot of visitors shared their own stories about Banff which was great. I had the great fortune to have a posse of friends and family there for the opening - I feel like a very lucky artist.

Also, all the staff at the Art Gallery of Alberta were amazing to work with and I am very appreciative of my time spent in Edmonton! Special thanks to Sean for working on the bringing together the carpentry and motion sensor on the Bubble.