Critical Writing Index

Canadian Currents: A Selection of CD-ROMs and Internet Projects

by Nina Czegledy

Toronto: Absolute Choice Curatorial Collective, 1999

"Canadian Currents complements the Current Media Art program from Germany, presented in November 1999 at the Goethe-Institut Toronto. The program has been conceptualized in collaboration with Berlin based Bjoern Melhus, artist and curator, and Doina Popescu, programme coordinator of the Goethe-Institut Toronto. Foreshadowing millenial projects of 2000 at the Goethe-Institut, a panel discussion, reflecting on the changing global cultural trends and the transformative aspects of new media, will inaugurate the German and Canadian presentations." (Quote taken from the catalogue.)

ITEM 1999.117 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Three Follies – Gunilla Josephson

Film Muet/Silent Movie – Freda Guttman

Saputi (Fish Traps) – Zacharias Kunuk

Shimmer – Nelson Henricks

Herr – John Greyson

Herr – Joe Laughlin

Born Under Surveillance – Paul Wong

Born Under Surveillance – Chris MacKenzie

Hey Madonna – Mike Hoolboom

Reader by the Window – Jan Peacock

An Illustrated History of Western Music – Dennis Day

For ever more – Leslie Peters

Backwards – Cathy Sisler

Black Flag – Istvan Kantor

Signal – Su Rynard

David Clark

Adriene Jenik

Veron