Critical Writing Index

Engaging the Virtual

by Doug Porter

Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 2000

ISBN 0-7703-2722-2

"'Engaging the Virtual' brings together some of Canada's foremost artists in the area of new media. Guest curator Doug Porter spent the past two years researching this exhibition, traveling across Canada, making studio visits, and attending conferences." (Quote taken from page 5 of the catalogue.) The catalogue contains essays about the virtual, the local and immediate and more, artist’s statements, biographies and a list of the works shown in the exhibition. The exhibition ran from March 10 to April 23, 2000 at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

ITEM 2000.167 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Doug Black

JR Carpenter

Juan Geuer

Laiwan

Jacques Perron

Catherine Richards

Rob Rogers

David Rokeby

Norman White