Archives: Projects

Important Men by Jennifer Chan

Important Men looks at digital advertising and different online initiatives to reform “toxic masculinity”, she sought to create her own oeuvre of male portraiture by photographing the important masculine influences in her life.

BIOTA2018 Prospective Futures: The Aurelia Project

Prospective Futures: The Aurelia Project (co-curated by ethnology curator Roger Lewis) centers around healing and recovery of highly contaminated legacy gold mine tailing sites across Nova Scotia.

‘In the Thread’

New web commissions by J.R. Carpenter, Jennifer Chan, and Liz Solo. Writers: David Clark (forward), Isabelle Arvers, Adrienne Crossman, and Johanna Drucker

CyberHive

IOTA: ARC presents the dome after dark for a 15-min stop-motion, sound and video piece by local artist Ruth Marsh featuring a 360 immersive environment which conjures a technologically altered, large-scale beehive.

Entering the Cyberhive: An Immersive Exploration

Combs covered wires out fuzzy backs long limbs painted resistors fast flying larvae hatching lights reaching slowly liquid lapping faces touching lines dancing buds gathering feeding bringing sweetness processing pollen matriarchs moving assembling dissembling beginning again.

IOTA Gallery Pop-up (Part Deux)

IOTA: Gallery Pop Up (Deux) is a pop up gallery that featured twelve Nova Scotia and New Brunswick contemporary artists.

Art Out Loud, Nova Scotia Creative Awards Gala

Presented by Arts Nova Scotia and the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council, the annual gala was held at the Halifax Central Library November 7th, 2016 in recognition of the beautiful new space and adding a twist to this year’s theme – Art Out Loud.

IOTA Gallery Pop-up (Part Un)

IOTA Gallery Pop-up (Part Un) featured fourteen Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick artists, and features two Halifax commercial art galleries for a pop-up sale event.