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What is interactive art? Is this a genre? A medium? An art movement? Must a work be physically active to be classified as such, or do we interact when we sense and make sense? Is a switch-throw or link-click enough - I do this, and that happens - or must subjects and objects be confused over time? Is interaction multiple in its engagements (relational), or a one-to-one reaction (programmed)? Are interactive designs somehow more democratic and individualized than others, or is that merely a commercial strategy to sell products and ideas? This book argues that interactive art frames moving-thinking-feeling as embodiment; the body is addressed as it is formed, and in relation. Interactive insta...
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20 multi-colored woodcuts and other images depicting the art of woodcut prints. Also available in a Special hand-bound, boxed in Saifu cloth, edition
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In 1953 eleven Canadian Abstract Expressionist artists banded together to break through the barricades of traditional art at a time when landscapes were about the only paintings collectors were buying. Hungry for recognition, raging against the art establishment that was shutting them out, they decided to form a collective, expecting they would gain more attention as a group than as solo artists. In 1954, The Painters Eleven--Jack Bush, Oscar Cahén, Hortense Gordon, Tom Hodgson, Alexandra Luke, Jock Macdonald, Ray Mead, Kazuo Nakamura, William Ronald, Harold Town and Walter Yarwood--held their first exhibition in Toronto. Initially the public response echoed the worldwide sentiments toward ...
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The Waterfront Trail is a project to connect many of the existing parks, pathways, natural areas, and activity areas on the Lake Ontario waterfront. This book is a guide to the Trail, arranged geographically from west to east and organized into chapters on 18 sections of the waterfront from Hamilton to Trenton. Each chapter provides information on travel directions, parks, cultural attractions, natural areas, linkages to other trails, and other places of interest. Throughout the book are vignettes giving brief descriptions of people, places, natural phenomena, and historical events related to the waterfront region. Includes a table of amenities and attractions in the municipalities along the Trail, as well as an index.