In partnership with
↗ Curated by Keiko Hart
How does the digital (re)animate our environments? How do we imprint our humanness upon the digital, and how does digitalness imprint upon us humans? Ruminate on your human/digital reflections with the anthropomorphic inventions of Marisa Fulper-Estrada, Jon McCurley, Kristin McWharter, Lorna Mills, Sunny Nestler, and Seth Scriver.
July 6 - 16 | Multiple Sites
FEATURING
↗ Trophies - Kristin McWharter
📍 Trinity Square Video vitrine (401 Richmond St W #121, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8)
↗ Nobilis Candyman - Lorna Mills
📍 Academy of Lions (1083 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1W9)
↗ untitled - Jon McCurley
📍 Hiya Scone and Coffee (1389 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 3L5)
↗ What Crisis? - Seth Scriver
📍 Lilith's Garden (1011 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M6H 1M1)
↗ Cone Worms Near Burrard Inlet - Sunny Nestler
📍 Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (1137 Dupont St, Toronto, ON M6H 2A3)
↗ Dancing Flowers - Marisa Fulper Estrada
📍 InterAccess Gallery (950 Dupont St Unit 1, Toronto, ON M6H 1Z2)
The GIF Showcase is a recurring event of Vector Festival that features a series of artist-made GIFs displayed on monitors in storefront windows. Each business will have a monitor that plays one GIF, encouraging audiences to walk through the neighbourhood.
Our aim with the GIF Showcase is to integrate art into the street in a unique way and prioritize small-file digital artworks. The showcase gives a platform to GIFs, a format not typically given formal exhibition space and shows that art can be found at the tip of your finger in the digital age.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Lorna Mills is a Canadian artist who has actively exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990's. Her practice has included obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive painting, obsessive super 8 film & video, and obsessive on-line animated GIFs incorporated into restrained off-line installation work.
Jon McCurley is an artist from Toronto. His work includes film, theatre, sculpture and animation.
Kristin McWharter is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work interrogates the relationship between competition and intimacy.
Sunny Nestler is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and grateful guest on unceded Coast Salish territories. Nestler’s multidisciplinary work is rooted in drawing, and expands to include collaborative animation, community-led arts programming, book and zine arts, and a recent municipal commission.
Marisa Fulper Estrada is a Colombian-American designer/artist/writer/thinker enamoured with the mundane and the surreal. They explore cycles, knotted balls of string, 1° shifts, 10° shifts, echoes, vessels, grey space, self-understanding, and the unlimited potential of shared futures. These explorations manifest as comics, sculptures, zines, facilitated spaces, and collaborative pieces.
Seth Scriver is an artist living and working out of Toronto. He is the co-creator of Asphalt Watches, a feature-length animation of his cross Canada hitchhiking road-trip adventure.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
keiko hart bounces between artist and curator, east and west, irl and url. They are tickled to be returning as GIF exhibition curator with InterAccess since performing as an artist for Vector Festival 2020.
After completing an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice, they have gone on to direct and facilitate programming at various non-profit organizations, among them the Toronto Biennial of Art, C Magazine, the Blackwood Gallery, Vancouver Mural Festival, Reel Asian Film Festival, and Subtle Technologies. At the latter, keiko helped found the Curatorial Mentorship Program––an initiative that advised and supported the next generation of curators in an intergenerational framework of skill and resource sharing developed to endure our changing realities.
Reach out to Vector Festival Assistant mena@interaccess.org with any questions or requests leading up to the event.