Thinkbox
Heineken TransMedia Stage: Saturday, 5pm – 6pm
THINKBOX MANDATE
Thinkbox is a self-curating media collective, created to explore technological works and contemporary media in relation to both gallery and commercial distribution networks. Thinkbox reflects the varied interests of its members. As an enterprise, it is centred on the exploration and innovative use of material and technique to produce works that develop complex questions to simplified answers about art, technology, and the nature of multi-media creation.
Many of the strategies employed by the artists involved question preconceived notions of the categorical limitations of music, audio, noise and sound, often in relation to video, film and the moving image. The primary aim of Thinkbox is to promote and advance the new media artist as content provider / cultural producer in the changing art landscape of the new century. The members of the collective are dedicated to the production and dissemination of non-categorical contemporary art creations.
Through the initiative of member artists, Thinkbox intersects with mass culture through gallery installations, performances, festivals, and the release of audio/video products.
Artist Biography
Thinkbox is a loosely structured Windsor based sound and visual art collective.
Current members include:
Christopher Bissonnette, a sound artist and graphic designer whose installations have been exhibited in both Canada and the U.S. Since 1996, Bissonnette’s audio performances have been programmed into many festivals and events, and he has performed live alongside experimentalists such as Scanner (UK) and Thomas Brinkmann (Germany). In September 2002, he participated in The Digidome Festival, in Saskatoon SK. Two full-length CDs of his work have been released by Kranky.
Mark Laliberte, an independent curator, project-based artist and experimental poet currently based in Toronto. Primarily an exhibiting artist, Laliberte’s complex installation works & independent objects have been shown in exhibitions throughout Canada and the U.S. Laliberte is the Managing Editor and Designer of Carousel Magazine.
Christopher McNamara, a Windsor-based video artist, writer and DJ, who teaches new media at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He and collaborator, artist Dermot Wilson have worked collaboratively under the corporate art moniker Machyderm Inc since 1994, and together they have shown extensively in both Canada and the U.S. (most recently at Mercer Union, Stride Gallery and The Western Front). In October 2002, McNamara exhibited at Stiftung BINZ 39, in Zürich, Switzerland.
