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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 28, 2000
Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Susan Kozel & Gretchen
Schiller
An Exhibition at the Walter Phillips Gallery
June 12 - July 30, 2000
Executive Producer: Sara Diamond
BANFF, ALBERTA
The Walter Phillips Gallery is pleased to present Domain Games , an exhibition of new media works created through The Canadian Creative Innovation Initiative; a project supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Banff Centre for the Arts and Stentor, to expand and develop artistic discipline within the electronic arts.
Vancouver-based artist Elizabeth Vander Zagg presents Talk Nice, an interactive installation that coaches the user/ viewer to ³speak nicely² by conversing with the audio personas of two teenage girls interspersed with a variety of video clips. A unique software program developed for this peice analyzes the user/ viewerıs tone of voice, and will prompt the ³girls² to respond accordingly. Talk Nice explores how woman are conditioned to phrase assertions as questions and how women position themselves by tone of voice.
Susan Kozel and Gretchen Schiller present trajet; a video dance installation that can be understood as developing choreography across physical, mechanical and digital techniques. A dynamic, interactive space is activated by the choreographed movement of numerous screens which recieve projected moving images, sound and light in synchronized sequences. The presence of visitors to the installation affects the movement of the screens and images transforming members into participants. All are invited to the Opening Reception on Monday, June 12 at 4:30 pm with an Artistıs Presentation beginning at 4:45 pm.
We would gratefully like to acknowledge The Canada Council for the Arts and Stentor for their generous contribution to The Canadian Creative Innovation Initiative project.