Art Creates Change: Michael Snow in Conversation with Bruce Elder January 25, 2007

Michael Snow is an internationally-acclaimed filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist. Consistently inventive, Snow crosses disciplinary boundaries by working in painting, sculpture, video, film, photography, holography, drawing, books and music. His work investigates time, motion, sound, seeing and representation as it challenges perception and redirects our experience of art. Snow’s work is represented in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum Ludwig (Cologne and Vienna), and Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris). The recipient of numerous awards, Snow received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1972), the Order of Canada (1982), the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2000), and an honorary doctorate from the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (2004). Snow is also an OCAD alumnus and was recognized as an OCAD Honorary Fellow in 1983.

Bruce Elder is a filmmaker, critic and Professor of Film Studies at Ryerson University. He is considered one of Canada’s foremost avant-garde filmmakers and has authored many articles and books on film, electronic music, poetry, social theory and the visual arts. Elder is Ryerson University’s Director of the York/Ryerson Universities Joint Program in Communication and Culture.

Presentation takes place at OCAD, in the Auditorium (Room 190), Nora E. Vaughan Wing, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto. All are welcome to attend, and admission is free.

Presentations take place at OCAD, in the Auditorium (Room 190), Nora E. Vaughan Wing, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto. All are welcome to attend, and admission is free.

Art Creates Change is made possible through the generous support of the Musagetes Fund at the Kitchener Waterloo Community Foundation.

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