A favourite Pleasure Dome ritual now in its 23rd year, the 2016 edition of New Toronto Works is upon us. A submission-based program curated from local works, this years edition features artists exploring a variety of formal methods, challenging the different ways we communicate across time-based media, and investigating different spatial and media-based practices. NTW 2016 is a collection of 14 media artworks that stretch between screen and space to reveal how we live as humans and navigate our path forward.

From interrogating the land we stand on and the pixels that stand in our place, to challenging conventions of civilization and what it means in a borderless space, to exploring how we constrain our emotions to recover space for ourselves, NTW 2016 showcases the ever-changing ways artists in Toronto consider and respond to the world around us at home and abroad. Featuring two installations and a program of moving image work, join Pleasure Dome at the Gladstone Hotel and celebrate some amazing media artists from one of the most vibrant cities around.

Daniel McIntyre and Katrina Orlowski, curators of NTW 2016.

Program:

Field 2:00, Dan Browne

Stretto 6:45, Serena Lee

Antenna 5:25, Vlad Lunin

Substratae 4:30 Margie Kelk

We did everything that adults would do. What went wrong? 9:00, Frances Leeming and Johanna Householder

3 Minutes of Attention 3:45, Geoffrey Shea & Tony Massett

The Dead Never Go Back To Europe 5:00, Maximilian Suillerot

Pitching Tents in Terra Nullius 5:00, Matt Macintosh & Keesic Douglas

In the Net 5:00, Rachel Crummey

Mutter 7:30, Mikel Guillen

Temple Drone 3, 5:00, David Jones

A Drownful Brilliance of Wings 8:00, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Gillian Sze

Installations:

Lalbagh, Meera Margaret Singh

Ritual of the Moon, Kara Stone