Michael Snow in conversation with Bruce Elder
Thursday, January 25, 2007, 6:30pm
Ontario College of Art &Design
Auditorium, 100 McCaul Street,Toronto
All are welcome; admission isfree.
416-977-6000 | www.ocad.ca


The Faculty of Art of the OntarioCollege of Art &
Design (OCAD) is pleased to present its
mostinternationally recognized alumnus Michael Snow,
in conversation with Bruce Elder, on Thursday, January
25, 2007, 6:30 pm, as part of Art Creates Change, an
annual series of presentations by notable
Canadian artists at the forefront of their professional
practices.


Michael Snow is an internationally-acclaimed filmmaker
and multi-disciplinary artist. Snow crosses
disciplinary boundaries by working in
painting,sculpture, video, film, photography,
holography, drawing, books and music. Since the 1960's
Snow has radically reframed ideas of time and space
through consistently inventive camera related works of
art. His work 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).


Snow's award-winning films have been presented at
festivals around the world and are included in
the collections of the Anthology Film Archives in New
York City, the Royal Belgian Film Archives, Brussels,
and the Oesterreichesches FilmMuseum, Vienna. His film
"Wavelength" won the Grand Prize at theInternational
Experimental Film Festival in Belgium (1967), and
"SoIs This" won the Los Angeles Film Critics award
(1982).


One of Snow's most recent installations called The
Windows Suite launched at the TorontoPantages Hotel
and Spa during the Toronto Film Festival in
September2006. The permanent installation is made up
of thirty-two varied sequences of images, presented on
large-scale plasma screens inseveral windows of hotel
and related condo buildings facing Victoria Street. The
image sequences show curious scenes, like police
searching a hotel room with flashlights, fish swimming
from window towindow.


Public art works well-known toTorontonians include
Snow's Flightstop, an installation oflife-sized
Canadian geese in flight, hanging in the main atrium
spaceof the Toronto Eaton Centre, and The Audience,
large-scalegold-painted sculptures of figures enjoying
an event, mounted abovethe northeast and northwest
entrances of the Rogers Centre (formerly known as the
SkyDome).


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), the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal
(2002), and an honorary doctorate from the
Universit#xE9; de Paris I,
Panth#xE9;on-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.

I hope to see you there.

Michael