ArtistPresentationsSarah

From AlmostPerfect

• background – painter visual artist and complete tech-luddite • studied in Montreal • works with irony – digital billboards – campaigning on behalf of irony • move the ny to do graduate studies - did masters in media studies in new school • like the tactile and workd in both digital and handmade • completed old jewish lady trilogy: videos called - two ladies, glove story, Dorchester street Worked with the • worked with the National film board for one of the productions. (glove story) • the NFB project was a digitally animated documentary that was recorded on video and used rotoscoping collage and archival footage. • has an ongoing series of 1 minute portraits of interesting people - drawings of quirky characters • day job – cartoonist for a number of papers and does policial cartoons that run across the country

• where I’d like to go: - everything I do is separate clients and myself. - I want to do web based work that is connected more to my artistic practice - excited about coming here as opportunity to change direction feel very young as artist – don’t know what I want to do. just finidng my way in that area. lately working on more urban issues – moving from solipsism to social action condos in Toronto – ompact of new condos on local environment and economy

• project here: the suburban relocation project: creating things based on research but is a bit of a hoax inspired by The Institute (Vera Van ___) will create a fake company : deburb – relac tion services focus to help people move from the urban to the suburban environemtn idea to downsize and help people figure out about the choice to change the scale of living

Website - www.longliveirony.com

• dressandsuit.com – blog project • www torontoist.com: helps to accessing information about Toronto • interested in – being able to find information that relates to a very narrow space

(shows video) • two ladies – video rotoscoped