Factory Media Centre is pleased to announce our final exhibition of 2018 – “Fathoms: The Weight of Smoke” by Chris Myhr.
Title: Fathoms: The Weight of Smoke
Artist: Chris Myhr
Date: November 28, 2018 – January 9, 2019
Location: FMC – 228 James St. N., Hamilton On.
Viewing Schedule: Office hours – Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 10am-6pm
Opening Date: December 14, 2018 from 7pm – 10pm
Closing Date: January 9, 2019 at 6pm
Description: Fathoms: The Weight of Smoke is a 13-minute audiovisual composition comprised of high-definition video footage of debris clouds hovering above the Atlantic seafloor off the coast of Nova Scotia. Motion-graphic animation of sea-faring artifacts (i.e. mariners’ pipes) trace vector drawings of the Gulf Stream current – approaching, receding, and moving in and out of focus. The work features an immersive 6-channel sound design composed of ambient recordings from the spaces within various containers recovered from the Atlantic (i.e. ceramic vessels, bottles, artillery shells), together with deep-water recordings of the ocean waters.
Artist Bio: Chris Myhr is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, the moving image, photography, electronics, and media installation. Recent works deploy surround-sound technology and cartographic research to generate immersive listening environments that explore relationships between sound, embodied experience, and space. From 2012 to present, he has been developing a body of work entitled Point-Line-Intersection which examines the complex interrelationships between culture and the Earth’s hydrosphere: the tension between water as life, vitality, and industry, as well as a source of immense and unpredictable destructive power. Myhr completed undergraduate studies at Simon Fraser University and the University of Lethbridge, and finished graduate work at NSCAD University in Halifax. He is currently based in Hamilton, Ontario, and is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies & Multimedia at McMaster University.
Myhr’s online portfolio can be accessed at www.chrismyhr.com
“Fathoms: The Weight of Smoke” was produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.