Shared Memory, Paired Action

A telematic installation by AARON HUTCHINSON and KEARON ROY TAYLOR

Friday, July 11, 2014 — 7-11 pm

Shared Memory, Paired Action is a multi sensory, dynamic environment established to promote engagement among Hamilton’s (James n) art galleries and art patrons by ‘collapsing’ physical and psychological barriers to simultaneous artistic collaboration at diverse locations. Data (button gestures) are collected and transmitted over local and internet networks to support and engage telepresent actors at the Factory Media Centre and the Hamilton Audio Visual node. Monitored in the Factory Media Centre and HAVN, an algorithmic, audiovisual composition unfolds according to this data ‘conversation’, creating two unique experiences at each site. Our telematic artwork suggests validity of both co-presence and telepresence in artistic collaboration and community-building, suggesting meaningful creative exchanges can happen between strangers in disparate physical locations should they agree to practice such a state of experimental engagement. We challenge Hamilton’s (James n) art patrons to experience the city in a new way and according to a new form determined by all of us.

Aaron Hutchinson
Aaron Hutchinson is a musician and sound artist from Hamilton, Ontario. Aaron currently creates music as Hut the Believer, eschaton, Haolin Munk, and as a member of the Cybernetic Orchestra. These ensembles have taken his work to Karlsruhe, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Guelph, Peterborough and Hamilton. Aaron has performed with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, Hamilton All-star Jazz Band, Redeemer Sinfonia and Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, where he served on the board of directors. He won the 2012 Hamilton Arts Award for emerging artist in new Media, is a founding member of Hamilton Audio Visual node, and a current Master’s candidate in the school of Communications and new Media at McMaster University.

Kearon Roy Taylor
Hailing from thunder Bay, Ontario, Kearon Roy Taylor is a printmaker, sculptor, and new media artist. Fascinated by the arts-driven post- industrial renewal of his adopted hometown, he has been immersed in the city’s cultural community since his time at McMaster University.

A founding member of the Barton- based pan-media collective/space HAVN, Roy Taylor sits on the Board of Directors at Hamilton Artists Inc. and the Hamilton Arts Council Visual Arts Committee. He also performs with both the McMaster Cybernetic Orchestra and Extramuros livecoding ensembles, with which he has recently travelled to Karlsruhe, Germany and Belfast, Northern Ireland. Kearon has received the McMaster Museum of Art Museum Award for his undergraduate thesis work (2011), and more recently two Hamilton Arts Awards as emerging Artist in Visual and Media Arts (2014). He will be continuing his studies in the Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto this fall.

Co-founders of the Hamilton Audio- Visual node (HAVN) in May of 2012, Hutchinson and Roy Taylor have been actively and consistently exploring collaborative process and practice together for several years. Veterans of the McMaster Cybernetic Orchestra, a live-coding ensemble that has fostered a ground-up, DIY approach to new media and an innovative perspective on performance and interactivity. Unique in Hamilton for having a collective space dedicated to new media/installation/performance, HAVN collaborates with a variety local media artists and achieving critical success.

AT BOTH:
Factory Media Centre
and HAVN (26 Barton St. E.)