Image: Gallery 44, Toronto
'Static and Noise' explores sonic representations in photography and image arts, examining the relationship between sound and image degradation and treating image noise as conceptually equivalent to audio noise. The exhibition draws on the visual culture of punk, noise and DIY music scenes.
It focuses on the intentional manipulation of visual and sonic data to create chaotic, distorted or muddy aesthetics.
On Saturday, September 19, Aliyah Aziz, Bret Parenteau, Nathan Ivanco and curator of exhibitions Sameen Mahboubi will join a free scanning workshop and live experimental sound performance at Net Plaza Print Shop. Participants will use large Xerox-style scanners to make collages from paper materials, while magazines and printing materials will be supplied for the session; Aziz, Parenteau and Ivanco will perform improvised music during the collage-making period.
Parenteau’s ‘Timley’ is listed as a 15-by-15-inch scanned collage.
Aziz uses disruption, glitch and static to channel friction between the surface and depth of technology, including electromagnetic frequencies as rhythmic noise.
The opening reception is scheduled for September 18 from 6 to 8 p.m.
