Exclusive memory : a perceptual history of the future / Tom Sherman ; edited by David Diviney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherman, Tom, 1947- author, artist.

Contributor:

Diviney, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sherman, Tom, 1947-.

Sherman, Tom.

Video art--Ontario--Toronto.

Video art.

Art and technology.

Art, Canadian--20th century.

Art, Canadian.

Art, Canadian--21st century.

Ontario--Toronto.

Physical Description:

271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions ; Halifax, Nova Scotia : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia ; Toronto, Ontario : Art Metropole, [2023]

Summary:

"Tom Sherman: Exclusive Memory provides a long-overdue retrospective on the work of the Governor General's Award-winning artist Tom Sherman--from his early experiments with video art in 1970s Toronto to his recent explorations of text and image in the landscape of Nova Scotia's South Shore. Arriving in Canada from the United States in the early 1970s, Sherman quickly became a fixture in Toronto's burgeoning artist-led cultural scene. In an era captivated by the development of new media and its possibilities, Sherman's Faraday Cage, a six-foot square enclosure of aluminum sheeting, captured the prevailing zeitgeist. At the centre of Tom Sherman: Exclusive Memory is an essay by Sherman about his early experiences in Toronto and the development of video art as the medium best suited for conveying ideas derived from text and image. Readers will find several of Sherman's previously published texts that reflect on technology and art, including his seminal multimedia installation Exclusive Memory, as well as more recent unpublished text-image works. The result is a compendium that spans almost five decades, chronicling the career of an artist whose work remains highly detailed and unquestionably current."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Sarah Moore Fillmore, Interim Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and Jonathan Middleton, Executive Director, Art Metropole

Introduction. Exclusive memory: a perceptual history of the future / David Diviney

The faraday cage

Understanding media was our first big mistake

Primary devices: artists' strategic use of video, computers and telecommunications networks

On shore

The appearance of voice

Artists' behaviour in the first decade

Rare species are common

Vernacular video

Text-image works (1973-2021)

Writing images: Tom Sherman texts and photographs / Peggy Gale

Tom Sherman: naturalism through video

increasing the depth of field / Caroline Seck Langill

Chronology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781773103006

1773103008

OCLC:

1342599109