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Sifting Time, Shifting Space An Exhibition from the Code Zebra Archive Sara Diamond November 2 - 26, 2005. Toronto Presentation of Code Zebra curated by Nina Czegledy Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut

Code Zebra is a collaborative project led by Sara Diamond. CodeZebra draws upon debates about the relationship between art and science, and the behaviors and characteristics of inhabitants of those disciplines, to create a series of provocations. CodeZebra includes spoken word and dance performances, club nights, games, workshops, and software development. In 2003 Diamond locked up pairs of artists and scientists in Habituation Cages for 24-hour periods and asked them to discover new inventions, art works and concepts while real time video streams, documentary footage and online chats captured their every move. Such events and processes, captured in DVD form and on the CodeZebra website, are the core of this exhibition. CodeZebra OS software uses data visualization to provide an analysis of the dialogue and conversation taking place on the Internet. CodeZebra's array of responsive garments and costumes bring communication, display and social camouflage back to the site of the body. Sara Diamond Biography Sara Diamond is an artist, researcher and educator who was born in NYC. Her work as a video and installation artist began in the early 1980s and investigated problems of social history and memory. Her work resides in collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Canada. She writes extensively about the history of media art. Diamond led Media and Visual Arts and created the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre. She is currently the President of the Ontario College of Art and Design. Sifting Time, Shifting Space A Panel at the Goethe Institute Saturday November 26, 3-5 p.m. Kinowelt Hall 163 King St. W. This panel of artists, scientists and curators considers the ways that current questions of space/time have opened new parameters in scientific research, visualization, popular culture, art and curatorial practice. The panellists will discuss their discoveries and reflect on the ways that art and science provide new insights into the operations of space and time, whether at the universal or human scale. Bio Nina Czegledy, artist, curator and writer, has collaborated on international projects, produced digital works and has participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide. Resonance, Digitized Bodies and the Aurora projects reflect her art&science&technology interest She exhibited as part of ICOLS, Girls and Guns Collective and curated over 35 art programs shown worldwide. Her academic lectures lead to numerous publications in books and journals. President of Critical Media, a Canadian based Knowledge Institute, member of the LEAuthors and Leonardo SpaceArt Network. Czegledy is an advisor to the UNESCO DigiArts Network and the current Chair of the Inter Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) Sara Diamond is an artist and researcher. She will frame the panel discussion and discuss her own work. In 2003 CodeZebra included a series of twenty-four hour Habituation Cages in which artists and scientists were locked up together and asked to invent new processes or products. Over the twenty-four hours, time became a malleable medium, raising questions about linear, parallel and simultaneous forms of time and space, which although constrained, became limitless. Dr. John Joseph Dubinski mixes an award-winning career in astronomy, studying problems of galaxy interactions and cosmology, with his work as a visualization and simulation scientist. He currently teaches and researches at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics in Toronto. He is currently developing the project Gravitas, that involves a synthesis of art and science. Dr. Markopoulou-Kalamara is a broadly talented researcher who recently shared First Prize in the Young Researchers competition at the Ultimate Reality Symposium in Princeton, New Jersey. She is currently at the Perimeter Institute where her research interests include Pre Quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, and the discrete structure of space, causality, string theory, topological quantum field theory, quantum computing, category theory and logic. Andy Patton is an artist and curator who recently assembled the exhibition Dimensionality. It takes the assumption of perspective coming to an end, or mutating under new environmental pressures -video games, computer animation, 3-D computer models- as its generative trope. Artists in the show declare an involvement with information-a space that's only convincing if it streams rapidly by, before its too-generalized surfaces can be inspected. As Patton states, "Star Trek was wrong: space is the initial frontier" Fashion Show and CodeZebra Closing Party WARC Gallery Saturday, November 26th 6 p.m. Put on your spots and stripes and let the fur fly! Join us for a thematic closing cocktail party where models fluff and preen in samples of responsive garments and costumes from the CodeZebra collection.