David Warne and Kevin Krivel
Site-specific interactive media installation
Heritage plaques and the ornate entrance gates to the Trinity-Bellwoods Park are meagre
reminders of the historical importance of this site. For one hundred years an impressive Gothic Revival building, the first home of Trinity College has occupied the grounds. In a more distant past, the park's creeks and ravines, now filled in, were part of the Toronto Passage, a system of important trails and waterways used for thousands of years by aboriginals. Electronic Sky, a large scale interactive media installation comprised of three mutuallydependent parts, explores the geological history and rich civic and built heritage of the area.
The Garrison Creek sound system records, from a nearby manhole, the rushing sounds of the "lost" river now flowing along the bottom of the sewer. By projecting a 24 hour video of the sky as if viewed through a body of water, Liquid Sky evokes the ancient Lake Iroquois that 12,000 years ago engulfed the Great Lakes. The image is distorted into a rippling watery surface as it responds to the movement of the pedestrians below. Fluorescent Horizon is a large light sculpture in the sky consisting of an office-like grid of fluorescent fixtures controlled by a computer that mimics cloud-like voids. As the light grid ripples down the length of the sculpture, the stars above are revealed.
Artists David Warne and Kevin Krivel are living and working in Toronto. In collaboration with Greg Hermanovic, Derivative.
Supported by the Canada Council New Media Residency.
Image: Electronic Sky, 2006, David Warne and Kevin Krivel
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Trinity Bellwoods Park (Strachan Gates)
