About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Stan Douglas, Chris Welsby, Jerzy Onuch, Fiona Bowie, Patrick Thompson, Marc Sabat, Vikky Alexander, Janet Cardiff, Geoffrey Pugen, Geoffrey Farmer, David Rokeby, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sylvie Belanger, Ian Carr-Harris, Don Ritter, Betty Beaumont, Bonnie Devine, Rebecca Belmore, Betty Goodwin, An Te Liu, Lynn Richardson, George Bures Miller, Don Simmons, Dana Wyse, Mark Lewis, Alan Dunning, Iain Baxter&, Charles Stankievech, David Six, Yuula Benivolski, Jan Peacock, Donigan Cumming, Adrian Boston, Greg A. Hill, Kay Burns, Alain Paiement, N.E. Thing Co., Laura Vickerson, Deryk Houston, Peter Hobbs, HP Marti. Excerpt: Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has exhibited internationally, including Documenta IX, 1992, Documenta X, 1997, Documenta XI, 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 1990, 2001 and 2005. Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining the "failed utopia" of modernism and obsolete technologies. Art collector Friedrich Christian Flick, in the foreword to the Stan Douglas monograph, describes Douglas as "a critical analysis of our social reality. Samuel Beckett and Marcel Proust, E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Brothers Grimm, blues and free jazz, television and Hollywood, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud haunt the uncanny montages of the Canadian artist." Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he currently lives and works. Educated at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Douglas has exhibited widely since his first solo show in 1981. Among numerous group exhibitions, Douglas was included in the 1995 Carnegie International, the 1995 Whitney Biennial, the 1997 Skulptur Projekte Munster and Documenta X in Kassel. In 2007, Douglas was th...
