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Toronto’s ArtSci Salon hosts opening receptions for two very different exhibition events on February 5, 2025

A January 27, 2025 ArtSci Salon notice (received via email and visible here on a mailchimp webpage for a limited time) announces the events. Here’s the first exhibition and its associated events,

Speculative Meteorology: Weather Channeled
Feb 3-7, [2-25] 10-4pm [ET] 

opening reception : Feb 5, [2025] 5-7pm [ET]
Special Projects Gallery,
Goldfarb Centre for the Arts
York University [Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

Curated by Aftab Mirzaei (Science and Technology Studies) with Mark-David Hosale (Digital Media) and showcases the work of artists and researchers including, Chris Beaulieu, Kwame Kyei-Boateng, Nava Waxman, Mark-David Hosale, Hiro Kubayashi, Grace Grothaus, Leo Liu, Winnie Luo, Aftab Mirzaei, and Colin Tucker.

DESCRIPTION
Speculative Meteorology: Weather Channeled emerges from a series of interdisciplinary experiments conducted by members of the nd:studiolab between 2023 and 2024. This exhibit invites artists and researchers to explore imaginative and multidimensional accounts of atmospheres and climates across past, present, and future. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s concept of SF—speculative fabulation as a mode of attention, a theory of history, and a practice of worlding—the works collectively reimagine our relationship to the weather, engaging it as a site of both knowledge-making and creative practice.

Sponsored by the nD::StudioLab at York University   

Environmental Monitoring for Art
a workshop as part of the Speculative Meteorology: Weather Channeled interdisciplinary art exhibition,
with Grace Grothaus

Feb 7, 2025, 12 -3 PM [ET]
ACW 103, The Transmedia Lab
York University [Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

In this three-hour workshop, we will fabricate sensors that can detect environmental data using some readily available materials and electronics. We will fabricate sensors that can detect animal footsteps, record raindrops, or measure wind and then learn to read their values using Arduino. The data from these sensors can be used as input for actuators in physical computing projects, or they can be triggers for screen-based animation or music – the options are wide and varied.

Space is limited, click here to sign up

Here’s the second exhibition and its associated events, from the January 25, 2025 notice,

Afterglow Exhibition
Feb 4-7, [2-25] 10-3pm [ET]

opening reception : Feb 5, [2025] 5-7pm [ET] 
Gales Gallery,
York University [Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

Curated by : Nina Czegledy & Joel Ong, featuring international and local artists Raphael Arar, Nagy Molnar, Laszlo Zsolt Bordos, Jennifer Willet, Joel Ong (with Khaled Eilouti,  Zhino Yousefi, Shelby Murchie and Oliver Debski-Tran)

AFTERGLOW [ af-ter-gloh, ahf- ] is an exhibition envisioned around the graphic quality of light, as well as its traces and incandescence both real and metaphorical. The participating artists explore cross-cultural practices via a variety of analog and digital media, relating light to unfolding contemporary considerations in the global Light Art panorama. At the same time, Afterglow references a deep resonance with the past, paying tribute to historical ideas that have illuminated our current understandings of interconnected systems of values and beliefs that underly the complementary artistic practices today.

In the words of pioneering Hungarian artist György Kepes (1906-2001) : “Our human nature is profoundly phototropic”. The exhibition is a reminder of the integral nature of light to human and more-than-human life, but also to the notion of light as a sensory environment within which we remain rooted, transfixed and nourished.  The exhibiting artists take up these ideas in various formations, alluding to the physical, metaphorical and ecological implications of light. As an initial exhibition prototype, Afterglow is presented first at the Gales Gallery at York University in Toronto as it grows towards future touring exhibitions and symposia. The exhibition is integrated with a virtual Symposium that features exhibiting artists as well as International artists/theorists in conversation. Please proceed to our Eventbrite page for more details and registration [see below].  – Nina Czegledy, Joel Ong. 

Afterglow Symposium
Feb 6 [2025] 1-3pm [ET]
Symposium Presenters: Andrea Polli, Jennifer Willet, Joel Ong, Karolina Halatek, Marton Orostz, Nina Czegledy and Raphael Arar.

ONLINE, Register Here (Zoom link)

How to reach the three venues (Special Projects and Gales Galleries + Transmedia lab)?

click here

If you’re in Toronto, you’re spoiled for choices. As for the rest of us, the Afterglow Symposium, as a hybrid event, offers an opportunity to hear from the artists.