[Chris Sugrue / Delicate Boundaries / 2007]

Good news for the Toronto digital art and design community. This weekend Pixel Gallery will open its doors and provide the big smoke with a new venue for technology-related art. Saturday night marks the launch of The Touch Show, an exhibit showcasing a variety of interactive media art. The show will include work by Chris Sugrue, Zachery Lieberman, Nanika, Greg Hermanovic, Craig Swann and the ubiquitous Graffiti Research Lab. The statement for the show describes the exhibit as:

...designed to bring people together to interact with art, design and technology. They will invent, play and experiment with the idea of touch and how it relates to social interaction.

That said, I expect to be entertained. Of the projects on display, I'm particularly eager to see Chris Sugrue's Delicate Boundaries which looks like an interesting meditation on the divide between screen space and the body of the viewer.

The Pixel Gallery has been nomadically active in Toronto since 2002. They've promoted a wide range of work in various venues and they were the first Canadian arts organization to show the work of John Maeda. Their new location is at Element 156 (156 Augusta Avenue), a new digital arts complex in Kensington Market, recently launched by Flash in the Can.