David Rokeby

b.1960, Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada, lives and works in Canada
Selected Major International Exhibitions
See This Sound, Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria (2009)
No Place To Hide, Skive Ny Kunstmuseum [SNYK], Denmark (2009)
“Synthetic Time”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (2008)
“e-art”, Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada (2007)
“Profiling”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007)
“David Rokeby, Silicon Remembers Carbon” (retrospective), FACT, Liverpool, UK (2007)
“Algorithmische Revolution”, Zentrum für Künst und Media, Karlesruhe, Germany (2004)
“David Rokeby”, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (2004)
“Einbildung, Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst”, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz Austria (2003)
Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy (2002)
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2002, 1997 and 1991)
“Alien Intelligence”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (2000)
Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy (1996)
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea (1995)
“Feuer / Erde / Wasser / Luft”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (1993)
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1986)
Selected Awards
IDMAA Award for Innovation in Media Arts, Philadelphia, USA (2007)
2004 World Technology Award for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (2004)
Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Interactive Art, Linz, Austria (2002)
Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2002)
BAFTA Award for Interactive Art, (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) (2000)
Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art, Linz, Austria (1991)
PetroCanada Award for Media Arts (1988)
Selected Commissions
Long wave (2009) (commissioned by Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts + Creativity)
Watch (Dundas and Yonge, Toronto) (2009), Public Art Commission for 10 Dundas Street East
Machine for Taking Time (rue Saint-Laurent) (2007) (Commissioned by the Fondation Daniel Langlois)
Cloud (2007) (Commissioned by the Ontario Science Centre))
Gathering, Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004) (Commissioned by the Art Gallery of Hamilton)
Seen, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy (2002) (Commissioned by Alphabet City / InterAccess)
Machine for Taking Time, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (2001)
n-Chant, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada (2001)
Watched and Measured, The Science Museum, London, U.K. (2000)
Watch, KwangJu Biennale, Kwangju, Korea (1995)
Silicon Remembers Carbon, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (1993)
Collections
Plot Against Time #2 (Flurry), Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Canada (2008)
Very Nervous System (2003 version), Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada (2009)
The Giver of Names, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (2008)
Plot Against Time #2 (flurry), Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Canada (2008)
Seen, The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada (2007)
Machine for Taking Time (boulevard Saint-Laurent), Fondation Daniel Langlois, Montréal, Canada (2007)
Cloud, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada (2007)
San Marco Flow, Fundació Sorigué, Lléida, Spain (2006)
Machine for Taking Time, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (2001)
Watched and Measured, the Science Museum, London, U.K. (2000)
Selected Exhibitions
2011
“Very Nervous System”, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
“Seen, The Earth is Blue Like an Orange”, Museé des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
“Liquid Language”, Electrohype 2010, Ystads Art Museum, Ystads, Sweden
2010
“Dark Matter”, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
“David Rokeby: Recent Works” at Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Sound Arts Research Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland (collaboration with Eve Egoyan)
"CODE Live, Cultural Olympiad for Vancouver 2010, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada
"Sorting Daemons, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
2009
"Moise de la Photo, Maison de la culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada
"eARTS BEYOND, Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Shanghai, China
"See This Sound, Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria
"LuminaTO 2009, Brookfield Place, Toronto, Canada
"The Lining of Forgetting", Austin Museum of Art, Austin, U.S.A.
"No Place To Hide, Skive Ny Kunstmuseum [SNYK], Denmark
2008
"Synthetic Time", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
"Plots Against Time", Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
"The Lining of Forgetting", Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, U.S.A
"Plotting Against Time", Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada (solo)
2007
"e-art", Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
"Profiling", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
"David Rokeby: Silicon Remembers Carbon" (retrospective), CCA, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
"David Rokeby: Silicon Remembers Carbon" (retrospective), FACT, Liverpool, UK (solo)
"Feedback", Laboral, Gijón, Spain
"Transmediale", Academie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2006
"Sublime Embrace", Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
"Timeless: Time, Landscape, New Media", York Quay Gallery, HarbourFront, Toronto, Canada
"Say It Now!", Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
ARCO 06, Madrid, Spain
2005
"Interaction '05", Torontp International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
"Time and Place", Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
Mois Multi, Méduse / Avatar, Québec City, Canada
2004
Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Database Imaginary", Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
Algorithmische Revolution, Zentrum für Künst und Media, Karlesruhe, Germany
Invisibile, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Bienal de Sào Paulo, Sào Paulo, Brazil
Villette Numérique 2004, Paris, France
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada (solo)
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Canada (solo)
"Machine Life", Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
"Evolution, the Art of Living Systems", Art Interactive, Cambridge, USA
2003
"Einbildung, Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst", Kunsthaus Graz, Graz Austria
"Source", Goethe Institut / Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2002
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada (solo)
"Ars Electronica", Linz Austria
"Next Memory City", Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy
The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2001
Deep Garden: Earthly Delights, Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, Canada
Computer Voices / Speaking Machines, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff Centre, Canada
Beyond the Diagram, White Box, New York City, USA
Images Festival, InterAccess Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
2000
London Science Museum, London, U.K. (permanent)
ArtWorks, Lowry Centre, Manchester, U.K.
Agnes Hetherington Art Centre, Kingston (solo)
Alien Intelligence, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1998
Oboro, Montréal (solo)
O.K. Center for Contemporary Arts, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (solo w/ Paul Garrin)
Interface, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
McDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada (solo)
1996
International Symposium of Shadows, London, U.K.
Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York City, USA
InterAccess Electronic Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1995
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
The Interaction ‘95, Ogaki City, Japan
Sound Art ‘95, Hannover, Germany
Press Enter, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1993
Kunstliche Spiele, MedienLabor München, Munich, Germany
World-Wide Video Festival, Den Haag, Netherlands
Feuer/Erde/Wasser/Luft, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1991
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
MuuMediaFestival, Otso Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1990
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, West Germany
Kanagawa International Outdoor Art Festival, Manazuru, Japan
Rencontres Internationales Art Film/Art Video/Art Ordinateur, Paris, France
1989
Invitation to Interactive Art, Kawasaki-shi, Japan
artware: Kunst und Elektronik, Hannover, West Germany
1988
Guerilla Tactics, MacDonald-Stewart Gallery, University of Guelph, Guelph
Siggraph ’88 Art Show, Atlanta, USA
1986
Arte, Technologia e Informatica, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Selected Authored Papers
"The Computer as a Prosthetic Organ of Philosophy" dichtung-digital, Ausgabe 3/2003
“Where the Virtual Meets the Real”, catalog essay for “Touch/Touché” (1999) (OAAG Curatorial Writing Award)
“Constructing Experience”, “Digital Illusions” (ed: Clark Dodsworth), Addison-Wesley, New York 1998
“Transforming Mirrors”, in “Critical Issues in Electronic Media” (ed: Simon Penny), SUNY, New York 1995
Selected Catalogs
"Sorting Daemons, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Kingston, Canada (2010)
"Mois de la Photo 2009, Montreal, Canada (2009)
"See This Sound, Lentos Museum, Linz Austria (2009)
"Synthetic Time", National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2008
“The Lining of Forgetting”, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro 2008
"Sublime Embrace", Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, 2006
"David Rokeby", Art Gallery of Hamilton / Presentation House, Vancouver / Bienal de Sào Paulo, 2004
"David Rokeby", Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada, 2004
"Einbildung, Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst", Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, 2003
“The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2002”, Canada Council, Ottawa, 2002
“Computer Voices / Speaking Machines”, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, 2001
“Alien Intelligence”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2000
“David Rokeby: Giver of Names”, MacDonald-Stewart Arts Centre, Guelph, 1998
“Paul Garrin / David Rokeby: Border Patrol”, O.K. Center fo Contemporary Arts, Linz, 1998
“InfoART: '95 Kwangju Biennale”, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea, 1995
“Press Enter”, The Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1995
“Machinations”, La Société d'esthétique du Québec, Montréal, Canada 1989
“XLII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, Italy 1986
Selected Press
"Urban Intervention: A miss and a see", Globe and Mail, June 2009
"Under an acrylic cloud: David Rokeby's mechanical lyricism", Globe and Mail, May 5, 2007
"New-media work that takes its own sweet time", Globe and Mail, November 5, 2005
"David Rokeby", Canadian Art, Summer 2005
"Where tech gives way to the exquisite", Globe and Mail, August 4, 2004
“Konkurrenzlos”, art: Das KunstMagazin, January 2003
“David Rokeby”, Canadian Art, Summer 2001
“David Rokeby at Holly Solomon”, Frieze Magazine, Nov/Dec 1996
“watch/ed and measure/d”, Coil Journal, Issue 4, 1997
“Very Nervous System”, WiReD Magazine, March 1995
“The Four Elements”, ARTnews, May 1993
“L’esthetique de la communication: Dossier”, ArtPress 122, February 1988
“Biennale: Uncertain Meld of Art and Technology”, International Herald Tribune, June 28-29, 1986