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  1. Watch: Richmond and Spadina (single channel) excerpt

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    This is a variation on my work "Watch: Richmond and Spadina" which separates out the movement and stillness in an urban scene. In this case, instead of presenting the two processes side by side, I…

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    • Whirl (2011) (excerpt)

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      by David Rokeby / Added

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      Skaters, late in the day, late in the year, circling the rink at Toronto City Hall.

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      • excerpt from Plot Against Time #4 (Atlantic Baroque)

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        by David Rokeby / Added

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        Based on footage of gannets diving for small fish off the coast of Newfoundland. This is the 4th in a series of works that explore patterns of movement over time.

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        • Surface Tension Montreal 2010

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          “Surface Tension” is a collaborative interdisciplinary work for disklavier piano and interactive video created by pianist Eve Egoyan and artist David Rokeby. It was commissioned by the Open Ears Festival…

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          • Dark Matter by David Rokeby (2010)

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            Dark Matter: The darkened gallery space is dominated by an invisible sculpture of silent sound. Your body probes the space listening for the sculpture's spatial form to be expressed though the sounds…

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            • Murmurscape #2 (Montreal) (lower resolution excerpt)

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              For my 2007 work Machine for Taking Time (boul. St-Laurent), I recorded thousands of images of the city of Montreal from identical points of view every day for a year. In Murmurscape (Montreal), letter-shaped…

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              • Murmurscape #1 (Montreal) (lower resolution excerpt)

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                by David Rokeby / Added

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                For my 2007 work Machine for Taking Time (boul. St-Laurent), I recorded thousands of images of the city of Montreal from identical points of view every day for a year. In Murmurscape (Montreal), letter-shaped…

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                • Plot Against Time #3 (Insect Sonata) (2010) (lower resolution excerpt)

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                  by David Rokeby / Added

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                  Plot Against Time #3 (Insect Sonata (after Scriabin)), a single channel video, draws out the trajectories of insects in the my shady garden as they pass through beams of sunlight on a rare windless…

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                  • Plot Against Time #2 (Flurry) (2008) (lower resolution excerpt)

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                    The second in the series, "Plot Against Time #2 (flurry)", tracks individual snowflakes whirling in the complex turbulence created by the rigorous and minimal forms of Mies van der Rohe's Toronto…

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                    • Plot Against Time #1 (2007) (lower resolution excerpt)

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                      "Plot Against Time #1" captures the traces of pigeons and pedestrians on Venice's Piazza San Marco. Each moving thing etches itself across the surface of the image in a golden hue which fades as time…

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                      • Measure (1992-4)

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                        Measure is a variation of the Very Nervous System, using an extremely simple and regular sound source, a ticking clock. A virtual acoustic space is presented through which this sound resonates. Movements,…

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                        • steamingmedia.org (2002-)

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                          (The following text describes the complete project which is not yet completed. One fully rigged sauna was built and extensively tested and experimented with both at the Banff Centre and the Canadian…

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