lecture: cheryl sourkes

Art and Art History Presents

Cheryl Sourkes

Thursday 27 January 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Cheryl Sourkes is a lens-based artist, writer and curator. She studied psychology and biology at McGill University before moving to Vancouver in 1967. There, she became involved with Intermedia, a Dadaist artist organization that prefigured Canada’s artist-run movement. Presently, she divides her time between Toronto and Manchester, England. Sourkes’s work investigates the visual dimension of technology, especially social and cultural developments that have arisen with Internet webcams. Selections of this work, Public Camera recently toured to The National Gallery of Canada. Sourkes is represented by Peak Gallery in Toronto, Division Gallery in Montreal and twenty + 3 projects in Manchester, England. Cheryl Sourkes also curates the project space at akau.