official launch and pre-selection for the 2014 imagineNATIVE Festival

online art project Superhighway across the Sky has been pre-selection for the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto this year.

The project will also be a part of a special event programmed by the imagineNATIVE Festival, the NEW MEDIA MULTI-PLATFORM SHOWCASE.

Friday, October 24 8:00 PM
Art Exhibits AT 401 Richmond St West, Toronto.

Urban Space Gallery, Main floor outside Warc Gallery.

Works by the Blackout Collective, Lily Ginnish-Lavalley, Sean Muir, Jude Norris, Cheyenne Scott, Theresa Stevenson, Skins 4.0 Collective.

Superhighway Across the Sky ARTISTS TALK: 8:00PM

It will be a part of imagineNATIVE’s annual Art Crawl of exhibitions and co-presentations, taking place Friday, October 24, 5:00 – 8:30pm within the 401 Richmond building, includes gallery partners A Space Gallery, Trinity Square Video, Gallery 44, WARC Gallery and the UrbanSpace Gallery. The Art Crawl is a free event featuring contemporary Indigenous new media art, commissions, retrospectives and talks by leading curators and artists.

http://nationtalk.ca/story/imaginenative-film-media-arts-festival-presenting-sponsor-bell-media-announces-exhibitions-and-art-crawl

This will be the official launch of the project which is presented by Blackout Collective artists Jenny Fraser (Yugambeh) as curator, Michelle Blakeney (Yaegl /Wiradjuri), Jason Davidson (Gurindji/Mara/Nalakarn) and Christine Peacock (Erub).  Feature writers are Peter Morin, Mary Graham, Ross Watson and Djon Mundine.

A communication from Indigenous Australia to Indigenous Canada, Superhighway across the Sky puts Indigenous Australian media artists back into the picture (literally) through work in a culturally safe environment, towards stronger cultural maintenance and representation. This creative, barrier-free portal to a collection of video, written and interactive projects (created and commissioned through online residencies) offers intriguing and eclectic alternative media creative perspectives. Where media arts are both an outcome and a facilitator of major cultural and social shifts, not merely an additional creative tool, this interactive project builds a creative playing field and unique exhibition presence that circumvents Australia’s traditional, institutional and exclusionary new media arts exhibitions with Indigenous strength, tenacity and freedom.