Richard Fung is a Toronto-based video artist, educator, and writer. A Trinidadian-Canadian of Chinese descent, Fung's videos focus on subjects ranging from the role of the Asian male in gay pornography, to colonialism, immigration, racism, homophobia, AIDS and his own family history. In the following interview with Visible City, Fung discusses his involvement in Toronto's […]
The Archive
John Greyson
John Greyson is a filmmaker, video artist, educator and activist with innumerable credits in television and film. He currently teaches in the Department of Film, York University. His extensive body of work includes award-winning feature films such as Urinal (1988) and Lilies (1996), shorts such as The Making of Monsters (1991) and television episodes for […]
Torontotroll
Torontotroll could be thought of as research through self-reflexive activity and participation. Mercer Union, an artist-run centre for contemporary art gave a month-long residency to the Parisian collective Atelier Wundershön Peplum (AWP), who reimagine city spaces through alternative modes of transportation and conceptual art. Torontotroll took participants on three predetermined routes through Toronto and its […]
Loop Collective
Loop is a collective of independent media artists whose mandate is to develop a public platform integrating experimental film and video with other art forms. Their mission is to explore the roots of experimental film and video by creating a dialogue with other artistic mediums. The Loop Collective sees their work in relation to the […]
Density+Proximity+Tension
Virtual Neighbourhoods: Interdisciplinary Knowledge and New Research Tools Density+Proximity+Tension: Some Toronto Neighbourhoods was conceptualized through the interdisciplinary research initiative the Culture of Cities Project, which involves six Canadian universities and numerous international collaborators in the study of urban culture in four second tier cities: Toronto, Montreal, Dublin, and Berlin. The Culture of Cities Project is […]