About the Artists
REVA STONE https://www.revastone.ca/
Reva Stone is a Canadian artist whose work is informed by a broad theoretical context that includes an examination of the mediation between our bodies and the technologies that are altering how we interact with the world. In her most recent work, she is examining how artificial intelligence algorithms are used in forms of surveillance that enters our homes – those intimate spaces we currently consider private. She is particularly interested in the consequences to our subjectivities if what we are not yet able to render into digital form – our thoughts, dreams, hopes and memories – become digital.
Reva has received many awards, including the 2017 Distinguished Alumnae Award from the University of Manitoba | the 2015 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts | and an honorable mention from Life 5.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain. She has exhibited widely in Canada, the US and Europe; presented at symposia; and has been published in journals such as Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media.
AGANETHA DYCK https://dianathorneycroft.com/
Aganetha Dyck is a Canadian artist interested in environmental issues – specifically the power of the small. She is interested in interspecies communication. Her research asks questions about the ramifications all living beings would experience should honeybees disappear from earth. Aganetha Dyck has been the recipient of: Making a Mark Award from Winnipeg Arts Council in recognition of excellence in professional artistic practice, 2013 | Art City Star Award, 2013 | Spotlight on 40 years: Artworks from the Canada Council Art Bank, 2012 | Canada Council’s Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts, 2007 | Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction, 2006.
COLLABORATOR | RICHARD DYCK
Richard and Aganetha have collaborated three times. Richard is interested in the abstract and reductive qualities of computers and other digital and analog devices, as well as their web application. He sees those characteristics as good tools to explore human nature and limitations imposed by biology.
A second collaboration between Richard and Aganetha was to fulfill a Canada Council research grant for a proposal they’d titled Interspecies Communication (2000-02) . Prior to and during that collaboration Richard had been flatbed-scanning the interior of his and TW’s home, horses, lambs, fish, etc., and bug traps, resulting in three pieces, House (2000), Species (2001), and Bug Traps (2001). A year or so prior to this, Richard had recorded audio in Aganetha’s bee hives, which resulted in Hive Conversation (2000). While working on Interspecies Communication, Aganetha asked, “Can you put your scanner in a bee hive?” “Sure!” And that became their third collaboration, the Hive Scan series (2001-03).
RICHARD DYCK
Richard Dyck is a Canadian artist who is interested in the abstract and reductive qualities of computers and other digital and analog devices and their application to the web. He sees those characteristics as good tools to explore human nature and limitations imposed by biology.
Richard has received grants from the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Aganetha’s and his Hive Scans have exhibited internationally, are in the National Gallery of Canada’s photography department, in many gallery collections and many individual collections, including The Canadian Embassy, Berlin, Germany. Richard’s Hive Conversation has exhibited at Gallery One One One at the University of Manitoba School of Fine Arts and at DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto. http://www.aganethadyck.ca/
DIANA THORNEYCROFT
Known for making art that frequently employs black humour and hovers on the edge of public acceptance, Diana Thorneycroft has pursued subject matter that often challenges her viewing audience. As a child, Thorneycroft lived on a Canadian military base near Baden-Baden, Germany. The Black Forest was her playground and has had a profound influence on her artistic practice. Stemming from the recently touring installation Black Forest (dark waters), her first stop-motion animation short film Black Forest Sanatorium had its world premiere at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival. It has since shown in fifteen other venues, including galleries and festivals. Thorneycroft is currently working on her second stop-motion animation, Black Forest Fastnacht, that focuses on a novice priest attempting to get to church during the last hour of a raunchy Mardi Gras carnival.
