Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Chutes
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Chutes
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Alternate Title:
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Falls
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Image View:
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Detail, view of TV monitors, stacked and playing DVD images
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Creator:
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Alexandre Castonguay (Canadian installation artist, born 1968)
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Location:
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repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2006.482
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Location Note:
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National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest; Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
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GPS:
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+46.801106-71.225064
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Date:
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1995-2003 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Canadian
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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installation (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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multimedia work
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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eight-channel video installation; 28 TV monitors, eight DVD players and eight DVDs
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Technique:
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assemblage (sculpture technique)
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Measurements:
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230 cm (height) x 350 cm (width) x 240 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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allegory; contemporary (1960 to present); landscape; Television; technology; DVD images
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Description:
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Alexandre Castonguay is a Canadian media artist. He is known for his use of electronic and open-source technologies in his artworks. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-CASTON-E-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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