Skorpions: Kinetic Electronic Garments move and reshape as presented by XS Labs by Joanna Berzowska and Di Mainstone with Marguerite Bromley, Marcelo Coelho, David Gauthier, Francis Raymond and Valerie Boxer.

Rhythms portray time's patterns. Not just a moment in time, but what came before and what comes after. There is an element of play added to the Rhythms section such as the Skorpions: Kinetic Electronic Garments that move and reshape as presented by XS Labs by Joanna Berzowska and Di Mainstone with Marguerite Bromley, Marcelo Coelho, David Gauthier, Francis Raymond and Valerie Boxer. Funded by the Canada Council for Media Arts.

Traversal refers to path we take in life and our relationship with time. Presentations include Moving Still, an anaglyphic presentation by Santiago Caicedo, L'Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France.

"We made a deliberate attempt to view the exhibit as a whole and from that our themes emerged," said Yamaguchi. "In an effort to provide more curatorial guidance to attendees, we will have signage describing the themes within the gallery. For those who want a more detailed level of information, there are several opportunities: docent-led tours, available in several languages including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean; we will also have kiosk stations available for downloading a self-paced audio tour, also available in these languages. Finally, we have scheduled a series of informal artist's talks. We have at least eight of these scheduled so far, but dependent on time and artist's availability we may have more.

"The pieces were evaluated based on criteria such as: concept, novelty, interest (appeal) and proposal quality (quality, craft, completeness). There were many really great submissions, but ultimately adherence to the Slow Art theme and space considerations played a big role in eliminating works. Also, once the set of accepted submissions began to evolve, we tried to select pieces that would complement each other, or provide an interesting counterpoint to other selections."

Pieces which stand out include the 3D work of Tim Borgmann (left) and Mark Stock's Smoke Water Fire. 

Yamaguchi singled out the 3D work of Tim Borgmann: fragment (Silhouette) and fragment (Glint), which emphasize a stopping-time effect displayed as stills using SOFTIMAGE|XSI for particle effects and Photoshop, as well as the stereoscopic piece by Mark Stock, Smoke Water Fire: a digital animation of a deforming blob of fluid slowed down and stripped of environmental context in order to explore the shape of ephemeral media.

Slow Art is a growing trend. Along with slow food and now slow city design that focuses on restoring and improving quality of life, slow art has the potential to bring back the traditional and familiar scenes of historical fine art throughout the ages.

Eric Post is an attorney, journalist, computer graphic artist, helicopter pilot/mechanic and former pastor. Although he is a traditional artist, he enjoys modeling and landscape scenes in CG and uses various applications for medical illustrations at his office. From 2004-2006, Post was senior technical editor for the Renderosity magazine and e-zine. From 2006-2007, Post served as a staff writer for the Renderosity Front Page News, and edited various Renderosity publications.