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'''Vincent Trasov''' is a painter, video and performance artist. His work is often media based and collaborative in spirit, involved with developing networks. He is a Canadian born in 1947 in Edmonton. In 1969 he founded Image Bank with Michael Morris, a method for personal exchange of information amongst artists; he has made videotapes since 1971; 1973 he was co-founder and co-director of Western Front Society, Vancouver, a centre for the production and presentation of new art activity; 1981 he was invited with Morris as guest of Berliner Kuenstlerprogramm, DAAD to Berlin; 1991 he and Morris founded the Morris/Trasov Archive, currently housed at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, to research contemporary art and communication. He presently resides and works in [[Berlin]] and [[Vancouver]]. | '''Vincent Trasov''' is a painter, video and performance artist. His work is often media based and collaborative in spirit, involved with developing networks. He is a Canadian born in 1947 in Edmonton. In 1969 he founded Image Bank with Michael Morris, a method for personal exchange of information amongst artists; he has made videotapes since 1971; 1973 he was co-founder and co-director of Western Front Society, Vancouver, a centre for the production and presentation of new art activity; 1981 he was invited with Morris as guest of Berliner Kuenstlerprogramm, DAAD to Berlin; 1991 he and Morris founded the Morris/Trasov Archive, currently housed at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, to research contemporary art and communication. He presently resides and works in [[Berlin]] and [[Vancouver]]. | ||
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| + | * ''[[Media:Hand_of_the_Spirit_Documents_of_the_Seventies_from_the_Morris-Trasov_Archive.pdf|Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive]]'', ed. Scott Watson, Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1992, 47 pp. Catalogue. [http://vincenttrasov.ca/index.cfm?pg=archive] [http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=9097] | ||
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* [http://vincenttrasov.ca Home page] | * [http://vincenttrasov.ca Home page] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:05, 26 June 2015
Vincent Trasov is a painter, video and performance artist. His work is often media based and collaborative in spirit, involved with developing networks. He is a Canadian born in 1947 in Edmonton. In 1969 he founded Image Bank with Michael Morris, a method for personal exchange of information amongst artists; he has made videotapes since 1971; 1973 he was co-founder and co-director of Western Front Society, Vancouver, a centre for the production and presentation of new art activity; 1981 he was invited with Morris as guest of Berliner Kuenstlerprogramm, DAAD to Berlin; 1991 he and Morris founded the Morris/Trasov Archive, currently housed at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, to research contemporary art and communication. He presently resides and works in Berlin and Vancouver.
- Literature
- Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive, ed. Scott Watson, Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1992, 47 pp. Catalogue. [1] [2]
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