Googleheim – Heather White
Ciel variable 96 – PERFORMING FOR THE IMAGE | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Heather White | Artists: Alison Craighead, Jon Thomson, Marika Dermineur, Stéphane Degoutin
July 3, 2018 [originally published in CV96 in Winter 2014] — First in the sightline for those entering Googleheim, a group show curated by Horea Avram at Interaccess in Toronto: a wireless mouse on a plinth. It might have been a monument to audience engagement – a succinct overture to a show invested in dialogue between the museum’s interest in artefacts and the Internet’s provision of access. It wasn’t that, though; interaction was not particularly celebrated…