Month: July 2021

In 2021, I was invited to serve on a panel of advisors for a Royal Ontario Museum (a.k.a. ROM) exhibition featuring the works of Elias Sime. Sime lives in Ethiopia. His artwork transforms the detritus and waste of electronic products and our tech lives into big, gorgeous and surprising canvases. From a distance, the artworks are riveting; then, as you step closer, they grow more and more mesmerizing as you begin to see the countless myriad pieces that make up the larger canvasses, including components and innards of computers and cell phones, wires, keyboards, circuit boards, diodes and more that create a new kind of pointillism custom made for our digital era. Continue reading “Audio tour reflection for Elias Sime: Tightrope exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum | July 16, 2021”