Christos Tsirbas
Michelle DuBarry Presents the Great Books of the World: The Bible, 2010
On the TTC:
Saturday the 8th
Michelle DuBarry Presents the Great Books of the World: Green Eggs and Ham, 2010
On the TTC:
Friday the 14th
Michelle DuBarry Presents the Great Books of the World: The Origin of Species, 2010
On the TTC:
Thursday the 20th
Artist Statement
Despite the emergence of powerful new forms of expression, words still lie at the heart of our culture. We use words to describe, interpret and reshape our reality but we now consume them through so many different channels. Some are claiming that books are a dying technology, that dead-tree editions will soon be replaced by their digital counterparts, and that this is inevitable. At the same time, we are already seeing the loss of our present to our future due to digital technology. E-mail is being deleted. Web sites are taken off line. Digital works in progress are not saved: only their final versions remain. Without a paper trail, much of our digital history has already been deleted.
These photographs subvert the notion of books as a fading technology and invite viewers to reconsider the onslaught of new technologies. Is newer better? When we throw out the old, do we truly understand what we’re throwing out? Why are we made to feel nostalgia for something that is still ever-present? And do technologies, like fashion, come around again?
Artist Bio
Christos Tsirbas is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and writer whose work has been featured in the National Post, fab, Instinct, and on CBC Radio, among others. He was a finalist in 2009 edition of the National Film Board’s Concours Tremplin competition for emerging francophone filmmakers. His short film Smile won first place at the 2008 Toronto Urban Film Festival and best animation at Nokia MobiFest 2009. In 2007, he was honoured as Toronto Mobile Filmmaker of the Year at Mobifest for the short film Upgrade. An alumnus of Université de Montréal, Tsirbas embraces the democratizing power of digital technologies to invigorate existing art forms and to create entirely new modes of expression all the while enjoying and celebrating the possibilities afforded by older technologies that some have deemed obsolete.
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