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  • 60 -
    "60" is a version of "Very Nervous System" designed especially for the "I am Listening" show of sound sculptures at the Glendon Gallery at York University, Toronto, Canada. "60" uses the softVNS.htmlI motion processor, and a additive synthesis
  • The second in the series, "Plot Against Time #2 (flurry)", tracks individual snowflakes whirling in the complex turbulence created by the rigorous and minimal forms of Mies van der Rohe's Toronto Dominion Centre skyscrapers and the Al McWilliams
  • San Marco Flow -
    "San Marco Flow" layers all the actions of people and pigeons on Piazza San Marco in Venice into a pair of evolving images representing two views of the recent history of activities there. The images are, in effect, lit by animate presence; things
  • Taken -
    "Taken" is a surveillance installation that provides two readings of the activities in the gallery space. A large gallery space has one wall taken up by two very large projections. On the left hand side, gallery visitors are extracted from the
  • Long Wave - video
    Long wave is a site specific installation that was commissioned by Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts + Creativity and was on view at the Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place, Toronto, June 5 - 20, 2009. It is a 380 foot long, 60 foot high
  • Cheap Imitation -
    "Cheap Imitation" is an homage to Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp was of course an inveterate re-user of existing works of art. In "Cheap Imitation", Rokeby has cut up Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" into the several hundred facets that make up
  • Sorting Daemon -
    Like many of Rokeby's other works, "Sorting Daemon" surveys its environment and uses the resulting images as the primary content of the work. In this specific case, the system looks out onto the street, panning, tilting and zooming, looking for
  • An Interactive Art Installation / Immersive Cinema Experience An Uncommon Affair At Tooting Bec Common is an immersive cinematic work presented in the context of an interactive installation environment. The structure of the work is inspired by the
  • Dark Matter - video
    Dark Matter: The darkened gallery space is dominated by an invisible sculpture of silent sound. Your body probes the space listening for the sculpture's spatial form to be expressed though the sounds of your contact with its immaterial presence.
  • homunculus.nimbus -
    homunculus nimbus is the third iteration of a previous work called, homunculus.agora, which was exhibited at Land|Slide Possible Futures, Markham Museum September 21st- October 14th 2013; and Farm To Table Exhibition, Markham Museum January 31st