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Online Panel: NFTs and Artists

21.04.2021 , Artist Talks, News

Online discussion hosted by Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Canada

NFTs and Artists with Erin Gee, Jeremy Bailey, Rah Eleh, and Alex McLeod

7pm CST / 9pm EST

This is going to be a really FUN, critical, and informative discussion on NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) with Canadian artists Jeremy Bailey, Rah Eleh, and Alex McLeod!

How are digital artists using NFTs now, and what will their use look like in the future of this rapidly changing landscape?

Review of solo exhibition – Canadian Art

11.04.2020 , Exhibitions, News, Reviews

“To the Sooe” is my first solo exhibition in a major Canadian institution, curated by Tak Pham at the MacKenzie Art Gallery . I am happy to announce the exhibition was recently reviewed by artist and curator Lauren Fournier and published in Canadian Art. This is my first solo exhibition in a major Canadian institution and I am thrilled by the positive response from critics. The exhibition closed early due to COVID-19, which is noted elegantly by the reviewer:

“Erin Gee’s “To The Sooe” reflects on the valences of emotional life in a post-internet world, gesturing to the many resonances between humans and machines in a time when the humanity of algorithms, data and screens might seem at odds with the complexities of feeling. Having visited the exhibition just weeks before the gallery’s temporary closure due to COVID-19 physical distancing measures, I am now struck by how prescient the work is in this moment of quarantine and self-isolation, when, for most of us, our primary means of communication, intimacy, and connection with others is through technology.”- Lauren Fournier

Click below to read the full review on Canadian Art.

Erin Gee

Review: Akimblog, Canada

02.02.2020 , News, Reviews

The first review for my solo exhibition To the Sooe at the MacKenzie Art Gallery is here! To the Sooe is on view until April 19th in Regina, Canada.

“Gee delivers the output in ASMR style through role play and a sound performance that leave you both mesmerized and tingling to your core. The sterile white walls and scientific jargon of the exhibition texts should not deter you from this immersive and sensory experience. Gee’s complex communication configurations require your time, patience and an open mind.” -Alexa Heenan, Akimblog

Click here to read the full review

Cover Story: Leader Post

30.01.2020 , Exhibitions, Interviews, News

I was surprised for my exhibition To the Sooe to be featured as front-page news on January 27, 2020 in the Leader Post, the leading newspaper of Regina Saskatchewan. Inside the paper you can find an interview with exhibition curator Tak Pham and I regarding my solo show at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, To the Sooe.

““Erin’s work is very, very immersive. It’s really bringing the reaction, the chemistry, the biology within your body and really bringing it outwards and put(ting) it on display,” said Tak Pham, who curated this exhibition at the MacKenzie.”

Click here to read the full article.

Solo Exhibition MacKenzie Art Gallery

29.01.2020 , Articles, Artist Talks, Exhibitions, News

From January 24-April 19 2020, my first major solo exhibition in a Canadian museum, To the Sooe, will be on view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Canada.

To the Sooe is curated by Tak Pham, and features a collection of my embodied technological works to date, as well as a few brand new works made especially for this exhibition including video installation Machine Unlearning (2020) and interactive biodata sound sculpture Pinch and Soothe (2020).

The exhibition has already garnered major attention from the printed press in Regina, with front page feature stories in both the Leader Post and the Prairie Dog as well as a french language interview with Radio Canada. As part of my exhibition activities I also gave an artist talk at the University of Regina as part of their Art for Lunch speaker series on January 24, 2020.

Cover Story: Prairie Dog Magazine

28.01.2020 , Exhibitions, Interviews, News

“Modernity and the Age of Reason kind of championed the brain as this really important thing that defined us as human,” she adds. “I’m interested in recent scientific studies that [show] it’s not all about the brain. Our thinking process actually happens in concert with our body beyond the brain. What I’m interested in is using technology to create a culture of the body.”

“I’m interested in making a conversation about technology that doesn’t centre on intelligence but on emotion.”

– Erin Gee, excerpts from interview with Gregory Beatty

My exhibition “To the Sooe” at the MacKenzie Art Gallery is front page news in Regina’s Prairie Dog Magazine! The Prairie Dog is Regina’s top source for what is going on in entertainment and the arts, so it is a great honor to be featured. I also appreciate the reporting done by Gregory Beatty on this interview. Click here to read the full article.

As a very brief aside, I want to address to the use of the words “Sound-Shaman” on the cover of this magazine. I have never used these terms to describe my practice, as I am not currently practicing any form of spiritual faith that would qualify me to do so. These words are not my own, but were an editorial decision that I do not identify with and strongly reject.

Saskatchewan Arts Board Purchase

04.07.2019 , Acquisition, News

Above: Larynx3 (2014), Epson UltraChrome K3 ink on archival paper. Edition of 5. 86 x 112cm. Collection of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, Canada.

Happy to announce that my work Larynx3 (from my four-part Larynx Series) has been purchased by the Saskatchewan Arts Board for their Permanent Collection in Canada.

Saskatchewan Arts Board’s Permanent Collection is a comprehensive collection of Saskatchewan artists (and expats such as myself) which includes approximately 3,000 works and represents the work of Saskatchewan province’s artists over the past seven decades. Its goal is to represent the contemporary art practices of artists within the province for the purpose of public access.

Click here for more information on the Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection.