Color Plate

No.1. Catherine McTavish, Night VISion #14: Stars in the Eyes-A Lamlscape, detail, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 396 x 244 em, 1981-1984. (Collection: Art Gallery of Ontario) This detail reveals the microscopic points of acrylic paint the artist used to create a web-like pattern. In the overall image, these points combine to form stars, mountains and water. (See article by Helen Hall.) COLOR PLATE A No.3. Kristi A. AIlik and Robert C. F. Mulder, Eulogy for an Elm Tree, Part I, Skyharp installation in the marsh near a footbridge at the Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area in Kingston, Ontario, inJuly 1991. No.2. Richard M. Povall, John D. Mitchell, Kathleen Smith andJeffrey R. Thomson, The Last Garden, intermedia performance combining experimental movement, music, video, visual design and technology, 1993. This work uses two interactive computer-music systems, a virtual stage set created by three channels of interactive laser video disc, one channel of prerecorded video and MIDIcontrolled stage lighting to address the impact of humankind on the land and of humankind on humankind. Three video screens can be seen toward the rear of the stage. No.4. Jack Ox, Ursonate, oil-painted image on mylar over xeroxed underdrawings (detail), 30 em x 200 m, work in progress. (Photo: Bernhard Schaub) The sections were collaged according to musical and phonetic information taken from Kurt Schwitters's performance of the Ursonate. ...