Reva Stone, new media artist and 2015 Canada Council laureate - a film by Danielle Sturk

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This video tells the story of Reva Stone's 'coming home' to her art practice, which involves changing technologies that make the viewer complicit in it's risk-taking approach to new modes of expression.

Reva Stone is a 2015 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

Directed by Danielle Sturk
Co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and Winnipeg Film Group
Presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance

The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."

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Transcript:
I would be a completely different person if I wasn’t doing art. I actually came at art a little later, and it was like I came home.
All of my work has been about changing technologies and how they alter how we mediate our world. It’s not the technology itself that stimulates me, it’s the ideas that I am working at.
One of the things that really drew me to working with responsive works or environments is making the viewer complicit in the work and the issues that I was thinking about. That was one of the first things I was aware I was trying to do by starting to work with digital media.
I have actually taken quite a few risks. The kind of work that I make and people like me make, we’re really making prototypes and so whether they’re going to work or whether they’re not going to work is kind of up in the air. I had work that has never worked. I made work that never really came to fruition for some reason or other too. Sometimes it just takes a really long time to get them to work. Sometimes the actual technology can’t do your idea: I’ve taken a lot of chances. I’m really comfortable not knowing what I am doing. And it’s a really creative, interesting place for me to be: over my head technically and conceptually. I find that very exciting. I like the challenges. I really like the challenges.