META is an annual exhibition that showcases the production and curatorial thesis work of 4th year new media students at Ryerson. Each year, META provides a platform for displaying emerging artists’ work that combines contemporary art practice with limitless technological innovation. This year, the curatorial team has developed a conceptual framework that they believe embodies the experience of new
media art. Derived from a number of predetermined ideas, and re-appropriated by the curatorial team as part of their inspiration for mediating works, conceptually and spatially. The emergent nature of new media art practice presents challenges when introducing this type of work to a larger public. In META, we takes on these challenges, breaking through artistic, cultural and technological boundaries. Audiences are invited to perceive new media art in a way that inspires ideas, questions, and revelations about contemporary culture, technology and our future. THIRDSPACE ; Thirdspace signifies the invisible aesthetic of new media artwork that invites audiences into experiential hybrid environments. The amalgamation of physical objects, narrated information and inhabited space mediates the experience through integrated technologies. Blurring the lines between our physical and virtual existences, occupancy of the Third Space impacts our awareness of the surrounding effects on our body and mind, in time and space. Curatorial Team: Karina Nicole, Raeleen Murugan, Edmond Tse, Luke Diamantopoulos, Brian Tsang.