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Michelle Gay
Biography
Michelle Gay trained as an artist at the University of Toronto and then later received her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). She works with a range of media from drawing to digital media, investigating the junctures between bodies and technologies - building and then using computers to make and then operate interactive artworks.
She has collaborated with her sibling - Colin Gay (Yale particle physicist) for the past 6 years on numerous software/hardware based works - machine dreams, Seuss Faces the Abyss, experiments with a reader - and the newest work in progress The Poemitron and Retrieval Pictures – which use pressure sensitive input devices developed for the Canadian Space Agency. Interested in the possibilities of touch and poetics within new media works, they are in development of experimental works designed to play with technologies in non-useful ways.
She has exhibited at Galerie Occurrence in Montreal and is included in a drawing exhibition which is traveling across Canada. In 2005, she was included in the exhibition Active Layers at the McMaster University Museum and have less be more at the Dunlop Gallery. Program, a work of fictional programming language and industrial felt-byproduct was exhibited at the Textile Museum of Canada in 1999/2000 and remounted at the Canada Quay Gallery at Harbourfront also in 2004. She presented Battle Game, a reworking of Quake/Bayeux tapestry at the Siggraph 2003 in San Diego and the Museum | London as part of a curated exhibition entitled Shadow of the Machine. She has shown at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Galerie Quartaire in Den Haag, Netherlands amongst other galleries and museums. She is represented in Toronto by the Birch | Libralato Gallery.