Interior of the Eaton Centre showing one of Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland's best known sculptures, called Flightstop, which depict Canada Geese in flight. He made the sculpture with his partner Joyce Wieland, who is credited with the idea.

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Life

Michael Snow was born in Toronto and studied at Upper Canada College and the Ontario College of Art. He had his first solo exhibition in 1957. Since then, his work has appeared at exhibitions across Europe, North America and South America. His works were included in the shows marking the reopening of both the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2000 and the MoMA in New York in 2005. In March 2006 his works were included in the Whitney Biennial. Upper Canada College (UCC) is a private elementary and secondary school for boys in downtown Toronto, Canada. ... Inside a class in 1931 The Ontario College of Art & Design is Canadas largest and oldest university for art and design. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Centre Georges Poopy Doo Doo (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais. ... View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi. ... The banner of the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day For Night in front of the Whitney Museum of American Art. ...

Work

Films

Snow is considered one of the most influential experimental filmmakers and is the subject of retrospectives in many countries. In his 2002 Village Voice review of *Corpus Callosum, J. Hoberman writes: “Rigorously predicated on irreducible cinematic facts, Snow's structuralist epics—Wavelength and La Région Centrale—announced the imminent passing of the film era. Rich with new possibilities, *Corpus Callosum heralds the advent of the next. Whatever it is, it cannot be too highly praised.” *Corpus Calossum was screened at the Toronto, Berlin, Rotterdam, and the Los Angeles film festivals amongst others. In January 2003, Snow won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Douglas Edwards Independent Experimental Film/Video Award for *Corpus Callosum. His numerous films have premiered in major film festivals all over the world. Five of his films have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In 2000, TIFF commissioned Snow with Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg to make short films, Preludes, for the 25th Anniversary of the festival. Experimental film, or experimental cinema, is a term that describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking. ... The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... J. Hoberman (Jim Hoberman) is the lead film critic for The Village Voice. ... Wavelength is a short, forty-five minute film that made the reputation of Canadian experimental filmmaker Michael Snow. ... Poster for the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival Box office at the Manulife Centre The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), held in Toronto, Canada, is widely considered to be one of the top film festivals in the world. ... The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) was founded in 1975. ... Poster for the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival Box office at the Manulife Centre The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), held in Toronto, Canada, is widely considered to be one of the top film festivals in the world. ... Atom Egoyan at the Third Golden Apricot Film Festival. ... David Cronenberg at Cannes 2002 David Paul Cronenberg OC, FRSC (born May 15, 1943[1]) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor. ...

Music

Originally a professional jazz musician, Snow has a long-standing interest in improvised music, as indicated by the soundtrack to his film New York Eye and Ear Control. As a pianist, he has performed solo and with other musicians in North American, Europe and Japan. Snow performs regularly in Canada and internationally, often with the improvisational music ensemble CCMC and has released more than a half dozen albums since the mid-1970s. In 1987, Snow issued The Last LP (Art Metropole), which purported to be a documentary disc of the dying gasps of ethnic musical cultures from around the globe including Tibet, Syria, India, China Brazil, Finland and elsewhere, with more thousands of words of pseudo-scholarly supplimentary notes, but was, in fact, a series of multi-tracked recordings of Snow himself, who gave the joke away only in a single column of text in the disc's gatefold jacket, printed backwards and readable in a mirror. One track, purported to be a document of a coming-of-age ritual from Niger, is a pastiche of Whitney Houston's song "How Will I Know." Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American Pop and R&B singer, actress, film producer, and former model. ...

Other Media

Snow's works have been in Canadian pavilion at world fairs since his famous Walking Women sculpture was exhibited at Expo 67 in Montréal. His recent bookwork BIOGRAPHIE of the Walking Woman / de la femme qui marche 1961-1967 (2004) was published in Brussels by La Lettre vole. It consists of images of the public appearances of his globally famous icon. The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, or simply Expo 67 was the General Exhibition Category 1 Worlds Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 27 to October 29, 1967. ...

Snow was one of the four performers of the rarely performed Steve Reich piece Pendulum Music on May 27 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The other three were: Richard Serra, James Tenney and Bruce Nauman. Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. ... Pendulum Music is the name of a work by Steve Reich, involving suspended microphones and speakers, creating phasing feedback tones. ... Night view of Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art gallery and museum in New York City founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. ... Fulcrum 1987, 55 ft high free standing sculpture of Cor-ten steel near Liverpool Street station, London Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. ... James Tenney (August 10, 1934 in Silver City, NM) is an American composer and influential music theorist. ... Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. ...

Anarchive2: Digital Snow describes Michael Snow as “one of the most significant artists in contemporary art and cinema of the past 50 years.” This 2002 DVD was initiated by Paris’ Centre Pompidou and was produced with the support of la foundation Daniel Langlois, Université de Paris, Heritage Canada, the Canada Council, Téléfilm Canada and Montreal’s Époxy. It is an encyclopedia of Snow's works across media, browsed in a manner inimitably and artfully created by Snow. Its 4,685 entries include film clips, sculpture, photographs, audio and musical clips, and interviews. The Pompidou Centres famous external skeleton of service pipes. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is an agency of the Government of Canada created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. ...

Retrospectives and Honours

In the background you can see multiple stadium sculptures on the Eastern side of Skydome.

In 1993 The Michael Snow Project, lasting several months, was a multivenue retrospective of Snow’s works in Toronto exhibited at several public venues and at the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Power Plant. Concurrently his works were the subjects of four books published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 596 pixelsFull resolution (2576 × 1920 pixel, file size: 480 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)self made I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 596 pixelsFull resolution (2576 × 1920 pixel, file size: 480 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)self made I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU... The main entrance to the AGO The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is an art museum on the eastern edge of Torontos downtown Chinatown district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. ...

In 1981, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He received the first Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2000) for cinema. Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country (Hebrews 11. ...

In 2004, the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne awarded him an honorary doctorate. The last artist so awarded was Pablo Picasso. Inscription over the entrance to the Sorbonne The front of the Sorbonne Building The name Sorbonne (La Sorbonne) is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions (see below), but this is a recent usage, and Sorbonne has actually... “Picasso” redirects here. ...

Honorary degrees

Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (2004), Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver (2004) Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (1990), University of Toronto (1999), University of Victoria (1997), Brock University (1975). Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, a university in Vancouver, BC, Canada, is named for Canadian artist Emily Carr. ... The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD) is a post-secondary art school located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

Academic Appointments

• Visiting Artist/Professor at MAPS (Master of Art in Public Sphere), Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland (February 2005, January 2006)
• Visiting Artist/Professor at L’école Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, France. (December 2004, May 2005)
• Visiting Artist/Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2001
• Visiting Artist/Professor, le Fresnoy, Tourcoing France, 1997-8
• Visiting Professor, l'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles France, 1996
• Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 1988
• Professor of Advanced Film, Yale University, 1970
• CCMC artists in residence, La Chartreuse, Avignon Festival, France, 1981

Other Awards

• Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002
• Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, 2000
• Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France, 1995
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972

Major Installations

• "The Windows Suite" is a permanent installation comprised of 32 varied sequences of images, which are presented on 65" plasma screens in 7 of the windows of the façade of the Toronto Pantages Hotel and Spa and related condo buildings facing Victoria Street in central Toronto. Some of these sequences one might possibly glimpse in the windows of a sophisticated hotel, condo, spa and parking garage building, but many sequences are “impossible,” e.g. in one sequence fish swim from window to window. This installation was opened as an official event of the Toronto International Film Festival September 2006.

• Flightstop - Toronto Eaton Centre a collection of life sized Canada geese in flight hanging over the main section of the mall.
• The Audience - SkyDome (now Rogers Centre in Toronto) is a collection of larger then life depictions of fans located above the northeast and northwest entrances. Painted gold, the sculptures show fans in various acts of celebration.

The Toronto Eaton Centre is a large shopping mall and office complex in downtown Toronto, Ontario Canada, named after the now-defunct Eatons department store chain. ... Rogers Centre, formerly known as SkyDome,[1] is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario, situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. ...

Filmography

The Audience sculpture adorning the facade on the northwest corner of Rogers Centre stadium in Toronto. This photo only shows half of the art installation. The other set is located above the north east corner of the building, and is of similar size and configuration.

• A to Z (1956)
• New York Eye and Ear Control (1964)
• Short Shave (1965)
• Wavelength (1966)
• Standard Time (1967)
• One Second in Montreal (1969)
• Dripping Water (1969)
• <----> (Back and Forth) (1969)
• Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film (1970)
• La Région centrale (1971)
• Two Sides to Every Story (1974)
• 'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thankx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)
• Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) (1976)
• Presents (1981)
• So Is This (1982)
• Seated Figures (1988)
• See You Later (1990)
• To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991)
• Prelude (2000)
• The Living Room (2000)
• *Corpus Callosum (2002)
• WVLNT ("Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have the Time") (2003)

Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 851 KB) Summary A sculpture adorning the facade of the northwest portion of Rogers Centre. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 851 KB) Summary A sculpture adorning the facade of the northwest portion of Rogers Centre. ... Rogers Centre, formerly known as SkyDome,[1] is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario, situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. ... New York Eye and Ear Control is an album of group improvisations recorded by an augmented version of Albert Aylers group to provide the soundtrack for Michael Snows film of the same name. ... Wavelength is a short, forty-five minute film that made the reputation of Canadian experimental filmmaker Michael Snow. ... A shortened and altered version of Michael Snows 1967 experimental film Wavelength (film), released in 2003 by the director. ...

External links

• Michael Snow's own autobiography