Erin Thurlow

Biography

Erin Thurlow is currently in the Media and Design Innovation PhD at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research concerns the natures of creativities and how they can respond to, implement and/or resist technological disruption, especially at the intersections of political upheaval and environmental crisis. A visual artist, writer, and researcher, he holds an MFA in visual art from Rutgers and a BFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute. He has exhibited his art internationally and served as the Reviews Editor at the "Miami Rail" Art Magazine.

Residency Goals

To learn about my own creative process while experimenting with display and installation of art. To have learned by working in close proximity with the artists of the MDI program and the 401 Richmond community. To share that work with others.

Residency project

I have been working on a camera-less photo series which includes several elements from my previous work including public signage as a form of communal experience, light as an activation of common space, and the experience of time as a kind of form. Adopting anachronistic processes that might resemble early photographic experiments, I am creating images by exposing photo paper directly to surface sections of TTC shelters' illuminated advertising panels. Is this an act of recuperation? In (working title) "Every Path Has a Price", what started as an abstract examination of my own practice, has led me to a keen interest in our societal longing for the fantasy of the zombie apocalypse.