ARTISTS

Sebastian Koever, 'Throwing Arm Machine' Part of 'Toys' series, 2009.

Sebastian Koever

Sebastian Koever was born in Ludwigsafen, Germany. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree with a sculpture and drawing specialty at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan Institute of Technology. Preferred mediums include ink on mixed media, video, photography, wood, fabric and various other media to produce typically large-scale pieces. Sebastian currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Christine Swintak, Self-Aware Shed, Installation View, YYZ Artists Outlet Toronto, 2009.

Christine Swintak

Christine Swintak is a Toronto-based visual artist who works in a number of media including installation, intervention, performance and multimedia. She has exhibited at galleries, festivals and museums across Canada and internationally, including HMK Mariakapel (Holland), Model Niland (Ireland), DCR Guest Studios (Holland), YYZ Artist's Outlet (Toronto), Toronto Free Gallery (Toronto), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto),  ArtCity Festival of Art and Architecture (Calgary), Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax) and Rockefeller Centre (New York). Swintak has also presented numerous independent public interventions and relational happenings in places like Shelburne, Amsterdam, Banff, Vancouver, Teslin, New York, Salt Lake City, Death Valley and Los Angeles. Her projects include building a full scale ship through collective improvisation, running an election party campaign for the Irish underworld, transforming a dumpster into a luxury boutique hotel, promoting urban quicksand pits to condo developers, attempting to give a shed a consciousness, and producing a series of impossible project proposals. Swintak received a BFA in 2003 from NSCAD University and is committed to continual self-directed research.