Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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William Vazan is a 2016 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Directed by Julie Perron
Co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and PRIM
Presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."
For more information, visit: ggavma.canadacouncil.ca
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Transcript:
This looks good. Yeah, this looks good.
The flat there, and then these little lined trees in this area. It’ll work out well.
So... The intent for that piece, it is to show neutrino impacts; these very tiny particles that arrive from the sun. It comes with the solar wind. It sort of penetrates everything in the world: us, the planet, whatever. As you can see, a lot of science comes into my art.
That’ll look good.
I like making works which tend to bring out the invisible. I try to make it visible.
Now I’m going to convert that into a digital field by adding ones with the zeros. Ones and the zeros make up the binary code for our digital technology that we have today.
You could call me a traveller. I do go to several places and I like to show where I have been.
Mainly it seems to me that I go for this movement over the earth’s surface rather than making objects which would be on the walls or on pedestals in museums.
Some real sexy shots here.
Can you see me?
By having an air of being a private person, looking normal, I can come into any situation without people knowing that I’m there.
And I do it; I’ve taken my pictures and I’ve gone. Like a parachutist, I come in, do and go.
Ça y est. Fini!
I guess you could say I’m one of the pioneers in this part of the world - in Canada - in this sort of stuff. It’s all stuff actually. We just pile it up a different way; and we could use other words for it, but I guess you could say it’s just stuff. But in a very pleasant way.
Please subscribe to support the arts in Canada.
William Vazan is a 2016 winner of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Directed by Julie Perron
Co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts and PRIM
Presentation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm's-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) "to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts."
For more information, visit: ggavma.canadacouncil.ca
*****
Transcript:
This looks good. Yeah, this looks good.
The flat there, and then these little lined trees in this area. It’ll work out well.
So... The intent for that piece, it is to show neutrino impacts; these very tiny particles that arrive from the sun. It comes with the solar wind. It sort of penetrates everything in the world: us, the planet, whatever. As you can see, a lot of science comes into my art.
That’ll look good.
I like making works which tend to bring out the invisible. I try to make it visible.
Now I’m going to convert that into a digital field by adding ones with the zeros. Ones and the zeros make up the binary code for our digital technology that we have today.
You could call me a traveller. I do go to several places and I like to show where I have been.
Mainly it seems to me that I go for this movement over the earth’s surface rather than making objects which would be on the walls or on pedestals in museums.
Some real sexy shots here.
Can you see me?
By having an air of being a private person, looking normal, I can come into any situation without people knowing that I’m there.
And I do it; I’ve taken my pictures and I’ve gone. Like a parachutist, I come in, do and go.
Ça y est. Fini!
I guess you could say I’m one of the pioneers in this part of the world - in Canada - in this sort of stuff. It’s all stuff actually. We just pile it up a different way; and we could use other words for it, but I guess you could say it’s just stuff. But in a very pleasant way.
