Pop Culture Candid Camera
Written by Diana Duong *June 1, 2010 Thirty years after his death, Marshall McLuhan’s insights still resonate inside the walls of the University of Toronto Art Centre. The Brothel Without Walls is one of the three primary exhibitions for the 2010 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the world’s largest. Borrowing its name from McLuhan’s 1964 essay, … Read more
Sex in the Media Made Art
Written June 1, 2010 “Why not assist the public to observe consciously the drama which is intended to operate on it unconsciously?” -Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan, an extraordinarily avant-garde thinker, was one of the first scholars to critically analyze commercial environments. In 1951, he published his first book, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. … Read more
The World’s Largest Photography Festival on the Doorsteps of Toronto
Written May 16, 2010 The 2010 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival was on from May 1 to June 6. Primary exhibitions were “The Mechanical Bride” at MOCCA (952 Queen St W), “Through the Vanishing Point” at McLuhan Program of Culture and Technology (39A Queen’s Park Crescent E) and “The Brothel Without Walls” at University of Toronto … Read more
