Devin Chambers

Statement

Devin Chambers is a Canadian new media artist and community organizer. He is interested in interactive work, relational aesthetics, and the intersection of art and technology. His current body of work studies the warping and poetic nature of memories that exist in both physical and digital spaces. These memories are linked to the stark and unchanging non-spaces around us.

These non-spaces often serve an industrial or structural purpose, but have unintended and more important secondary purposes. They are meant to be moved through and not lingered in. These disposable, private spaces can support youthful revelry, contemplation, and escapism. They are a venue for activities that in other spaces are deemed inappropriate or shameful by either the controllers of the spaces or ourselves.

The memories imbued in these tired places appear all at the same time making it impossible to establish a clear narrative as if everything happened at the same time. Over time these memories become fragmented, removed from their emotional context, and endlessly misremembered. Revisiting the reality of these places forces a sense of honesty onto our narratives.

GlogauAIR Project

During my time at GlogauAir I will be conflating physical memories with digital spaces and digital spaces with physical memories.

The digital environments are contorted images of unique infrastructure. The physical memories are moments of embodiment that have replaced logical details.

Through this work, I will imagine ways to restructure the process of recording memories and explore memories in physical and digital spaces.

I will explore these ideas through a combination of the methodologies of film, installation and Sculpture.

CV Summary

Education

• 2017- 2019 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design Bachelors of Fine Art Interdisciplinary
• 2015- 2017 ​Red Deer College, Visual Arts Diploma – Dean’s Honour roll

Exhibitions

• 2022 Cut – Outs, Pop Up Solo Exhibition, Art Atribute, Red Deer, Alberta
• 2021 We Made This, Vacant Collective Pop up Exhibition, Red Deer Alberta
• 2021 Glass Front Gallery Exhibition, Alberta Culture Days, Red Deer, Alberta
• 2021 Live Art Night – Fractal Art Lab, Red Deer Alberta
• 2021 Shelf Life – Third Shift Contemporary Art Festival, st John, NB
• 2021 Shelf Life – Flourish Festival, Fredericton, NB
• 2021 Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud, Experimental Audio collaboration, RE: Flux Music and sound festival, Moncton, NB
• 2020 All the Images in the World are Mine, video and audio collaboration, 404 Mediademic 17th international festival of art and technology, Argentina
• 2019 Scripted Conversations, Solo Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
• 2019 CODA: Language and Art, Group exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
• 2018 Formatted for Sculpture, Duo exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
• 2018 Achromatic, group exhibition, Harris Warke Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB
• 2018 NSCAD Airport Project, public art installation at the Halifax Stanfield Airport

Professional Experiences

• 2021 Electronic literature and coding in P3, online talk
• 2021 Co- Founder of The Vacant Artist Collective
• 2021 Sculpture Studio Technician, Red Deer College
• 2021 Artist In Residence Ewart Duggan House, Espande Arts and Heritage Centre
• 2020 ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) camp – Tisch School of the Arts at New York University

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