Images Festival (Toronto): OFF-SCREEN exhibition of media art Installations
<PAUSE> web.art exhibition w/MobileGaze.org launches 7 pm Wednesday 21 April
@ InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre 401 Richmond St West, ste #444
w/curators Valerie Lamontagne, Brad Todd & artists: I8U, Yan Breleux and
Peter Horvath. Visit the audio & video exhibition @ www.mobilegaze.org/pause

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Toronto, April 1, 2004 - For ten meteoric days, from April 15-24, the
organizing team of Images Off-Screen focuses a new media lens on 16
installations by 17 artists at 13 venues in downtown Toronto. Audiences are
invited to experience the moving image through media art installations,
web-based and interactive projects, sound & video works, performances,
artists' talks, receptions and the launch party on Friday, April 16 at the
Gladstone Hotel.

Since 1995, the Images Festival has presented media art installations in
addition to its on-screen program in an ongoing dialogue between the
traditional cinematic approach to exhibition and the many innovative and
experimental off-screen formats for digital media. This year many of the
installation and new media projects investigate time, duration, stasis,
urban landscapes, travel and our lived environments.

On Friday, April 16 from 10pm - 2am, the Festival will launch Images
Off-Screen with a free party at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W,
featuring outdoor video projections by Oliver Hockenhull & DJ Will Munro.
For information on additional openings, artist's talks, web launches &
events please visit the Images website or pick up a program catalogue.

Collaborating partners are: A Space, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gallery 44,
Gallery TPW, InterAccess, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Trinity Square
Video, Vtape, VMAC, Women's Art Resource Centre and Wynick/Tuck Gallery.

Admission to all exhibitions is free (except the AGO, which is free on
Wednesdays from 6:00 to 8:30) and all galleries are open Tuesday - Sunday
12-5 during the festival.

The Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Canada's largest annual
event devoted exclusively to independent and experimental film, video and
new media, opens April 15 and runs through April 24 at two theatres and
thirteen gallery and performance venues in downtown Toronto. From
hand-tinted celluloid to digital video, performances and interactive media,
the Images Festival celebrates its 17th year with a 10-day line-up featuring
this year's best independent and experimental images. Audiences are given
the unmissable opportunity to take in more than 100 independent films and
videos, sixteen new media art installations, two web-based exhibitions and
five live events.

IMAGES OFF-SCREEN INFORMATION:
www.imagesfestival.com

Images Festival Ticket and Information Line: (416) 971-6236
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