Curriculum Vitae - Doug Back

      Born:
      Toronto, Ontario, 1954

      Residence:
      Lot 4, Con. 11
      Dummer Township, Ontario. Canada. 

      Education:
      Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario,
      Graduated 1979.

     
      Selected Exhibitions

       1994  The Body Obselete
            "Brain Bag" Version 1.1
            a computer controlled video installation
            in which the viewer sits on a temprature
            controlled chair, watching a video monitor.
                      SAW Gallery.
            Ottawa, Ontario.

       1994 CyberCity Project
            "Untitled" Version 1.1
            a room in which a robot with a video camera
            on it is confronted by it's own image.
            McLuhan Center, Toronto to Vience 
       1993 Teleskulptur
           "Dummer Weather",Version 1.1
           a device which teleports wind speed and wind          
           direction over the phone lines to a remote location.
           In collaboration with Carl Hamfelt.
           Kunstler Haus and my home.
           Dummer Township to Graz, Austria.

      1993 Sumo Robot Challenge
           "The Restructuring Team", Version 1.1
            a robot which wrestles other robots
            Ontario College of Art
            Toronto, Ontario.  
	1992 The Age of Electronics.
           "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel" Version 3.1
           computer controlled video installation.
           The Lake Gallery
           Toronto, Ontario.      

      1992 Sumo Robot Challenge
           "A taste of Scarbourgh", Version 1.1
           a robot which wrestles other robots.
           Ontario College Of Art
           Toronto, Ontario.
     
      1991 DEVICES
           "Small Artist Pushing Technology", Version 2.3
           computer controlled video installation.
           Josh Baer Gallery
           New York, New York      
      
      1991 Artist in Residence
           "Untitled"
           custom built image projector with electronics, audio
           and video. Collaboration with Caroline Langill.
           Art Space
           Peterbourgh, Ontario.
                   
      1990 SISEA (Second International Symposium of 
           Electronic Art)
           "Stasis" (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Version 3.2
           computer controlled video installation. 
           Gronigen, Holland

      1990 European Media Arts Festival
           "Stasis" (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Version 3.1
           Osnabruck, Germany.

      1989 The Phase Show
           "Emitter/follower", Version 1.1
           computer controlled installation
           "Untitled"
           interactive kinetic sculpture
           "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel", Version 2.2 
           electronically controlled sound installation.
           A Space, Toronto
  
      1989 Infoma 
           "Small Artist Pushing Technology", Version 1.2  
           computer controlled video installation
           Musee Du Berry, Bourges, France

      



	1988 Striving for Ideal Resolution,
           "Small Artist Pushing Technology", Version 1.1   
           computer controlled video installation 
           "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel", Version 2.1
           electronically controlled 
           sound installation 
           Nickle Arts Museum,Calgary


      1986 Strategic Arts Initiative
           "Arm Wrestling Machine", Version 1.1
           a sculpture which allows two people to arm wrestle
           over the phone lines.   
           University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy; 
           Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris;
           A.R.C. Gallery, Toronto

*Other works date back to 1979
*The version numbers are similar to those used in software, the
first number indicates a major change in philosophy, the second a
major change in implementation.