Electric Speed is a group of commissioned works from Jon Sasaki, Jeremy Bailey, Jillian McDonald, Will Gill, and Mouna Andraos & Melissa Mongiat. Curated by Kate Armstrong and Malcolm Levy for the New Forms Media Society and designed for presentation on Urban Screens, the works are part of the McLuhan in Europe 2011 initiative celebrating the centennial birth year of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan.

The exhibition began with Rewrite the Year, an interactive site specific piece by Melissa Mongiat & Mouna Andraos, which premiered at the Surrey Urban Screen, a satellite venue of the Surrey Art Gallery, on December 2, 2011 and ran until January 15, 2012.

The second part of the exhibition features videos from Jon Sasaki, Will Gill, JIllian Mcdonald and Jeremy Bailey and runs at the Surrey Urban Screen from January 28 – March 31, 2012

Full project information including a schedule of events can be found at the Electric Speed website.

A publication has been produced in connection with the exhibition, co-published by the Surrey Art Gallery and the New Forms Media Society, edited by Kate Armstrong with contributions by Caitlin Jones, Sylvie Parent, Mirjam Struppek, Steve Dietz, Garnet Hertz, Justin Waddell, Greg J. Smith, and The Cedar Tavern Singers AKA Les Phonorealistes.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $11.8 million in media arts throughout Canada.