Entropia

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In Theory Information, Measured to the Degree of Scarcely Distributed Information within Signal.

"An explosive conceptualism, you won't be able to frame one work that the next unbalances every security, forcing the observer to leave behind any stylistic scheme and let himself be dragged by the Maelstrom of fantasy...." Fiorenzo Degasperi, Trento 9.2.1996. 

The Ryerson Gallery is pleased to announce its presentation of the work of invited guest, Italian artist Stefano Cagol. The installation collectively uses video projection and phosphorescent dust masks, drawing together the horror of reality, sucking in the viewer, and forcing them to ponder the meaning of reality itself. Entropia explores the function of the human condition, a condition profoundly mutated by the new technology. Using this technology, Cagol expressively and idealistically attempts to transcend creativity and meaning, applying his artistic research to the mutating-organism we know as Society. 

Introducing himself in relation to society through a common "filter", the artist experiments with the media empirically. Cagol drives a dialog with the technician revolving around intimate composition and fabrication of the hardware, hardware that becomes the vehicle through which the world is brought to us. 

Stefano Cagol, born in 1969 in Trento, Italy, and currently works in Milan exploring the new media. Cagol has shown his installations in countries such as Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Lithuania and Slovenia. The Government of Canada has invited Cagol to Canada to pursue a Post-Doctoral fellowship at Ryerson Polytechnic University. Cagol recently presented his work to the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies as a part of the esteemed McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology.