Colloquium is an exhibition representing the diverse artistic practices of Humber College's Visual and Digital Arts faculty. Drawing from the gamut of analogue and digital methods that reflects the plurality of contemporary Canadian art, this exhibition reveals the formal and critical concerns of faculty members who are both mentors and contemporaries to emergent student-artists on campus. The exhibition showcases works that confront issues of representation, abstraction, academic practice, popular culture, the body, and identity. Colloquium brings to the fore the artist's struggle to define oneself in an age of rapid technological expansion, wherein a reverence for the past—the laborious, handmade, and corporeal—appears contrasted against the present—the accelerated, mediated, and virtual. Refuting this apparent divide, the faculty of the Visual and Digital Arts Program offer a unique glimpse into the technical and conceptual versatility of today's artist-educators.
