托里·福斯特 Tori Foster

《登打士广场》 单频高清录像 4分40秒 2016
Dundas Square, Single channel HD video, 4 minutes 40 seconds, 2016

托里·福斯特在作品中,从看得见的事物将看不见的部分抽取出来。她以严谨的方式探讨时间、动作、运动和空间,具有说服力地展现出隐藏在日常生活之下的模式。通过录像、摄影和装置,福斯特揭示了城市和自然环境中车辆交通、行人流动、动植物活动的突现行为(由个体间相互作用引发的复杂系统)。把数据等原材料加以处理,代入算法,让原始图像包含(但不可见的)交换信息显示出来。她的创作具有科学研究的严谨,同时追求诗意和哲学感。
Tori Foster’s works extract the invisible from the visible. Her rigorous explorations of time, motion, movement and space eloquently reveal the patterns hidden beneath the surface of our everyday. Through video, photography, and installation, Foster unearths the emergent behavior (complex systems that arise from simple interactions) of vehicular traffic, pedestrian movement, and plant and animal activity within urban and natural environments. Treating her source material like data and subjecting it to algorithms that expose alternate information inherent to (but not visible in) the original imagery, her methods approach scientific precision while reaching for poetic and philosophical gains.

《唐士维地铁站》 单频高清录像 4分钟 2011
Downsview Station, Single channel HD video, 4 minutes, 2011
《中央车站》 单频高清录像 长度可变-5分钟 2014
Grand Central Terminal, Single channel HD video, variable length – 5 minutes, 2014

托里·福斯特,在加拿大怀雅逊大学获得文学学士和硕士学位,曾任加州州立大学北岭分校副教授和数字艺术系主任,于2017年搬回家乡加拿大安大略省巴里。曾获得多个研究资助和奖项,作品在全球16个国家展出。
Tori Foster earned an MFA and BFA from Ryerson University in Toronto and was based in Los Angeles as Assistant Professor and the Head of Video/Digital Art at California State University, Northridge, until moving back to her hometown of Barrie, Ontario in 2017. She has received dozens of grants and awards and her work has been presented in 16 countries world-wide. Foster is represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada.