Terminal Zero One – Digital Art Exhibition at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport
Terminal 1 — Level 3 Terrace, Departures Level
July 1, 2007 — January 13, 2008
Terminal Zero One (T01) is a site-specific digital art exhibition of five projects exploring themes of contemporary air travel and the architecture of airports. T01 is curated by David Jhave Johnston and Michael Alstad of the Year Zero One collective. The T01 kiosk, designed by Toronto-based W I D E Studio, is located across from the Ingo Maurer water sculpture on level 3 departures (pre-security) at Terminal 1.
Airports are networks, and information is increasingly networked. The T01 exhibit examines people as data, motion as trajectories, and the symbiosis of virtual and actual through the lens of contemporary air travel.
The public is invited to experience the projects via touch sensitive screens, SMS text messaging, a webcam, and as a 3D avatar navigating through a simulated terminal. Track real-time flight activity originating from Pearson International Airport through a live data stream. Reinterpret the familiar by manipulating universal airport symbols and flight information screens. Engage in dialogue about controversial issues of international security and human rights. T01 is a portal into digital artworks that reflect the technology, movement and connectivity of the contemporary international airport – a transitory space where notions of borders, time and place are temporarily suspended.
