Carl Skelton

Carl Skelton, born in Toronto in 1961, now lives and works in New York City. In his spare time, he's the founding director of the Integrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. The Institute's current initiatives, besides its academic programs, include partnerships with people and organizations as diverse as Philip Glass, Nokia, and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Watch out for Hyperpolis 3: Really Useful Media, a hybrid conference/festival to be held October 19 and 20 on the campus of the Polytechnic in Brooklyn. Carl's exhibition record is international, but includes a variety of temporary and permanent public installation projects in Ontario, including the very discreet "Living Stones" on Wellington Street West, and the rather more conspicuous "Begging Bear" in front of the MacDonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph. "Still Life" will be Carl's largest piece to date, and the one with the prettiest colo(u)rs.