Tyson Parks

n the dedicated video room the gallery presents a 3D animation video by Tyson Parks entitled Nomanisan. An autobiographical video in which the artist calls upon how facets of his past work become nested and folded into future works. Nomanisan is a personal reflection upon the circulation of one’s ideas and their inevitable and unavoidable reappearance and repetition in one’s trajectory. It is about the persistent influence of ideas that are expressed but somehow remain unexplored. 

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Tyson Parks is a Vancouver-based artist who makes work in a wide range of media, including sound, video, sculpture, 3D animation, interactive installation, software, and the internet. Parks' work explores the relationships between people and technology. His work is an examination of how perception affects human understanding in a technology-saturated world. Parks is interested in utilizing new technologies to create poetic fusions of otherwise disparate realities. The complicated relationships that arise from his showcasing of fused and forced realities serve as parables for how we relate to the world and to one another. 

His work has been shown in Canadian galleries including in Montréal at Gallery Arsenal for C2MTL, Phi Centre for RBMA MTL, Eastern Bloc, Gallerie Pangeé, Société des Arts Technologiques, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, and PFOAC221, in Toronto at The Power Plant for Power Ball, US galleries in New York City including Superchief Soho and Family Business Gallery, in Los Angeles at PehrSpace and FatherSons Gallery, and internationally including in Paris at Le CenteQuatre-Paris for Biennale Némo, Trust Ltd, and Chromatic Festival Paris. His work has also been featured in publications such as Novembre Magazine (Switzerland), EXIT Magazine (Spain), and ETC Media Magazine (Montréal).