00//Pixel Gallery

Contact Us

Location:
156 Augusta Ave. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. M5T 2L5 map

Hours: Mon-Tues 11-8PM, Wed-Sat 11-9PM, Sun 11-6PM

Main Contact:
David Girolami
Managing Director
Phone: 416-889-6439
Email: david @ pixelgallery.org

About Us
Incorporated on June 11, 2002 as the Toronto Digital Art Association, a not-for-profit network for digital artists and enthusiasts to convene and share ideas, opinions, and experiences to cultivate a greater understanding and relationship between digital media, technology, applied arts, and visual graphics in the broadest sense, our organization now operates under the name Pixel as the official presenting, producing and programming arm of the association.

Located at Element 156, a new design and digital media centre in Toronto’s Kensington Market, Pixel is Ontario’s first gallery dedicated to creating and exhibiting immersive and interactive screen-based art. Our mission includes the following objectives:

• to connect artists and designers who work with digital technologies to each other’s work, facilitating opportunities for knowledge-sharing, collaborative ventures, and the development of new artistic practices;
• to expand the reach of digital media art and its practices to a wider group of artists;
• to promote and facilitate greater public understanding and appreciation for digital art;
• to collaborate with local and international organizations in the production and presentation of
interactive digital art experiences for the benefit of Canadian artists and audiences;
• to bring people together through artistic experiences realized with digital technology.

One of Pixel’s core values is the belief that art and design can and ought to be used to challenge assumptions of culture and society. As new media professionals, we are interested in art and design that use new technologies to alter perceptions, shift paradigms and manipulate or transform the spaces in which we live, work and play. We believe that artists need opportunities to play, share and learn about digital art and design within an artistic context, beyond the sometimes limited, profit- and deadline-driven
world of the commercial art and design industry.

Pixel was founded to give Canadian artists experimenting with digital art a platform for presenting their work both to the public and to other artists. Accessibility and engagement are important features of any work that we exhibit. While we are interested in probing the relationship between art and technology, our focus at Pixel is on the experience for the audience, not the technology that powers the experience. Pixel offers artists an opportunity to test-drive new ideas with an engaged and informed community of
practitioners while providing public audiences with access to artistic experiences designed to stimulate, provoke, question and amaze.