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Inventions drive the development of art. Their makers become the sources that an art scene draws from and around which it coheres. Michael Snow’s films and new-media works have brought interdisciplinary energy to Toronto since the 1960s. Vera Frenkel’s narrative excursions have pointed the way towards a postmodern, post-object art-making that is aligned with Ian Carr-Harris’s sculptural adventures with textuality and other near-intangibles. Peggy Gale has invested independent curating with a level of professionalism that has set standards for institutional programming. Noel Harding has progressed from video and installation art to a current practice that revolves around vastly scaled public-art initiatives that are at the forefront of green technology and ecological research.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Ian Carr-Harris, Noel Harding, Vera Frenkel, Michael Snow and Peggy Gale. Photographed at Diaz Contemporary, Tuesday, October 9, 2007.

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This article was first published online on December 11, 2007.

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