{"id":14186,"date":"2012-09-05T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2012-10-07T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T14:42:52","slug":"none-of-these-things-by-mike-parsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=14186","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;None of These Things&#8221; by Mike Parsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<strong>September 6 &#8211; October 6, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 4 \u2013 8 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n1267 Bloor St. W.<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M6H 1N7<br \/>\nT: 416.289.8855<br \/>\nE: info@robertkananajgallery.com<br \/>\nwww.robertkananajgallery.com<br \/>\nHours: Tues\u2013Sat 11\u20136 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;None of These Things&#8221; solo exhibition; Drawings by Mike Parsons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike Parsons\u2019 solo exhibition at the Robert Kananaj Gallery will have complete body of work from drawings, comic books, to interactive video projection. Mike uses black and white ink drawings, comic books, street art, murals, and animation to explore the relationships between man, technology, progress, and the natural environment. He depicts the monstrous metropolis as a giant gear, sometimes invaded by towering trees, or overrun by cars, or swarms of unique and strange individuals. Mike\u2019s work emphasizes the role of the individual and challenges consumerist ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>Award winning Toronto-based artist <strong>Mike Parsons<\/strong> and video game programmer <strong>MichaelPeters<\/strong> have created a collaborative interactive video installation, a <strong>Virtual Metropolis,<\/strong> which promises to be an exciting feature of this year\u2019s Nuit Blanche festival. September 29, 2012, 7 pm to 7 am, &#8220;The Virtual Metropolis&#8221;, interactive video project.<\/p>\n<p>See the Mike Parsons and Robert Kananaj Gallery event page for <strong>Nuit Blanche<\/strong> at the following link: zone A # 28 http:\/\/www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca\/project.html?project_id=1021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 6 &#8211; October 6, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening:Saturday September 8, 4\u20138 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike\u2019s work emphasizes the role of the individual<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=14186\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14186"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15276,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions\/15276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}