Alternate Routes
October 26–December 15, 2000

Presented in conjuction with Media City Festival of Experimental Film and Video.

Featuring 14 artists who participated in previous editions of Artcite/ H.O.T.’s annual Media City Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Alternate Routes was an off-site, travelling (literally) exhibition of very short, recent (1999­-2000) works of video art by Canadian and International artists, presented in a very public sphere: from September 18 to December 15, artists’ tapes were narrowcast on IT-TV, a news and entertainment television system recently installed as a pilot project on Transit Windsor buses.

The videos were shown singly, at irregular intervals throughout the day, and during commercial breaks in regular programming. A selection of tapes was also available for view at Artcite during the exhibition.

This first-of-a-kind effort joined the forces of eleven museums, galleries, and arts and education organizations in Metro Detroit and Windsor to examine video art and its impact on contemporary culture. 

VideoCulture project co-presenters: Art Gallery of Windsor; Artcite Inc./H.O.T. ; Art Pro Tem (Ann Arbor, MI); (Center for Creative Studies, Center Galleries (Detroit); Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI); Detroit Institute of Arts; University of Michigan Museum of Art  U of M Michigan Media Union and U of M School of Art & Design Jean Paul Slusser Gallery (Ann Arbor, MI); Wayne State University Dept. of Art & Art History Elaine L. Jacob Gallery (Detroit).

Participating Artists:

James Wood and Paul Harrison (Bristol, UK)
Eddie D (Amsterdam)
Tasman Richardson (Toronto)
Diane Obomsawin (Montréal, QC)
Robin Dupuis (Montréal)
Mark O’Connell (Seattle)
Aleksei Robel Abib (Curitiba, Brazil)
Jinhan Ko (Toronto, ON)
Mika Taanila (Helsinki)
Leslie Peters(Toronto, ON)
Michael Dossev (Bulgaria)
Ximena Cuevas (Mexico City)
Julie-Christine Fortier (Montréal, QC)
Tobias Anderson (Stockholm, Sweden)