In my on-going series of faux future structures I am continuing my response to illusion and filtered perception that are the bi-products of convenience technologies in a commodity driven culture. The priority of commodity over reason and the sustained belief that more tech = more ease has seduced the First World since the early to mid twentieth century. As we speed on, ever gaining more altitude in the dream-climb to a mass marketed future culture, earthly truths shake in our sonic boom.

My work stands precariously on the red line that connects our banal domestic bulk-tech and the current multiple known and obscured ecological, economic and cultural global tragedies. In response to what I feel is a techno-cultural hypnosis, I aspire to provide platforms for interaction that allow deeper more humanistic values to surface that have more substantial personal meaning then the operative values we have been conditioned to function in. Or: There are many more possibilities and a lot of them are good. Or: Get out of your car and feel the breeze; it has global implications.

Ian Newton moved to Kitchener from the Yukon in late 1998. In 1999 he founded Ballroom Studios, a collection of workspaces for local contemporary artists. As well as his sculptural installations Ian organises multi-disciplinary events that provide detailed conceptual environments combining installation work, performance art, projection, kinetic art and djs.

Ian studied painting and drawing at the Ontario College of Art and Design.