Byte (video still) - 2002

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Multi-channel video installation w/ stacked monitors
Duration: 8 minutes w/ audio / Dimensions: variable / Distributed by: VTape

Through different manipulations of the same video clip, attention is redirected to different aspects of an intimate game between a mother and child. Displayed on a grouping of TV monitors to suggest an electronics display.

Carolyn Hew: "Lyla Rye" ZeD TV, CBC Television. Feb 23, 2004 & Jan 13, 2005
Sarah Milroy: The Mother of All Controversies" The Globe & Mail, Feb 25, 2003
Virginia M Eichhorn: "Lyla Rye" Canadian Art. Summer Issue, 2003
Rhona Wenger: Separation Anxieties. Grimsby Public Art Gallery, 2002
Sarah Maloney: "Madonna Censored". Mix Magazine. September, 2002

Exhibition History:
2002 'Separation Anxiety' Grimsby Public Gallery (Grimsby); 'Byte' eyelevelgallery (Halifax); 2003 'Screen Kiss' Pace University Digital Gallery (New York); 2003 'Flesh and Blood' Cambridge Public Art Galleries (Cambridge); 2003 'Images Festival: Byte' YYZ Gallery Window (Toronto); 2004 'Toronto Comes Downtown' Downtown Art Space (Adelaide, Australia); 2004 'future_feed_forward –screening' Museum London (London); 2005 'Feminist Video Feast – screening' ( ) Ette Collective (Lethbridge); 2009 'Within You Without You'. Owens Art Gallery (Sackville NB);