Artist

Country:  Canada
City:  Victoria,
http://www.laskarin.ca

Since completing an MFA at UCLA in 1991 Daniel Laskarin has produced and exhibited his work across Canada and internationally. A background as a helicopter pilot/engineer in the mountains of British Columbia and the Yukon, and the experience of translating the codes of navigational maps into physical flight initially led to sculptural and multimedia objects and installations investigating the structure of perception mapped as knowledge and consciousness within everyday life.

With the "expanded field" utterly blown apart, recent work makes things that stay together, that look for their own order in a condition of disorder, and that at the same time remain unsettled. This work uses diverse mediums, drawn from industrial materials and processes, sometimes incorporating photography and video, optics, robotics systems, installation and sound. An ongoing studio practice has included set design, public image projections, and large-scale public commissions in the Pacific Northwest. Laskarin currently teaches at the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria in western Canada.