BROADCAST PEOPLE

Presented by |FAT| Arts & Fashion Week 2012

Live Broadcast Debut, April 24-28

April 3rd, 2012 — Toronto ON — FAT is pleased to present the live debut screening of Broadcast People, a fusion of Social Media and photography, conceptualised by Toronto photographer Gwen Brydson.

MEDIA PARTICIPATION - Media are invited to participate in the project by conducting an interview live on air. The artist will be present for live interviews. We invite you to your choice of Tuesday, April 24, Thursday, April 26, and Friday, April 27, from when doors open at 7PM. To book an interview, return email to media@broadcastpeople.net and indicate a preferred time slot. Please RSVP ahead of time, live interviews are limited.

A narration of the impending, the project explores an individuals future defined by the choice to go public or remain private.

Using free online broadcasting platforms, social media and photography, guests of FAT, media, journalists, photojournalists and members of the public are invited to interact and participate by dancing, singing, gesturing, reporting live or anything else they can think of. With cameras triggered by a single red button, all participants will be able to broadcast themselves, live and unedited over Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Ustream and the Broadcast People website, www.broadcastpeople.net


Broadcast People will be featured by |FAT| at their ONSITEexhibit, DRESSING ROOM PROJECT and |FAT| DRAKE lab OFFSITE EXHIBIT?

Directed by Gwen Brydson

Starring Media and Arts & Fashion Week Guests

Opens April 24 and runs to April 28, 2012

lFATl Arts & Fashion Week - 213 Sterling Road, Toronto

7PM-12MN daily

www.broadcastpeople.net

PRESS MATERIALS
Press Release can be found at www.broadcastpeople.net/media
Promotional videos of Broadcast People can be viewed and shared at the following links

VIDEO 1 - What would you say? http://youtu.be/I88C8Ku3qdM
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VIDEO 2 - What would it be? http://youtu.be/EpcIGnA_XE8
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Twitter @BroadcastPPL
Facebook - www.facebook.com/BroadcastPeople

GENERAL INFO - Gwen Brydson's work is instantly identified by her vivid and highly conceptual style. Versatile with both still and motion imagery, she works as a photojournalist and commercial photographer. She creates imagery based on pop culture, media, high-end commercial advertising and the absurd. www.gbrydson.com

GENERAL INFO - Broadcast People is created by Gwen Brydson, an award winning Toronto photographer with work that spans art, editorial and commercial photography. broadcast people is her first large scale project involving social media as an integral element. A fusion of social media and photography, the live interactive installation invites members of the public to participate by entering the "Public Domain" and triggering cameras by pushing a single red button.

As the project is in progress, photos and videos of participants are uploaded simultaneously as a grid of security cameras act as a backdrop. The project's purpose is to record the movements of each interaction. Based on the popular Facebook question: "Is your profile public or private?", the answer produced is an expression of modern day intimacy and the ever present want for connection.

GENERAL INFO - |FAT| is the first festival of its kind to present fashion through a broad range of disciplines - design, film, photography, arts and performance. The festival puts Canada on the fashion world stage as an innovative force to be reckoned with. Now in its 7th year |FAT| has presented over 1,000 artists since it first launched in 2005.

April 24-27: THE DRESSING ROOM PROJECT?
A virtual & on-site multimedia art experience. 12 site-specific artist spaces present work ranging from live performances, broadcasts and video projections to interactive photo booths and more ?

April 16-28: |FAT| DRAKE lab OFFSITE EXHIBIT?
Daily broadcasts, films, photography & installations from current and past |FAT| events ?

lFATl SCHEDULE
The complete |FAT| 2012 schedule is now available online at: http://fashionarttoronto.ca/2012-schedule/
Artist & Designer Profiles complete with bios and high resolution images can be accessed directly from the website here:http://fashionarttoronto.ca/artists-designers-2012/

BROADCAST PEOPLE MEDIA CONTACT
K Chisholm - media@broadcastpeople.net
Follow us on twitter @BroadcastPPL
Like us on Facebook - www.facebook.com/BroadcastPeople
www.broadcastpeople.net

lFATl CONTACT
Sonja Andic , Media Manager - media@fashionarttoronto.ca
www.fashionarttoronto.ca

For more information, to volunteer or participate, email contact@broadcastpeople.net
For media inquiries, email media@broadcastpeople.net