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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦
@swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
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VISUAL ARTIST. SONIC EXPLORER.
Art School Spawn.
sound images degenerated video
Canadian Artist.
Human Rights. Climate Preservation. Birds Are People
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Happy to share I’m the #RWMFEST artist in residence this Fall/Winter. The exhibition will be at Tangled Arts Vitrines 401 Richmond in February 2026.
Many thanks to Workman Arts and special mention to Fatma Hendawy for her curation and support of this project.
Sound image of my voice speaking the word PSYCHO composed of dramatic curves and peaks. White wall sculpture with deep shadows and light.
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Self explanatory.
Hand holding up a round button the has concentric red outer ring, white middle ring and blue-black centre circle. A red stripe with text that says “censorstop”
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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#artsky finished. Some quick snaps in different light.
Grey relief sculpture in sunlight with a garden background. Curved and pointed shapes adorn the surface, suggesting mountains or waves Dark grey relief sculpture in sunlight on a shelf with small paintings on blocks in the background. Curved and pointed shapes adorn the surface, suggesting mountains or waves
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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#birds Having a bath in the bee bath. #whitethroatedsparrow I think. Well wishes for a safe migration to all birds.
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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#inktober Imaginary landscape #trees
Left to right with active random marks 4 scratchily drawn trees with grassy or bramble under brush. Each tree lean in different directions. Tree tops can be interpreted as bare or full as tops are lightly rendered.
October 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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More refinements to #wip #stonecarving of the #soundimage saying the word PSYCHO- great to be carving again & with digital technology revealing the invisible; visible in a way I never figured to represent my voice & all that encompasses one’s voice. The ancient act of speaking through stone.
Waveform relief that looks Mountainous in a rough semicircular unpolished soapstone. Waveform relief that looks Mountainous in a rough semicircular wetted partially polished soapstone.
September 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Vaughan Road alley bunny! 🐇🙂 #bunny #urbanbunny #torontobunny #toronto
August 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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#Mushrooms #fungi
Dish-like large mushroom near log Dish-like large mushroom near log
August 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Happy to share a special version of DISCREET EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME in Los Angeles Center of Digital Art I
Opens August 7, 2025. Thanks to Randi Matushevitz for organizing this & Rex Bruce of LACDA Los Angeles Center For Digital Art August 7-30 // 410 Spring St L.A. CA
#newmedia #artsky #videoart
Black & white abstracted figure made of curved mesh lines with yellow and white text for the poster. A glitched grid still from the video. With filigreed horizontal and vertical stripes. Greens and greys at the top reds and sandy colours at the bottom. wWde light grey horizontal textured stripe across the centre.
August 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Up until July 25 at 150 Mediastream Chicago as part of the “Four Techspressionist Artists” exhibition. #newmedia #artsky #installation #art #movingimageart
A long slatted led screen in with a white bird like figure against a blue background. A curved metal courtesy desk sits in front of the screen with attendant
July 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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#workinprogress #sketch #gifart Future video project URBANforest #artsky #trees #urbanforest #urban #forest
Slow strobe of changing colours of leaf foliage of a dense stand of trees. Original photo shot in Cedarvale ravine Toronto
July 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Still from work in progress for the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME collection.
SKEW decomposed 2025: Still. #videostill #flimsky #glitch
colourful horizontal bands or lacy, refined glitch from a decomposed video. Pattern looks like rug or weaving or knitting, with some shapes like Greek or Egyptian key tropes.
June 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Blue Iris #flowers #spring #nature #gardensky
close up of a blue iris in the foreground of green vegetation - monk weed and lily of the valley
June 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Hello #Chelsea is up @hudsonguild.bsky.social until June 25. The vertical striped glitch is on of a pair created for this installation from my DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME collection #techspressionism #artsky #digitalart #art
A gallery with still clusters of pictures in the background a three screen based images in the foreground. One vertical with blue green stripes. A small horizontal blue screen with headphones and a large abstract purple and white screen projection behind the column that the smaller screens hang on. A bright yellow and red abstract image centred on a yellow background. The lower end has a red bar with white text that says Hello Chelsea! :/Techspressionism 2025 Hudson Guild Gallery// April 30- June 25
June 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Columbine #flowers #garden Everything blooming makes me happy.
A close up of purple columbine flowers with new bud yellow centres
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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#tree The magic of #spring green at dusk after the rain, deep in the ravine. #toronto #naturesky
Dark young trees with a glowing green backlight of new growth at dusk with a small stream in the foreground Different view of dark young trees with a glowing green backlight of new growth at dusk with a small stream in the foreground
May 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Today’s ride. #flowers #spring #blooms
A slightly rainbowed beam of light shines down before a bush with red blooms Red blooms up close with a tree in the background to the left. Red blooms on a bush with a large tree trunk on the right.
May 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Thanks you Canada for a much better turn out for the vote. There’s a wisdom to minority governments if the parties are willing to make it work. #canadavotes #cdnpoli
A mock facebook image that declares “marked safe from Pierre Poilievre
April 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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#Graffiti from yesterday’s ride. #Toronto This random pep talk was a welcome sight, as well as the warm sunny day. #hopeisadiscipline
“Tout est possible” graffiti in black cursive writing on cement sound barrier that has large swaths of brown and pinkish blocks painted out other graffiti. Faintly scratched next to the words graffiti that says na bro
April 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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#spring #flowers Happy things.
Cluster of small white flowers with pale blue streaks Group of spring flowers- white and blue cilia and mini purple irises Small cluster of blue cilia with larger leaves of other sprouting bulb plants around them
April 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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#artsky #digitalart #art #movingimage #installation #chicago Opens April 28 150 MediaStream. Details ⬇️
A bird-like form of a sound image created from audio of a war jet against a sky blue background on a large slatted LED screen that is wave like at the top
April 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION #chicago

SONIC FLIGHT: Towards Peace.
Sound image created from the waveform of a war jet.

Four Techspressionist Artists
150 Media Stream Chicago April 28 -July 20th

More info here: techspressionism.com/chicago/
#movingimageart #soundimage #150mediastream #filmsky #artsky
April 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Happy #spring #flowers enjoying these moments amidst the turmoil.
Close up of mini purple iris Close up of mini purple iris under lavender Small sunny yellow and white mini crocuses Purple crocuses poking out from dead leaves
April 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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#snowdrops #flowers #spring break from the troubles.
Wet snow drop flowers amid mulch and leaves, flowers closed to the rain.
March 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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#Songs of #spring from Hops the #cockatiel. Gentle tunes from this senior.
March 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM