In his novel of the same name, science fiction author William Gibson once described pattern recognition as a “gift and a trap,” which is a generous way of saying we search for meaning even when it may or may not exist.
Katie Lawson
Katie Lawson (she/her) is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She has curated exhibitions for Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2024), Images Festival (2023), Toronto Biennial of Art (2022+2019), MacLaren Art Centre (2021), the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2018), the Art Gallery of Ontario (2018), Y+ Contemporary (2017), and RYMD Reykjavik (2017). She is currently working towards a PhD in Art and Visual Culture at Western University, with an interest in contemporary art and climate change. Lawson was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency in 2023.
“Rather than a singular, verifiable truth, we understand the production of knowledge as occurring through a series of encounters. For this issue, we extended an open invitation to seven contributors to respond to the themes of art, archives and the environment.”