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June 2016 The Commuting Issue

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I n January 2012, artist James Nizam set up a wall in his Vancouver studio and started drilling constella- tions of holes within a circle. He made larger ones in the centre and dispersed smaller ones toward the edges. When he back- lit the wall and photographed it in the darkness, there appeared a dazzling sphere. Drill Holes Through Studio Wall was shown at Vancouver's Gallery Jones in a collection called Trace Heavens and then travelled to galleries in Toronto, Zurich and Leipzig. Five editions sold, most recently for $10,500, and found favour with many critics. "Nizam has attempted and achieved more than clever light illusions," wrote Dion Kliner in Canadian Art magazine. "Through a series of revolving metaphors, he draws a picture of an ancient celestial world meshed with our perceptual world meshed with the art world." Drill Holes also "meshed" with the Internet— getting Pinned, shared and Instagrammed at astronomical rates. Several times after a popu- lar art blogger had featured the image, Gallery Jones's website received 12,000 daily hits. But in January, the sharing went too far. Nizam's girlfriend was walking through Oakridge Mall with her 12-year-old daughter when the girl pointed to a rack in ADAM BLASBERG JUNE 2016 BCBusiness 15 T HE MON T HLY IN FOR MER TMı "We were in this intense conict with the forestry companies and workers and communities... and we had to listen to them. We were coming at it from the science and environmental side, but the answers were economic" –p.19 J U N E 2 0 1 6 Art Heist L a w The Internet has made B.C. artwork susceptible to theft by corporate interests. But in a copyright fight against Goliath, David can still win, say legal experts by Marcie Good INSIDE New life for old ferries ... Craft beer, craft cider or mead? ... Let the festivities begin! ... + more double exposure Shane O'Brien, one of the owners of Gallery Jones, with James Nizam's Drill Holes Through Studio Wall and an American Eagle Outfitters T-shirt bearing a very similar image "Art is like the back- bone of every society, and so to say, 'Oh, I can just rip this artist off,' it really takes away from everything art means" – Emily Danchuk, founder of Copyright Collaborative Drill Holes Through Studio Wall was shown at Vancouver's Gallery Trace Art magazine. "Through a series of revolving metaphors, he draws a picture of an ancient celestial world meshed with our perceptual world meshed with the art world." "meshed" with the Internet— getting Pinned, shared and Instagrammed at astronomical rates. Several times after a popu The Internet has made B.C. artwork susceptible to theft by corporate interests. But in a copyright fight against Goliath, The Internet has made B.C. artwork susceptible to theft by corporate interests. But in a copyright fight against Goliath, The Internet has made B.C. artwork susceptible to theft by "Art is like the back

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