Tom Sherman is an artist and writer. He works in video, radio, live performance and text/image. His interdisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally, including shows at the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Musee d'art contemporain, the Museum of Modern Art, Festival International des Film sur l'Art, Wiener Konzerthaus and Ars Electronica. He represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1980. He performs and records with Bernhard Loibner (Vienna) in a collaborative duo called Nerve Theory. In 2002, he published Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment (Banff Centre Press). In 2003 he was awarded the Canada Council's Bell Canada Award for excellence in video art. In 2010 he was awarded Canada's Governor General's Award in Media and Visual Arts. He is a professor in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University in New York, USA, but considers the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, his home.
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