Art
In addition to his work in the business, education and art of new media, Spiegel is also a renowned artist "whose thesis on the mechanisation of nature informs his multidisciplinary work". His sculptures and computer-based artworks have been exhibited in many international venues at more than 35 solo exhibitions and 14 group exhibitions, and are included in both public and private collections, and in the permanent collections of over 22 galleries and museums including the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Aside from creating and exhibiting artworks internationally, Spiegel has also been an Artist-in-Residence in a number of prestigious institutions, including Cité des Arts in Paris; the Zentrum for Kunst and Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Banff Centre's New Media Centre in Banff, Alberta; the Museum of Science and Technology in Hull, Quebec; and a MIT fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Study.
Some of Spiegel's location-based installations are viewable in Toronto. Toronto's Sheppard-Yonge subway station features "Immersion Land", a mosaic composed of 1.5 million one-inch tiles. The installation was developed from a digitized and pixilated blend of 150 photographs depicting lush landscapes, country homes, and rural scenes from Yonge Street as it stretches towards North Bay. Another of his installations is nestled in a courtyard near the intersection of Yonge and Adelaide Street East: a collection of eclectic, sculptural water fountains called "Synthetic Eden" .
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