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3 KATHLEEN S. BARTELS 2 DIRECTOR'S FOREWORD and collaboratively, has consistently challenged the capacity of many galleries, museums, curators and collectors. Their creativity seems unbounded and is always delightfully surprising. In our own collection we are pleased to have commissioned The Eyes of Laura in 2001. This multimedia work unites a real-time surveillance camera with an online blog posted by a renegade Gallery security guard who follows the increasing dark and mysterious activities that take place on the Gallery grounds. This complex and technically demanding work continues to delight knowing followers of their art, as well as those who happen to stumble upon it by accident. This exhibition and publication would not have been possible without the support and contributions of our good colleagues at the Art Gallery of Ontario. I thank Matthew Teitelbaum, Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Elizabeth Smith, former Executive Director, Curatorial Affairs, for this opportunity to share our resources and knowledge in this project. We recognize the profound value of collaboration and welcome this chance to join our two institutions in this way. I thank the excellent staff at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario for their efforts in the production of the exhibition, its international tour and the publication, especially the curators of the project, Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery and Kitty Scott, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario. We are indebted to Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, for their support in the production of the exhibition. I am most grateful to the Vancouver Art Gallery's Board of Trustees, led by its chair Bruce Munro Wright, for its continuing encouragement and support of the Gallery's programming. Finally, I thank Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller for their captivating and profound works of art that delight the imagination in so many extraordinary ways.Kathleen S. BartelsDirectorVancouver Art Gallery