Jegan Vincent de Paul

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“In the last quarter of the twentieth century we have the dubious privilege of seeing both the beginnings of the human romance with things, in the distant past, and also its possible end, in the all too imminent future. For the first time in history there is increasing awareness that the resources of energy that have fueled material expansion are finite and that their desperate pursuit threatens the continuation of life on the planet. The modern culture of materialism, or the belief that the ultimate goals of personal life can be fulfilled by things and sensations, is losing credibility in the face of facts. It is not merely ideology but accumulating empirical evidence that forces us to reevaluate our relationship to objects. Whether humankind will heed the evidence and respond to it adaptively by redirecting its goals is perhaps the most important question for our survival.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Eugene Rochberg-Halton

Jegan’s most current work is The eWheel Project. It is a critical investigation into the small-scale production of energy where there is little or no access to a power grid, but the need for electricity is high. This concept originated within the context of the MIT Visual Arts Program, and developed using the resources of MIT’s technological and socially responsible programs and departments. While his current ideas and projects focus primarily on Western cultures, his aim is to consider the Global Village as the space for future artistic production and critique.

Jegan Vincent de Paul was born in Tamil Eelam in 1978 as the middle child of the five children of Margie and John Vincent de Paul. He emigrated to Canada in 1986 and has lived in Toronto over extended periods while considering many other metropolitan cities his home. While not being nationalistic or identifying himself with any specific cultures, he loves the idea of being Canadian.