Details of TIFF’s long-planned multi-platform exhibit The Cronenberg Project, which focuses on the career of filmmaker David Cronenberg, were unveiled yesterday.

The Toronto exhibit, which runs form Nov. 1, to Jan, 19, 2014, is to include a an experimental “virtual museum” titled David Cronenberg: Virtual Exhibition, billed as an interactive retrospective of Cronenberg’s films with new 34mm prints and digital restorations.

In addition, an interactive digital experience called Body/Mind/Change, a Lance Wiler project co-produced with TIFF and CFC Media Lab, promises to immerse users in the world of Cronenberg across three platforms, namely online, mobile and in real life.

David Cronenberg: Transformation, an art exhibition curated by Noah Cowan, artistic director of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and artist David Liss in partnership with the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, will feature six new TIFF-commissioned artworks from Canadian and international contemporary artists inspired by Cronenberg’s literary and philosophical inspirations as well as his fascination with biological horror and the human psyche.

The core component of the project is a comprehensive film exhibition curated by Piers Handling, TIFF’s CEO and director, and Cowen titled David Cronenberg: Evolution. The exhibition, held at  the Lightbox, will trace Cronenberg’s development as a filmmaker and explore his reoccurring themes of physical and psychological transformation.

Evolution will include key pieces and materials from Cronenberg’s filmography such as costumes, props, audio-visual elements and set-design drawings, including the helmet from Videodrone (1983), the leg braces from Crash (1996) and the pod from The Fly (1986).

As first revealed in the spring of 2012, this is the first original exhibition curated and launched by TIFF that will tour internationally with locations to be announced at a later date.