Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Workshop with New York based artist Perry Bard: Feburary 01, 2012, 2:00pm

Workshop with New York Based artist Perry Bard: Feburary 01, 2012
(to sign up contact Lindsey: vpprogramming@videopool.org or 204.949.9134)
Join Perry Bard to learn about and discuss “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”, influenced and inspired by Dziga Vertov’s remarkable documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” from 1929. Bard will lead a two hour workshop touching upon Dziga Vertov’s documentary practice and Vertov in the age of YouTube.

Participants will record their own video footage interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera, and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net/ where software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film. The submissions uploaded will contribute a Winnipeg chapter to the world wide project. The screening of the uploaded work and full project will commence on Thursday. February 02 at the Opening Reception, 6pm at Ace Art Inc.


Biography
Perry Bard grew up in Quebec City and lives in New York. She works individually and collaboratively on interdisciplinary projects for public space. She has worked with community groups to address issues of media representation engineering site specific public video installations for the Staten Island Ferry Terminal Building in New York and for Market Square in Middlesbrough UK. Public interventions about the war in Iraq include a mobile truckside billboard traveling the streets of New York, magazine ads and coffee cup sleeves featuring artifacts missing from the Baghdad Museum. Her web and public space project Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake dziga.perrybard.net invites participation in a mashup of a 1929 film belonging to world cultural history. The award winning work has been has been named by Google one of the 106 most creative uses of the internet, is on Guggenheim Museum’s Youtube Play Biennials’ Top 25, won Honorary Mentions at Ars Electronica ’08, Liedts-Meesen Technological Award 2010, Transitio_MX 2011, was nominated at Transmediale 2009 and Share Festival 2010,has been installed in over 50 venues to date including the Montreal Biennial 2009, Toronto Film Festival 2010, Moscow International Film Festival 2009, IDFA 2009, File 2009 and has screened on public LED displays in Manchester, Leeds, Norwich and Sheffield UK, Federation Square Melbourne Australia, e4c Seattle U.S.A. She has given workshops and lectured about the project worldwide; her article When Film and Database Collide is published in the Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond Youtube.
www.perrybard.net

CALL FOR PAPERS : “Marshall McLuhan’s and Vilém Flusser’s Communication and Aesthetics Theories Revisited” DEADLINE FEB 15, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in association with the University of Manitoba, invites paper and presentation proposals for its conference, “Marshall McLuhan’s and Vilém Flusser’s Communication and Aesthetics Theories Revisited” . Selected papers will be presented at the conference in Winnipeg, May 30 – 1 June, 2012.
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Video Pool welcomes abstracts of up to 500 words for papers, presentations and group panel sessions that address media and communications concepts and processes characteristic of the beginning of the 21st century via the frameworks provided by Flusser and McLuhan. The conference specifically aims at identifying the relevance of Flusser and McLuhan today, as well as at presenting contemporary academic and artistic research influenced by the two thinkers. Papers can present theoretical positions, practical explorations or artist’s presentations.

Video Pool also welcomes proposals for panel discussions on specific topics that engage the conference theme.

“Marshall McLuhan’s and Vilém Flusser’s Communication and Aesthetics Theories Revisited” will hold the presentation of papers and panel discussions at the Cinematheque Theatre, Artspace, Winnipeg.

The exhibition will be held at Video Pool and other venues around Winnipeg, MB.

Artworks that will be presented will include: Twenty Six Years Later (a journey to fiction and back again) – Lei Cox by Lei Cox (UK); Disprege Mais by Manuel Chantre (Quebec); Concialbule by Myriam Bessette/Robin Dupuis (Quebec); and Ellice Message by Richard Altman (Manitoba).

The conference programme will consist of paper presentations, across a range of disciplines and modes of inquiry addressing examples of creative communities that have formed around various practices, media and discourses. Case studies, papers and panels, including examples arising from the ELMCIP project and other contexts, will be presented. The conference will be web-cast, allowing for remote attendees to monitor events and put questions to conference via a live public feed, thereby employing mediating technologies appropriate the event. Conference proceedings will be peer reviewed and professionally published.
About Video Pool

Abstracts of papers should be of no more than 500 words .

A biographical statement of no more than 250 words should be included.
Abstracts submission Deadline: 15 February, 2012
Notification of selection February 29, 2012
Full papers deadline April 25, 2012
Conference dates: May 30 – 1 June 2012, Video Pool

Chair: Dr. Melentie Pandilovski

Peer review committee:

CONFERENCE — CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts of 300-500 words to be sent by Feb  1 2012.

email to: vpprogramming@videopool.org

or mail to:

Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Suite 221, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3B 1H3 1-204-949-9134
www.videopool.org

Aboriginal Media Art Initiative (AMAI) 2012 *Application Deadline - Wednesday, February 15th 2012

 

AMAI 2012 is an immersive program designed by Video Pool to assist 4 aboriginal artists based in Manitoba, either emerging or already practicing in any discipline, with the creation of a short video or a media art piece. This initiative will provide enhanced opportunities for Aboriginal persons from northern and rural Manitoba, as well as Winnipeg residents.

AMAI 2012 is a two-level program:

Level One: Remote community or rural MB residents, who will learn to make their first video – 2 participants.

Level Two: Winnipeg residents, who will create a media art piece - some film/video experience recommended – 2 participants.

We recommend participants be between the ages 18-30.Publish

We are also looking for professional artists who are interested in being a mentor or workshop facilitators.

* Email CV/Filmography to vpoutreach@videopool.org and please indicate area of interest (mentor position OR type of workshop)

This one-month residency in Winnipeg, sponsored entirely by Video Pool, who will cover travel and accommodation, as well as provide a per diem and honorarium. The residency is split into two parts, separated by a mid-program trip home. It’s expected that by the end of the program the participants will have created a short video or media art piece. Each piece will be exhibited at a chosen venue in Winnipeg and then added to the Video Pool archive and distribution roster.

Designed as a professional development/production initiative, AMAI 2012 includes an immersive workshop series and personalized one on one mentoring to train and support each of the four recipients in the production of a short video or media art piece. 

 Video Pool will foster the relationship established with the four artists by submitting participant’s pieces to festivals and galleries to represent their work through exhibitions and distribution.

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For questions, contact AMAI Coordinator Kevin Lee Burton at vpoutreach@videopool.org or (204) 949-9134 or at 1-855-593-3303

LITE NITE: ART'S BIRTHDAY 2012: TUESDAY, JAN 17TH 6-MIDNITE

LITE NITE: ART'S BIRTHDAY 2012
ART IS 1,000,049 YEARS OLD!!
TUESDAY, January 17^th 2012
6pm to midnight
ACE ART INC. 290 McDermot Avenue, 2^nd floor.
Cover is by donation ($5.00 is recommended). 

Video Pool Media Arts Center, in collaboration with Ace Art Inc. and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts invite you to celebrate LITE NITE: ART’S BIRTHDAY 2012: an evening of light inspired installations, workshops, performances, silent auction and cake! Since January 17th, 1963, emerging out of the Fluxus art movement, Art’s Birthday has been celebrated on a global level by a circuit of artists to acknowledge the presence of art in our daily lives.

For more information please visit our website at www.videopool.org or befriend Video Pool Media Art Centre on Facebook!

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is a nonprofit Artist-Run Centre dedicated to independent video, audio and computer integrated multimedia production, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

We thank and acknowledge the support of our funders and partners:
Canada Council For The Arts, The Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, The government of Manitoba, The Ontario Arts Council, The Winnipeg Foundation, The National Film Board, The Thomas Sill Foundation, The W.H. & S.E. Leowen Foundation, CKUW Radio.

Sound: Introducing...

This class is a pre-requisite for the three workshops that follow it. A solid understanding of the fundamentals of audio is key to making great recordings. During this 4-hour session, participants will learn about the basic principles behind sound, acoustics, microphones and digital & analog audio recording. If you're new to working with audio or just haven't been getting the results you want, this is a great place to start.

• Dates: Sat Jan 14, 2012, 1pm - 5pm
• Fee: $50/mem | $80/non
• Take all 4 workshops for $200/mem | $325/non (a $75 savings)
• Participants: 5 maximum
• Instructor: Andy Rudolph and Mike Germain

For more information on workshops, please contact the Education Coordinator at 949.9134 ext. 3 or vped@videopool.org

Presented in partnership with Winnipeg Film Group 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR(S):

Michel Germain is a musician, audio artist and technician based in Winnipeg. His work ranges from improvised, electronic music and rock n’ roll performance to sound design for film, video and installation projects. Michel has exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, whereby he developed custom-built software to convert brain-wave delta into sound.

Andy Rudolph is obsessed with sound. His work spans nearly all facets of audio creation including: musical composition, performance, interactive installations, audio engineering, post-production and most points in between. He has performed and exhibited around the world, garnering impressive reviews. He also serves as Video Pool’s Education Coordinator and teaches a Digital Art class at Art City.

Sound: Production

Roll Sound! With this workshop we’ll be exploring ins and outs of location audio. Participants will learn how to select the best microphone for the job, how to make the most of the acoustics on set and the art of holding a boom pole. Discover the secrets of recording crisp, clear dialogue and stunning sound effects!

• Date: Sat Feb 4, 2012, 1pm - 5pm
• Fee: $50/mem | $80/non
• Take all 4 workshops for $200/mem | $320/non (a $75 savings)
• Participants: 5 maximum
• Instructor: Andy Rudolph and Mike Germain

For more information on workshops, please contact the Education Coordinator at 949.9134 ext. 3 or vped@videopool.org

Presented in partnership with Winnipeg Film Group

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR(S):

Michel Germain is a musician, audio artist and technician based in Winnipeg. His work ranges from improvised, electronic music and rock n’ roll performance to sound design for film, video and installation projects. Michel has exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, whereby he developed custom-built software to convert brain-wave delta into sound.

Andy Rudolph is obsessed with sound. His work spans nearly all facets of audio creation including: musical composition, performance, interactive installations, audio engineering, post-production and most points in between. He has performed and exhibited around the world, garnering impressive reviews. He also serves as Video Pool’s Education Coordinator and teaches a Digital Art class at Art City.

Sound: Field

Open your ears… Effective field recording is about learning how to listen. This hands-on workshop will teach participants the fine art of capturing the right sounds in the field. We’ll explore 5 field recording units and an array of different microphones as we learn to really hear what’s coming through the headphones.

• Dates: Sun Feb 5, 2012 1pm – 5pm
• Fee: $50/mem | $80/non
• Take all 4 workshops for $200/mem | $320/non (a $75 savings)
• Participants: 5 maximum
• Instructor: Andy Rudolph and Mike Germain

For more information on workshops, please contact the Education Coordinator at 949.9134 ext. 3 or vped@videopool.org

Presented in partnership with Winnipeg Film Group

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR(S):

Michel Germain is a musician, audio artist and technician based in Winnipeg. His work ranges from improvised, electronic music and rock n’ roll performance to sound design for film, video and installation projects. Michel has exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, whereby he developed custom-built software to convert brain-wave delta into sound.

Andy Rudolph is obsessed with sound. His work spans nearly all facets of audio creation including: musical composition, performance, interactive installations, audio engineering, post-production and most points in between. He has performed and exhibited around the world, garnering impressive reviews. He also serves as Video Pool’s Education Coordinator and teaches a Digital Art class at Art City.

Sound: Mixing

Audio post-production is a huge part of any film or video project.  This 2-day workshop will walk participants through the

whole process of assembling and mixing audio in both Apple’s Logic and Avid’s Protools. We will discuss workflow, equalization, dynamics, spacialisation, effects and much more.

• Dates: Sat Feb 11 & Sun Feb 12, 2012, 1pm - 5pm
• Fee: $125/mem | $155/non
• Take all 4 Sound Series workshops for $200/mem | $320/non (a $75 savings)
• Participants: 5 maximum
• Instructor: Andy Rudolph and Mike Germain

For more information on workshops, please contact the Education Coordinator at 949.9134 ext. 3 or vped@videopool.org

Presented in partnership with Winnipeg Film Group

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR(S):

Michel Germain is a musician, audio artist and technician based in Winnipeg. His work ranges from improvised, electronic music and rock n’ roll performance to sound design for film, video and installation projects. Michel has exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, whereby he developed custom-built software to convert brain-wave delta into sound.

Andy Rudolph is obsessed with sound. His work spans nearly all facets of audio creation including: musical composition, performance, interactive installations, audio engineering, post-production and most points in between. He has performed and exhibited around the world, garnering impressive reviews. He also serves as Video Pool’s Education Coordinator and teaches a Digital Art class at Art City.

Digital Editing Series

Creative Cutting: Advanced Digital Editing

Participants wishing to explore the more advanced features and capabilities of Final Cut Pro are encouraged to take this hands-on workshop. This open lab-style workshop will give participants in depth knowledge of colour correction, chroma keying, compositing, titles and motion graphics, keyframing, working with multiple formats and the tricks to make the best of your time while working on your projects. Participants will also be introduced to sister programs such as Soundtrack, Compressor and DVD Studio Pro.

This lab will be delivered via video projector and participants will work at individual editing stations together as pairs. Participants are also encouraged to bring their laptops if they are running FCP version 6 or higher.

Dates: Sat Jan 7 (10am-4pm), Sun Jan 8 (10am-4pm), Mon Jan 9, 2011 (6pm-10pm)
Registration Fee: $125 mem | $150 non
Participants: Maximum 10 - 5 spots available through Video Pool + 5 spots through WFG (925-3450)
Instructor: Jaimz Asdmundson

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Jaimz Asmundson has produced a frenzy of work that has traveled to film festivals worldwide. Subversive content, camp humour and over-the-top aesthetic have become Asmundson’s hallmark. Jaimz has also contributed to many award-winning shorts, features, documentaries and tv productions as a picture editor, assitant editor and graphic designer.

Registration requires full payment unless otherwise arranged with the Education Coordinator.  Refunds must meet eligibility requirements, please ask for details.

Workshops are offered only to the Video Pool membership, though anyone may become a member at any time by paying the membership dues.

Members can request workshops by speaking to the Education Coordinator.  If you have a new workshop idea or wish to take a specific technical workshop, let it be heard!