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MarshallandVilem_Poster_05-WEB-3Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to present International Conference:

 

Marshall McLuhan and Vilém Flusser’s Communication & Aesthetic Theories Revisited­­ 

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A two-day symposium including: lectures, exhibitions, performance, and screenings exploring issues of new media art, communications, and culture. Video Pool Media Arts Centre invites you to join us and look into concepts and processes characteristic of the beginning of the 21st century via the frameworks provided to us by Flusser and McLuhan. Speakers include: Barbara Rauch, Clint Enns, Dan Mellamphy, Dr. Melentie Pandilovski, Jonah Corne, Monika Vrecar, Paul Levinson, Peter Schwenger, Philip Pocock, Richard Cavell (Key Note Speaker), Roy Ascott, Scott Billings, Simone Maranholtz and Tom Kohut.

 



MAY 31 & JUNE 01, 2012
Cinematheque Theatre
100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB R3B-1H3 Canada
www.vpmediaconf.com

CONFERENCE HOURS: 10:00am- 4:00pm
PERFORMANCE AND SCREENING: MAY 31 FROM 6:00-8:30pm

Performance by: Richard Altman “Ellice AgeMass Redux”
Film Screening: “McLuhan’s Wake”

Directed by Kevin McMahon
Produced by NFB and Gerry Flahive, Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon

EXHIBITIONS:

LEI COX  Being There
+ new work by Andrew Milne and Douglas Smith

OPENING I May 4, 7:00 PM
ARTIST TALK I MAY 4 8:30PM
EXHIBITION: May 04 -June 02, 2012
CONFERENCE GATHERING I Gurevich Fine Art  I Thursday, May 31 at 9:00pm
Gurevich Fine Art,  62 Albert Street, Winnipeg, MB

MANUEL CHANTRE Dispergere Maiz
Negative Space Gallery
253 Princess Street, Winnipeg, MB
CONFERENCE GATHERING &

OPENING RECEPTION: June 01, 7:00pm
EXHIBITION: June 01-June 07, 2012

 

REGISTRATION: Half price discount for students!!
Conference is Free! Registration is required.

 

Please register for advance tickets by e-mailing vpprogramming@videopool.org. Tickets will be available for pickup at 8:30am on May 31 and June 01 at The Cinematheque Theatre.

MEME 2012 - VJ Workshop

This two evening workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of VJing. The first session will focus on the creation and preparation of video clips, both original and found, as well as an introduction to various pieces of software such as Modul8 & Quartz Composer. The second session will move towards set building, controller integration, performance and projection techniques. Participants will have the opportunity to perform at the Saturday Night MEME event @ The Manitoba Museum.
Bringing a video camera, external HD/flash drive or laptop (macintosh platform preferred) is encouraged but not required.


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  • Date: Tuesday, June 19th & Wednesday, June 20th,7pm - 10pm
  • Fee: $60 
  • Participants: 10 maximum
  • Instructors: Tyrone Deise, James Jansen, Chris Morley and Rylaan Gimby

 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Tyrone Deise (onion union
One half of the VJ duo Onion Union. Along with his partner, Chris Morley, he has been performing live visuals at dozens of electronic music events since the fall of 2008. Tyrone is a graphic designer by day, multimedia artist by night, and currently serves as the Visuals Coordinator for 2012's MEME festival. http://www.onion-union.com http://www.tyronedeise.com http://www.memetic.ca

James Jansen (jaymez)
Live Audio/Visual Artist and Co-Founder of the Central Canadian Center for Performance, jaymez has built a body of work which combines technology with performance, music and moving images. He provides live visuals for Winnipeg post metal band Illusive Mind and has performed along side dozens of acts, musicians and DJs both at home and across North America. He is the editor of KATALOG, an online performance publication and a resident Visualist at Winnipeg’s DATA DANCE parties. http://www.ifitmoves.net http://cccponline.net 

Chris Morley (onion union)
One half of the VJ duo Onion Union. Along with his partner, Tyrone Deise, he has been performing live visuals at dozens of electronic music events since the fall of 2008. This summer looks to be a breakout year with performances scheduled for MEME festival, Connect festival (SK) and Motion Notion (BC) http://www.onion-union.com

Rylaan Gimby
Rylaan is a multimedia artist who was born and raised in Winnipeg. Working at the MTS centre gave him a real passion for visual performance. Building and running content on the the digital screens for hockey games was fun, but Rylaan wanted to do something that was a little more personal. He started learning about VJing and visual performance, then discovered a tool called TagTool, a DIY project that combines a graphics tablet with a game controller, which he debuted at MEME 2010. http://www.rylaangimby.com/

 

Manuel Chantre Dispergere Maiz. Opening June 01. Negative Space Gallery

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents:

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OPENING I JUNE 01, 7:00 PM

ARTIST TALK I JUNE 01, 8:30PM

EXHIBITION I  JUNE 01- JUNE 07, 2012

Negative Space Gallery
253 Princess Street, Winnipeg, MB

 For over 5000 years, man has cultivated and consumed corn. This food has nourished entire civilizations in America and, in comparison to rice and wheat, is currently the most widely consumed grain worldwide. Throughout this time, corn has also left an impression on our collective subconscious. By elaborating upon the various representations and symbols associated to this plant, Manuel Chantre has created an evocative, sensory, and abstract vehicle.

Designed as an immersive and interactive installation, the project consists of twenty-four transparent projection screens, four video projectors and a four-loudspeaker. The unique interpretation of each spectator and the manipulation of spatial perception are the primary axis guiding the environment. In a dark room, various screens alight, flicker, and interact with the public to generate a narrative composed of familiar places and symbols that are at once being constructed and deconstructed. In this space, spectators will explore a universe woven of memories and recollections associated to the corn symbols.

Dispergere Maiz has been made possible by the Vivacité Montréal program manage by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and profited from a residence of research and creation at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT).

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MANUEL CHANTRE BIOGRAPHY
www.manuelchantre.com
Based in Montreal, Chantre is a new media artist, composer and teacher. He is interested in the diversion of cultural symbols and phenomena of perceptions, in order to create works at the junction of a dramatic fictional universe and an essay. His approach has been characterized by integrating music, sound, video, programming, electronic and moving lights for creating performances and installations with volumetric visual content.

Two audiovisual works were created for his installation made up of 24 video projection screens. Memorsion (2010) focuses on the cultural memories of abandoned urban structures, while Dispergere Maiz (2008) deals with the corn crop and its associated symbolism.

His latest work, Light Attraction (2012), is a performance for a giant prism that turns powerful lights into a dense mass of over-changing geometric composition. The work refers to the phenomenon whereby nocturnal insects are attracted to light, a metaphor of human’s impulsive and obsessive behaviour.

Chantre has been presented and co-produced by international media art institutions such as Mois-Multi, the Society for arts and technologies, Elektra, Mapping festival, Eastern Bloc, WORM and STEIM.

LEI COX Being There Friday, May 4 Opening Reception

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+ NEW WORK BY ANDREW MILNE AND DOUGLAS SMITH
OPENING I May 4, 7:00 PM
ARTIST TALK I MAY 4 8:30PM
EXHIBITION: May 04 -June 02, 2012 
Gurevich Fine Art,
62 Albert Street, Winnipeg, MB

 

LEI COX  

Follow Lei Cox on a journey to fiction and back again in Being There. Video Pool Media Arts Centre in collaboration with Gurevich Fine Art are pleased to present a retrospective of Lei Cox`s work from 1986 to 2011.  Current work includes: Being There: a triptych video  performance  inspired by a life long obsession with flight, space travel and human desire to push the envelope. Catching Sight of Sputnik 2009/11, Race 2010/11, and Auto Draw 2010  will be exhibited together displaying a range of work that begins a 26-year quest to find a surrealistic fiction, or the unusual, in everyday life through the medium of photography and video.

ANDREW MILNE  

“Mechanical Shadows” A series of mechanical representations inquire about the future and the history of reproduction. Sculpture, photography, drawing, painting all move within the images resisting definition as any one medium. Reconstructions of body and vision are formed by the mechanical hand of a photographic artist;
the gaze manifests as the shadow of shadows.

DOUGLAS SMITH

Defining identity is dubious, the identity of a period in time even more so. We do however, associate certain colours, fashions and values to specific eras in time; one example being the international exportation and influence of America’s particular tastes and values via Hollywood. I revisit the notion of identity of previous decades, essentially Canadian and North American identity, through a series of inventive portraitures, using various painted surface treatments and hand-cut paper elements.

 

 

LEI COX BIOGRAPHY

Lei Cox works with video installation, video art, performance-to-camera and photography and has shown his work worldwide since 1985. His work has often been described a surreal, humorous and science fictional. Cox began working with black and white photography, this was essentially shot straight and with no special effects where finding the unusual in everyday landscapes and portraits was the dominant theme. These early photographs were made with full-frame purity, dramatic light with high contrast and tonal exaggeration.

The work changed direction after considering experimentation with sandwich negatives in the enlarger, studio lighting work, filmmaking and video art and the vast possibilities of moving images and early digital video effects. Together with parallel interests in sound and music, video art and video installation became his main form of expression. Later utilizing digital broadcast quality production and post production equipment he began questioning the need for extensive compositing, the reliance of the computer and the over complication of some works which took up to two years to construct.

Major solo exhibitions have been shown in the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Laing Gallery, Newcastle and Gallery Rene Coelho, Amsterdam. Cox has also been exhibited in shows including Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Osnabruck European Media Art Festival, His Single screen work has been shown in over 70 international festivals and he has recently completed an interactive camera obscura public artwork, The Dark Room:  Mountain to Sea – Beyond Site which is situated on Cairngorm Mountain in Scotland.