Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, June 5, 7:30PM - 9:30PM in the Video Pool studio, 300-100 Arthur Street.
The Output event continues Saturday, 12:00PM - 5:00PM and Sunday, 1:00PM - 4:00PM. Formal presentation: June 7th, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Deluxe multimedia artist Murray Toews will isolate himself in the main studio of Video Pool over two days. At the end of his self-imposed imprisonment, he will “manufacture” a series of animated drawings set against live, experimental music. Using this strict deadline, Toews will collide together a collection of drawings, sketches and doodles that he has created over four months into a series of manufactured and malfunctioning animation.
OUTPUT EVENT: ONE is one of three events in 2009 that will demonstrate the process-driven animated thoughts and meanderings of Murray Toews. This Video Pool Artist in Residence project “Manufacturing Malfunction 3.0” is in a state of evolution and is represented in these Output events. The event is accessible to the public and you will be able to view the progress on-line.
“OUTPUT EVENT:ONE is an opportunity for (me) to share and expose the anxiety and chaos of the artistic process with everyone. I’m hoping that it will break some artist stereotypes in the process and, if I’m lucky, create some new ones…”
Murray Toews is a multidisciplinary artist; his creative work spans the mediums of drawing, video, computer-animation, audio and the production of Blender TV, a public television series showcasing Manitoba video artists (1996). In 2004, he was the curator for a Video Pool, animation retrospective named ‘Animator/Reanimator’ that showcased the technological evolution of independent experimental animators in the Canadian Prairies from 1990 to 2004. This show toured throughout Canada and into the ground-breaking art market of Japan. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts first class Honors degree from the University of Manitoba in 1992 with a thesis in advanced Drawing.
Recently, his has focused his energies on animation, audio-art music and the development of digital interactive environments. Among his latest works ‘Complications’ (2007) and ‘Even in Sleep’ (2008) represent a new, on-going acknowledge of the role of process in the creation of animation and drawing. More recently he is Video Pool’s “Artist in Residence” for 2009 and has received a video production grant from the Manitoba Arts Council for a series of process-driven animations named “A Series of Malfunctions”.
Video Pool and the artist acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and Winnipeg Arts Council for their support.
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