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International Women’s Day 2016 Online Screening

Video works by Christine Kirouac, Divya Mehra and Wendy Geller curated by Bev Pike were available to watch online March 8 & 9! In celebration of International Women’s Day on Tuesday, March 8, Video Pool was excited share three works in our collection made by incredibly talented Manitoban women, curated by Bev Pike.

Experimental Art Practice: Art and Biological research combined with Marta de Menezes

Marta’s talk explores the multiple possibilities of artistic approaches that can be developed in relation to Art and Biology in contemporary art practice and research. A special emphasis will be placed on the development of collaborative art and biology projects where the artist has to learn some biological research skills in order to create the artwork.

GIV 40: Gestures of Performativity

GIVonline promoVideo Pool Media Arts Centre is thrilled to host a screening in celebration of Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)’s 40th Anniversary. Join us for a curated screening of work from GIVs catalogue by Dayna McLeod titled: Gestures of Performativity.

2016 Member Screening Call for Submissions

If you are interested in taking part in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s 2016 Member Screening on March 3, 2016, please email Jen with an online link at vpdist@videopool.org

Imaging Saturn (Modeling Views)

Video Pool Media Arts Centre in collaboration with PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to announce the exhibition, “Imaging Saturn (Modeling Views)”, a new multimedia installation from Regina-based artist Risa Horowitz. Please join us at the opening reception Friday 29 January 2016 at 7 PM. An artist talk is scheduled for 30 January at 2 PM. Both events are free and open to the public atPLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts.

Interview with David Rokeby

David Rokeby’s interactive installation “Dark Matter” (2010) was included in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s AGE OF CATASTROPHE exhibition that ran from November 13 – December 12, 2015. Rokeby came to Winnipeg for the opening of the show and to speak at CATASTROPHE, CATACLYSM AND THE SINGULAR ACCIDENT symposium in conjunction with the exhibition. While he was here he also recorded this interview with Video Pool’s director, Dr. Melentie Pandilovski.

Interview with Paul Thomas

Dr. Paul Thomas’ interactive audio visual installation “Quantum Consciousness” (2015) was included in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s AGE OF CATASTROPHE exhibition that ran from November 13 – December 12, 2015. Thomas came to Winnipeg for the opening of the show and to deliver a keynote address at CATASTROPHE, CATACLYSM AND THE SINGULAR ACCIDENT symposium in conjunction with the exhibition. While in town Dr. Melentie Pandiloski, director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre had a chance to interview Thomas about his work.

Watch – Catastrophe, Cataclysm and the Singular Accident Symposium

Catastrophe, Cataclysm and the Singular Accident was a one-day symposium open to the public during which artists, scholars, researchers and members of the community engaged in a discussion of the theoretical, aesthetic and political ramifications of tsunamis and technological disasters, epidemics and tectonic shifts, evictions and colonialisms, cataclysmic trajectories and avoidable/unavoidable outcomes.

VUCAVU Info Session

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to share with our members and supporters information about our partnership with seven other Canadian Independent Media Art Distributors, resulting in VUCAVU.com. VUCAVU is a bilingual online platform used for the dissemination of independent Canadian video and film. After over three years of planning and working on the project, we look forward to launching the platform in Spring 2016! Video Pool Media Arts Centre will have over 100 titles on the platform to begin and will constantly be adding new titles.

Book Launch – Marshall McLuhan + Vilem Flusser’s Communication + Aesthetic Theories Revisited

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is proud to present the launch of the book MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND VILEM FLUSSER’S COMMUNICATION AND AESTHETIC THEORIES REVISITED. This scholarly book of academic analyses and artists’ position papers represents the proceedings of the international conference of the same name convened by Dr. Melentie Pandilovski in 2012.