mediaart – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

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Job Posting: Collections and Digitization Assistant

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is hiring for the position of Digitization and Collections Assistant. This is a 12-week position at 30 hours/week. This position is supported by the Young Canada Works program, as such, we are looking for a current student under the age of 30 who will be returning to school in the fall.

The Life of a Party & Unraveling || Lee Jones & Greta Grip

It is our pleasure to share an update on Lee Jones and Greta Grip’s Media Art + Technology Residency that is wrapping up soon and will be showing from June 23 – September 15, 2023

i.o with Darcy Bunio

On May 19th, limitless percussionist i.o (Victoria) returns to The Output for a live collaboration with guitarist Darcy Bunio, following their stunning 2022 duet. Don’t miss this opportunity to see two of Canada’s finest improvisers working at the limits of their instruments, with a solo performance from i.o.

MATR recipients || Lee Jones & Greta Grip

It is our pleasure to announce Greta Grip and Lee Jones as the 2023 recipients of the Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR). In response to our call, (de)PRESS(i)ON, these two artists have proposed an evolving/devolving, interactive, data-collecting, technology and craft related artwork that will respond not only to VP’s gallery, but will involve ways of including other areas of the building while drawing together ideas and inspiration from both historical and current activities.

Alexandra Elliott || Live Performed Improvisation

An ever changing group of dancers and musicians come together on First Fridays in the Exchange to perform live improvisation. Initiated in 2019 by studio partners Emma Dal Monte, Trevor Pick, and Alex Elliott, LPI is back. Live Performed Improvisation (LPI) invites you to The Output on December 2nd for an evening of reflection, gathering, and celebration. Alex would like to dedicate this performance to a Visual Artist she met through her Forever-Mentor Tedd Robinson. We really hope to see you there.

A small gallery with seven speakers hanging from the ceiling, forming a circle in the middle of the gallery. The view is from behind the speaker circle.

There is a Point at Which Methods Devour Themselves || Pedro Oliveira

Video Pool Media Arts Centre has teamed up with Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound to present a multi-channel sound piece by Pedro Oliveira. “There is a Point at Which Methods Devour Themselves” (2020) is a multi-channel sound piece on the limits and failures of machine and human listening. Commissioned by the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt, DE).

Jason stands over a modular synthesizer that is in front of him as he reaches to his right to adjust knobs on a small mxer.

Jason Kahn || B.P. || forestine

Jason Kahn || B.P. || Forestine An evening of Sound Art Performance Details:Date: June 9, 2022, 7PM Tickets: $15 at the door Location: The Output – 2nd floor Artspace Sign Up For Jason Kahn’s Workshop Here Video Pool Media…

VP Has a New Online Catalogue!

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is pleased to announce the launch of our new online video and film catalogue. Established in 1983 and with works dating back to the 1960s, our collection features over 2,200 titles by more than 600 artists. With a focus on video art from the prairies, the VP catalogue charts a history of creative experimentation in the media arts which continues to this day.

Örjan Sandred and Max Sandred | Sonic Trails: Lockdown

“Sonic Trails : Lockdown” is a multimedia installation reflecting on a city in Covid-19 lockdown. Using algorithms for Artificial Intelligence, a visitor is transferred between concrete and abstract experiences in a 3-dimensional world created through projections on semi-transparent screens and a multi-channel loudspeaker system. The installation is created by Max and Örjan Sandred and is based on material recorded during the 2021 pandemic in Winnipeg.