CFAT Local Artist in Residence Fridays with Sebastian Harder
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:00 PM - Friday, July 09, 2010 12:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
The Centre for Art Tapes Local Artist in Residence Sebastian Harder will be available to meet and talk with members on Fridays here at the CFAT office starting in May. Sebastian is currently working on an experimental narrative video project using green-screen technology and Adobe After Effects. If you would like to come by to speak with Sebastian, please email in advance to set up an appointment or call the office on Friday while Sebastian is here. Contact Programming Coordinator Brendan Dunlop at cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca or 902-420-4002.
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Centre for Art Tapes Electronics Lab Summer Workshop Series
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:00 PM - Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
Each Saturday from June 19th until July 24th CFAT will be hosting a series of workshops in our Electronics Lab.
June 19 1-5pm
Electronics
Adam Kelly
This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of electricity and electronics. It will cover basic theory and components, and participants will learn how to build an electronic circuit that can flash an LED, make noise, and activate a motor.
June 26 1-5pm
Electronics Design and Fabrication
Adam Kelly
This workshop will introduce participants to electronics design and fabrication tools and techniques. It will cover a variety of methods for creating temporary and permanent circuit boards, including the free schematic capture and pcb layout software program Eagle, and participants will learn how to solder and desolder, read and design schematics, and design and make printed circuit boards.
July 3 1-5pm
Arduino
Adam Kelly
This workshop will introduce participants with knowledge of electronics to Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping and physical computing platform. It will cover the fundamentals of microcontrollers and computer programming for sensing and control applications, and participants will learn how to sense the environment with various sensors as well as control lights, motors and other actuators. For more information on Arduino, visit www.arduino.cc.
July 10 1-5pm
Processing
Adam Kelly
This workshop will introduce participants to Processing, an open-source programming language and environment. It will cover the fundamentals of computer programming for graphics, video and audio applications, and participants will learn how to manipulate data in real-time to create emergent and interactive works. For more information on Processing, visit www.processing.org.
July 17 1-5pm
Pure Data
Lucas Dambergs
This workshop will introduce participants to Pure Data, an open source graphical programming language and environment comparable to Max/MSP. It will cover the fundamentals of graphical computer programming for MIDI, audio, and video applications, and participants will learn how to manipulate data in real-time to create emergent and interactive works. For more information on Pure Data, visit www.puredata.info.
July 24 1-5pm
Web development
Daniel Espeset
This workshop will introduce participants to standards-based web development with an emphasis on visual presentation and experimentation. It will cover HTML5, CSS3, and javascript, and participant will use open-source tools to create a fully working application.
All workshops will take place at the Centre for Art Tapes office. 5600 Sackville St. Suite 207.
Cost
1 workshop: $50
3 workshops: $125
6 workshops: $225
Registration
To sign up, phone 420-4002 or email cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca. Seats in workshops are available on a first come first serve basis. To secure your seat in a workshop, please register by paying in full at least five days before the workshop series. A workshop may not run if there are insufficient participants. Refunds will only be given in the event of a workshop cancellation.
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CFAT Annual General Meeting - POSTPONED
Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:30 PM - Tuesday, June 29, 2010 5:30 PM
CBC Training Room, 5600 Sackville Street, Halifax
Due to a scheduling conflict with the meeting room the CFAT Annual General Meeting has been postponed until June 29, 2010 at 5:30pm.
CFAT will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, June 29, 2010 at 5:30pm in the CBC Training Room (5600 Sackville St. 2nd Floor). Please come to the main entrance of the CBC Radio Building at 5600 Sackville St. and let the security personnel at the desk know that you are there for CFAT. Someone will come and meet you at the second floor.
Following the meeting (7:00 p.m.) there will be a BBQ/potluck at James MacSwain’s house, 2125 Brunswick Street. To attend the meeting you must be a member in good standing. If you are unsure of your member status, please contact Programming Coordinator Brendan Dunlop at cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca or 902-420-4002.
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CALL: PROGRAMMING MANAGER
Friday, May 21, 2010 12:00 PM - Friday, June 11, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
The Centre for Art Tapes is hiring a Programming Manager.
The Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) is a non-profit artist-run centre founded in 1979
that facilitates and supports artists at all levels of their careers working with
electronic media such as video, audio, and new media installation. The Centre
provides services to a diverse membership, and the general public, including
production facilities, exhibitions and screenings, as well as programs that provide
comprehensive technical training and residency opportunities to professional
media artists.
Responsibilities of the Programming Manager
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Programming Manager provides vision
and direction for the Centre’s long and short-term exhibition and presentation
goals, and oversees the administrative and financial aspects of programming.
• The Programming Manager must have a minimum of three years
experience writing grants to fund public organizations and programs.
• The Programming Manager oversees the development, curation, and
execution of the Centre for Art Tapes exhibitions, screenings, publications,
tours, and other events, in consultation with the Programming Committee.
• The Programming Manager is responsible for raising funds for
programming events, developing and managing the programming budget,
and cultivating partnerships with other presenting organizations.
• The Programming Manager is the primary liaison for curators, other
exhibition venues, and artists.
• The Programming Manager is responsible for supervising other
programming personnel and volunteers.
• The Programming Manager is responsible for consulting with the General
Manager to meet short-term and long-term objectives for the Centre’s
programming growth. Objectives include developing programming of
works that possess artistic merit at the national and international level.
Required Qualifications
The successful candidate will have at least 3 years experience:
• Curation and program development experience in a broad range of video,
audio and new media practices
• Writing successful proposals and grants
• Developing and managing budgets
• Managing staff and volunteers
• Developing collaborative projects with other organizations.
• Working with volunteer committees
• Working in an electronic environment
Educational Qualifications
• Degree or Diploma in a related field
Assets
• Curatorial experience
• Understanding of Board Governance for non-profit charitable organizations
• Experience working with diverse constituencies
• Bilingual English / French
This is a permanent 80% position.
Annual salary range: $26,000-$28,000 commensurate with experience.
Start date July 19, 2010.
Please submit CV and cover letter by e-mail as a PDF or by post.
Received by 5 p.m. June 11, 2010.
Email to:
cfat.operations@ns.sympatico.ca
Mail to:
Hiring Committee
Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville Street, Suite 207
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 1L2
Any inquiries may be emailed to the Hiring Committee:
cfat.operations@ns.sympatico.ca
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an
interview will be contacted.
Click here to download a pdf of the complete call. (option+click or right click to download.)
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Come meet CFAT visiting artist Daniel Cockburn
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:30 AM - Friday, April 23, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to host visiting artist Daniel Cockburn from April 20 to 23, 2010. Daniel, a graduate of York University, has been making short films and videos since 1999. His media work inhabits a space between narrative film and experimental video art, and he often appears in it as the main character of the script. To view clips from Daniel's past work, please visit his website at http://zerofunction.com/
As a visiting artist, Daniel’s main activities will take place at CFAT’s facilities located in the CBC Radio Building, 5600 Sackville Street. Here he will work on new creative endeavours of his own as well as meet with CFAT members to talk about art and life and to discuss their work in one-on-one meetings. To book an appointment with Daniel please contact CFAT Programming Coordinator Brendan Dunlop at cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca or 902-420-4002. Daniel will be available for appointments during open hours, 9:30 to 5:00 from April 20 to 23. If you would like to bring along some of your work to show Daniel, we can screen DVD, Mini-DV tape or digital files. Please let us know when you book your appointment if you will be bringing in work to show.
Support for the visiting artist program and other CFAT activities is provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, and the CBC.
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Call for Applications: Media Arts Scholarship Program
Sunday, April 18, 2010 1:00 AM - Friday, April 30, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes
The deadline for the 2010 Centre for Art Tapes, Media Arts Scholarship Program is quickly approaching. Application Deadline, 5 p.m. Friday, April 30 2010.
The Media Arts Scholarship Program is a six-month mentorship introducing media arts to interested individuals. Media Art includes work made with the use of digital video cameras, recorded sound, software for editing, animation, interactive presentation, electronics, and installation. Media art can be digital movies, interactive websites, gallery installations with sensors or new media elements, and animation. It also includes audio that can be experienced as a radio broadcast, installed in a specific place, or listened to with headphones.
Anyone who wishes to make their first independent work in a media art form that is new to them can apply for the Scholarship Program. Applicants can not be enrolled in a related educational program during the duration of the program.
Successful applicants will receive free classes, one-on-one mentorship with professionals working in media arts, free access to CFAT’s equipment and facilities, an honorarium of $400, and a premiere exhibition of the work created.
Successful applicants must be prepared to devote the necessary time required for attending classes, critiques, mentorship meetings, and other related events. While CFAT will make every effort to schedule classes and meetings with recipients’ schedules in mind, the expectation on the part of the recipient is at least 6 hours per week for approximately 30 weeks. (July-Dec.)
Successful applicants are determined by a rotating peer assessment committee. The committee bases their decisions on the creative approach to the subject or medium, the quality of the completed application, and the feasibility of the project as a first work.
To apply, please download and complete the application form, which can be found at http://www.centreforarttapes.ca/programs.aspx and send it along with your project proposal and resume or curriculum vitae no later then 5 p.m. April 30th. 2010 to:
Media Arts Scholarship Program
C/O Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville St.
Halifax, NS. B3J 1L2
Any questions regarding the Scholarship Program or the application procedure can be directed to Brendan Dunlop, CFAT Programming Coordinator at 902-420-4002 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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Daniel Cockburn Artist Talk & Performance
Saturday, April 17, 2010 1:00 PM
North Street Church (5657 North St.)
"All the Mistakes I've Made. An Anti-Artist Talk". "In this presentation, I will discuss my body of work in terms of the aesthetic and ideological missteps I have made." - D.C.. This event is free.
To download the visitng artist poster right click and "save target as "here.
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John T. Davis Screening
Friday, April 16, 2010 9:00 PM
North Street Church (5657 North St.)
Includes the films "Shell Shock Rock" and "Hobo". The screening will be followed by a Q&A period with the director. This event costs $10 ($8 for students / seniors).
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Daniel Cockburn Screening
Friday, April 16, 2010 7:00 PM
North Street Church (5657 North St.)
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different"; Includes the films "Audit", "IdeaL", "Rocket Man", "Metronome", "WEAKEND", "The Impostor (hello goodbye)" and "Nocturne Doubling". The screening will be followed by a Q&A period with the director. This event costs $10 ($8 for students / seniors).
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John T. Davis Master Class & Screening
Friday, April 16, 2010 1:00 PM
NSCADU Film School (1649 Brunswick St.)
Using a series of clips from his films, John T. Davis will guide participants through the themes and issues surrounding his works. Logistics, research, critical reflection and professional development within documentary filmmaking will be discussed in the workshop. This event is free.
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Animation with Love!
Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:00 PM - Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
Tickets ar $8 can be purchased at the door or in advance from the Centre for Art Tapes, 5600 Sackville St. Suite 207 Halifax, Ns.
This program will showcase short animated media that expresses a heartfelt personal investment on the part of the artists to tap into the creative potential of the animation artform, make an emotional connection with the audience and inspire the viewer.
Animations by: Franny Deschanel, Hamish Lambert, Arpana Kapur, Nelly Goniodsky, Leslie Supnet, Bethnay Riordan-Butterworth, Chantal Tardiff, Jessica MacCormack, Jean Tucker, Colleen MacIsaac, Hevi Won Jeong & Justin Murphy, Thea Pratt, Kunal Sen, Christina Felderhof, Tamzin Forster, and Andrea Dorfman.
To download the Animation with Love! program click here.
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CFAT Closed Thursday Evening.
Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
The Centre for Art Tapes will close at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday March 25th during the Animation with Love! screening at the Windsor Theatre, AGNS.
We will open with normal hours on Friday March 26th.
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Mixtape Night!
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:00 PM - Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:00 PM
The Hart & Thistle - 1869 Upper Water Street, Halifax.
The Centre For Art Tapes proudly presents Mixtape Night! at the Hart & Thistle Gastropub and Brewery. This free event features mixed tapes by Chris Myhr and Scott Saunders, two of four artists currently participating in the 2010 CFAT Electronics Lab Residency. Each artist was asked to create a mixed tape of music that influences them; their soundtracks will be the house music for the evening. Both artists will be in attendance, and available to talk about what they are working on during their residency. The Hart & Thistle is located in the “heart” of the Historic Properties, 1869 Upper Water Street, Halifax. For more information please contact 420-4002 or cfat.programming@ns.sympatico.ca.
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Nina Levitt: Little Breeze
Saturday, March 06, 2010 7:00 PM - Sunday, April 11, 2010 7:00 PM
Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, 5 March, 8:00 pm
Artist’s Talk: Saturday, 6 March, 3:00 pm
Heroism, mystery and danger – the elements of a World War II adventure movie appear this March and April in a beautiful and evocative art installation. Just in time for International Women’s Day, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery presents the interactive media installation, Little Breeze. Toronto-based artist Nina Levitt places conventional narrative elements in a critical context, as they relate to the lives of women and the way they are, or are not, represented in mainstream media.
Originally produced in co-production with Alberta’s Banff Centre, Little Breeze employs visual motifs familiar from adventure and spy films. Where we are used to seeing men in the heroic roles, Levitt has focussed on women, incorporating material from the lives of women who worked in intelligence during World War II, as undercover agents behind enemy lines. Levitt raises questions about how we construct history and remember the past.
Entering the Main Gallery, a visitor sees a projection of numeric ASCII code that resolves itself into a series of images of women. The use of digital data recalls the pivotal role of code-breaking during World War II in the development of the modern computer. A collection of suitcases are strewn about the gallery floor: when visitors pick one up, it triggers a sound clip from Carve Her Name with Pride, a film about British secret agent Violette Szabo. The Side Gallery features a second installation and a text-based work, Service Records, appears in the Library and Atrium elsewhere on campus.
Nina Levitt has worked with photography and video for twenty years. Her work is primarily concerned with the absence of women from visual culture and often relies on the recovery and manipulation of existing images. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at York University, Levitt has exhibited internationally and been widely published and reviewed. More information about her work can be found at www.ninalevitt.com.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Centre for Art Tapes and accompanied by a full-colour catalogue featuring an essay by Robert Bean, professor of photography at NSCAD University. An opening reception will take place at the gallery on Friday evening, 5 March at 8:00 pm. The artist will present a public talk about her work on Saturday, 6 March at 3:00 pm. Students at Saint Mary's University will also experience the exhibition in conjunction with a course presented in the winter term through the History Department on “Women in the Two World Wars.”
All events are free of charge and open to the public at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery in the Loyola Building, 5865 Gorsebrook Avenue. Refreshments will be served. Call 420-5445 or check www.smuartgallery.ca or our website or Facebook page for updates. All exhibitions and programmes at the Gallery receive significant support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Mixtape Night!
Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:00 PM - Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:59 PM
The Heart & Thistle - 1869 Upper Water Street, Halifax.
The Centre For Art Tapes proudly presents Mixtape Night! at the Hart & Thistle Gastropub and Brewery. This free event features mixed tapes by Amélie Proulx and William Robinson, two of four artists currently participating in the 2010 CFAT Electronics Lab Residency. Each artist was asked to create a mixed tape of music that influences them; their soundtracks will be the house music for the evening. Both artists will be in attendance, and available to talk about what they are working on during their residency.
The Hart & Thistle is located in the “heart” of the Historic Properties, 1869 Upper Water Street, Halifax.
For more information please contact 420-4002 or cfat.programming@ns.sympatico.ca.
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Call for Submissions: Local Curatorial Residency 2010 (Deadline Extended)
Friday, February 12, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes
The Centre for Art Tapes is accepting submissions for our 2010 Local Curatorial Residency. We are looking for proposals that offer an exciting and engaging media art presentation that is national in scope. All electronic and new media genres will be considered. CFAT encourages proposals that critically engage with contemporary issues. A catalogue with an essay written by the curator will accompany the curator’s presentation. The total award for this residency is $5000.
Submissions must be received by 5:00 p.m. Friday February 12th, 2010.
Proposed exhibition date: Late spring into early summer 2010.
Submissions should include:
• Brief curatorial statement outlining your idea and any research that will be undertaken as part of the project.
• An approximate physical description of the proposed exhibition, including potential technical requirements, proposed venue(s) and project schedule.
• Your current curriculum vitae (max 3 pages).
• Biographies or curricula vitae of potential artists involved in the exhibition if available (max 3 pages each).
• Samples of work: Maximum 20 digital images in jpeg format, up to 1200 dpi wide at 72 dpi and/or maximum 5 minutes of video formatted for Quicktime video player.
• An approximate budget for the proposed project based on $5000 total award (artist and curator fees should be in line with the CARFAC Fee Schedule).
• A self addressed stamped envelope with sufficient postage if you wish to have your submission materials returned.
The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of the proposed exhibition. The curator will meet regularly with members of the CFAT Programming Committee and receive support from CFAT staff.
Submitting curators must be members in good standing of the Centre for Art Tapes at the time of submission. CFAT encourages proposals from members of under-represented communities.
Please send all submissions to:
2010 Local Curatorial Residency
c/o Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville St.
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1L2
Any questions should be directed to:Brendan Dunlop, Programming Coordinator, at
cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca or 902-420-4002.
Thanks to all that apply. Only those selected will be contacted.
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Congratulations to all of the CFAT Media Arts Scholars
Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:00 PM - Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes
The 21st annual scholarship program concluded on January 23 2010 with a sold out screening at the Neptune Studio Theatre. Congratulations to all of our scholars for all of their hard work.
To download the Out of the Centre program click here.
The ongoing serialized podcast by CFAT scholar Léola LeBlanc can be followed on the web at http://www.leolaleblanc.com/iobject
"iObject is a weekly video podcast inspired and created from objects collected on walks throughout Halifax and Dartmouth. Participate in a fictional narrative and follow the trail of heroes and villains including Spider-Man and Lex Luthor. Arm yourself with a computer, an MP3 or personal media player or smart phone. Superheroes and heritage, right on your back door!"
For more information about the CFAT Media Arts Scholarship Program check out the Programs section of this website under the Activities tab.
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Out of the Centre: Media Arts Scholarship Screening
Saturday, January 23, 2010 7:30 PM - Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:30 PM
Neptune Studio Theatre
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to present Out of the Centre: CFAT Media Arts Scholarship Program Screening, an annual event in its twenty-first year. The Scholarship Program gives ten local artists the chance to explore for the first time an aspect of media art such as video production, audio recording, animation, or interactive technologies. The six month long program includes a series of workshops and one-on-one mentorship from an established media artist for each participant.
This year's selection of works considers ideas of how information is transmitted, experimental narratives, parkour, and the founding of Nova Scotia's first housing cooperative, among others. The artists included in the screening are Crystal Melville, Léola LeBlanc, Charles Currie, Aimée Brown, Susan Wolf, Tanya Davis, Rebecca Singer, Daniel Boos, Krista Davis, and Hamish Lambert.
Support for this program is from the Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, the National Film Board, and the CBC.
The screening takes place at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2010. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door, and can be purchased at the Centre for Art Tapes, 5600 Sackville St., Suite 207, Eyelevel Gallery, 2063 Gottingen St., and Anna Leonowens Gallery, 5163 Duke St.
To download the Out of the Centre program click here
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CFAT Holiday Hours
Friday, December 18, 2009 5:00 PM - Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:30 AM
Centre for Art Tapes
The Centre for Art Tapes will close for the holidays on December 18, at 5:00 p.m. and reopen January 5, at 9:30 a.m. There will be no equipment bookings or suite rentals during this time. Be sure to come in to finish up all of your holiday media projects before it's too late.
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Call for Appplications: CFAT Electronics Lab Residency 2010
Friday, November 13, 2009 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes
Application deadline midnight Friday, November 13, 2009
The Centre for Art Tapes is accepting proposals for its Electronics Residency Program. Four applicants will be chosen to be in residence from January to April 2010.
Who can apply?
Anyone who wishes to make a project that involves electronics, mechanics, and/or computer programming may apply. Although no previous knowledge is necessary, priority will be given to applicants whose support material shows an interest in electronics, mechanics, and/or computer programming.
What are the benefits?
Successful applicants will receive the following:
Free weekly workshops by Electronics Lab Technician Adam Kelly
Free and unlimited access to the Electronics Lab
A $800 honorarium for the creation of their project
A $100material fee
The opportunity to exhibit the created work in a group exhibition in the fall of 2010
Considerations
Successful applicants will be in residence from mid-January to the end of April 2010.
Recipients must attend weekly workshops on Monday afternoons, and must complete their proposed work by the end of April 2010.
Selection Process
Successful applicants are determined by a peer assessment committee. The committee will base their decisions on the quality of the completed application, the feasibility of the project within the allotted timeframe, and the works relation to the disciplines of electronics, mechanics, and/or computer programming.
How to Apply
Applications should include the following:
A written project proposal (1 page maximum)
A brief description of previous experience (if applicable)
Support material (CDR, DVD, URL)
A description of support material
Current CV or resume
Deadline: Midnight, Friday, November 13, 2009.
Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
Please send applications to:
“Electronics Residency”
Centre For Art Tapes
5600 Sackville St, Ste 207
Halifax NS B3J 1L2
For questions about the application process, please contact Siobhan Wiggans, General Manager, by phone at (902) 420 4580 or by email at cfat.operations@ns.sympatico.ca.
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CFAT WILL BE CLOSED ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Centre for Art Tapes
The Centre for Art Tapes will be closed on Wednesday November 11th. We will re-open Thursday November 12th with our normal business hours.
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Call for Applications: CFAT Local Artist-in-Residence Program 2010
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes
Application Deadline 5 p.m. Tuesday, November 3, 2009
2 New Local Artist-In-Residence Positions in 2010 for Intermediate to Established Artists
What?
The Local Residency Program at the Centre for Art Tapes provides opportunities to local media artists for development and experimentation of new work involving audio, video, or new media. The successful applicant will receive up to $1000 in-kind support, access to fascilities, a $1700 cash award, $300 for conducting a talk in the community about their project, and access to technical assistance during the residency.
Where?
Local residencies will take place at the CFAT facility. The successful applicant will maintain a presence at CFAT for the duration of their residency. The Artist will also have access to facilities for a period of seven months.
When?
Artists should list the approximate dates that they wish to be at the Centre. Although we have limited resources Artists-In-Residence may overlap with one another throughout the course of each residency. Local residencies may be proposed to begin eight weeks after the application deadline, and must be completed no later than July 31, 2010.
How?
Applications will be evaluated by a rotating peer assessment committee.
Applicants must submit the following:
1) Detailed description (maximum 2 pages) of the project, addressing concept, themes, subject matter and background research/history.
2) Treatment, describing aesthetic considerations, and how the work created through the residency will look and sound (maximum 1 page). Include storyboards, sketches, or diagrams (if applicable).
3) Outline of how CFAT’s facilities will be used to contribute to the creation of the work.
4) Timeline for production. (The CFAT residency may make up part or all of the production time.)
5) Production budget detailing all anticipated expenses and revenues, both confirmed and pending, related to the project. Indicate how the residency program will contribute to this project.
6) Support material, either CD-R, Beta, URL or DVD. Printed materials could include scripts, reviews, essays, and catalogues of previous work. Please cue tape material to the portion you would like viewed. Applications will be considered incomplete without all of the above materials. Incomplete applications could result in the committee’s inability to consider the proposed project.
7) Current CV or resume.
8) If you intend to work with a technical assistant or a collaborator, include description of how they will assist in the creation of the project and a copy of their CV or resume.
Eligibility
Applicant must:
• be member in good standing at CFAT at time of application.
• a minimum of three years of professional artistic practice.
• have completed a significant body of media arts work.
• be a resident of Nova Scotia.
Other eligibility notes:
• teams/collaborations of artists may apply (though overall amount of award remains the same)
• proposed projects must be considered ‘independent’ or ‘artist-driven’; the artist retains complete creative and editorial control.
• Please note commercial projects such as calling card films, television pilots, industrial/corporate projects are not eligible.
Priority will be given to projects that:
• demonstrate innovation (found through content, artist’s point of view, or experimentation with form, technology, style, and/or process; it may also be found through the uniqueness of the community represented.)
• propose to use the CFAT facilities to their fullest and are feasible in terms of time and budget considerations.
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Caustic Assets
Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:00 PM - Sunday, November 29, 2009 5:00 PM
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, 6101 University Ave. Halifax.
Caustic Assets - Dalhousie Art Gallery. Opening Reception Thursday October 22 at 8pm. Show runs October 23 to November 29, 2009.
The Centre for Art Tapes in partnership with the Dalhousie Art Gallery presents Caustic Assets, a screening of nine videos from across Canada and abroad, in the New Media Gallery at the Dalhousie Art Gallery. An opening reception will take place 8:00 p.m. Thursday, 22 October. This event is free and open to the public.
The theme of Caustic Assets relates to questions of the recent and continuing economic crisis and its effects on society as it relates to job security and the continuation of a capitalist ideology that does not guarantee freedom from want and violence.
“The money’s run out. So what have we bought? What assets did we accrue? Just how far have we extended ourselves?” asks Léola Le Blanc in the curatorial essay written to accompany this exhibition. Léola continues, “The video selection in Caustic Assets comments on the tragic repercussions we are left to manage after our asset hungry gluttony has abated… What we are witnessing now is the payback of debts in the form of unemployment, status inequality, exploitation, homelessness, hunger, riots and ecological disruption.” The nine videos included in this exhibition give voice to these concerns of our times.
Artists included in this exhibition are: Pascal Lièvre (Paris, France), Anne Walk (Vancouver, BC), Les Newman (Winnipeg, MB), Lansing Bruce Robertson (Winnipeg, MB), Rita Mabel Maio and Franca Gonzalez (Buenos Aries, Argentina), Marik Boudreau (Montreal, QC), Rick Fisher (Winnipeg, MB), Gabriela Golder (Buenos Aries, Argentina), and Karen Zalamea (Montreal, QC).
Caustic Assets is on view Tuesdays through Fridays, 11:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m. and weekends from noon to 5 p.m. at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue, Halifax. The exhibition continues to 29 November. Admission to the gallery is free
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Picture Promenade
Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:00 PM
Eyelevel Gallery, 2063 Gottingen Street, Halifax.
Picture Promenade - October 17, 2009. 6pm to midnight as part of Nocturne 2009.
The Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel Gallery present Picture Promenade
Photography by Brendan Dunlop & Sound by Liz MacDougall
Picture Promenade is a window projection at Eyelevel Gallery comprising of collected images and sound from Halifax's North End Community.
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Sometimes Always Catalogue Launch
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:00 PM
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street, Halifax.
To celebrate the launch of the catalogue for the exhibition Sometimes Always there will be a launch and reception. The catalogue will be on sale for a special discounted price of $10.
Co-presented by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Centre for Art Tapes.
Artifact Institute Closing Reception
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:00 AM - Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:00 PM
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street, Halifax.
The Artifact Institute is wrapping up a three month long project concerned with electronic equipment discarded by arts and cultural organizations in the HRM.
A free closing reception for the project will take place on August 29 from 10AM to 5PM at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
The reception offers an opportunity for people to see how technologies involved in the making of media arts have changed over time. Adam Kelly and Tim Dallett of the Artifact Institute will be available to answer questions regarding the project.
A wide variety of electronic equipment no longer used by organizations such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Centre for Art Tapes, and the now defunct Khyber Digital Media Centre are on view, some of which were once very common and others that were rarely seen outside of specialized professional settings. This project will be of interest to people curious about the history of technology, electronics recycling, and new forms of contemporary art practice.
Admission to the reception and the Artifact Institute space is free (though not to the rest of the AGNS). Please come to the AGNS Admissions Desk and ask to visit the Artifact Institute reception.
For more information, contact Tim Dallett or Adam Kelly at (902) 424-6303 or .
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Open Call: Caustic Assets videos
Friday, September 11, 2009 5:00 PM
Dalhousie University Art Gallery
The Centre for Art Tapes, in partnership with the Dalhousie University Art Gallery, has an open call to Canadian artists and distributors for videos dealing with the theme of Caustic Assets.
Caustic –adjective
1. capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
2. severely critical or sarcastic: a caustic remark.
Assets –noun
1. items of ownership convertible into cash; total resources of a person or business, as cash, notes and accounts, receivable, securities, inventories, goodwill, fixtures, machinery, or real estate (opposed to liabilities ).
2. all property available for the payment of debts, esp. of a bankrupt or insolvent firm or person.
This theme relates to questions of the recent and continuing economic crisis and its effects on society as it relates to job security and the continuation of a capitalist ideology that does not guarantee freedom from want and violence.
The videos will be presented in October/ November, 2009, at a one-night screening, and will also be presented in the Dalhousie University Art Gallery’s Media Room for five weeks. Artists’ fees will be paid.
Specification: Shorts and longer works up to 20 minutes, completed since 2000.
Submission Preview Formats: Please send description of video and bio of artist(s) with your submission, preferably on DVD or VHS.
Only those included in the screening will be contacted. If you would like your submission previews returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped return envelope.
Deadline: 5pm Friday, September 11, 2009
Send Submissions to:
The Centre for Art Tapes
Attn: Caustic Assets
5600 Sackville St. Suite 207
Halifax. NS
B3J 1L2
902-420-4115
cfat.programming@ns.sympatico.ca
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CFAT Employment Opportunity
Friday, September 04, 2009 5:00 PM
Position: Programming Coordinator
Terms: Position commences Oct. '09
30 hours/week including health and dental benefits
Salary Range: $11.00 - $12.00/hr commensurate with experience
Application Deadline September 4, 2009
Click to download a full job description in PDF format
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PICTURE PROMINADE - Call For Submissions
Friday, August 21, 2009 5:00 PM
Eyelevel Gallery, 2063 Gottingen Street, Halifax.
Picture Promenade – The Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel Gallery
Eyelevel Gallery and the Centre For Art Tapes are seeking submissions from our members to work with either a photo-based or audio-based component of a collaborative project titled Picture Promenade, comprising of collected images and sound from Halifax’s North End community. The two artists are to collaborate with each other in their presentation composing a one-night projection and audio installation on the two front windows of Eyelevel Gallery that will both accompany the Eyelevel Archives exhibition, and be included as part of the 2nd annual Nocturne: Art at Night festival from 6pm – midnight on October 17, 2009.
The photo-based artist is asked to take photos of present day North End while researching past photographs of the North End from the Nova Scotia Archives and requesting photographs from past and present residents of the community. The audio artist is asked to create an audio landscape of the present North End and to research and present audio components from the past such as radio broadcasts. The collaboration is to present an evocative Picture Promenade of the past and present North End of Halifax.
Each selected artist will receive a $1,000 artist fee plus $250 materials fee for their presentation.
Submission Deadline: August 21, 2009.
All submissions must include: an artists statement, CV, digital images (10 max.), audio files or demo’s (7 min. max), and a self addressed stamped envelope if you would like your submission returned. All support material must be formatted to CD-R or DVD-R.
Please send all submissions individually to: Eyelevel Gallery, 2063 Gottingen Street, Halifax, NS, B3K 3BA no later than 5pm on August 21st, 2009. Submissions will be reviewed immediately and successful applicants will be notified within one week of the deadline. For further information, please contact Michael McCormack at director@eyelevelgallery.ca or (902) 425 6412.
Please note that submissions will not be accepted via email.
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Announcement:
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Centre for Art Tapes' Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Siobhan Wiggans to the new position of General Manager. She is moving to Halifax from Charlottetown, PEI where she has worked as a Curator and as the Education and Outreach Officer at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery for the past three years. She brings to the position a distinguished record of innovative arts experience and we look forward to her future contributions as she joins the Centre's vibrant media arts community. Siobhan will assume her responsibilities on July 1, 2009.
Ilan Sandler, who has been the Executive Director since 2004, is leaving his position on July 15, 2009. He has recently been awarded several public art commissions and is pursuing his artistic practice full time. He will maintain his studio in Halifax and his SSHRC Research Fellowship at NSCAD University while continuing to be an active member at the Centre.
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Felix Kubin audio workshop
Friday, June 19, 2009 6:00 PM - Friday, June 19, 2009 7:00 PM
CKDU 88.1 FM
CKDU Radio Broadcast 88.1FM STUDIO MAGIC 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM A unique exploration of music and its role in the community with an empasis on DIY improvisation and sound collage. Hosted by Selwyn Sharples.
The results of the Felix Kubin Audio workshop “Futuristic Kitchen Music” will air on CKDU as part of the Sound Bytes Festival 2009. Details of the workshop are below.
Electronic composer, performer Felix Kubin will lead a 2-day workshop entitled “Futuristic Kitchen Music”,during which participants will create and record music using kitchen appliances as sound sources. This workshop is organised in conjunction with Sound Bytes, a city wide audio art festival.The resulting work will be broadcast on CKDU 881. FM.
Participants are asked to bring an assortment of their favourite-sounding appliances to work with in CFAT’s kitchen and studio. It is also possible for participants to record kitchen-sounds in advance (please contact CFAT to arrange mobile equipment booking; a maximum of 35 minutes of advance-recorded sound per participant is allowed). Some vegetables will be provided.
Sponsored by the Goethe-Institut (Montreal)
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Sadie Benning film screening (Part 2)
Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
A compilation of Benning’s later pixelvision works from 1991-1992 (running time 49min.) Free Admission
Volume Two includes the pixelvision works made in 1992: A Place Called Lovely, It Wasn't Love, and Girlpower. A Place Called Lovely references the types of violence individuals find in life, from explicit beatings, accidents, and murders to the more insidious violence of lies, social expectations, and betrayed faith. Benning collects images of this socially-pervasive violence from a variety of sources, tracing events from childhood—movies, tabloids, children's games (like mumbledy-peg)—personal experiences, and those of others. Throughout, she uses small toys as props and examples, handling and controlling them the way we are in turn controlled by larger, violent forces.
In It Wasn't Love, Benning illustrates a lustful encounter with a "bad girl" through the gender posturing and genre interplay of Hollywood stereotypes—posing for the camera as the rebel, the platinum blonde, the gangster, the 50s crooner, and the heavy-lidded vamp. Cigarette poses, romantic slow dancing, and fast-action heavy-metal street shots propel the viewer through the story of the love affair. Benning's video goes farther than romantic fantasy—describing other facets of physical attraction including fear, violence, lust, guilt, and total excitement. As Benning puts it: "It wasn't love, but it was something."
Sadie Benning film screening (Part 1)
Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
A compilation of Benning’s early pixelvision works from 1989-1990. (running time 35min.)
Sadie Benning is a lesbian videomaker who began making videos when she was 15 years old, using a Fisher Price Pixelvision toy camera. Benning's early works were made in the privacy of her childhood bedroom, using scrawled and handwritten text from diary entries to record thoughts and images that reveal the longings and complexities of a developing identity. Evoking in turn playful seduction and painful honesty, Benning's floating, close-up camera functions as a witness to her intimate revelations, and as an accomplice in defining her evocative experimental form. Her work emerges from a place half-innocent and half-adult—with all the honesty, humor, and desperation of a personality just coming into self-awareness, trapped and uneasy. Her more recent work moves beyond the Pixelvision camera and into animation and film.
CFAT WILL BE CLOSED ON TUESDAY 9TH OF JUNE 2009
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:30 AM - Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:30 PM
CFAT will be closed on this date due to the Felix Kubin audio workshop that will be taking place. Equipment can be returned on Wednesday June 10th. If you need equipment prior to these dates please make arrangements to collect it on Friday June 6th 2009 before 5pm.
Felix Kubin Concert
Saturday, June 06, 2009 8:00 PM
North Street Church, 5657 North St.
“Hamburg’s purveyor of dadatronic experimentalist pop music” - CBC / Brave New Waves
Felix Kubin lives and works against the gravity with Sci-Fi Pop/Noise/Animation Films/Radio Plays/Experimental Broadcasting. As the messenger of exploding lungs he started his label “Gagarin Records” in 1998 and rules the “syndicate of counter-noise” since 9.9.1999. Admission $12 / Students $10
Sponsored by the Goethe-Institut (Montreal)
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Sometimes Always
Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:00 AM - Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:00 PM
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street, Halifax.
This multi media exhibition curated by John Mathews will incorporate a range of obsolete technology such as cassette players, 8 track players and record turntables. The artworks will deconstruct these formats in order to explore society’s relationship with technology and comment on the nature of obsolescence. The exhibition will bring together an eclectic range of local and international artists whose approaches reference dada, punk, electronic and D.I.Y cultures. The participating artists include the Artifact Institute (Tim Dallett & Adam Kelly, Halifax, NS.), Eleanor King (Halifax, NS.), Craig Leonard (Halifax, NS.), Factotum (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Clive Murphy (New York, USA.), Felix Kubin (Hamburg, Germany) and Russ Forster (San Francisco USA.) This exhibition is organised in conjunction with Sound Bytes, a city wide audio art festival.
Sunday 7th June, 3-4.30pm. (AGNS) - Walking Artists’ tour and talk.
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Clive Murphy - Artists' Talk
Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:00 PM
NSCAD Boardroom, 5163 Duke Street, Halifax.
Clive is an Irish artist based in New York and his practice draws from the peripheries of visual culture, mining diverse sources such as found audio cassette tape, evangelical sermon titles, street signs, internet spam, folk art embroideries and fairground inflatables. He appropriates and reconfigures these materials in order to explore their cultural significance and impact. Murphy has been a practicing artist for the past fifteen years and has exhibited in a wide range of venues including The Drawing Centre (New York 2006), The Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin 2007) and has recently presented a major solo show at the Soap Factory Gallery in Minneapolis. During Clive’s stay in Halifax he will create a site-specific audio-kinetic drawing installation at the AGNS as part of the 'Sometimes Always' exhibition.
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CALL: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR ART TAPES
Monday, May 04, 2009 5:00 PM
CFAT
Employment Opportunity
Executive Director
Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Application Deadline: Received by 5:00pm Monday, May 4th 2009.
This is a permanent full-time position.
Salary range: $30,000 - $35,000 commensurate with experience.
Start date: July 1st, 2009
Educational Qualifications
Degree or Diploma in a related field
Knowledge of and interaction with the Canadian Media Arts
Please submit CV and cover letter by email as a PDF or by post.Received by 5pm, May 4, 2009.
Email to: cfat.operations@ns.sympatico.ca
Mail to:
Hiring Committee
Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville Street, Suite 207
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 1L2
Please visit our website at: www.centreforarttapes.ca
Click here for a detailed job psoting.
Any inquiries may be emailed to the Hiring Committee: cfat.operations@ns.sympatico.
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Living Cinema presents Special Forces
Friday, April 03, 2009 7:00 PM
North Street Church, 5657 North St, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Special Forces is Living Cinema’s new piece. It was inspired by the bombing of Lebanon at the summer of 2006. After a few presentations as a work in progress, it was premiered in Beirut in April 2007 as a part of the Irtijal festival of experimental music.
Right from his first film in 1962, Pierre Hubert has been experimenting with the animation technique of engraving images directly on 16mm or 35mm processed black film. In the eighties, he has developed a new type of performance involving animation scratched directly on a film loop while it is rolling in a projector. He is currently expanding this live animation practice with the use of computers in the Living Cinema project along with composer Bob Ostertag.
Presented in partnership with the 2009 Halifax Independent Film Festival (HIFF).
Admission $10
Students $8
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ANIMATED ANOMALIES
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
Curated by Lisa Morse and Amy Baker
The program will showcase animated media from artists engaged in anomalies of content and form, concentrating on grotesquerie, fringe sexuality, ribald humour and the unconventional.
Featuring work by Marina Roy, Allyson Mitchell & Fiona Smyth, Pat Mills, Amanda Dawn Christie, Diane Obomsawin, Amy Lockhart, Elisabeth Belliveau, Crystal Beard Collective, David Armstrong, Antonio Martinez, Elise Simard, Jeremy Bailey, Asa Mori, Jennifer Reeves.
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Graeme Patterson - CFAT Artist in Residence
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - Friday, April 17, 2009
"Grudge Match" project residency
My focus at CFAT for this month will be to record and edit in 5.1 surround sound for a 3:30 min stop-motion animation. The animation entitled "Grudge Match" depicts myself and a long lost childhood friend Yuki wrestling in a high school gym. Based on my own experience from wrestling in high school this piece intends to explore the connections and feelings related to a childhood friendship. "Grudge Match" will be part of a sculptural installation and will be projected as 1080p video. The audio component I will be producing at CFAT is primarily foley. I will record this content myself perhaps in a school gym with the same acoustics as the highschool gym depicted in the video. A basic music track may accompany this audio track in the background as a bridge to suggesting more than the visual allows.
Graeme will be available for studio visits during the following times:
March 24th - April 17th
Tuesday-Friday 10am-noon 1pm-4pm(unless recording off site)
Meeting day - Fridays 1pm-4pm
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JAN PEACOCK: A Video Retrospective
Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance.
The Centre for Art Tapes presents a screening to launch the DVD, JAN PEACOCK: A Video Retrospective.
The Centre For Art Tapes is pleased to present this fifth in a series of retrospectives by our senior member artists. Over the years Jan Peacock has interacted with the Centre as a supporter of its activities and programming. Her teaching and mentoring as a professor of Intermedia at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University has inspired many of the members of the Centre who have created and exhibited work within our own community as well as nationally and internationally.
Click to download a poster for this event here.
Click to download a programme for this event here.
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Annual aboriginal screening with Kitpu Youth.
Friday, March 13, 2009 6:30 PM
Mi’kmaq Native Friendship Centre, 2158 Gottingen Street, Halifax.
Once again, the Centre For Art Tapes is partnering with the Mi’kmag Friendship Centre and the Kitpu Youth Group in presenting a screening and workshop by an aboriginal media artist. This year, local Mi’kmag filmmaker, Cathy Martin, will be screening one of her documentary films this Friday, March 13th at the Mi’kmag Friendship Centre. Doors open at 5:30pm with an opening drum presentation and prayer at 6:15pm. After the screening, Cathy will conduct a question and answer period followed by a reception. Saturday morning, Cathy will lead a workshop in documentary film techniques with the members of the Kitpu Youth Group. (Admission Free)
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OUT OF THE CENTRE
Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:00 PM
Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, Halifax, NS.
20th Anniversary Media Arts Scholarship Screening
Featuring work by Bethany Riordan-Butterworth, Suzi Cameron, Leah Girardo, Kate Mckenna, Leslie Menagh, MJ Sakurai, Bonita Hatcher, Jacinte Armstrong, Francois Gaudet.
8pm Saturday 24th January 2009
Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, Halifax.
Tickets $10/ Student $8 - (Proceeds go to CFAT Scholarship Program)
Tickets are now available for purchase at CFAT and the Anna Leonowens Gallery – 1891 Granville Street.
Click to download a copy of the event programme here.
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CFAT Electronics Studio now up and running.
Friday, January 16, 2009 12:00 PM - Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:00 PM
CFAT's Electronics Studio is now open to members.
Beginning Friday 16 January, Adam Kelly be at CFAT on Fridays from 12PM until 6PM to maintain the studio and help members. Workshops with the residents will continue to occur on Mondays, beginning 12 January.
Adam Kelly, CFAT's new electronics studio technician, is also available at this time to orient members in using the electronics studio and to help them with their electronics projects.
The Electronics Studio currently includes various resources for electronics research and development, testing and troubleshooting, and fabrication, and will soon include resources for programming, including Arduino and MAX/MSP/Jitter.
CFAT now also has a stock of basic electronic components available for sale to members, which currently includes a variety of resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, switches, relays, linear ICs, 4000 series digital-logic ICs, 74 series digital-logic ICs, wire, and solderless breadboards, and will soon include a variety of sensors, actuators, motors, and microcontrollers.
For more information, please contact Adam Kelly at cfat.lab@ns.aliantzinc.ca
Broadcasting for Reels: News/ Noise
Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:15 PM
CKDU 88.1 FM
The Centre for Art Tapes and CKDU-FM
present... Broadcasting for Reels: News/ Noise
Tune in to CKDU 88.1 FM on Thursday, November 20 at 5:15 pm to hear new audio work and interviews with artists: Sym Corrigan, Craig Leonard, Lukas Pearse, Monika Kulesza and Erin Costelo.
Broadcasting for Reels is an audio art project presented by The Centre for Art Tapes since 1993. Broadcasting for Reels: News / Noise, a radio programme of audio art that responds to news media.
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Local Artist in residence Talk: Tonia Di Risio
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:00 PM
CBC Radio Room, CBC Radio Building, 1599 South Park Street, Halifax.
During the summer of 2006, Tonia traveled to a small town in Italy and video taped a series of women preparing a variety of local dishes in their kitchens. This work examines the tradition of passing and sharing of family recipes. Tonia used her time as the Local Artist in Residence at CFAT this past year to concentrate on the video editing of the footage she has collected to develop a video installation.
In her studio practice Tonia employs time-based media including photography, video and audio recording. Over the past decade she has worked with her paternal grandmother and her mother, documenting their houses and including representations of them in various projects. Currently, her practice has involved an investigation of gendered ethnicity in relation to domestic issues, including housekeeping, home maintenance, interior decoration and relationships to the miniature.
A multi media artist living and working in Halifax, she received a BA in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College and an MFA from the University of Windsor. She has exhibited across Canada and has been the recipient of Canada Council and Nova Scotia arts grants.
Click here to download an image of this work.
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House of Voltage
Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:00 PM - Sunday, November 23, 2008 4:30 PM
Eyelevel Gallery, 2063 Gottingen Street, Halifax.
Opening Reception 7pm Thursday 23rd October 2008
Five Artists participated in the Centre for Art Tapes’ Electronics Residency Program between August 2007 and April 2008. The group of artists completed a series of electronic workshops using programmable microprocessors, electronic circuits, and sensors applied to audio, video, and new media applications. After attending the workshops conducted by Adam Kelly the artists produced electronic artwork for the exhibition entitled: House of Voltage. The artists: Robert Zingone, Terry Piercey, Adriana Kuiper, Ryan Suter and Annie Macmillan will have their work exhibited at the Eyelevel gallery from Thursday October 23rd until November 22nd, 2008. The House of Voltage Exhibition is a partnership between the Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel Gallery. Michelle Jacques, assistant curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario will be contributing an essay to the exhibition catalogue produced by the Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel Gallery.
Click here to download a poster of this event.
Click here to download a catalogue of this event.
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“Andy Warhol’s ‘Screen Tests’ and Honorary Degree” Curated by Robert Bean
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:00 AM - Saturday, October 18, 2008 4:30 PM
Anna Leonowens Gallery 3
(opening Monday October 6 at 5.30pm)
In conjunction with “Photopolis”, the Halifax Festival of Photography (October 2008), an exhibition curated from the archive of Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests” is exhibited alongside the honorary degree that Warhol received from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1972. The degree was presented in absentia.
Between 1964 and 1966 Andy Warhol produced approximately 500 experimental film portraits titled “Screen Tests”. Popularly referred to as the “stillies”, each film was a portrait of an individual sitting in front of a stationary 16mm film camera for the duration of a 100-foot spool of film. Warhol required that the films be screened at the rate of 16 frames per second, the standard projection rate of silent movies, thereby producing a 4-minute portrait of each sitter. In 1970 Warhol removed his films from distribution. Since his death in 1987, the “Screen Tests” have gradually returned to the public domain.
The subjects who sat for the “Screen Tests” included Susan Sontag, Peter Hujar, Nico, Dennis Hopper, Edie Sedgwick, Salvador Dali, Lou Reed, Paul America, Gerard Malanga, John Giorno, Marcel Duchamp, “Baby” Jane Holzer, James Rosenquist, Lucinda Childs, Bob Dylan, Kipp Stagg, Cass Elliot, John Cale and many others.
This exhibition is site specific, recalling a significant moment in NSCAD University’s history. Evoking the institutional uses of still photography, such as mug shots and passport pictures, the “Screen Tests” are an important precedent for contemporary media art that explores the idea of the “moving still”, a form that stages and tests the temporal attributes of still photography through time based media. The relationship to testing that the “Screen Tests” and the honorary degree imply is explored in the curatorial statement.
In conjunction with Nocturne there will be a special evening window projection of Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests that will take place on Saturday 18 October, dusk till midnight.
This exhibition is curated by Robert Bean and sponsored by the Centre for Art Tapes,
Click here to download the catalogue essay "The Tests of Time by Robert Bean
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Ariella Pahlke - Local Artist in residence Talk
Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:00 PM
CBC Radio Room, 1599 South Park Street, Halifax.
The Centre for Art Tapes presents a talk by Ariella Pahlke, one of three artists from the local community participating in this year's Local Artist-in-residence Program. Ariella has spent six weeks in residence this spring working on a short experimental video with the working title, “What you did before you were born.” She will present parts of this video as work-in-progress, and hopes to draw audience members into a discussion about issues relevant to her continuing work on the video.
In “What you did before you were born” Ariella combines text and spoken word with video, photographs, performance, and sound documented during the time she was pregnant, with the intention of creating a subjective, lyrical, and playfully problematic video-poem/letter to her son, Etienne, imagining and questioning the truth and perspective of his prenatal experience and its relationship with his mother's actions and environment.
Ariella Pahlke is a documentary and video artist, curator, and educator, who has been a member of the Centre for Art Tapes since 1992. With a background in philosophy, Ariella has spent the past sixteen years creating documentaries and independent shorts,
collaborating on multi-media performance pieces, curating, facilitating video projects with youth and community groups, and teaching. Her work has been shown on television, at festivals and in galleries throughout Canada, the U.S., in Norway, and in India.
Click here to download a press release from this event.
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Local Artist in residence Talk: Liz MacDougall
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:00 PM
CBC Radio Room, 1599 South Park Street, Halifax.
The Centre for Art Tapes presents a talk by Liz MacDougall, one of three artists from the local community participating in this year's Local Artist-in-residence Program. A long-standing member of CFAT, Liz spent a month in residence this fall where she began an interactive video and audio piece entitled "Anatomy of a Memory". She has spent the past months continuing this work and will present the piece as a work-in-progress.
Liz has been working with projection of fragmented archival photos and segmented audio clips. The result will be an interactive environment where one can contemplate how experience changes brain structure and patterning following a traumatic experience. Liz has collected stories about life changing experiences, interviewed people working with and studying 'trauma culture' and is experimenting with various interactive technologies.
Liz MacDougall has been a member of the Centre for Art Tapes since 1984. She is a graduate of NSCAD, studied media arts in San Diego, and has been both an employee and a member of several artist-run film and video spaces including Cineworks Film Co-op in Vancouver and StudioXX in Montreal. Presently Liz works as a freelance media designer and project manager.
Liz MacDougall - liz@chebucto.ca
http://lizmacdougall.net
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Media Souvenir: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art
Friday, May 09, 2008 12:00 PM - Monday, June 23, 2008 5:00 PM
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, 6101 University Ave. Halifax.
Media Souvenir is a selection of videos that questions travel and tourism in both national and international contexts. This screening is run in conjunction with the exhibition Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited. Photographs by Craig J. Barber.
Featuring video work by Catherine Bussiere, Claire Hodge, Meesoo Lee, Philip Jonlin Lee
Erika MacPherson, Sheridan Shindruk, Venus Soberanes, Ryan Stec and Veronique Couillard, Angela Thibodeau, Khanhthuan Tran, Deborah VanSlet.
Click here to download a poster from this event
Click here to download a catalogue from this event
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The CFAT Video Booth
Saturday, April 26, 2008 11:00 AM
Zine Zone - Empire 17 Cinemas, Bayers Lake, Halifax.
The CFAT Video Booth is a fun and interactive space where participants can share and connect beyond traditional channels of storytelling. Young people can use the video booth for a range of activities including creating self-portraits, interviews and story telling. The video work that the young people create will act as a time capsule that will describe the present or look towards their future.
Tim Tracey who will be leading the CFAT workshop has been producing video since 2000. He fuses live action, and stop motion animation into a body of work exploring the relationship between humankind and our environment.
Presented in Association with Viewfinder's International Film Festival for Youth
Click here to download documentation of this event
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In conversation with Bruce Elder
Friday, April 04, 2008 5:30 PM
Ondaatje Auditorium, 6135 University Avenue, Dalhousie University,Halifax.
(hosted by Anthony Cristiano)
A TRIBUTE TO R. BRUCE ELDER: WINNER OF THE 2007 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD IN MEDIA ARTS FILM SELECTION
“History teaches us that those who wait in despair are very close to discovery and that
anguish itself is very close to insight.” - R. Bruce Elder
R. Bruce Elder is not only one of Canada's foremost experimental filmmakers, he's one of our greatest artists, thinkers, critics, and filmmakers, period. It's fitting, then, that Elder, shortly after garnering the Governor General's Award for Media Arts earlier this year, was appointed a Fellow by the Royal Society of Canada, thereby receiving formal recognition for both his impressive artistic and scholarly contributions to our national cultural landscape. In a country noticeably quiet about our manifestos, Elder has made a stir over the years with his dizzyingly epic and provocative output, in film, and in print. His incomparable interrogations of history (and its follies) have spawned the colossal quartet THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD (1975-94), a forty-two-hour film cycle spanning eighteen years of production that has secured his international reputation. He has since maintained a prolific pace through his seemingly inexhaustible passion for writing, filmmaking, and teaching - one that continues to inform the independent filmmaking scene in Canada.
Screening of 'The Young Prince' by Bruce Elder
Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:00 PM
Ondaatje Auditorium, 6135 University Avenue, Dalhousie University,Halifax.
(introduced by Solomon Nagler)
The Young Prince film is my current project, and is based on alchemical themes. The film is about transformations -- about transformations of imagery, about history as transformation, about eros as a transformative power, about that old Eisensteinian idea of collage and montage as transformation, but most of all, about transformations of the
The film combines two sorts of transformations: electrical transformations, produced by digital image processing, and chemical transformations, produced by processing the film by hand, in small batches. Thus, it is a dialogue between two technologies, the older chemical/mechanical technology of the era that gave birth to the cinema, and the new electronic/digital computing technology more commonly associated with video -- a dialogue between what was and what is yet to be.
Organised by Dr. Anthony Cristiano
Department of Theatre & Dept. of French
Dalhousie University
For more information on Bruce Elder visit his web site at - http://www.ryerson.ca/~belder/
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Penny Mcann Screening
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Corner of Bedford Row and George Street.
Penny McCann, the director of Saw Video in Ottawa, will be the next visiting artist at CFAT during the last week of March into the first week of April.A long-time activist/worker in the media and visual arts community, Penny served as president of the Independent Film and Video Alliance from 1996-99. Penny will be CFAT’s sponsored artist during the time of the Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ Festival (HIFF) that is spearheaded by the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative and runs from April 1st to the 5th.
Penny McCann has been making films and videos since 1990. Her work spans both drama and experimental, film and video. Her dramatic works: The Sisters (1993) and Helpless (2001), approach drama is a highly codified way, upturning narrative conventions and notions of cinematic realism. Her recent experimental videos: Marshlands (2000), 02.02.02 (2003) and tidal movements (in progress) form an ongoing investigation into hybrid forms of expression, mixing film and video images to create shifts in perspective, memory and time. A more recent video, Away for Christmas (2004), is conceived as a stand-alone chapter of tidal movements, an experimental feature-length work-in-progress.
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David Askevold - A Video Retrospective
Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance.
Admission $10
Students $8 (Reception to follow)
The Centre for Art Tapes presents a screening and DVD launch of
David Askevold A Video Retrospective
David Askevold 1940 - 2008
Starting in 1968, David Askevold began teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where he was instrumental in programing its direction that encouraged conceptual artists to become part of its studio program. Concurrently with his teaching career in Canada and the USA, he is best known internationally for his pioneering work with video and his unorthodox photo-Text works during the early 70’s. In 1970 he made his first video “Fill” and has intermittently made approximately 25 videos to date. In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s he taught at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CalArts in Valencia, and UC/Irvine. At the 1977 Documenta exhibition at Kassel, Askevold showed Muse Extracts, a 13 part photo text piece of ghost-like photographic reflections of the artist’s head and torso taken at a pond near Crystal Crescent Beach in Nova Scotia. Concurrently paralleling his video work, he has constructed numerous graphic/text and photo/text pieces. One of Canada’s most influential artists and an important figure in many international art movements of the last 40 years, Askevold’s work as an arts educator has also had great importance on an international level. David was a long-time colleague and contributor to Art Metropole. He will be greatly missed.
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ANIMATED ANOMALIES
Friday, February 29, 2008 7:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
The program will showcase animated media from artists engaged in anomalies of content and form, concentrating on grotesque, fringe sexuality, ribald humour and the unconventional.
Featuring work by Lisa G, Rick Raxlen, Barry Doupe, Daniel Barrow, Asa Mori, Victoria Prince, Mary-Anne Wensley, Sam Scott, Madi Piller, Boran Richar, Nicolas Bernier & Delphine Measroch.
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WINNIPEG BABYSITTER - A live projection event by Daniel Barrow
Friday, February 15, 2008 7:00 PM
North Street Church, 5657 North St, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
For the past three years, Daniel Barrow has been researching and compiling a history of community access public television programs made in Winnipeg, Manitoba during the late 1970’s and early1980’s. Winnipeg Babysitter addresses the lost histories of open airwaves, D.I.Y. culture, 1980s queer politics, and the Winnipeg “prairie gothic” sensibility. Next to the screen, Barrow will perform his very own “magic lantern show,” that will provide commentary and text about the programs.
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OUT OF THE CENTRE
Sunday, February 03, 2008 7:00 PM
Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, Halifax, N.S.
CFAT Annual Media Arts Scholarship Screening. Includes works by Oren Hercz, Rick Warden, Martha Cooley, Ami Goto, Mary-Anne Wensley, Sue Carter-Flinn, Andrew Terris, Amber Phelps Bondaroff. Tickets on sale at the CFAT offices & Anna Leonowens Gallery.
$6/ $8 Door
Proceeds go to CFAT Media Arts Scholarship Program.
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BEIJING CALLING - Talk at CFAT & Scholars Christmas Toast.
Friday, December 07, 2007 7:00 PM
CBC Radio Room, 1599 South Park Street, Halifax, N.S.
Cathy Busby and Garry Neill Kennedy were part of the Red Gate Gallery residency program in Beijing during September and October this year. They met Chinese artists, saw alot of art and were able to do shows themselves at the Pickled Art Centre, Beijing. They would like to share some of their pictures and stories to give you the flavour of this experience.
China, with a population that broke of 1.3 billion in 2005, is more than 40 times the size of Canada’s population and has a rapidly expanding economic reach. What we generally hear about in the mainstream press is its environmental infractions, bad labour practices, production of sub-standard goods, and human rights violations. We’d like to talk about what we saw and experienced: ingenuity, efficiency, Chinese warmth and generosity, a different fashion sensibility, singing in unlikely places, movers and shakers, Olympic countdown and the 17th Communist Congress, and a diverse extensive contemporary arts scene.
We’ll also talk about some ideas for exchange of artists and their work between Beijing and Nova Scotia.
The talk will begin at 7pm and will be followed by a Christmas toast and reception for the 2007 CFAT Scholars.
CLOUDBREAKER
by Adam Garnet Jones
Friday, November 30, 2007 8:00 PM
Mi’kmag Friendship Centre,
2158 Gottingen Street, Halifax, N.S.
Sponsored by the Kitpu Youth Group, Adam Garnet Jones will be screening his film Cloudbreaker.
Synopsis of Cloudbreaker:
Sometimes it’s hard to be a ten-year old boy, but he knew that. Soon, everything would be different, but not in the way that everyone might have expected. Darren tilted his head up, and followed the thick clouds churning like porridge in the sky. He hoped his mother would understand, even though she was going to miss him. He had the medicines and the fur, all he needed now was the nightshade, and a bit of luck.
Adam will also give an artists’ talk on Saturday, December 1st, to the Kitpu Youth Group concerning his involvement in the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival as well as his development as a media artist. The group will also develop and shoot a short video that Adam will mentor.
Biography: Adam Garnet Jones is a twenty-five year old mixed race Native writer and director from Edmonton, who currently lives and works in Toronto. Since the age of fourteen, Adam has been using film and video to find his voice as an artist, and make a place for himself in his communities. For the last ten years, he has made a number of short films and videos, screening his work at national and international media arts festivals. For years, Adam has been involved with youth mentorship in film and video, facilitating media arts programs within a youth based anti-oppression framework for organizations in BC, Toronto, and Liverpool, England.
Media Masquerade Fundraiser 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:00 PM
Fred’s, 2606 Agricola Street, Halifax.
A fun filled evening of music, dance, costumes and prizes.Lineup includes music by Lukas Pearse, DJ Kato & DJ Lordy Lordy. Performances by Chainsaw Lover & Tootsie. CFAT will also launch its online Digital Archive at the event.
Tickets will be on sale from Wednesday 17th October
$12/$10 Students
at the following locations:
CFAT, 5600 Sackville St., Suite 207.
Anna Leonowens Gallery, 5163 Duke St.
Fred Cafe, 2606 Agricola Street, Halifax.
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Free Radical: The Films of Len Lye
Friday, October 19, 2007 7:00 PM
N.S.C.A.D
Bell Auditorium
4th Floor5163 Duke Street
Halifax
Len Lye (1901-1980) pursued his passion for experiment throughout his career. He was a pioneer of direct (camera-less) film-making, starting in 1935 with the classic A Colour Box. He went on to expand his direct techniques from painting the images of his films to scratching, stenciling and photogramming them. In the words of Hilary Harris, “Lye’s films are outstanding in terms of kinetic rhythm, integrity, and what I call aliveness”. When Free Radicals won an international award in 1958, John Adams of Film Quarterly wrote: ‘If proof has ever been needed that Lye, the pioneer in this field [of direct film], is the real – and for some the only – master, here it is.
The programme includes a selection of fifteen Len Lye’s short films dating from 1929 to 1979. The compilation of films will be presented on 16mm and will be 67 minutes in duration.
Free Radical: The Films of Len Lye was compiled by Roger Horrocks for the New Zealand Film Archive and The Len Lye Foundation.
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Scratching the Surface: Experiments in New Zealand animation after Len Lye.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
In 2007 Len Lye stands as the pioneer, inspiration and point of reference for animation in New Zealand. While the influence of Lye’s film work remains undisputed, “Scratching The Surface” reveals a handful of New Zealand animators with their own independent vision.
Beginning in the mid 1970s with John Henry's psychedelic feedback piece Images, the programme also includes Glenn Standring's sci-fi noir Lenny Minute One (1993) which was animated on a Commodore Amiga 500 computer and selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Two films by The Pictorial Research Group combine raucous soundtracks of free noise music with direct animation, stop motion and narrative created on 16mm, while other works embrace narrative, politics and music video.
Curated by Mark Williams for the New Zealand Film Archive in association with Anthology Film Archives. All films are presented on digital video.
There will be an intermission with refreshments at 8pm followed by:
Films in Real Time 1970-79 starting at 8.30pm
Films in Real Time documents a range of activities from musical performance to the rigors of physical labour, sometimes completely raw and unedited, at other times crafted with an eye for cinema.
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In the Flesh
Monday, October 01, 2007 5:30 PM - Saturday, October 13, 2007 5:30 PM
Anna Leonowens Gallery NSCAD University, 1891 Granville St, Halifax.
An Exhibition Curated by Robert Bean
Opening Reception, Monday October 1, 5:30
Artists: Nat Chard, David Clark, Michelle Gay, Stephen Kelly, Jolanta Lapiak, Cheryl Sourkes.
“In The Flesh” is an exhibition of contemporary artists who explore the relationships of embodiment and technology through themes of complexity, sensorial experience, interactivity, physical computing and digital conceptualization. Sponsored by the Center for Art Tapes and the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture in conjunction with the Expanding Bodies Conference.
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Broadcasting For Reels: Eco Echo call for submission
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes/CKDU
Audio Art for Radio :: Call For Submissions
Eco Echo is a call for audio art that deals with environmental
issues. Chosen entries will receive an artist fee and will be
aired on CKDU-FM in Halifax and distributed to community
radio stations throughout Canada.
Broadcasting For Reels is an audio art project presented
by the Centre for Art Tapes since 1993. The project supports
new audio work.
Works may be max. 5 minutes in length
and submitted on data (wav or aiff) or audio CD.
Deadline for Submissions is August 15, 2007
Send submission with current CV and statement to:
Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville Street, Rm. 207
Halifax, NS B3J 1L2
(902) 420-4580
cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
http://centreforarttapes.ca
Amanda Larson: Silver Shower April/May Exhibition Opening
Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
This audio piece will open Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 7pm, and will be on display until May 19th, 2007.
In Larson’s current series of work she uses different mediums to explore the idea of human anxiety and elements of neurotic thought. With this Silver Shower sound piece, the artist investigates sound as a sculptural material because of its ability to fill and modify a particular space, similar to the way more traditional sculpture can. Larson explores specific sounds to try to immerse the listener into a created headspace. In doing so, the listener will be able to engage with the piece from drawing on their own experience with obsessive thought processes and other side effects of anxiety.
After finishing a Diploma of Fine Art in Grande Regional College, Alberta, Amanda Larson transferred to NSCAD University to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts. The artist’s focus is Interdisciplinary but currently, she is exploring the similarities between sound and sculpture and how they both are used to activate space.
To submit to the CFAT Silver Shower Member’s Gallery, please contact:
cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca or call 420-4002.
Lukas Pearse: Silver Shower Closing Reception
Friday, April 13, 2007 6:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
Inaugurating the Center For Art Tapes’ Silver Shower Member’s Gallery space, Lukas Pearse presented Overheard, Underplayed from February 9th, until now. Pearse presented the precious yet precarious sounds of some of the earliest sound media, Thomas Edison’s wax cylinders, meet the methods of some of the latest and most trivial audio technology: complementary airline headphones. Attempting to balance the historic fascination of mechanical sound with the marvels of digital audio manipulation, ‘Overhead, Underplayed’ explores various listening modes, between the focused and the unintentional, while encouraging reflection on the pervasive yet often unexamined ubiquity of sound recording.
Overhead, Underplayed will be on display until the closing reception on Friday, April 13 @ 6pm, in the Silver Shower Member’s Gallery.
Sideshow Spectacular: Animated Anomalies
Friday, March 30, 2007 7:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
Animations curated by Lisa Morse and Amy Baker.
Scooter Raffle Draw at this Event!!!!
Buy your tickets before it's too late!
zo-na pel-lu-ci-da, Aaron Pollard and Stephen Lawson
Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:00 PM
Neptune Studio Theatre
Aaron and Stephen, multimedia cabaret artists, were guests of CFAT at the cabaret at-tached to the Networkings new media event curated by Liz MacDougall in July of 2004.
$10 for zo-na pel-lu-ci-da
Two-in-one night event:
$30 to attend Zo-na + LiveArtPerformance annual fundraiser The Salt Truck Follies
Doug Porter, Retrospective Screening
Friday, February 16, 2007 7:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
Artist Talk and Silver Shower Opening
Friday, February 09, 2007 6:00 PM
Radio Room, CBC Radio Building, South Park entrance
Suzanne Caines, recent CFAT artist in residence and Sobaz Benjamin, CFAT member give artist talks.
Lukas Pearse inaugurates the CFAT Silver Shower member's Gallery with a new media piece "Overheard, Underplayed".
Traumatic Landscape
Friday, February 02, 2007
Dalhousie University Art Gallery
This video screening will be in conjunction with the exhibition Imaging a Shattering Earth, an exhibition for the months of January and February at the Dalhousie University Art Gallery. There will be a symposium arising out of the exhibition early in February dealing with the theme of art and the environment.
Out of the Centre, Scholarship Screening
Friday, January 26, 2007 7:00 PM
the Neptune Studio Theatre
Sandy Amerio
Friday, November 24, 2006 7:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
The Centre for Art Tapes will screen two works by Sandy Amerio, a French video artist living in Paris. These two works include, the forty-five minute video Hear me, Children-Yet-To-Be-Born and the thirty minute, Surfing on (our) History. Further information of these two works can be found at Sandy Amerio’s web site: www.amerio.org
Media Masquerade
Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:00 PM
Fred’s, 2606 Agricola Street
CFAT’s annual fund raising extravaganza with dancing to the band, Cityfield, Costume contest and raffle. Along with these events, CFAT will be launching its web site, a DVD by Rita McKeough and a performance piece by Lisa Lipton.
Kitpu Youth Screening
Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:00 PM
Mik’mag Friendship Centre,
This screening consists of a number of aboriginal videos by native artists working across Canada.
Gary Kibbins, Visiting Artist
Friday, August 11, 2006 7:00 PM
Windsor Theatre, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bedford Row and George Street Entrance
Gary Kibbins, an MFA graduate of NSCAD and now a professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, has been producing video for over twenty years. This screening will highlight both past and recent works that are characterized by processes of logic, deduction, and avoidance of conclusions. The line up of work includes; Jesuscallingthelittlechildrenuntohim, The Alien Seaman, P & not P, Carl Andre’s Overalls, and A Triad in 3 Parts. A program with an essay by the curator, David Clark, with biography and description of the works will be provided.