CFAT Local Artist-in-Residence Program 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:00 AM - Friday, February 03, 2012 5:00 PM
1657 Barrington St. suite 220, Halifax NS
Centre for Art Tapes: Call for Applications
CFAT Local Artist-in-Residence Program 2012
Application Deadline 5 p.m. Friday, February 3, 2012
What?
The Local Artist-In-Residence Program at the Centre for Art Tapes provides an opportunity to a local media artist for the development and experimentation of new work involving audio, video or new media. For the 2012 Local Artist-In-Residence Program one position will be available to an established local artist. The successful applicant will receive up to $1000 in-kind support in the form of Production and Editing memberships, access to facilities and equipment, a $1700 artist fee, a $300 speaker fee for conducting a talk or workshop for the community about their project, and access to technical assistance during the residency.
Where?
Local residencies take place at the Centre for Art Tapes, 1657 Barrington St, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The successful applicant must maintain a presence at CFAT for the duration of their residency, and also have access to equipment and facilities for a period of six months from March to August 2012. (including a maximum 2 month interruption to be discussed with the successful applicant).
When?
Artists should list the approximate dates that they wish to be at the Centre. Residency candidates may propose to begin their residency eight weeks after the application deadline. CFAT Local Artist-In-Residence must spend a total of 10 days in-house and complete their projects no later than August 31, 2012.
How?
A rotating peer assessment committee evaluates applications.
Applicants must submit the following:
1) A detailed description of the project, addressing concept, themes, subject matter, and background research and history; maximum two pages.
2) A treatment, describing aesthetic considerations and how the work created through the residency will look and sound; maximum 1 page. If applicable include storyboards, sketches, diagrams or samples.
3) A description of how CFAT’s facilities will be used to contribute to the creation of the work; a list of available equipment and facilities can be found on the CFAT website.
4) A production timeline; the residency may make up part or all of the production time.
5) A production budget detailing all anticipated expenses and revenues, both confirmed and pending, related to the project; please indicate how the residency program will contribute to the project.
6) Support material, either CD-R, DVD, Mini-DV or Beta Tape. Printed materials may include scripts, reviews, essays, and catalogues of previous work. Please cue tape material to the portion you would like viewed.
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.
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.
Eligibility
Applicant must:
• Be a CFAT member of good standing at the time of application (artists may become a member at the time of application).
• Have a minimum of three years of professional artistic practice and completed a significant body of media arts work.
• Be a resident of Nova Scotia.
Other eligibility notes:
• Teams/collaborations of artists may apply (although the overall amount of award remains the same).
• Proposed projects must be considered ‘independent’ or ‘artist-driven’; the artist must retain 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 and diversity of the community represented.)
• Propose to use CFAT facilities to its fullest potential and are feasible in terms of time and budget considerations.
Please include a SASE if you want your submission materials returned. All other materials will be kept on file for four months.
Please submit completed applications to:
Centre for Art Tapes?
1657 Barrington St. suite 220
Halifax, NS
?B3J 2A1
For more information please contact Centre for Art Tapes:
902-422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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Centre for Art Tapes T-Shirts Now Available!
Wednesday, January 04, 2012 9:00 AM - Wednesday, February 01, 2012 9:00 AM
1657 Barrington St. suite 220, Halifax NS
Centre for Art Tapes T-Shirts Have Finally Arrived!
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If interested, please visit us at 1657 Barrington St. #220 with either cash or cheque.
For more information contact CFAT at: 422-6822
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Opening Reception: Broadcasting for Reels: Sounds (Extra)Ordinary
Sunday, January 01, 2012 7:00 PM - Monday, January 02, 2012 7:00 PM
Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth NS, B2Y 3Z3
Opening Reception: Broadcasting for Reels: Sounds (Extra)Ordinary
WHEN: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
WHERE: Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth NS
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to present Broadcasting for Reels: Sounds (Extra)Ordinary, an audio art presentation on CKDU 88.1 FM broadcasting date February 1st 2012.
Broadcasting For Reels is an audio art exhibition presented annually by the Centre for Art Tapes since 1993. Exhibition curator and host Chris Myhr chose this year’s theme of Sounds (Extra)Ordinary. The international roster of selected artists includes John Abram, Marla Hlady, Francisco Lopez, Rachel Woolmore-Goodwin and John Wynne; as well as collaborative works from Matt Rogalsky and Laura Cameron, and the Audio Lodge collective.
In line with practices of ambient sound design, soundscape recording, and musique concrète, the artists in this series employ audio production technologies as a means of exploring our everyday acoustic environment. The sounds of natural and urban habitats, as well as those of work spaces and machines provide the source material from which these artists facilitate new and expanded listening experiences.
The Centre for Art has partnered with the Craig Gallery at Alderney Landing to install the work in an elevator as a transitory architectural space. The installation will act as a public intervention and be an open place for audience attendees. The opening reception for both the audio installation and radio broadcast will be on February 1st 2012. The opening reception will take place at Alderney Landing from 7-9Pm on February 1st in conjunction with the Craig Gallery’s opening reception of new work by Katie Vautour. All are welcome to attend!
Broadcasting for Reels: Sounds (Extra)Ordinary is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage. Centre for Art Tapes would like to acknowledge the support of the Craig Gallery and CKDU fm.
For more information please contact CFAT Communications Coordinator Kristen Atkins at 902-422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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2012 Curators in Residence
Friday, December 16, 2011 10:00 AM - Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:00 AM
1657 Barrington St. suite 220, Halifax NS
In 2010, the Centre for Art Tapes piloted its first Local Curatorial Residency for local emerging curators specializing in media arts. In this program the Centre supports curators as they uncover the intricacies of building a curatorial project related to the discourse on Media Art and/or its various applications.
Centre for Art Tapes in pleased to announce the 2012 Local Curators in Residence! Ella Tetrault and Bethany Riordan-Butterworth co-founders of the Fuller Terrance Lecture Series; a bi-weekly lecture held in the backyard of 2664 Fuller Terrace in Halifax which celebrates the lives of Halifax’s residents, and is based around the idea of sharing stories and experiences with members of the community.
CFAT is excited at the opportunity to support Ella and Bethany during their residency. As Curatorial Residents, The Fuller Terrace Lecture Series are looking forward to developing a pilot program that explores the strengths, weaknesses and differences of transferring its long lasting lecture format into an online platform.
Ella Tetrault is an interdisciplinary artist living in Canada and Europe. She is currently completing an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. With a background in participatory theatre and youth work, Ella's previous performances, videos, audio projects, installations and collaborations focused on researching and developing narratives that consider homelessness, place and desire. While in Halifax, Ella co-organizes the Fuller Terrace Lecture Series, teaches at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and works as a youth worker and arts facilitator for Phoenix Youth Programs. She is currently doing small Guerilla performances and making a lot of masked puppets. She grew up in Port Williams, Nova Scotia.
Bethany Riordan-Butterworth is a graduate of a NSCAD (BFA Major in Ceramics 2007). She is currently the Director of Turnstile Pottery Cooperative where she makes ceramic ware and teaches classes. She also teaches at The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the George Dixon Community Centre. Her interest in sharing experiences and getting to know people regularly leads to collaborative work, such as the Fuller Terrace Lecture Series and the Secret Tumbler Project.
2012 Curators in Residence
Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:00 AM - Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:00 AM
1657 Barrington St. suite 220, Halifax NS
In 2010, the Centre for Art Tapes piloted its first Local Curatorial Residency for local emerging curators specializing in media arts. In this program the Centre supports curators as they uncover the intricacies of building a curatorial project related to the discourse on Media Art and/or its various applications.
Centre for Art Tapes in pleased to announce the 2012 Local Curators in Residence! Ella Tetrault and Bethany Riordan-Butterworth co-founders of the Fuller Terrance Lecture Series; a bi-weekly lecture held in the backyard of 2664 Fuller Terrace in Halifax which celebrates the lives of Halifax’s residents, and is based around the idea of sharing stories and experiences with members of the community.
CFAT is excited at the opportunity to support Ella and Bethany during their residency. As Curatorial Residents, The Fuller Terrace Lecture Series are looking forward to developing a pilot program that explores the strengths, weaknesses and differences of transferring its long lasting lecture format into an online platform.
Ella Tetrault is an interdisciplinary artist living in Canada and Europe. She is currently completing an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. With a background in participatory theatre and youth work, Ella's previous performances, videos, audio projects, installations and collaborations focused on researching and developing narratives that consider homelessness, place and desire. While in Halifax, Ella co-organizes the Fuller Terrace Lecture Series, teaches at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and works as a youth worker and arts facilitator for Phoenix Youth Programs. She is currently doing small Guerilla performances and making a lot of masked puppets. She grew up in Port Williams, Nova Scotia.
Bethany Riordan-Butterworth is a graduate of a NSCAD (BFA Major in Ceramics 2007). She is currently the Director of Turnstile Pottery Cooperative where she makes ceramic ware and teaches classes. She also teaches at The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the George Dixon Community Centre. Her interest in sharing experiences and getting to know people regularly leads to collaborative work, such as the Fuller Terrace Lecture Series and the Secret Tumbler Project.
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Holiday Hours
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:00 AM - Monday, January 02, 2012 10:00 AM
1657 Barrington St. suite 220, Halifax NS
The Centre for Art Tapes will be going on Holiday December 17th to January 2nd. Staff will not be available at this time for inquiries or rentals. We will resume regular operating hours on January 3rd. Thank you for your attention in advance!
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Holiday Toast
Friday, December 09, 2011 9:00 PM - Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:00 AM
Khyber Centre for the Arts - 1588 Barrington St. Halifax
Kick the Season with Holiday Toast
9 December 2011 at 9pm
The Khyber Centre for the Arts and the Centre for Art Tapes invite you to the annual Holiday Toast, a social FUNraising event in the artistic community.
The Khyber will be opening up their 1st floor bar for this social event. There will be drinks, food, raffle prizes, holiday tunes and a very special jolly guest in attendance. Tickets will be available at the door for $2 dollars and raffle tickets on sale 3 for $2 dollars! The most affordable event of the season! Doors open at 9pm.
The Khyber, the Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel Gallery are major contributors to the local and national visual arts communities. These organizations have been supporting Halifax arts over the past 30 years. As a way to acknowledge their presence in our communities, there be an official toast given. All funds will go towards the ongoing programming of these organizations that includes exhibitions, screenings, workshops and artist talks. So kick off your shoes, come mingle and enjoy the jingles!
For more information about Holiday Toast please contact the Khyber at 422-9668 or email director@khyber.ca
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Audio Video Workshop Series
Sunday, November 20, 2011 1:00 PM - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:00 PM
1657 Barrington St. suite 220, Halifax NS
Audio Video Workshop Series
Saturdays and Sundays, November 20 - December 18
Schedule
Sunday, November 20, 1pm - 5pm
After Effects
Sebastian Harder
This workshop will introduce participant to After Effects, the industry standard for creating motion graphics and visual effects for film and video. Whether you need a simple animated title sequence, colour correction, or an advanced composite involving hundreds of different layers and effects, After Effects can do it.
Saturday, November 26, 5pm - 9pm
Introduction to Lighting
Chuck Clark
This workshop will introduce participants to the subjective and objective elements of lighting and exposure - why considerations of lighting and exposure still matter even shen using the latest High definition formats. It will cover various techniques and various equipment, and participants will have the opportunity to use CFAT's complimen of lighting and grip equipment.
Sunday, November 27, 5pm - 9pm
Experimental Home Movies
Chuck Clark
Through examples of experimental home-movie content and techniques, this workshop will encourage participants to consider the narrative and documentary potential of personal media archives. It will also discuss procedures for the ongoing preservation and retrieval of such material. Participants are invited to bring in their own material. If this material can not be viewed using CFAT's resources, participants should bring in their own playback equipment.
Saturday, December 3, 1pm - 5pm
DSLR Video Production
Tim Tracey
This workshop will introduce participants to DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) video production. It will cover the use of the Panasonic Gh2 and the Ninja Pro Rez recorder.
Sunday, December 4, 1pm - 5pm
Stop-motion Animation
Tim Tracey
This workshop will introduce participants to various artistic and technical aspects of animation. It will cover in-camera animation using PD-150 and HVR-Z1U cameras, animating with a digital still camera and FrameThief software, and problem-solving various animation scenarios.
RESCHEDULED FOR THE NEW YEAR TBA
Saturday, December 17, 1pm - 5pm
Sound Recording
Lukas Pearse
This workshop will introduce participants to techniques, styles, and tools for recording audio. Participants will have the opportunity to use and explore various audio recording equipment.
RESCHEDULED FOR THE NEW YEAR TBA
Sunday, December 18, 1pm - 5pm
Sound Editing
Lukas Pearse
This workshop will introduce participants to techniques, styles, and tools for editing audio. Participants will have the opportunity to use and explore various audio editing software programs.
Cost
$35+tax
Registration
To sign up, phone 422-6822 or email cfat.lab@ns.aliantzinc.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 one week 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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3x3x3: David Frankovich Projection & Closing Reception
Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:00 PM - Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:00 PM
Starfish Properties Barrington Buildings & the Khyber
3x3x3: David Frankovich Projection and Closing Reception
Presented by: Centre For Art Tapes, Eyelevel Gallery and Videospread.
Location: Starfish Properties Barrington buildings and the Khyber (closing reception)
Projection: David Frankovich, Plus de Deux (2010)
When: 7-11pm, Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Norman McLaren's Pas De Deux is revisited in video artist David Frankovich’s alternative performance Plus de Deux. The projection is thrown across Barrington Street from the Roy building onto a screen affixed to the exterior wall of a building under construction. Frankovich’s video contains contemporary dancers performing fluid dance movements, broken up through a digital compression technique called “datamoshing”. The frame degrades into a flow of colors; the bodies jump into one another, confusing gender and movement, and bringing the movement of the image to an awkward halt. A broken language is deconstructed visually, reflecting the giant degrading image onto passersby and mimicking a rustic brick façade.
David Frankovich is an emerging Toronto-based artist working in media and performance. He holds a BFA in Film and Video from York University. His work has been exhibited at the CONTACT Photography Festival, FADO Performance Art Centre, Images Festival, LIFT, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Pleasure Dome, Reel Asian, Toronto Urban Film Festival, Trinity Square Video and the Winnipeg Film Group. www.davidfrankovich.com
Closing Reception: Khyber, 1588 Barrington St.
When: 7-11pm, Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Once you have taken a look at the projection come on down to the Khyber for the closing reception of 3x3x3. CFAT will be around to chat about the exhibition. Light refreshments will be served.
This projection is part of a month long program entitled 3x3x3 involving 3 off site projections and a month long exhibition at Eyelevel Gallery 2159 Gottingen Street. The exhibition will be on view from 1-30 October 2011.
For more information contact Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator at 422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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Centre for Art Tapes Announces 2011-2012 Electronics Artist in Residence
Monday, October 24, 2011 10:00 AM - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:00 AM
Centre For Art Tapes 1657 Barrington St suite 220
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 Electronics Artist in Residence. The Electronics Residency gives an opportunity for local artists to complete a project involving electronics. The program provides the resident with full access to equipment and facilities, mentorship with the Electronics Lab Technician, CFAT electronics workshops and an opportunity to exhibit at Nocturne 2012.
CFAT is proud to present artist Michael McCormack as the Electronics Lab Resident. CFAT is excited at the opportunity to support Michael during his residency, during which he will be exploring the many uses of short-wave radio as a tool for both disseminating and monitoring social and political messages, and it's role in the formation of (and impact on) social networking today.
Michael McCormack is an interdisciplinary artist and art practitioner. He was the founder and custodian of the McCleave Gallery of Fine Art since 2002, until the suitcase gallery merged with the Suitcase Art Gallery Space Research Institute (SAGSRI) in 2007. Michael currently works as the Director of Eyelevel Gallery and representative for the Association of Artist-run Centres from the Atlantic. He has co-curated exhibitions throughout Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, and Ireland, and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, festivals and artist-run centres across Canada, most recently at Eastern Edge Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Centre for Art Tapes would like to thank the Halifax Regional Municipality’s Residency Initiative Program for its ongoing support of local media arts.
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For more information or to book an appointment to meet with the artist in residence, please contact Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator: 422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca.
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3x3x3: Michel Klöfkorn
Saturday, October 15, 2011 6:00 PM - Saturday, October 15, 2011 11:59 PM
Granville Mall Courtyard
Presented by: Videospread, Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel Gallery
Location: Granville Mall Courtyard
Time: 6 pm, Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Artists Talk: 6pm, Thursday, September 29th, 2011 followed by opening reception of 3x3x3 at Eyelevel Gallery, 2159 Gottingen Street, Halifax.
Michel Klöfkorn N.N (2009)
Spikes to deter birds, so-called pigeon stoppers (wire devices that protect buildings and memorials from pigeons in many cities) are brought to life by stop motion technique. On window ledges and billboards, they metamorphose into swarms of technoid insects made of stainless steel and plastic. This gigantic swarm of insects treks through landscapes and decimates civilization, as we know it, into fragments.
Michel Klöfkorn is an artist with a background in drawing, film history, aesthetics, analog film and digital video. Along with colleague Oliver Husain, he ran a music video production company from 1995 to 2003 that resulted in the production of more than 30 music videos for hit German bands at the time. Between the years 2003 and 2006 Klöfkorn worked as an illustrator and animator for the cultural channel arte in Paris. His productions have ranged from 35mm films with substantial crews, to hand-shot dv-films, to feature film-like projects to documentary and animated films. He is interested in finding new and unusual ways to illustrate music.
Contact: Michael McCormack at (902) 425 6412 or director@eyelevelgallery.ca for further information or visit www.eyelevelgallery.ca.
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Call for Applicants: Broadcasting for Reels
Friday, October 14, 2011 5:00 PM
1657 Barrington St. suite 220, Halifax NS
Audio Art for Radio
Broadcasting For Reels is seeking works of audio art that address the idea of "Sounds (Extra)Ordinary."
This is a call for sound-based work that employs recording and/or post-production technologies as a means of exploring the sounds of our everyday acoustic environment, and unlocking the potential for new and expanded listening experiences. Artists engaged in practices related to ambient sound design, soundscape recording, musique concrète, etc are invited to submit work as a CD or uncompressed data file (wav or aiff) via web transfer or disc. The maximum duration of the work may not exceed 8 minutes, and the submission must be accompanied by an artist statement (maximum 300 words) outlining your area of interest, and describing the conceptual framework and overall approach to the piece submitted.
Chosen entries 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 annually by the Centre for Art Tapes since 1993.
Deadline for submissions is October 14th, 2011. Artist fees will be paid.
Send submission with current CV and artist statement to:
Via Post:
ATT: Broadcasting for Reels
Centre for Art Tapes
1657 Barrington St, Suite 220
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 2A1
Web transfer files sent to:
cfat.production@ns.sympatico.ca
*If sending submission via web transfer, please send CV and artist statement by email.
Please send audio files by file transfer service (Dropbox, etc.).
For more information, e-mail Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator at cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca or 422-6822.
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3x3x3: Curator Talk
Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:00 PM - Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:00 PM
Eyelevel Gallery, 2159 Gottingen Street
The Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel Gallery will be hosting Céline Jouenne, Directing Manager of Videospread (Marseilles, France) for a Curator Talk and Catalogue Launch of the exhibition 3x3x3 at Eyelevel Gallery, 2159 Gottingen Street.
3x3x3 brings together three curators (Mireille Bourgeois, Céline Jouenne and Michael McCormack), three artists (Julie Louise Bacon, David Frankovich and Michael Klöfkorn) and three public sites throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality. All three curators have chosen artists who explore ideas of degradation, juxtaposition, or technical implications of the moving image, set in relation to the photographic image.
WHEN: Thursday 13 October 7 PM at Eyelevel Gallery, 2159 Gottingen Street.
For more information please contact Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator, 422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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Fall Electronic Workshops
Sunday, October 02, 2011 1:00 PM - Monday, October 31, 2011 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, 1657 Barrington St. suite 220
All workshops take place on Saturday and Sundays from 1-4 PM
Sunday, October 2
Electronics
Wes Johnston
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 LEDs, generate a tone, respond to sensors, and activate motors.
Saturday, October 15
Linux
Stephen Kelly
This workshop will introduce participants to Linux, an open-source operating system. The fundamentals of computer operating systems will be covered. Participants will learn how to build a computer from used hardware, install a Linux operating system, and install open-source software applications.
Sunday, October 16
Linux Projects
Stephen Kelly
This workshop will introduce participants to using the Linux command-line interface, writing shell scripts, and programming input and output devices such as the parallel port and serial port. Participants’ specific technical challenges and goals will be addressed. Participants should have a basic working knowledge of Linux.
Saturday, October 22
HTML5 and CSS3
Daniel Espeset
This workshop will introduce participants to HTML and CSS, the core building blocks of the web. Participants will learn how to build, design, and customize webpages, manage a custom domain, and make and host search-engine friendly online websites. Emphasis will be placed on visual presentation and experimentation.
Sunday, October 23
Javascript Programming
Daniel Espeset
This workshop will introduce participants to Javascript, the programming language that powers the modern web. Participants will learn the fundamentals of Javascript programming and use powerful open-source libraries to make webpages dynamic, interactive, and animated. Participants should have a basic working knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Saturday, October 29
Arduino
Lukas Steinman
This workshop will introduce participants 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. Participants should have a basic working knowledge of electronics. For more information on Arduino, visit www.arduino.cc.
Sunday, October 30
Processing
Lukas Steinman
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.
Cost
1 workshop: $35+tax
Registration
To sign up for any upcoming CFAT workshop please contact:
Adam Kelly
Electronics Lab Coordinator
Centre for Art Tapes
1657 Barrington St. Suite 220
Halifax, NS. B3J 2A1
cfat.lab@ns.aliantzinc.ca
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3x3x3: Julie Louise Bacon and James Geurts
Saturday, October 01, 2011 7:00 PM - Saturday, October 01, 2011 10:00 PM
South Battery Pier
Presented by: Eyelevel Gallery, the Centre For Art Tapes, and Videospread.
Location: South Battery Pier (on the Halifax Waterfront next the Bishop’s Landing)
Time: 7-10pm, Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Julie Louise Bacon and James Geurts, Double Fountain [after a water clock design by the Arab engineer al-Jazari 1136-1206] (2011)
Double Fountain projects an image of a curious device, a contemporary remaking of an ancient invention that uses the flow of water to perform that most human of interests…the measuring of time (so important to maritime navigation we recall). As a temporary installation, it is situated directly on the Halifax Waterfront, where many classic historic monuments, public artworks, architectural development, and tourist attractions are situated. The allusion to Arab engineering (during the Islamic Golden Age), reminds us of a time in history mostly obscured in the West. This recollection comes at a time of resurgency in the Arab world, and charged Arab-West relations. As well as a form of monument, the looped image can act like an altar, the soundtrack become hynoptic even meditative, drawing us into a reflection on the use of public space for the poetic rather than the commercial, and asking the question, what do we choose to memorialise and why?
Julie Louise Bacon (Ph.D) is an artist, curator and writer, focusing on themes including ritual, mythology, aesthetics and politics, technology and consciousness, and archiving. She has presented her research-based performance, installation, Land Art, video and photographic works in galleries and outdoor locations worldwide. Her recent publications and exhibitions include: Convergences: Literary Art Exhibitions (Belfast/Limerick, 2011), Drawing on Thresholds (residency with James Geurts in Israel/Palestine (2011), The Clearing (event curation, London 2010), and Arkive City (Ed. 2008, http://interface.ulster.ac.uk/arkivecity). Julie has played an active role in artist-led culture through posts in arts centres in England, Northern Ireland and Canada, and is currently based in Quebec City.
James Geurts (Australia/Netherlands) has developped an ‘expanded drawing practice’ that involves drawing with traditional materials, as well as with light, sound, photography, Land Art, kinetic sculpture and video. Working in sites ranging from a city harbour and a salt lake in the desert in Australia, to a cultural quarter in China, his events and installations amplify the relationship between form and flux in nature and the built environment, and the experience of the senses and perception in the human body. His recent works include: Drawing Subterranean (Gemak, The Hague 2011); Tract, the Margaret Lawrence Gallery (Melbourne, 2011) ; and Drawing Amplitude (Transpan, The Hague, 2011).
Contact: Michael McCormack at (902) 425 6412 or director@eyelevelgallery.ca for further information or visit www.eyelevelgallery.ca.
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Opening Reception: 3x3x3
Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:00 PM
Eyelevel Gallery, 2159 Gottigen Street, Halifax, NS
Eyelevel Gallery and the Centre For Art Tapes host Céline Jouenne, Directing Manager of Videospread (Marseille, France) in a month-long program entitled 3X3X3, bringing together three curators, three artists and three public sites throughout Halifax Regional Municipality. All three curators will be working with artists who explore the degradation, juxtaposition, or technical implications of the moving image, set in relation to the photographic image. Over the month of October,
Artists: Julie Louise Bacon, Michel Klöfkorn, David Frankovich
Exhibition Dates: 1-30 October, 2011
@Eyelevel Gallery, 2159 Gottingen St.
Artist Talk and Opening Reception: 7pm Thursday, September 29th,
@ Eyelevel Gallery, 2159 Gottingen St.
Off-Site Projections:
Julie Louise Bacon (Quebec): 7pm, Saturday, October 1st
@ South Battery Pier (on the Halifax Waterfront next the Bishop’s Landing)
Michel Klöfkorn (Amsterdam): 6pm, Saturday, October 15th
@ Granville Mall Courtyard
David Frankovich (Toronto): 7pm, Thursday, October 27th
@ Starfish Properties Barrington buildings (Projected from the Roy Building: 1657 Barrington)
Curator talk with visiting curator Céline Jouenne and Catalogue Launch: 7pm, Thursday, October 13th
@ Eyelevel Gallery, 2159 Gottingen St.
Organizations:
www.centreforarttapes.ca
www.videospread.com
www.eyelevelgallery.ca
Funders: Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia Communities, Culture, and Heritage, and the Embassy of France, Atlantic Chapter.
Contact: Michael McCormack at (902) 425 6412 or director@eyelevelgallery.ca for further information or visit www.eyelevelgallery.ca.
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September Artist Talk Series: Roberto Santaguida
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:00 PM - Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:00 PM
Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue
The Dalhousie Art Gallery is hosting the last of three artist talks organized by the Centre for Art Tapes. The final talk will be given by Halifax Artist, Roberto Santaguida. The talk will take place at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Tuesday 27 September at 7pm.
Once a year, two local media artists in the HRM are selected to spend 3-4 weeks over the course of 4 months at the Centre for Art Tapes to produce and present their work, teach workshops and meet with the local community. Eleanor King and Roberto Santaguida have been this year’s residents. Roberto’s artist talk will be the culmination of his time as resident.
Roberto Santaguida has been working at the Centre for Art Tapes on the 5-minute documentary Gerrish Lane a continuation of Rob’s previous social documentary work. The video will examine the inner workings of a 35-meter gravel path – perpendicular to Gerrish Street - and its adjacent abandoned lot. Since receiving his BFA in film production from Concordia University, Santaguida has worked in experimental and documentary film and video. His first film Miraslava screened in over 120 international film festivals and received 6 prizes. Roberto has served as the artist-in-residence for cultural organizations in Germany, Norway, Romania, and the United States.
This is the final talk in a series that happened over the month of September involving Eleanor King, Christine Redfern and Caro Caron. For more information about upcoming events, please visit our website: www.centreforarttapes.ca.
This is a free event and everyone is welcome. For more information please contact Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator at the Centre for Art Tapes, 902-422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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Centre for Art Tapes Annual General Meeting
Monday, September 26, 2011 6:00 PM - Monday, September 26, 2011 9:00 PM
The Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street
Mark your calendars!
CFAT will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Monday 26 August at 6PM on the first floor of the Khyber (1588 Barrington Street).
CFAT is pleased to announce that free memberships will be given out to *new members. Come and hear about the last year of successes at CFAT, and meet and greet with our impressive membership.
This meeting will be a great chance to get caught up on CFAT's move out of the CBC building, as well as exciting news about what’s coming up in the next year!
*Individuals who have never held a membership with CFAT.
For more information, e-mail Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator at cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca or by phone 422-6822.
Thanks and looking forward to seeing you there!
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September Artist Talk Series: Christine Redfern & Caro Caron
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:00 PM - Wednesday, September 21, 2011 9:00 PM
Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue
The Centre for Art Tapes and Dalhousie Art Gallery will be co-hosting a talk given by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron on Wednesday 21 September at 7pm at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue.
Redfern and Caron are visiting from Quebec for an Atlantic tour and launch of their book Who is Ana Mendieta? – a graphic novella about the art and life of Ana Mendieta. The book is the first in a series called Blind Spot, published by The Feminist Press, re-introducing women artists and writers to a contemporary audience. This publication casts a glance at the machinations of the art world, looking back in particular to the heyday of the feminist revolution and recounts an iconoclastic biography of the Cuban American feminist artist; bringing new light to her obscured history.
Who is Ana Mendieta? is written by Christine Redfern, illustrated by Caro Caron and includes an introduction by writer and curator Lucy Lippard. The book is produced in both official language and most recently been translated to Spanish.
This artist talk is the second in a series happening throughout September organized by the Centre for Art Tapes and Dalhousie Art Gallery. Following visiting artists Christine Redfern & Caro Caron will be an artist talk by Roberto Santaguida on the 27 September 7pm at the Dalhousie Art Gallery.
All events are free of charge and everyone is welcome. For more information please contact Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator at the Centre for Art Tapes, 902-422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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September Artist Talk Series: Eleanor King
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:00 PM - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:00 PM
Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue
The Centre for Art Tapes and Dalhousie Art Gallery will be co-hosting a talk given by Halifax Artist, Eleanor King. The talk will take place at the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Wednesday 14 September at 7pm.
Once a year, two local media artists in the HRM are selected to spend 3-4 weeks over the course of 4 months at the Centre for Art Tapes to produce and present their work, teach workshops and meet with the local community. Eleanor King and Roberto Santaguida have been this year’s residents. Eleanor’s artist talk will be the culmination of her time as resident.
Eleanor King will be exploring low-fidelity methods for the production of new artworks. She is presenting a radio-based work at Nuit Blanche in Toronto in October, and will be researching and producing micro-watt radio transmitters. She is also investigating stop motion photographic animation using a scanner and an old, worn-out typewriter ribbon. Her work generally aims to examine the everyday and she is currently interested in ideas of the lost, forgotten or obsolete, silence or lack of signal, white noise, static and feedback.
Eleanor King is a Halifax-based, interdisciplinary artist who exhibits and participates in residency programs nationally and internationally, with upcoming projects at Nuit Blanche (Toronto) and Eastern Edge Gallery (NL). Eleanor's site-specific installations are inspired by everyday life and are realized using provisional materials and improvisational methods. Her musical projects include bands House of Lancaster, The Got to Get Got and The Just Barelys. She teaches media arts at NSCAD University and is Exhibitions Coordinator at Anna Leonowens Gallery.
This artist talk is the first in a series happening throughout September organized by the Centre for Art Tapes and Dalhousie Art Gallery. Following Eleanor King’s September 14 talk will be a talk and book launch with visiting artists Christine Redfern & Caro Caron and on 27 September an artist talk by Roberto Santaguida.
This is a free event and everyone is welcome. For more information please contact Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator at the Centre for Art Tapes, 902-422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
Call Extended: Local Curatorial Residency 2011-2012
Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:59 PM - Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes: 1657 Barrington St. Suite 220
The Centre for Art Tapes is accepting submissions for our 2011-2012 Local Curatorial Residency. We are looking for proposals that offer an exciting and engaging media art presentation that is presented in a public setting within HRM. All electronic and new media genres will be considered. CFAT encourages proposals that critically engage with contemporary discourse of media arts. A catalogue with an essay written by the curator will accompany the curator’s presentation.
Submissions must be received by 5 PM Thursday September 15th, 2011.
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)/location(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 mentorship and support from CFAT Director. Proposed exhibition date: Fall 2012.
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.
Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
Please send applications to:
“Local Curatorial Residency”
Centre For Art Tapes
1657 Barrington St., Suite 220
Halifax, NS
B3H 2A1
For questions about the application process, please contact Kristen Atkins Communications Coordinator, by phone at (902) 422-6822 or by email at cfat.comminication@ns.sympatico.ca
To download the application form Click here (option+click or right click to download.)
Thanks to all that apply. Only those selected will be contacted.
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Call Extended: Electronics Residency 2011
Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:59 PM - Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes: 1657 Barrington St. Suite 220
The Centre for Art Tapes is accepting proposals for its Electronics Residency Program. One applicant will be chosen to participate in a five-week long residence between October 2011 and February 2012. Exhibition and reveal of the resident’s electronics project will take place at Nocturne 2012.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Anyone who wishes to make a project that involves electronics, mechanics, and/or computer programming may apply.
Priority will be given to an applicant whose support material shows an interest in electronics, mechanics, and/or computer programming.
Someone who can commit to attending the required workshops offered during the winter months.
HRM permanent residents.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Successful applicants will receive the following:
Free weekly mentorship by Electronics Lab Technician Adam Kelly
Access to Free workshops instructed by local electronics artists
Free and unlimited access to the Electronics Lab
An $2500 honorarium for the creation of their project
A $500 material fee
The opportunity to exhibit the created work in a group exhibition in Nocturne: Art at Night 2012
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 time frame, 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: 5PM Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
Please send applications to:
“Electronics Residency”
Centre For Art Tapes
1657 Barrington St., Suite 220
Halifax, NS
B3H 2A1
For questions about the application process, please contact Kristen Atkins Communications Coordinator, by phone at (902) 422-6822 or by email at cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
For more information about this program and to download the application form Click here (option+click or right click to download.)
This program is supported by the Halifax Regional Municipality’s Residency Initiative Program.
Thanks to all that apply. Only those selected will be contacted.
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Lies that Tell the truth: Local Curatorial Residency Inaugural Exhibition
Friday, July 15, 2011 5:00 PM - Friday, August 12, 2011 5:00 PM
Khyber Centre for the Arts - 1588 Barrington St. Halifax
The Centre for Art Tapes and the Khyber Present
In 2010, the Centre for Art Tapes piloted its first Local Curatorial Residency for local emerging curators specializing in media arts. In this program the Centre supports curators as they uncover the intricacies of building a media arts exhibition.The result of this residency will be seen in the inaugural exhibition curated by Suzanne Caines and Claire Hodge titled Lies That Tell The truth, an exhibition scheduled to take place at the Khyber Institute for the Contemporary Arts between 15 July 2011 and 12 August 2011.
Lies That Tell The Truth gathers works from 6 artists using various reenactment strategies as the basis for their artwork. The artists are: Adad Hannah (Montreal), Johanna Householder and b.h. Yael (Toronto), Yam Lau (Toronto), Alison Kobayashi (Toronto), Jeanne Ju (Halifax), and Aoife Collins (Ireland).
Over the course of time, some events are viewed as significant enough to be memorialized. These moments in history are often re-enacted by actors who deliberately endeavor to be loyal to the minutest details of the events they perform. The artists in this exhibition constantly negotiate how closely aligned to the original their work will be. Making these choices, the artist becomes a curator of sorts, a curator of their own reenactment. The question remains, what is the relationship between the artistic gesture and the original upon which it is based? Even if an artist chooses not to include an aspect of the original, is it still there? Is it necessary for a visible trace to remain in order for its presence to be felt?
Please join us for the opening of Lies that Tell the truth at 7:00p.m. Friday, July 15, 2011 in the Khyber Ballroom (1588 Barrington St.).
The Centre for Art Tapes invites Local Emerging Curators to apply to the second Local Curatorial Residency program, applications will be launched at exhibition opening.
The Centre for Art Tapes is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. CFAT gratefully acknowledges moving sponsor Premiere Van Lines for their generous support.
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Locative Media Artist Geoffrey Shea Coming to Halifax
Monday, July 04, 2011 6:00 PM - Friday, July 15, 2011 6:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes: 1657 Barrington St. Suite 220
The Centre for Art Tapes is offering interested individuals an opportunity to participate in a workshop on Locative Media with CFAT visiting artist Geoffrey Shea. Participants should have some basic knowledge of Locative Media and be able to commit to attend each part of the hands-on workshop at 6:00 pm Thursday July 7th, and during the days of Saturday and Sunday July 9th and July 10th from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm.
This workshop will introduce strategies for creating artworks controlled by cell phones. By setting up network interfaces, participants will be able to give viewers the option of dialing a phone number and inputting commands through simple key presses. At the other end of the network, video images and sounds will respond. This workshop is ideal for artists who are interested in interactivity and the possibilities that mobile and locative media provide. It will use the VOIP services of Twilio and a pre-programmed Python/CherryPy server. Participants will be encouraged to tweak these, as well as program their final artworks in vvvv (for Windows) or Max/MSP (for Mac). Some familiarity with nodal programming (like Max) will be useful, but working sample programs will be provided that can be adapted by the participants for their own artwork.
Shea will also deliver a public presentation of one of his interactive artworks during an Artist Talk, Friday, July 8th at 6pm in the Khyber’s first floor (1588 Barrington Street).
If you are interested in taking the opportunity to learn more about cutting edge Locative Media, please send a brief letter outlining your interest in the workshop in the body of an email to: cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca by 5p.m. Friday, June 24, 2011. The workshop fee is 50$ for members, and 60$ for non-members.
Geoffrey Shea is a media artist with a long history in video and installation. He recently developed cell phone controlled video installations that were shown at the Vancouver Olympics and Nuit Blanche in Toronto. His work is private and often text based, and “stretches between optimism and resignation, hope and despair.” For more information on Geoffrey Shea visit http://geoffreyshea.com/.
The Centre for Art Tapes is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. CFAT gratefully acknowledges moving sponsor Premiere Van Lines for their generous support.
For more information please contact cfat.operations@ns.sympatico.ca or 902-422-6822.
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Employment Opportunity: CFAT Communications Coordinator
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:30 AM - Friday, June 17, 2011 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes
Employment Opportunity
Communications Coordinator, Centre for Art Tapes
Terms: 30 hour/week, 4-day a week, 1-year contract position, $20,000/per year
Start date: immediately
Application Deadline: June 17th, 2011, 5pm
Interviews will take place on Friday, June 24th, 2011
The Centre for Art Tapes is a not for profit artist-run, charitable, organization that facilitates and supports artists at all levels working with electronic media including video, audio, and new media. We provide services to a diverse membership, and the general public, that include production facilities, ongoing exhibitions and screenings. As well we provide programs that offer, through training and in-house residencies, opportunities for individuals to critically engage with cultural and social issues. The Centre is a creative environment for individuals as well as groups to pursue independent work at the highest levels of artistic practice. The Centre is designed to provide artists with access to a broad range of production facilities and foster training and mentoring programs for members of the community. For more information, about CFAT, please visit http://www.centreforarttapes.ca/profile.aspx.
The Communications Coordinator will receive three weeks of paid vacation per year, access to health benefits, access to all workshops and equipment at the Centre, opportunities to travel to conferences and professional development activities, as well as opportunities to propose curatorial projects.
Reporting to, and meeting short-term and long-term goals set by the Interim Director, the Communications Coordinator will coordinate CFATs’ communications, assist with the coordination of programs, programming, and office administration. The Communications Coordinator will coordinate all programs including, but not limited to the CFAT Media Scholarship Program, artist-in-residencies', artist talks, exhibitions/screenings, and the member newsletters'. The Communications Coordinator will draft and distribute all communications to media, public and members. The Communications Coordinator issues communications to the membership, public and the media regarding regular CFAT activity. S/he assists with the office administration and general office maintenance.
This position requires a highly motivated and organized individual with a keen attention to detail, strong oral and written communication skills, who manages multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Someone who possesses the ability to work independently and collaboratively with staff, board, committees and volunteers in a shared work environment is also essential.
The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree or completed a related post-secondary program or gained equivalent experience. The successful candidate will have exceptional communication and research skills (verbal, written and editing). The candidate will be experienced with public speaking, and other public programs; s/he will have basic office skills, but be proficient with the Mac platform, (email, database, spreadsheet, word processing software). A strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, website maintenance, and familiarity of Final Cut Pro would be highly regarded additional assets.
Please send your C.V., a cover letter and three references electronically to cfat.hiringcommittee@gmail.com (subject heading: Communications Coordinator Hiring Committee), by Friday, June 17, 2011 at 5pm.
Centre for Art Tapes is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusivity and our employees reflect the diversity of our community. We thank all applicants, but must advise that only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
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Centre for Art Tapes, Special Announcement
Saturday, April 30, 2011 5:00 PM
Dear Centre for Art Tapes Members and Supporters,
For the last 12 years, the Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) has resided in the CBC building on Sackville Street in Halifax, NS. Recently, the CBC announced that it would be ending leases with non-profit organizations currently based in the radio building on May 31st, 2011. CFAT will continue to act on the Centre's relocation plans that will have our operations moved to a new location, by June 1st, 2011.
The CFAT Board of Directors’ are grateful to the CBC for providing us with a locus from which we have been able to contribute significantly to the enrichment of media arts culture for the last 12 years. The Centre looks forward to partnerships and new collaborations with the CBC in its new home.
The Centre's staff and board have been actively preparing for this imminent move over the past year, and a short-term plan has been devised in the event that a permanent space does not become available. The Centre is considering the option of partnership with other organizations for temporary facilities that would provide working spaces for staff and artists-in-residence. CFAT is fortunate to have strong relationships with local organizations for off-site programming, and our activities will continue as planned and uninterrupted.
A long-term strategy has also been devised to secure a permanent space for CFAT. The Board is considering specific scenarios and will present the most feasible options to our membership at an organized information session to be announced in the coming weeks. It is our hope that members will attend this meeting to share in the making of these important decisions that will shape the future of CFAT.
In an effort to better address evolving member needs, the Board of Directors has been and continues to assess the Centre's facilities. Alongside the Centre's vision, the Board is interested in continuing to improve access to the Centre's activities, as well as find a permanent space in which to grow into an even more dynamic media arts centre for artists, curators and interested individuals to partake.
This is an exciting time at the Centre, and we hope you share our enthusiasm at being able to participate in shaping the future of this respected organization. We are dealing with very significant changes that will undoubtedly benefit from the ideas and contributions of our membership. Please stay posted for the details with regard to the aforementioned information session, and appeals for your participation in the relocation process.
Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to working with our members to help build a strong future for CFAT in its new home.
Sincerely,
CFAT Board of Directors’
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Centre for Art Tapes
www.centreforarttapes.ca
207-5600 Sackville St.
Halifax, NS. B3J 1L2
902.420.4002
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Call for Submissions: 2011 Centre for Art Tapes Media Arts Scholarship Program
Friday, April 29, 2011 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes
The CFAT Media Arts Scholarship Program is a six-month education and mentorship opportunity for selected applicants to make a media art piece in a medium in which they have no previous background. The Media Arts Scholarship Program is open to any member of the public who is not currently attending a program that is similar in nature.
Media Art includes work made with the use of digital video cameras, recorded sound, software for editing, and electronics. Media Art can be presented in the form of digital films, interactive web art, gallery installations, and animation. It also includes sound art that can be experienced as a radio broadcast, installed in a specific site, or in an exhibition context. (please note: music albums are not eligible).
Anyone who wishes to make their first independent work in a media artform that is new to them. You cannot be currently enrolled in a related 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 honourarium of $400.00, 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 about 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. Incomplete applications or the absence of required submission material will result in disqualification.
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 to:
Media Arts Scholarship Program
C/O Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville St.
Halifax, NS. B3J 1L2
All applications must be received at the CFAT office not later then 5:00p.m. Friday, April 29, 2011.
Any questions regarding the Scholarship Program or the application procedure can be directed to Brendan Dunlop, CFAT Communications Coordinator at 902-420-4002 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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CFAT Electronics Lab Fall/Winter Hours.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 12:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
The CFAT Electronics Lab will once again be hosting weekly open hours starting Tuesday September 14th. The Lab will be open to members each Tuesday from 12:00 to 5:00. Electronics Lab Technician Adam Kelly will be in attendance each week to orient members on the Lab equipment and to help with guidence on their electronics projects.
Please note that the Lab will not be open the following Tuesdays:
October 26th
November 30th
February 1st
March 8th
April 12th
Once members have been oriented on the equipment and received proper clearence from Technician Adam Kelly the Lab can be booked for use during regular open hours.
For more information or if you have any questions please contact Adam Kelly at cfat.lab@ns.aliantzinc.ca
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Call for Submissions: Animation with Love, Home Sweet Home (Deadline Extended)
Friday, April 01, 2011 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes
Centre for Art Tapes Call for Submissions
Animation With Love: home sweet home
Curated by Siloën Daley and Dylan Edwards
Animation With Love: home sweet home is a Centre for Art Tapes program that will showcase short animated media in a presentation at the Halifax Carbon Arc Theatre May of 2011. Looking at technique and concept, the curators will be selecting pieces that reflect the vivacity and investment of the animation genre through an interpretation of the theme home.
Specifications: Shorts, up to 10 minutes
Screening formats: 16mm film, video (preferably mini DV)
Preview formats: VHS and DVD
Please include title of work, brief description, date of completion and bio (50-75 words)
Submission deadline: April 1st, 2011
Screening: May 27th, 2011
Artist fees will be paid
Send submissions to:
Animation With Love: home sweet home
c/o Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville St. Suite 207
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1L2
Please include a self addressed stamped envelope if you would like your submission materials returned.
Thanks to all that apply. Only those selected will be contacted.
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Vision Pavilion's Poetry/Creative Writing Workshop for Teens
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:30 PM - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:00 PM
Alderney Landing, Dartmouth, NS
The Vision Pavilion locative media project will be holding a free poetry/creative writing workshop with teens on Tuesday March 15, from 4:30 to 8pm, in the market area at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth. Local writer and educator Roger Field and HRM Poet Laureate Sue Goyette will be on hand, and refreshments will be provided. iPhones and other equipment will be available to use free of charge. Interested participants can go to the Facebook page (search for "Vision Pavilion") to let us know if they plan to attend.
Please pass this information along to all teens (and others) who might be interested. Thanks very much!
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Equipment and Facilities Access Policy
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:30 AM
Centre for Art Tapes
The Centre for Art Tapes Board of Directors has approved a new Equipment and Facilities Access Policy. Please make yourself familiar with it. If you have any questions contact Production Coordinator Tom Elliot at cfat.production@ns.sympatico.ca
Equipment and Facilities Access Policy
This policy applies to all users, including those in programs such as Local Artists-In-Residence and Media Scholars, as well as users with Production and Editing memberships. The Centre reserves the right to not support any work that advocates racist, sexist, ageist, or homophobic attitudes, or promotes any other form of social discrimination.
Bookings
In order to access equipment, one must first book it out by contacting a CFAT staff member or designated volunteer. Bookings can be made by phone, email (cfat.production@ns.sympatico.ca) or in person. The CFAT staff member will advise you if the equipment is available for the specific dates requested and confirm the pickup time. Noon is the default earliest pick-up time for equipment. Staff will do what they can to accommodate bookings, but early returns are not always possible and late returns are beyond staff’s control. Bookings made more than three months in advance should be confirmed closer to the booking date.
Mobile production equipment can be booked for a maximum of one week (7 days) at a time, 14 days per month and over 2 weekends per month. In-house equipment and suites can be booked for a maximum of 30 hours per week. Requests for longer bookings must be submitted in writing to the Board of Directors.
As CFAT is closed Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, equipment booked for these days may be picked up on the previous Friday and returned the following Tuesday. CFAT only charges for the days that equipment is used.
When equipment is taken out, staff will fill out a Rental and Responsibility form indicating the exact equipment taken, including additional cables, adapters, etc., and noting any missing or damaged components. The form will state the date and time the equipment is due. The renter will sign the form, including the Project Intent line and indicating the rate at which they will be charged.
The Technical Coordinator may require any user to take a workshop or tutorial before access to a specific piece of equipment is granted if the user is unable to demonstrate sufficient technical competence for the use of that equipment. The renter is responsible for the cost of the tutorial or workshop.
In-House Access
When in-house facilities are used, staff will fill out a half-page Suite Rental and Responsibility form for the renter indicating the facilities and hours used. The renter will sign the form, including the Project Intent line and indicating the rate at which they will be charged. As members may use facilities outside of office hours, these forms may have to be filled out while staff is away. Staff will review the forms the next working day. The forms can be re-used by initialing each of several lines. A new form must be started for each project with a different rate. Members taking part in Scholarships and Residencies, as well as those with Production Memberships, may use the full-page version of this form, as it is simpler for frequent bookings and will help to conserve paper.
Members with Editing Memberships (as well as those participating in special programs such as the Local Artists-in-Residence and Media Scholarship programs) are issued a wand key for 24-hour access to the building. All other members can request access to in-house facilities after staff hours. Such requests must be made in writing to the General Manager one week in advance. Upon receipt and approval of such a request, staff will request a key from the building management and will contact the member to let them know when it is available for pickup. Members must sign out the key on the Rental and Responsibility form and return the key during staff hours.
Members working in suites during regular staff hours may request that they be added to a security list in order to continue working after the office closes. This request must be made to a staff member who will contact the building security during regular office hours. Members working after hours without building keys are responsible for making arrangements with security to re-enter the building if they have to leave for any reason (for example, security staff may be on rounds when a member returns). Members are also responsible for making sure all doors are locked when they leave.
Punctuality
If you have a suite booked and do not show up within twenty minutes of your scheduled start time or contact staff to let them know you will be late, you forfeit your booking in that suite. The fee for non-cancellation or late cancellation of a suite booking is $30 or the rental fee (whichever is lower). This is so that the maximum suite availability can be ensured for members during regular office hours when technical support is available.
Returning Equipment
Equipment must be returned before noon on the return date. To extend the length of a booking, contact staff by phone or in person during regular hours. The staff member will check to make sure the equipment is available, and, if so, extend the booking.
Equipment must be returned to CFAT staff during regular hours. It must be returned in the condition in which it was received, including cables properly wound and batteries recharged. A staff member will check off the equipment as well as sign the Rental and Responsibility form indicating that all equipment has been returned and checked.
Users must pay for equipment upon return. CFAT accepts cash or cheque payments, and can issue an invoice. All invoices must be paid within thirty days.
Mobile Equipment Cancellations and Late Fees
Cancellations must be done in person, by email (cfat.production@ns.sympatico.ca) or by phone 24 hours before pickup time. As CFAT is closed Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, staff will receive messages concerning Tuesday bookings on Tuesday morning. If equipment is not picked up and a cancellation notice has not been given 24 hours in advance, CFAT will charge the member a fee equal to half of one day’s rate for the equipment booked.
If mobile equipment is returned late and no prior arrangements have been made with CFAT staff, CFAT will charge one half the daily rate* for returns made on the day the equipment was due. After that, CFAT will charge twice the daily rate on each successive day until the equipment is returned, regardless of whether the equipment is used or not on those days. Excessive or frequent late returns of equipment will result in the review of access status by the Equipment and Access Committee.
*Production Members will be charged according to the Member Rate.
Rental Rates
CFAT charges rental fees based on type of membership as well as type of project. When equipment or suite time is rented, members must fill out the “Project” intent line on the Rental and Responsibility form and agree on the rate that will be charged for that rental.
There are four rates:
• Member Rate - This applies to projects where an Individual member holds the copyright for and has creative / editorial control over the project. The work must be non-commercial in intent. This rate also applies to members working on collaborative projects and / or assisting with or documenting for a third party on non-commercial work.
• Non-Member Rate - This rate applies to projects where an individual (Associate member or non-member) holds the copyright for and has creative / editorial control over the project. The work must be non-commercial in intent.
• Organizational Rate - This rate applies to projects commissioned by non-profit organizations where the organization holds the copyright for the work.
• Commercial - This rate applies to projects commissioned by a business or for-profit organization, or to projects where the intent is to make money (including marketing, to increase productivity in the workplace, etc.).
Please note that Associate Members do not get discounted rates on equipment, facilities or workshops. They pay at non-member rates.
In cases where members with Production and Editing Memberships are doing work of a non-commercial nature for a third party, a rate equal to half the Individual Member rate must be paid for mobile equipment (in the case of Production Memberships) or suite rental (in the case of Editing Memberships). In the case of commercial work, the full Commercial rate will apply.
Equipment Responsibility
It is the sole responsibility of the renter to test all equipment, ensuring proper functioning. Renters must report loss, damage or malfunction of equipment immediately to CFAT staff. No renter may dismantle, re-configure, repair or modify any of the equipment or facilities. Doing so will result in the review of access status by the Equipment and Access Committee.
Members are responsible for any costs incurred due to loss, theft or damage caused while equipment is in their possession. When signing out equipment, members agree to the following condition listed on the Rental and Responsibility form:
I understand that I am the only person who will be responsible for the use and transportation of this equipment and I may not delegate these responsibilities to anyone else. I will not use the equipment in any way that contravenes the criminal code.
As the person who signs the form is solely responsible for the equipment (there is no off-site insurance), members are strongly encouraged to pick up and return their own equipment.
The renter has full responsibility of ensuring the legality and safety of the procedures and materials used in any production or representation using CFAT facilities or equipment. The renter agrees to indemnify CFAT for any claims from third parties.
Credits for Productions
CFAT requires that credits for any production made with its equipment include recognition for the use of CFAT facilities and / or equipment. The CFAT logo is available for download from our web site at www.centreforarttapes.ca in the “Contact” section. Appearance of the logo is only required for productions made as part of CFAT programs (such as Residencies and Scholarships); for other projects, a text credit is sufficient. Producers are encouraged to submit a copy of the work for inclusion in the CFAT archive.
Tape Stock
CFAT stocks an assortment of mini-DV and Betacam SP tapes as well as DVDs and CDs. Simply let a CFAT staff member know what you will need and when and we will try to have them available for you. Tape stock must be paid for immediately on receipt.
Computer Storage
As CFAT is a shared environment with limited hard drive capacity, we encourage users to back up their projects to their own media and delete them promptly when they are completed. Please be efficient regarding hard drive storage on CFAT computers.
CFAT is not responsible for backing up projects stored on the Media Drives, and assumes no responsibility or liability for loss or damage to projects in the case of hardware failure or human error.
Users may not store anything on the main system drive of the computers. This includes the desktop and the “documents” folder. Instead, create a folder on the secondary “Media Drive” with your name and store all media there. Any data left on the main hard drives may be erased without warning.
Projects left on the Media Drives may be deleted after 60 days of inactivity. Deleting will be done periodically to ensure members have sufficient working space.
Approved by Centre for Art Tapes’ Board of Directors January 10, 2011.
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Electronics Lab Winter Break Workshop Series
Saturday, February 19, 2011 1:00 PM - Sunday, February 27, 2011 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
Winter Break
Electronics Lab
Workshop Series
1-5pm, Saturday, February 19 - Sunday, February 27, 2011
Schedule
Saturday, February 19
HTML 5 and CSS3
Daniel Espeset
This workshop will introduce participants to HTML and CSS, the core building blocks of the web. Participants will learn how to build, design, and customize web pages, as well as how to purchase and manage a custom domain, host websites online, and make websites search-engine friendly.
Sunday, February 20
Ruby
Daniel Higham
This workshop will introduce participants to Ruby, a general-purpose object-oriented programming language designed for productivity and fun. It will cover the fundamentals of computer programming, and participants will learn how to use Ruby to build an application.
Monday, February 21
Audio Electronics
Daniel Higham
This workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of audio in relation to electronics. It will cover the relationship between sound and electricity and participants will have the opportunity to build a low-cost but high-fidelity amplifier for use with headphones.
Tuesday, February 22
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 tones, and activate a motor.
Wednesday, February 23
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. Participants will learn how to use test equipment, solder and de-solder, read and design schematics, and design and make printed circuit boards.
Thursday, February 24
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. 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.
Friday, February 25
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 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.
Saturday, February 26
PureData
Lucas Dambergs
This workshop will introduce participants to PureData, 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. Participants will learn how to manipulate data in real-time to create emergent and interactive works. For more information on PureData, visit www.puredata.info.
Sunday, February 27
Linux
Stephen Kelly
This workshop will introduce participants to Linux, an open-source operating system. The fundamentals of computing will be covered, and participants will learn how to build a computer from used hardware, install a Linux operating system, install open-source software applications, use the command-line interface, and write shell scripts.
Cost
1 workshop: $50 + tax
3 workshops: $125 + tax
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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Vision Pavilion's 1st Workshop
Thursday, February 10, 2011 4:30 PM - Thursday, February 10, 2011 7:30 PM
Alderney Public Library, Starr Room
Vision Pavilion's first workshop. Dress warmly, we'll take a brief tour of local downtown Dartmouth and discover spaces and places in our neighbourhood. Then gather in the library to discuss mobile phone apps and computer programs. Food and refreshments provided.
Vision Pavilion is a mobile phone & web based community project for teen and adult participants. Do you like to write stories, or poetry? Did you know that you can use a mobile phone to make a work of art? Participation is free, materials provided. Come and discover how creative you could be with mobile devices.
Contact: 476-6670
See you there!
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CFAT Productions by CFAT members
Friday, January 21, 2011 9:30 AM - Friday, March 04, 2011 9:30 AM
Centre for Art Tapes. 207-5600 Sackville St.
Would you like to volunteer with other Centre for Art Tapes members to create short videos about local media art?
The Centre for Art Tapes will be producing short 1 to 2 minute videos profiling local media art programs, walking tours of media art exhibitions, interviews with artists and featuring the talent of CFAT members.
Your video will be featured on our website and maybe even broadcast on television. You will have the chance to work with a small team of CFAT members, learn new skills while working on a fun project, and earn CFAT credit that can be redeemed towards our equipment and facilities rentals!
If you’d like to work on a video project, we are currently looking for:
Artistic Director
Editor
Camera Operator/Sound Recordist
Grip
Producer/Coordinator
Contact us today to be part of a series of fun video projects before spaces fill up fast!
Brendan Dunlop, Communications Coordinator at the Centre for Art Tapes, at (902) 420-4002 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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Out of the Centre
Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:00 PM
Empire Cinema's Park Lane
CFAT presents Out of the Centre: Annual Media Arts Scholarship Program
Halifax – The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to announce its annual presentation of Out of the Centre: Media Arts Scholarship Program. The one-night only screening will take place at Empire Theatres Park Lane 7:00 p.m. Thursday, January 20, 2011.
Out of the Centre promises to be one of the most exciting media arts events of the year. Nine scholarship recipients will present their projects, which range from documentary, animation, experimental video and online interactive art installations. Participating artists include Matthew Carswell, Fran Di Cesare, Alison Creba, Robert Drisdelle, Shelley Fashan, Dawn George, Greg Jackson, Amélie Proulx and Daina Tavenier.
Now in its 22nd year, the CFAT Media Arts Scholarship Program offers an educational opportunity for interested individuals to create a media art piece in a medium in which they have not previously worked. Selected scholars are paired with mentors, offered a series of media arts related workshops and given access to CFAT’s equipment and in-house facilities. Participants of the Program have gone on to present their work in festivals around the world; many continue to work in media arts. Notable past participants include filmmakers Thom Fitzgerald, Andrea Dorfman, and musician Tanya Davis.
The CFAT Media Arts Scholarship Program is provided with the assistance of Film Nova Scotia, and the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Film Board, the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Join CFAT to celebrate the achievements of this year’s Media Arts Scholarship recipients for a night of fantastic media art 7:00 p.m. Thursday, January 20, 2011 at Empire Theaters, Park Lane Cinema 8. Tickets are $8 in advance and can be purchased at the CFAT office (suite 207, 5600 Sackville Street, ) and at Eyelevel Gallery (2159 Gottingen Street).
As part of the festivities this year we will be holding a draw for all ticket holders. Three CFAT Memberships will be given away along with some exciting media art swag.
For more information please contact Brendan Dunlop, Communications Coordinator at the Centre for Art Tapes, at (902) 420-4002 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca.
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Dartmouth's Vision Pavilion
Thursday, January 13, 2011 6:00 PM
Alderney Public Library
Presented by NiS+T - Narratives in space and time
Locative Media Art
A mobile phone & web based community project
Do you like to write stories, or poetry?
Did you know that you can use a mobile phone to make a work of art?
We are looking for teen and adult participants to take part in this community based project.
General information meeting
January 13, 6 to 8:30 pm - Alderney Public Library
Call 476-6670 or 420-4002 in advance to register for this free activity
Light refreshments will be served
Equipment and supplies provided
Sponsored by 4Cs Foundation, CFAT, and Alderney Public Library.
Visist our Facebook page - Vision Pavilion
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Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:00 PM - Tuesday, January 04, 2011 9:30 AM
The Centre for Art Tapes will be closing for the Holidays on Thursday, December 16 at 8:00p.m. All equipment rentals must be returned by this date. We will reopen with normal hours on Tuesday, January 4th. There will be no equipment or suite bookings during this period.
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Holiday Toast Gala Fundraiser
Saturday, December 11, 2010 8:00 PM - Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:59 PM
Khyber ICA. 1588 Barrington St.
HOLIDAY TOAST! KHYBER! TRASH HEAP! GIANT RAFFLE!
TOAST THE HOLIDAYS! EYELEVEL! TVP! BRING ON THE
TOAST! FRANKIE! CFAT! ART AUCTION! & MORE MORE MORE!
At the Khyber ICA
1588 Barrington Street
December 11, 2010
$10 advance at Eyelevel,
CFAT, Seeds or Khyber
$12 at the door
For Immediate Release:
Holiday Toast is back again! This year Eyelevel Gallery, the Centre For Art Tapes, and the Khyber ICA are kicking off the most eventful party of the season, presenting Holiday Toast 2011. Featuring live music by: Trash Heap, TVP, Frankie.
The Ballroom Gallery will feature an auction featuring original works by Barbara Sutherland, Bruce Barber, Gary Neil Kennedy, Fireworks Gallery and many more. All of the works will be on display in the Khyber Ballroom Gallery throughout the week of December 7-11, 2010, ending with a fantastic party at the Khyber ICA from December 11, 2010, at 8pm. Activities and screenings throughout the entire Khyber building will overflow with eggnog and unforgettable holiday cheer.
An Archive Lounge will also be a part of the festivities. Guests will be able to browse through past exhibition catalogues, invitations, buttons, etc from the archives of all three organizations. These items will be for sale, with all proceeds going towards the Khyber, Eyelevel and CFAT.
A Giant Stocking Raffle - $500 value - including prizes from Brooklyn Warehouse, Strange Adventures, Venus Envy, Obladee Wine Bar, Attica, Sweet Pea, Atlantic Photo Supply, Moksha Yoga, David's Tea, The Monkey Show, and more, more, more!
Advance tickets are now available but limited! Get 'em while they're hot!! Come make a toast to the New Year of art in Halifax!
$10 in advance
$12 at the door
THERE WILL BE TOAST. OH YES. THERE WILL BE TOAST.
XOXOXO
Centre For Art Tapes, Khyber ICA and Eyelevel Gallery.
* All proceeds from this event will be support artist-run culture in Halifax. yeah!
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Isabelle Dehay Artist Talk
Friday, December 03, 2010 7:30 PM
CBC Radio Room. 1599 South Park St. Halifax.
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to collaborate with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Embassy of France to host an Artist Talk by French artist Isabelle Dehay. Please join us for a presentation of a multi-disciplinary practice as the artist delves into her film, video and performance art, discusses arts and culture in France, and about her first Canadian exhibition at the AGNS. Artist Talk: 7:30p.m. December 3rd in the CBC Radio Room, 1599 South Park St. Refreshments will be served.
Isabelle Dehay is here for the opening of The Last Frontier at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia presents The Last Frontier, a remarkable exhibition examining the tension between nature, culture, technology, and the built environment through works of art.
Once regarded as a permanent paradise, the “natural” world has become an elusive last refuge of the wild. Faced with globalization, oil spills, overbuilding and overpopulation, artists have—over time—documented and also recreated their environments. Where artists once recorded their pristine surroundings, now advances in technology allow for fabrication of that open, infinite universe.
The Last Frontier, curated by Sarah Fillmore, features works by 12 renowned artists representing three countries – Canadians Vikky Alexander, David Askevold, Iain Baxter&, Mark Bovey, Ed Burtynsky, Erik Edson, Holly King, Kelly Richardson, and Tom Sherman, American Alan Sonfist, plus France-based Isabelle Dehay and duo Scenocosm.
The Last Frontier is proudly presented by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in partnership with Halifax Regional Municipality and Centre Culturel français|French Embassy in Canada with additional support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage.
The exhibition opens Friday, December 3 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
The Last Frontier runs until April 26, 2011.
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Broadcasting for Reels: Success Through Failure
Friday, November 05, 2010 8:00 PM - Friday, November 05, 2010 9:30 PM
CKDU 88.1 FM or at The Good Food Emporium and Uncommon Grounds
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to present Broadcasting for Reels: Success Through Failure, an audio art presentation on CKDU 88.1 FM, 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, November 5, 2010.
Broadcasting For Reels is an audio art exhibition presented annually by the Centre for Art Tapes since 1993. Exhibition curator and host Lucas Dambergs chose this year’s theme of Success Through Failure. About the theme, Lucas states “Sometimes you can't do something right without doing it wrong. A mistake can be an unplanned act of genius. Getting hopelessly lost can set you on the right path.”
Artists included in Broadcasting for Reels were selected from an open submission call and are from across Canada and beyond. They include Allison Maletz (Brooklyn, NY), Andi Chapple (Sedbergh, UK), Anne-François Jacques (Montreal, PQ), Blanca Rego Constela (Barcelona, Spain), Daniel Blinkhorn (Sydney, Australia), Emma Hendrix (Vancouver, BC), Graham Dunning (Manchester, UK), Lisa Folkerson (Halifax, NS), Lukas Pearse (Halifax, NS), Marinos Koutsomichalis (York, UK), Pudy Tong (Scarborough, ON), Victoria Fenner (Hamilton, ON), Yota Morimoto (Den Haag, The Netherlands), and Zoë Solomon (Toronto, ON).
The Centre for Art Tapes has partnered with two local cafés to provide listening venues during the live broadcast. The Good Food Emporium (2179 Gottingen St.) and Uncommon Grounds (1030 South St.) will be open during the broadcast to provide listeners a comfortable listening environment while enjoying some coffee, tea and baked goods. As well, CFAT staff will be on hand at these venues during the broadcast to hand out exhibition programs and answer questions.
Join us for Success Through Failure at one of our listening venues or tune into CKDU 88.1 FM from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, November 5, 2010.
A printable program can be downloaded here.
Broadcasting for Reels: Success Through Failure is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
For more information please contact CFAT Programming Coordinator Brendan Dunlop at 902-420-4002 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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Artist Talk by CFAT Local-Artist-in-Residence Sebastian Harder
Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:30 PM - Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:00 PM
CBC Radio Room. 1599 South Park St. Halifax.
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to present an artist talk by CFAT Local-Artist-In-Residence Sebastian Harder, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 28, 2010, in the CBC Radio Room, 1599 South Park St.
Sebastian Harder, a graduate of the NSCAD University BFA Program, has been working over the past five years on his project Under the Volcano, a short fictional narrative that explores being stuck in an untenable situation. Such a situation can feel familiar and in some ways comfortable - at least in the short term. The work explores the limits of the control that we can exert over our environment, and the sometimes-absurd ways in which we are forced to adapt.
Sebastian will present a rough cut of Under the Volcano and talk about his experiences working on this project through the CFAT Local-Artist-In-Residence program. The work is slated to be finished by the spring of 2011.
Centre for Art Tapes’ Local Artist-In-Residence Program provides opportunities to local media artists for the development and experimentation of new work involving audio, video, or new media. Twice a year, a local Media Artist is selected to spend 3-4 weeks at the Centre for Art Tapes to produce and present their work, teach workshops and meet with the local community. The next deadline for applications is November 5, 2010.
Join us at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 28, 2010 in the CBC Radio Room (1599 South Park St.) for Sebastian Harder’s presentation of his work-in-progress Under the Volcano. This event is free of charge. Refreshments will be served.
CFAT’s Local Artist-In-Residence Program is supported by the National Film Board of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage.
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I/O
Saturday, October 16, 2010 7:00 PM - Saturday, November 27, 2010 7:00 PM
Eyelevel Gallery. 2063 Gottingen St.
The Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel Gallery are pleased to present I/O, an exhibition of electronic art at Eyelevel Gallery. Opening as part of Nocturne 2010, 6 p.m Saturday, October 16. A closing reception will take place 6 p.m. Thursday, November 25.
In the catalogue essay, Media Lab Instructor and artist Adam Kelly explains “the title of the exhibition, I/O, stands for "input/output", a term used in electronics and computing to refer to communication between an information processing system, such as an integrated circuit or a computer, and its users, its peripherals, other information processing systems, or the environment.”
This exhibition showcases artworks completed through the Centre for Art Tapes' Electronic Art Residency Program since its inception in 2008, and includes works by 2008-2009 residents Wes Johnston, Lukas Steinman, and Chantal Tardiff, as well as 2009-2010 residents Chris Myhr, Amélie Proulx, William Robinson, and Scott Saunders.
In its short three-year history, the Centre for Art Tapes' Electronics Lab and the Electronic Art Residency Program has paved a solid path for artists to meet with other artists who are interested in professional development in electronic media. The Lab, originally funded as a one-time project, has developed into a reoccurring activity and a successful community program.
Perhaps saying that the Lab and Residency have paved a path is a narrow descriptor for such a creative space. It may be more appropriate to describe the platform offered to these artists as a transient intersection where low and high technologies meet [or are re-configured]. In I/O, technology materializes, interacts, and disintegrates using forms ranging from kinetic to sculptural to ephemeral, and will foreground process as experimentation.
Kelly further explains “Technological ideology values qualities such as practicality, objectivity, expediency, efficiency, resolution, and reason. In diametric opposition, art has the potential to hold qualities such as impracticality, subjectivity, ambiguity, ambivalence, irresolution, and intuition.”
The Electronics Lab is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage and the CBC. Additional support for the Lab and this exhibition was provided by HRM.
I/O opens as part of Nocturne 2010 6 p.m. Saturday October 16 at Eyelevel Gallery, 2063 Gottingen Street. There will be a closing reception, with the artists an curator present, 6 p.m. Thursday November 25. All are invited to attend.
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Electronics Lab Fall Workshop Series
Saturday, October 09, 2010 1:00 PM - Saturday, November 27, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes. 207-5600 Sackville St.
Electronics Lab
Fall Workshop Series
Saturdays 1– 5 p.m.
October 9 - November 27, 2010
Schedule
October 9
Web Development
Daniel Espeset
This workshop will familiarize participants with standards-based web development with an emphasis on visual presentation and experimentation. It will cover HTML5, CSS3, and javascript, and participants will use open-source tools to create a fully working application.
October 16
PureData
Lucas Dambergs
Participants will be introduced to PureData, an open source graphical programming language and environment comparable to Max/MSP. The workshop 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 PureData, visit www.puredata.info.
October 23
Linux
Stephen Kelly
Linux, an open-source operating system, will be introduced to participants. The workshop will comprise of the fundamentals of computing, and participants will learn how to build a computer from used hardware, install a Linux operating system and open-source software applications, use the command-line interface, and write shell scripts.
October 30
Experimental Electronic Music
Will Vandermeulen
Participants will experiment with electronics to produce audio. In this introductory workshop the history and practice of experimental electronic music will be covered, and participants will learn how to make contact microphones and tape loops from cassettes.
November 6
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.
November 13
Electronics Design and Fabrication
Adam Kelly
Electronics design and fabrication tools and techniques will be introduced in this workshop. A variety of methods for creating temporary and permanent circuit boards, including the free schematic capture and pcb layout software program Eagle, will be covered and participants will learn how to use test equipment, solder and desolder, read and design schematics, and design and make printed circuit boards.
November 20
Arduino
Adam Kelly
Participants with knowledge of electronics will be introduced to Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping and physical computing platform. The workshop 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.
November 27
Processing
Adam Kelly
Participants will be introduced to Processing, an open-source programming language and environment. The workshop 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.
Cost
1 workshop: $50
3 workshops: $125
Registration
To sign up, phone 420-4002 or email cfat.production@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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Call for Submissions: Audio Art for Radio
Friday, October 01, 2010 9:30 AM - Friday, October 01, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
Call For Submissions—Audio Art for Radio
Broadcasting for Reels: Success Through Failure
Sometimes you can't do something right without doing it wrong. A mistake can be an unplanned act of genius. Getting hopelessly lost can set you on the right path.
Broadcasting For Reels is seeking works of audio art that address the idea of "Success Through Failure." Chosen entries 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 annually by the Centre for Art Tapes since 1993. The project accepts new audio work no more then one year old and may be a maximum of 10 minutes in length. Works should be submitted as an audio CD or as a data file (wav, aiff or mp3) via email, web transfer or disc.
Deadline for submissions is October 1, 2010. Artist fees will be paid.
Send submission with current CV and artist statement to:
Centre for Art Tapes
5600 Sackville Street, Rm. 207
Halifax, NS B3J 1L2
or
cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
For more information contact (902) 420-4002 or visit http://centreforarttapes.ca/.
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Call for applications: CFAT Local Artist in Residence Program
Saturday, September 25, 2010 9:00 AM - Friday, November 05, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
Application Deadline 5 p.m. Friday, November 5, 2010
What?
The Local Artist-In-Residence Program at the Centre for Art Tapes provides opportunities to local media artists for the development and experimentation of new works involving audio, video or new media. For the 2011 Local Artist-In-Residence Program two positions will be available to established local artists. Successful applicants will receive up to $1000 in-kind support, access to facilities and equipment, a $1700 artist fee, a $300 speaker fee for conducting a talk or workshop for the community about their project, and access to technical assistance during the residency.
Where?
Local residencies take place at the Centre for Art Tapes, 5600 Sackville Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Successful applicants maintain a presence at CFAT for the duration of their residency, and also have access to equipment and facilities for a period of seven months from January to July 2011.
When?
Artists should list the approximate dates that they wish to be at the Centre. Artists-In-Residence may overlap with one another throughout the course of the program depending on availability of resources. Residency candidates may propose to begin their residency eight weeks after the application deadline. CFAT Local Artists-In-Residence must spend a total of 10 days in-house and complete their projects no later than July 31, 2010.
How?
A rotating peer assessment committee evaluates applications.
Applicants must submit the following:
1) A detailed description of the project, addressing concept, themes, subject matter, and background research and history; maximum two pages.
2) A treatment, describing aesthetic considerations and how the work created through the residency will look and sound; maximum 1 page. If applicable include storyboards, sketches, diagrams or samples.
3) A description of how CFAT’s facilities will be used to contribute to the creation of the work; a list of available equipment and facilities can be found on the CFAT website.
4) A production timeline; the residency may make up part or all of the production time.
5) A production budget detailing all anticipated expenses and revenues, both confirmed and pending, related to the project; please indicate how the residency program will contribute to the project.
6) Support material, either CD-R, DVD, Mini-DV or Beta Tape. Printed materials may include scripts, reviews, essays, and catalogues of previous work. Please cue tape material to the portion you would like viewed.
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.
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.
Eligibility
Applicant must:
• Be a CFAT member of good standing at the time of application (artists may become a member at the time of application).
• Have a minimum of three years of professional artistic practice and completed a significant body of media arts work.
• Be a resident of Nova Scotia.
Other eligibility notes:
• Teams/collaborations of artists may apply (although the overall amount of award remains the same).
• Proposed projects must be considered ‘independent’ or ‘artist-driven’; the artist must retain 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 and diversity of the community represented.)
• Propose to use CFAT facilities to its fullest potential and are feasible in terms of time and budget considerations.
Please include a SASE if you want your submission materials returned. All other materials will be kept on file for four months.
Please submit completed applications to:
Centre for Art Tapes
Suite 207, 5600 Sackville Street
Halifax, NS B3J 1L2
For more information please contact Programming Coordinator Brendan Dunlop at 902-420-4002 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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CFAT Open House and Free Friday as part of Culture Days
Friday, September 24, 2010 10:00 AM - Friday, September 24, 2010 5:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
As part of Culture Days the Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) is hosting an open house for the general public Friday, September 24. Meet our members and staff, learn more about our facilities, equipment and training programs, and find out what programming activities we have planned for the upcoming year! For this day only, CFAT members will be able to take advantage of Free Thursdays on a Friday, and access our facilities for free! For more information call 420-4002.
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DAMMSel Day: An engaging locative media project in downtown Dartmouth
Sunday, September 12, 2010 2:00 PM - Saturday, October 30, 2010 5:00 PM
Alderney Gate Public Library in the Helen Creighton Room
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to present a preview of Léola LeBlanc’s locative media project DAMMSel Day 2:00 p.m. Sunday, September 12 at the Alderney Gate Public Library. This project was created through the 2010 CFAT Local Artist-In-Residence Program.
The Local Artist-In-Residence Program provides opportunities to local media artists for the development and experimentation of new work involving audio, video, or new media. Twice a year, a local Media Artist is selected to spend 3-4 weeks at the Centre for Art Tapes to produce and present their work, teach workshops and meet with the local community.
DAMMSel Day is a locative media art project in Dartmouth that asks participants to set out on foot with a mobile phone and listen to a fictional narrative while being guided through paths, parking lots, cemeteries, and sidewalks. Designed as an audio walk using location-aware technology to annotate the urban landscape, DAMMSel Day features audio segments which intertwine with wandering and observation. 7scenes, a free application that runs on iPhone and some Nokia smartphones, reads the users location from GPS and triggers recordings when the user approaches pre-determined markers along the route.
Through collaboration with the Dartmouth Heritage Museum, LeBlanc selected artifacts from their archives to activate DAMMSel Day. The work aims to engage the material history of Dartmouth in an innovative way that infuses the static, determined quality of the historical artifact with a sense of possibility and play. DAMMSel Day means to investigate where we stand currently, between history and development, by interrogating the sanctity of the historical space with a conceptual and whimsical approach.
Join us at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, September 12, in the Helen Creighton Room at the Alderney Gate Public Library for a preview presentation of DAMMSel Day. Léola LeBlanc will present her project and talk about the process involved in using this innovative technology. This event is free of charge and refreshments will be served. Bring your iPhone and earphones if you have them. A limited number of devices will be available for use.
After the September 12th preview, interested participants can access DAMMSel Day from the main floor of Alderney Landing where Léola LeBlanc will have a designated information booth three days a week starting September 15th until the end of October, on Wednesday and Friday from 10 am to 4pm and Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm. To reserve an iPhone call 476-6670. DAMMSel day is open and accessible to anyone with an iPhone, 3Gs or iPhone 4, and earphones and will be available to experience indefinitely. Check out www.leolaleblanc.com for further information.
For those with an iPhone who would like to access DAMMSel Day on their own please follow these instructions.
Download 7scenes App from iTunes
7scenes works on iPhone 3Gs and iPhone 4.
Turn your iPhone on.
Tap on your App Store icon, tap on Search (bottom right hand corner of screen).
Type in 7scenes.
When 7scenes App appears, tap on Free then Install.
Your 7scenes App is now installed.
Before opening a 7scenes project go to Settings icon, open, go to General, then to Location Services.
Make sure Location Services is On.
Go back to your home screen by pressing the HOME key once (main button bottom center of iPhone), tap on your 7scenes icon to begin your favourite scene.
When 7scenes opens, go to Nearby.
Select DAMMSel Day, the one with the whale and Quaker hat icon.
The Local Artist-In-Residence Program is supported by the National Film Board of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage. The artist would like to acknowledge additional support from the Halifax Regional Municipality, the Dartmouth Heritage Museum and the Craig Gallery.
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CFAT Free Thursdays all Summer
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:00 AM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
Every Thursday all of the in-house facilities here at the Centre for Art Tapes are available to book at no charge for all current members. This is a great opportunity to refresh your skills with our available software, record audio in our sound-booth, or get to work on a media arts project. To book time for Free Thursdays call us here at the CFAT office at 420-4002.
To see a complete list of our available in-house facilities go to the Facilities page under the Resourses tab.
If you are not currently a member of CFAT you can become a member to take advantage of Free Thursdays. To find out more see the Membership page under the Resources tab.
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CFAT Announces new Programming Manager
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:30 AM - Friday, September 03, 2010 5:30 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
Announcement
The Centre for Art Tapes' Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Mireille Bourgeois as Programming Manager. Mireille brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position.
Originally from Dieppe, NB, Bourgeois has a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and MA from Bard College for Curatorial Studies (2009). From 2004-2007 Bourgeois was Programming Coordinator at CFAT where she instigated many programs and activities. She has been active in the media arts community, serving on boards for the Independent Media Arts Alliance and Media Arts Network of Ontario. Since 2009 she worked as Programmer and Curator at Saw Video, in Ottawa, ON. Mireille has also independently curated/contributed to programs at the Eastern Edge Art Gallery (NL), The Art Gallery at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NB), Electric Arts Intermix (NYC), Creative Times (NYC), Emerson Gallery (Berlin) and for the Canadian Museum of Civilization (ON), as well as published critical writing in Visual Arts News, Creative Times Press, C-Magazine and the online art blog Artengine. She has traveled through Europe and the United States to conferences, art fairs and biennials and has presented at media art conferences in Canada. Recently she was invited by the French Embassy to travel through France to engage artists and arts partners for collaborations with Canadian arts organizations. Mireille is extremely proud to once again be part of the Centre for Art Tapes community and looks forward to meeting its membership.
Mireille commenced her duties August 17, 2010.
James MacSwain retired as Programming Director at the end of May 2010. He continues to play an active role in the media arts community, working independently as an artist.
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Vessels: Prototype Demonstration
Monday, August 16, 2010 4:00 PM - Monday, August 16, 2010 5:00 PM
Halifax Public Gardens
Vessels: Prototype Demonstration
Monday, August 16th at 4:00pm. Public Gardens pond near the Spring Garden and South Park entrance (small pond with the bridge)
Samual St-Aubin, Sofian Audrey, Adam Kelly and Stephen Kelly have been in the Centre for Art Tapes Electonics Lab all week working on their collaborative electronics project "Vessels" to be presented at Nocturne in October. This Monday, August 16th at 4:00pm they will be presenting a prototype that will be used to develop multiple vehicles to be presented during Nocturne. Please meet at in the Public Gardens at the pond with the bridge near the south east side of the gardens where the demonstration will take place. The artists will be present to talk about the project and answer any questions you may have.
Project Description:
Vessels will be an outdoor installation consisting of two groups of autonomous nocturnal water vehicles. Each group will live in a different bed of water. During the day, the vehicles will remain inactive as they gather and store energy from the sun. At night, they will become active when they will collect, store, and interpret data from various environmental conditions such as water quality and temperature. From simple programmed correlations between sensors and actuators, a complex and unpredictable behaviour will emerge that will signify unseen characteristics of the environment and thus potentially provide new insights into the surroundings. Furthermore, stored data may be later used to analyze local environmental conditions.
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CFAT Local Artist in Residence Léola LeBlanc
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:00 PM - Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:00 PM
Centre for Art Tapes, Suite 207, CBC Radio Building
The Centre for Art Tapes Local Artist in Residence Léola Le Blanc will be available to meet and talk with members on Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1-5 p.m. here at the CFAT office starting in July. Léola is currently working on a locative media project using 7scenes, an open platform for multi-user real time with mobile location-based technology. Her site-specific project, entitled DAMMSel Day, is a fictional narrative drawing on the collection of the Dartmouth Heritage Museum. If you would like to come by to speak with Léola, please email in advance to set up an appointment or call the office on Tuesday or Wednesday while Léola is here. Contact Programming Coordinator Brendan Dunlop at cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca or 902-420-4002.
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CFAT Summer 2010 Newsletter
Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:00 PM - Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:00 PM
The Centre for Art Tapes printed newsletter is now available for members to pick up at the CFAT office during open hours. As well, it is available to download as an Adobe Acrobat document here.
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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).
To download the visitng artist poster right click and "save target as "here.
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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).
To download the visitng artist poster right click and "save target as "here.
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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.
To download the visitng artist poster right click and "save target as "here.
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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.
To download the Animation with Love! poster right click and "save target as" 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