Media Arts Residency
2018-2019 Recipients
A big welcome to the latest round of media-artists-in-residence at Video Pool!
Over the next 11 months or so we’ll be sharing some of their work-in-progress, please stay tuned.
Valérie Chartrand
Valérie Chartrand’s work primarily focuses on printmaking and the exploration of imprint in a broader sense, including electro-etching, cyanotype and photography. Her reflections revolve around insects and the significance of their presence and absence in our environment. Her first solo exhibition, Ghost Hives, took place at La Maison des artistes in the Fall of 2017.
Through the Media Art Residency, Valerie is exploring the creation of experiences with an accessible form of web-based augmented/mixed reality that can be viewed on smartphone browsers.
Karen Asher
Multi-disciplinary designer, artist and educator. Relational, collaborative, critical and speculative practices. Co-founded an independent record label; co-founded the critical design collective Public Design Unit, installations at Nuit Blanche Toronto and MoCAD Detroit; co-founded Different Data, speculative design and cartography, installations in US, Sweden.
Karen Asher is lens-based artist whose work explores her obsession with stress, absurdity and the catastrophe of everyday life. She likes candy and wandering the streets aimlessly.
Davis Plett
Davis Plett is a Winnipeg-based artist working in the spaces between media, writing, and performance. Their work has been shown by Nuit Blanche, Young Lungs Dance Exchange, the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, the Carol Shields Festival, and MonkeySparrow with the support of the Manitoba and Winnipeg arts councils. Current projects include: 805-4821, a performance for overhead projector (aceartinc. November 15-18, 2018), and Etudes for Keyboard, a typing performance for laptop keyboard (Cluster Festival 2019). They are currently a participant in the Video Pool Media Arts Residency and aceartinc.’s Cartae Open School. As a sound artist Davis has worked with Theatre Projects Manitoba, Mia van Leeuwen, Frances Koncan, Happy Accidents, OneTrunk Theatre, and 2boys.tv.
Daniel McCafferty
Multi-disciplinary designer, artist and educator. Relational, collaborative, critical and speculative practices. Co-founded an independent record label; co-founded the critical design collective Public Design Unit, installations at Nuit Blanche Toronto and MoCAD Detroit; co-founded Different Data, speculative design and cartography, installations in US, Sweden.