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VP Learning Laboratories – Grant Writing Tips and Tricks

Jennifer will take you through a two part workshop. Part one will focus on grant writing where you will learn about the content of what you should include in your grants and how to organize the ideas you want to share in the grant. Part two will focus on budgeting, we will talk about what you can and cannot request money and how to create the budget.

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VP Code Jam

In this coding jam, participants will see how coding can be used in musical, performative and literary arts. Adrian and Kofi will give an overview of tools such as livecoding Youtube, Hydra, Inverse.website, Sonic Pi and Ruby. Participants will see how expressive and creative code will be with the benefit of seeing how it can be used in a collaborative setting. Improvising writing and coding can lead to various outcomes, musically, visually, as well as, how to use network elements to your advantage producing work.Along with Sonic Pi, a software synthesizer which allows anyone to create music as computer code, Ruby, a popular language for web development. Sound options will include; controlling synths, working with samples, using audio effects, and working with live loops. DJ’s, musicians, installation artists, and anyone who wants or likes to play with synthesized audio will find these powerful tools for creative expression.

Face the Land

Learn about the Face the Land nature-based performance art method, which includes land-based performance techniques, performance documentation methods, and a digital distribution strategy. We will discuss automated drone flight paths and multi-camera video rigs to document live performances for an online audience as well as deep-listening apparatuses using various microphones to work with augmented audio onsite. We will discuss a working solar-powered filmmaking model that was developed to produce digital films using the power of the sun.

VP Learning Laboratories

Through our new Online Learning Series – VP Learning Laboratories, we seek to partner with innovative artists, educators, activists and technicians interested in furthering the capacity of media artists through a range of creative concepts focused on technology. We are accepting any ideas you may have but are particularly interested in concepts around creative coding, physical computing (interactivity), algorithmic bias, data mining, VR, AR or other immersive technologies, as well as sound art, video art and other experimental practices using technology. All workshops will be free of charge to all participants.

Farewell Jen & Andy

It is a HappySad day for us at VP as we announce the departure of two of our longest standing staff members, both of whom are leaving to pursue their passions that they were able to develop during their time at VP and with the Winnipeg arts community. They are both finished at the end of April but will remain doing small bits of work for VP because, well, they’re invaluable!

The Curators : New Media Gallery

Join New Media Gallery Director-Curators for a talk on New Media Gallery and their curatorial practice. With examples from their past work at Tate & Lisson galleries as well as from the 25 group exhibitions they have curated at New Media Gallery. The talk will cover case studies involving curatorial process, design + installation around complex technologies, sustainability strategies for galleries and the highs and lows associated with running and curating a small, international gallery devoted to contemporary art + technology.

Multidimensional New Media Performance

While we’re shedding away the old system that may not work for us anymore, we’re embracing, learning, and growing rapidly as we enter into new worlds that our deeper purpose calls for us. In this presentation, Sammy will share highlights of his past decade of works that focus on new media art in interdisciplinary performance context. Moreover, he will demonstrate his process of adapting live art towards virtual formats with the use of new media software such as Isadora, to inspire the viewers to activate their imaginations beyond the conventional limitations.

Digital Dramaturgy Initiative – Call For Applications

The Manitoba Association of Playwrights (MAP) is looking for participants for a week-long residency workshop (June 21 to 26, 2021), taking place at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, exploring the integration of digital technology and expertise in early stages of story creation and project development.

Pieces of the Archive – Free Online Video Screening Program

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to present the program Pieces of the Archive. Pieces of the Archive shows a small cross section of work from the Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s collection. Looking back at the collection that spans almost forty years of collecting it is hard to tell the story of the history of video art in Manitoba. The five works in this program do not even attempt to do that, however they explore ideas of, experimental practice, performance, social discourse, identity, culture, and gender. These are recurring themes in the majority of work in the collection. If you enjoy any of these five videos, you will find so much more in our collection that will interest you.