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Computing Sound

In the hands of an artist, the computer is the most expressive and innovative instrument for sound and music. The magic lies in building performance systems that enable real-time creative expression with defined limits. In this workshop, Ali will explore computer-based strategies for sound synthesis, performance systems, algorithmic techniques, and connecting “outside the box” to hardware and visual art. Ali will share his favorite techniques, built in Reaktor, MAX/MSP, SuperCollider, and Processing.js

MAR Artist Talks: Elise Dawson & Meganelizabeth Diamond

To wrap up their Media Arts Residencies (MAR) at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, our current artists-in-residence will be presenting artist talks(followed by Q&As) to share what they’ve been working on over the past year. Our second set of artists are Elise Dawson and Meganelizabeth Diamond.

BIPOC Tech Talk

Hosted by the lovely Eusebio Lopez-Aguilar, Video Pool Media Arts Centre would like to make space for #2SQT+BIPOC / #BIPOC #designers #programmers #coders #musicians #videographers #photographers #dancers #creators & #artsadministrators to talk about #art&technology, how we use #technology to make #art, and the milieu that comes with that in #Winnipeg ;

MAR Artist Talks: Kris Snowbird & Theo Pelmus

To wrap up their Media Arts Residencies (MAR) at Video Pool Media Arts Centre our current artists in residence will be presenting artist talks to share what they’ve been working on over the past year. First up, Kris Snowbird and Theo Pelmus, who have been working collaboratively throughout the duration of their residency, will be presenting a performative artist talk.

Devising Performance for Immersive Webspace: Volumetric Performance Toolbox

How can movement artists still create and perform from their living spaces during the Covid pandemic?How can movement artists still create and perform from their living spaces during the Covid pandemic?

Mocap with your Webcam

Designed with contemporary artists and dancers in mind; this will begin with an overview of motion capture techniques available today. The virtual hands-on component of the workshop will explore RADiCAL, an AI-powered motion capture tool, to generate data files from web camera recordings and apply the data to animate readymade avatars or 3D objects in Unity (free software). Workshop open to all skill levels, no previous experience is necessary.

Ever Wonder How VP Was Formed?

Video Pool Media Arts Centre (VP) developed out of Winnipeg’s Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and, while still a subsection of Plug In, was known as Video Group. Click below to read a brief history of VP’s origins as it relates to both Plug In and Video Group, written by one of VP’s Founding Members, Ryan Takatsu.

The JPEG is Dead

With the arrival of interactive web-based technology this presentation questions why online art exhibitions are often reduced to a collection of static JPEG files. This session takes a deep dive into the future of online art exhibitions. Participants will be shown digital artworks that push boundaries of traditional exhibition formats. Discussion around implementation and creation of interactive and engaging digital art exhibitions will also take place and include latest tools and platforms.

Expressing oneself through code : Coding Beyond the Screen

In this workshop, participants will see how coding can be used in musical, performative and literary arts. By using tools such as livecodingYoutube, Hydra, Inverse.website and Sonic Pi to name a few. They will see how expressive and creative code will with the benefit of seeing how it can be use in a collaborative setting. Participants will see how improvised writing and coding can lead to various outcomes, musically, as well as, how to use network elements to your advantage, when writing or producing work.

Day With(out) Art 2020 – TRANSMISSIONS

For Day With(out) Art 2020, Video Pool Media Arts and partners Nine Circles Community Health Centre are proud to support Visual AIDS in their presentation of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six newly commissioned videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), Las Indetectables (Chile), Charan Singh (India/U.K.), and George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda).