In this introductory workshop, participants will learn some fundamental concepts for writing code to make art for the web. This workshop will provide an orientation to working with p5 and requires no previous coding experience.
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Showing Initiatives II
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to host Showing Initiatives II,a programcurated by Jenny Western. In this program Western continues her look at initiatives that encourage Indigenous artists to take up video art and filmmaking. The program exhibit nine films and videos made across the prairies.
Sound Recording Techniques
Video Pool Media Arts Centre has a great studio for recording with a big room, isolation booth and mixing room. Using this venue, Janell will talk about the principles of recording and the process in multi-track recording.
Circuit Playground Express
This workshop will introduce you to the basics of Python programming and embedded platforms like the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express board, which can be used to add lights, sound, and interactivity to costumes, props, and art installations. No previous experience with coding or micro-controllers is required to take advantage of what these technologies have to offer.
CRIPTYCH
CRIPTYCH showcases a year of intensive project development from members of the DATA program, a collaboration between Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba and Video Pool Media Arts. This exhibition confronts outdated modes of therapy, unearths skeletons in the mental health care system, explores inner worlds of digitally-mediated self-examination and negotiates boundaries between vulnerable states of dependence, dis/ability and agency. The artists in CRIPTYCH take extraordinary lengths to share their experiences through these profoundly personal artworks.
Merging Mindsets – Social Media and Mental Health
Social Media platforms can be an integral part of building a creative brand and online community. In today’s society, these apps are one of the first go-to’s for potential clients to instantly understand and connect with your brand. Apps like Instagram and Facebook can require countless hours of your attention – creating content, editing, responding to comments and messages, interacting with others in the community and more. But what is this constant connection to media, messages, and information doing to our mental health? This presentation will discuss how to recognize when social media use is becoming a detriment to one’s mental health. In addition, we will talk about how to set up boundaries to engage in a healthy, moderated way, while still connecting with your audience and share resources available for those who are struggling to maintain balance.
Anatomy of Planning a Tech/Art Project
Participants will be led through scaffolding structures designed to aid in the production of a project with an emphasis on technological considerations. This is a practical guide. Topics include collaboration, critiques, roadblocks, development, problem solving, production, exhibition, and project maintenance. Participants are welcome to bring current projects if you have them!
QALEIDOSCOPE
QALEIDOSCOPE features short queer/QTBIPOC films that explore, question and play with identity to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender and race. As the titles suggests, QALEIDOSCOPE – will be a well-textured assemblage of images, characters, ideas, and realities that collide in fantastical, personal, and playful ways to produce an ever-changing, multi-faceted queer film viewing experience
Merging Mindsets – Principles and Tools of Interactivity
For artwork or installations to be interactive, artists and designers need to consider a multitude of factors, including what technology is needed and human behaviour. A willingness to engage can be different for everyone and usability can be a challenge. Technology can expand new avenues to bring your concept to life but it can also be temperamental. Join us to learn about sensors, software and considerations for incorporating interactivity into your artwork. This panel is designed to inspire and inform but will not be a hands-on workshop.
Merging Mindsets – Wearables
If you’ve ever been to Nuit Blanche, a Cosplay event, or night club – then you’ve probably seen someone lit up in lights. These DIY wearable creators use electronics, LEDs, mini controllers – and more – to enhance what they wear. Come and learn what the pros do, how to get started, where to find supplies and where to go once you have made your own DIY wearable. This panel is designed to inspire and is not a hands-on workshop.