Programming – Page 20 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Memory Awareness Expectations

Our annual exhibition in Platform Gallery (Main Floor 100 Arthur St.) of works by Video Pool’s fundholders. This year’s show includes the 2013 – 2014 recipients of the Media Production Fund and the New Artist in New Media Fund, Shawn Jordan, Jaimie Isaac, Ryan Amadore, Kevin Tabachnik, Marianne Jonasson & Elvira Finnigan. The show will run Tuesday to Saturday, Noon – 5pm July 25 to August 23, 2014.

Watch Risa Horowitz Artist Talk

Risa Horowitz spent the month of May 2014 as an Artist in Residence at Video Pool. While here, she developed ideas and prototypes for her work in progress ‘Imaging Saturn’. ‘Imaging Saturn’ visualizes the planet’s motion during the course of its 29 year-long orbit around the sun. In this talk Horowitz shares her processes and experiences in developing a series of micro-controlled kinetic sculptures of the planet that, with image recording devices, will depict its appearance throughout its orbit.

Risa Horowitz – Artist Talk

Horowitz will present her work in progress, Imaging Saturn. The project visualizes the planet’s motion during the course of its 29 year-long orbit around the sun. She will share her processes and experiences in developing a series of micro-controlled kinetic sculptures of the planet that, with image recording devices, will depict its appearance throughout its orbit.

Digital Distribution Platform Announced

Video Pool is excited to share the Canada Council for the Arts’ announcement of a 1.5 million dollar investment into a new digital distribution platform.
We are thrilled to be part of this amazing group of distributors who have been working so hard to get the platform off the ground to benefit Video Pool Members and the Media Arts Community at large.

International Women’s Day 2014

In celebration of International Women’s Day this Saturday, March 8, Video Pool was excited to share three works in our collection made by incredibly talented Manitoban women. Zuma by Sharon Alward, Super by Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan and Private Residence by Wendy Geller, were available online to watch over a 48 hour period.

Watch Andrew John Milne’s Artist Talk

Artist Andrew Milne delivers a talk on his exhibition ‘Apparatus’. ‘Apparatus’ ran from January 17 to March 1, 2014 at RAW: Gallery of Architecture and Design and was co-presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre and RAW Gallery.

Toxic Life and Engineered Death – Symposium Videos

All of the Toxic Life and Engineered Death talks are available on this website via the links below or on our Vimeo page.

Video Pool Member Screening

Come out to Video Pool’s Studio for a night of video work by Video Pool members. It’s sure to be a fun time!

Media X Screening

Media X is to disseminate contemporary Canadian media art in the form of screenings promoting emerging and experienced artists together. Media X’s current theme “Subversive Revolution” creates a compilation of video art provoking response and conversation on the infrastructures of the contemporary art world.

Skot Deeming (aka mrghosty) – Artist Talk

Join Skot Deeming (aka mrghosty) for a curatorial talk on the practice of curating games and game based artworks. Skot will briefly outline the history of the employment of video games in contemporary art practice and discuss his vision for the curation of such artworks.What condiserations must be made when selecting this kind of work? What are the spaces, critical and aesthetic concerns in curating video games and game art? This discussion will span the indie video game making scene, art games, video game modding practices, ROMhacking, bootlegs and more.