Programming 2005 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

The Process of Weeding Out – December 2005

A veritable raw mix tape, The Process of Weeding Out intrigues and investigates the intimate, raw and sometime humourous relationships of artists to their environments. Like a classic mix tape, the program flows across a varied array of ideas and approaches to the medium, creating new relationships beween the juxtaposed works.

Wendy Geller screening at WAG – September 2005

McSwain writes that Wendy Geller’s video work “encompasses a voice and structure that strips away the habits and politeness that shield us from the forces of nature, and the hierarchies of power that suffuse western society. In her humorous satire, her feminist sensibility revels in critiquing Freudian psychoanalysis as well as the role(s) of actresses within the Hollywood star system. However, Geller’s voice finds its most multilayered synthesis in her series Stories for the Garden.

Sarah Cook at aceartinc. – September 2005

September 20, 2005
Video Pool and aceartinc. present a lecture by writer and curator Sarah Cook

Sarah Cook is a Sunderland University doctoral researcher in New Media Curation (a collaboration with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art). She worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and organised the EAT on-line forum there. She has been a curator-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada and has worked at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Garbage Hill: A Retrospective of Discarded Winnipeg Film and TV

Garbage Hill at Cinematheque – August 2005

The ATELIER NATIONAL du MANITOBA & DANIEL BARROW present

Garbage Hill: A Retrospective of Discarded Winnipeg Film and TV

Video Pool’s Poolroom and the Cinematheque
August 26, 27 & 28, 2005

Charles Sheppard: Gameshow – June 2005

A Multimedia Performance by Charles Sheppard
Saturday June 25, 2005

Gameshow version 1.0 is an interactive digital performance art event that explores the issues and dynamics of interactivity by placing a live performer in a computer generated 3D gaming environment, where she can interact with a live studio audience via video projection.

Vey Duke and Battersby – May/June 2005

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby:
The New Freedom Founders
May 27, 2005 – June 17, 2005

Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard: 2boys.tv – April 2005

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents
2boys.tv
Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard
Artists’ talk and screening
Friday April 1, 2005 7:30 pm
Video Pool’s Poolroom (basement level Artspace Building)

Frédéric Moffet Screening – March 2005

Join us for a screening of three recent videos by Montréal/Chicago-based artist Frédéric Moffet. Blurring the line between facts and fantasies, his work investigates the out-of-control body torn between ethics and desires. His videos and films have been shown at festivals and galleries from Zurich to Hong Kong.

Frédéric Moffet will be present to introduce the videos and answer questions after the screening.