Programming 2014 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

An Evening of Wanderings

Video Pool Director Dr. Melentie Pandilovski and Dr. Praba Pilar will launch the most recent issue of the Australian magazine Artlink. This issue features articles about Video Pool’s Toxicity exhibit held in December 2013/January 2014.

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Helga Jakobson – Artist Talk

With work that often incorporates detritus from her immediate environment, whether components of the natural landscape or relics from her great grandparents’ homestead, Helga Jakobson’s practice is a responsive and reflective attempt to quantify experience.

Watch Caroline Monnet Artist Talk

Watch – Caroline Monnet – Artist Talk
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From September 5 – 27, 2014 Video Pool Media Arts Centre presented “Amik(waa)”, an installation by multi-disciplinary artist Caroline Monnet. The show took place at Gurevich Fine Art in association with their exhibition “In Celebration of Women’s Art” in recognition of Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art’s (MAWA) 30th anniversary.
In this talk Monnet discusses her work “Amik(waa)”. The installation investigates the connections between the inherent knowledge of Monnet’s Algonquin ancestry — the Beaver Clan — and the natural world. Monnet’s sacred eight pointed geometric and mirrored installation echoes the ceremonial lodge of her ancestors, sharpening our visual and metaphysical conditions that allow us to view the past, the present and the future as a mirrored and personally reflective surface. With the inclusion of an audible soundscape, the installation invites all our senses to partake in an experience that spans across generations and cultures, and connects the beaver to the knowledge she holds sacred.

AMIK(WAA) – Caroline Monnet

Gurevich Fine Art & Video Pool Media Arts Centre are proud to celebrate Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art’s (MAWA) 30th anniversary with In Celebration of Women’s Art: Featuring Amik(waa) by Caroline Monnet an exhibition that supports and celebrates the rich diversity of women artists.

Journeys – an Online Screening

Between Friday, July 18 and Sunday July 20, three videos from Video Pool’s distribution archive were available to watch online. Thanks for watching everyone!

Heath Bunting

Heath Bunting will lead an outdoor survival workshop with the goal of training artists in survival techniques so they can out-live the organised crime networks during the final crisis. The workshop will cover fire, water, food, shelter and improvised tools.

Watch Heath Bunting Artist Talk

Based in the UK, Heath Bunting focuses on the development of open democratic and communication systems and social structures on the Internet and in the public space. He is a co-founder of net.art. Recently, he has moved into the field of genetics proclaiming it to be the next new media, and is also making steps towards producing work within financial networks, believing money to be the ultimate media for artistic practice.

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.