Programming 2015 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Interview with David Rokeby

David Rokeby’s interactive installation “Dark Matter” (2010) was included in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s AGE OF CATASTROPHE exhibition that ran from November 13 – December 12, 2015. Rokeby came to Winnipeg for the opening of the show and to speak at CATASTROPHE, CATACLYSM AND THE SINGULAR ACCIDENT symposium in conjunction with the exhibition. While he was here he also recorded this interview with Video Pool’s director, Dr. Melentie Pandilovski.

Interview with Paul Thomas

Dr. Paul Thomas’ interactive audio visual installation “Quantum Consciousness” (2015) was included in Video Pool Media Arts Centre’s AGE OF CATASTROPHE exhibition that ran from November 13 – December 12, 2015. Thomas came to Winnipeg for the opening of the show and to deliver a keynote address at CATASTROPHE, CATACLYSM AND THE SINGULAR ACCIDENT symposium in conjunction with the exhibition. While in town Dr. Melentie Pandiloski, director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre had a chance to interview Thomas about his work.

Watch – Catastrophe, Cataclysm and the Singular Accident Symposium

Catastrophe, Cataclysm and the Singular Accident was a one-day symposium open to the public during which artists, scholars, researchers and members of the community engaged in a discussion of the theoretical, aesthetic and political ramifications of tsunamis and technological disasters, epidemics and tectonic shifts, evictions and colonialisms, cataclysmic trajectories and avoidable/unavoidable outcomes.

VUCAVU Info Session

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is excited to share with our members and supporters information about our partnership with seven other Canadian Independent Media Art Distributors, resulting in VUCAVU.com. VUCAVU is a bilingual online platform used for the dissemination of independent Canadian video and film. After over three years of planning and working on the project, we look forward to launching the platform in Spring 2016! Video Pool Media Arts Centre will have over 100 titles on the platform to begin and will constantly be adding new titles.

Book Launch – Marshall McLuhan + Vilem Flusser’s Communication + Aesthetic Theories Revisited

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is proud to present the launch of the book MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND VILEM FLUSSER’S COMMUNICATION AND AESTHETIC THEORIES REVISITED. This scholarly book of academic analyses and artists’ position papers represents the proceedings of the international conference of the same name convened by Dr. Melentie Pandilovski in 2012.

Age of Catastrophe

Learn all about the Age of Catastrophe by visiting ageofcatastrophe.com

Linda Dornan – Artist in Residence

Linda Rae Dornan is an interdisciplinary artist creating video, installation and performance art, and writing. Her work explores visuals, performativity and embodied text about place, memory and being. She has won the Strathbutler Award and the Linda Joy Award, has been the recipient of many grants, and has exhibited / screened works across Canada, the United States, and in South America and Europe. She lives in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.

Device_art 5.015

Video Pool is pleased to announce its participation in the eleventh annual international exhibition Device_art 5.015, to be held at the Klovićevi dvori Gallery, the Gradec Plateau, the Zagreb Academy of the Fine Arts and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb (Croatia), from September 24 to October 4, 2015. Organized by Zagreb’s KONTEJNER bureau for art praxis, this show is made possible through the partnership of Kapelica Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Eastern Bloc (Montréal, Canada) and Video Pool.

Factoid #3 presented in partnership with send + receive v17

Philosophy has asked about the linkage between the structure of consciousness and the structure of now, yet it has left sound out of this question. How does sound contribute to this linkage? Consider for example the repetitive temporal structures present in techno musics, or the prolonged tones of Tibetan music ñ some rather primary relationships between time, consciousness and sound could be imagined. Informed by recent studies in the psychopathology of time, Fell’s intense and confrontational installation Factoid #3 promotes a destabilized association between time, the self and sound.

Craft Year 2015 – Online Screening

In celebration of Craft Year 2015, the Manitoba Craft Council is pleased to partner with Video Pool Media Arts Centre to bring you this program of shorts by three Manitoba artists whose work intersects with craft: tamara rae biebrich, Chantel Mierau and Seth Woodyard.