The Tremendous Adventures of Kai and Tojo by Winona Bearshield

Inside The Pixels / Outside The Frame

The Indigenous Media Arts Initiative is a youth mentorship program run by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in partnership with CEDA/Pathways, that provides focused artistic development opportunities to four Indigenous youth, providing mentorship and learning opportunities in various forms of media arts creation and production. Mentees are paired with established artists from the Indigenous community and provided with 6 months of mentorship and training at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, including one year of free access to our equipment and facilities. The results of their mentorship will be on display at our Poolside Gallery on the 2nd floor of Artspace, and will be distributed internationally through our Video Distribution department.
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Temporal Contours v.02

Temporal Contours is intended to create an open, inclusive and comfortable space for the exploration and experimentation of all things sonic. For version 02 we’re thrilled to be able to host from California, Henry Kaiser, as well as sets from local Rosa Reaper and a new project called Raze, made up of two members of Civvie.
Seth Parker Woods

Cluster Festival –asinglewordisnotenough

Video Pool Media Arts Centre and Poolside Gallery have teamed up with the Cluster Festival this year and is excited to host asinglewordisnotenough, where Seth Parker Woods will play an intimate solo recital of works for cello and electronics by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Oliver Thurley, Monty Adkins, Chinary Ung, Martin Iddon and Mary Jane Leach.
Jackie Huskisson / Artist in Residence / Scott Leroux Fund

Jackie Huskisson / Artist in Residence / Scott Leroux Fund

Calgary multi-disciplinary artist Jackie Huskisson, recipient of the inaugural Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration is the artist-in-residence for the month of March 2018. Jackie is occupying Poolside Gallery and developing sculptural forms which she is animating via projection-mapping. Her work delves into the psyche through the development of at-times surrealist characters isolated in space. As part of the Fund, we will be holding open houses each Friday throughout March, 1-5 pm in Poolside.
No Man’s Land – Louis Couturier & Jacky Georges Lafargue

No Man’s Land – Louis Couturier & Jacky Georges Lafargue

No Man’s Land started with a residency supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in Manitoba (2016). The purpose of this residency was to follow the Manitoba-United States boundary strip, which is 6 meters wide by 444 kilometers long. This line, neither American nor Canadian, is a true no man’s land separating Manitoba from the states of North Dakota and Minnesota. We explored, traveled, photographed and filmed it. Our main action was to take samples (soil squares and soil prints). Ten samples were taken. The video set of landscape and interventions of real samplings carried out constitutes a artialisation: that is to say an artistic transformation of the boundary landscape. This artialisation is applied at Poolside Gallery in the form of an installation called No Man’s Land.