Residencies – Page 3 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

CRIPTYCH

CRIPTYCH showcases a year of intensive project development from members of the DATA program, a collaboration between Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba and Video Pool Media Arts. This exhibition confronts outdated modes of therapy, unearths skeletons in the mental health care system, explores inner worlds of digitally-mediated self-examination and negotiates boundaries between vulnerable states of dependence, dis/ability and agency. The artists in CRIPTYCH take extraordinary lengths to share their experiences through these profoundly personal artworks.

Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration: 2020 recipient Chukwudubem Ukaigwe

Way back in March we announced Chukwudubem Ukaigwe as the 2020 recipient of the Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration and that he would take over Poolside Gallery for the month of May. Covid-induced restrictions meant altering the plan and the residency will take place in November and into December with some amendments to the original public-presentation part of the program. As guidelines around public access are changing frequently, some of these may or may not be possible as we move along.

Mediations: Media Arts Residency 2018-19 exhibit

Throughout the past year, Karen Asher, Valérie Chartrand, Daniel Shane and Davis Plett have been both expanding on-going personal projects as well as creating new work while participating in Video Pool’s Media Arts Residency program. While approaching their work from disparate origins and aesthetics, these four fabulous artists have found common ground in using technology as a mediating factor in further exploring and understanding the environment and ecology, issues around the fabricated reality / dis-reality as seen through data and the body as centered between the dream world of memory and that of the document.

Ken Gregory – I Remember Falling

A Greek myth, a contemporary sound artist and a blacksmith walk into a bar. Driven by an ever deepening curiosity, artist and novice blacksmith Ken Gregory reaches into the past to explore the story of the birth of Hephaetus and how it relates to our contemporary society. Using blacksmithing traditions as a foundation for creating an immersive soundscape, Gregory examines how contemporary society has given short shrift to those whose bodies and/or minds don’t fit in to what is considered normal.

Reva Stone – Portal Revisited 2019

Portal Revisited 2019 is a revision of a responsive installation work that was begun in 1999 but wasn’t completed until this year. It uses iPhone 4’s to investigate how networked devices for human communication have dramatically transformed the intersections between our bodies, our consciousness and our machines. The phones are programmed to perform a series of specific behaviours that give them the appearance of sentience.

Helga Jakobson: Shimmer

Queer ecology calls us to reimagine many ways of being and acting, from self expression to defence. An example of this is looking at how some bee colonies in their swarm formation collectivize and defend in a wave-like action which is sometimes referred to as shimmering. Through movements that demonstrate solidarity and strength, the community works together in a stunningly visual display that protects and asserts presence.

Erika Lincoln

In 2016, the Japanese satellite Hitomi-ASTRO-H spun out of orbit and broke up. The cause of the accident was ascribed to both software and human error. In reading multiple reports on this event, Lincoln was interested in the anthropomorphic language used to describe the satellite’s behaviour just before the breakup. Lincoln began to explore this assigned agency by speculating on what Hitomi’s “state of mind” would be from dealing with the conflicting error messages. The result is an installation of two sculptural works, Aerial Effusions and Hitomi, in a conversation.

Scott Leroux Fund 2019 recipient Colby Richardson

It is our pleasure to announce Colby Richardson as the 2019 recipient of the Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration. Colby will inhabit Poolside Gallery for the month of March and has some ambitious plans for our legacy video equipment that has been faithfully stored and maintained over the years. In addition to employing use of this equipment to develop new work, Colby will host a number of open-studio days and a presentation on the First Friday of April.

Media Arts Residency 2019-2020

Please note that due to a challenging year, the MAR program cycle has been cycle has been delayed. Work from the current artists will be posted when it is ready. Please check back at a later date.

Media Arts Residency: 2018-2019

A big welcome to the latest round of media-artists-in-residence at Video Pool! Over the next 11 months or so we’ll be sharing some of their work-in-progress, please stay tuned.