Workshops – Page 3 – Video Pool Media Arts Centre

WORKSHOP – Queering the Celluloid with Elian Mikkola

As a part of Qaleidoscope Queer Film on Tour 2023, a free workshop will be offered in
Winnipeg and Saskatoon.
This three-day workshop will be facilitated by experimental filmmaker and green
“scientist” Elian Mikkola.

VP Learning Laboratories – In Place (Jason Kahn)

What does it mean to listen, as opposed to just hearing? How do we interact with the social and physical spaces we move through each day by listening or not listening? How can we raise our awareness of the world around us by paying more attention to its sounds and how they influence our lives? In this workshop we’ll explore these questions and consider what listening can mean in our everyday lives.

VP Learning Laboratories – Grant Writing Tips and Tricks

Jennifer will take you through a two part workshop. Part one will focus on grant writing where you will learn about the content of what you should include in your grants and how to organize the ideas you want to share in the grant. Part two will focus on budgeting, we will talk about what you can and cannot request money and how to create the budget.

VP Learning Laboratories – Digital Portals: 3D Animation (Blender)

Have you ever wanted to learn how to create and animate 3D objects? Join Hiba Ali as we learn how to assemble, color, texture and render a short 3D animation.

In this 2-part workshop, we will learn the basics of 3D animation with Blender, an open-source 3D animation program. As a source of inspiration, we will learn about the history, theory and examples of 3D animation and art.

VP Learning Laboratories – Citizen Science in Art: Making Environmental Data Meaningful

Highlighting works that affect environmental data using tools and techniques to transcribe this data into expressive artworks using Arduino, Raspberry Pi and MaxMSP.

Environmental Data is often an abstract concept, detached from the complexities of the space or situation it describes. Using citizen science, coding and making, Michael creates narratives for environment data that produce an emotional and relatable dimension. Working with a variety of coding languages, data is brought to life through performance and interactive sculptures. Michael will give an overview of his practice, focusing on works that involve environmental data and will highlight some tools and techniques he uses to transcribe this data into expressive artworks using Arduino, Raspberry Pi and MaxMSP.

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VP Learning Laboratories – Creating in Virtual Worlds

How to make video, perform live…and beyond in the longest running virtual world.

Having spent time in and out of virtual worlds for over 20 years, this past year of relative isolation led me back in. Through this period I have realized the incredible potential for art making within user generated avatar based virtual worlds. I have been performing live sound with an exact replica of my loom built by a friend who I met in world. I’ve also been DJing, building immersive installations and filming short films as part of a genre of filmmaking called Machinima.

VP Code Jam

In this coding jam, participants will see how coding can be used in musical, performative and literary arts. Adrian and Kofi will give an overview of tools such as livecoding Youtube, Hydra, Inverse.website, Sonic Pi and Ruby. Participants will see how expressive and creative code will be with the benefit of seeing how it can be used in a collaborative setting. Improvising writing and coding can lead to various outcomes, musically, visually, as well as, how to use network elements to your advantage producing work.Along with Sonic Pi, a software synthesizer which allows anyone to create music as computer code, Ruby, a popular language for web development. Sound options will include; controlling synths, working with samples, using audio effects, and working with live loops. DJ’s, musicians, installation artists, and anyone who wants or likes to play with synthesized audio will find these powerful tools for creative expression.

Face the Land

Learn about the Face the Land nature-based performance art method, which includes land-based performance techniques, performance documentation methods, and a digital distribution strategy. We will discuss automated drone flight paths and multi-camera video rigs to document live performances for an online audience as well as deep-listening apparatuses using various microphones to work with augmented audio onsite. We will discuss a working solar-powered filmmaking model that was developed to produce digital films using the power of the sun.

VP Learning Laboratories

Through our new Online Learning Series – VP Learning Laboratories, we seek to partner with innovative artists, educators, activists and technicians interested in furthering the capacity of media artists through a range of creative concepts focused on technology. We are accepting any ideas you may have but are particularly interested in concepts around creative coding, physical computing (interactivity), algorithmic bias, data mining, VR, AR or other immersive technologies, as well as sound art, video art and other experimental practices using technology. All workshops will be free of charge to all participants.

The Curators : New Media Gallery

Join New Media Gallery Director-Curators for a talk on New Media Gallery and their curatorial practice. With examples from their past work at Tate & Lisson galleries as well as from the 25 group exhibitions they have curated at New Media Gallery. The talk will cover case studies involving curatorial process, design + installation around complex technologies, sustainability strategies for galleries and the highs and lows associated with running and curating a small, international gallery devoted to contemporary art + technology.