Exhibition & Event Archive

Video Pool Media Arts Centre invites you to attend an Artist Talk and Screening by Winnipeg artist and curator Doug Lewis. Lewis will be presenting his latest work “Screenplay” and discussing the ‘screen’ as an object that holds both our anticipation and simultaneously delays our sense of expectation. In addition, Lewis will be drawing parallels between neurological functions and cinematic perceptions based upon the recently released book Memory by Alison Winter.

Manuel Chantre’s work focuses on the construction and deconstruction of cultural symbols. Designed as an immersive and interactive installation, Dispergere Maiz, explores the various representations and symbols associated with corn- a plant that has been cultivated and consumed by human kind for the last five thousand years.

Follow Lei Cox on a journey to fiction and back again inBeing There. Video Pool Media Arts Centre in collaboration with Gurevich Fine Art are pleased to present a retrospective of Lei Cox`s work from 1986 to 2011.

Video Pool Media Arts Centre in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, Department of English, Theatre and Film, organizes: “Vilém Flusser’s and Marshall McLuhan’s Theories of Communication Revisited”. This two-day, International Conference and Exhibition juxtaposes the unique legacies of the phenomenologically-based communication theorist Vilém Flusser, and the media prophet Marshal McLuhan whose play on language and media shaped today’s networked society by coining expressions such as “the medium is the message” and “the global village”.

Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in collaboration with The University of Manitoba School of Art is pleased to present: Inflatable Robotic Arts in Canada by New York based artist Chico MacMurtrie. Inflatable Architecture Intervention and the Cellular Hexagons are the most recent developments for live performance and installation. Inspired by cellular architecture and organic growth, these works offer a direct, visceral experience of the kinds of minuet geometric constructions that underlie all of life. Inflatable Architecture Intervention, like MacMurtrie`s earlier work, reveals that organic and inorganic forms are not mutually exclusive categories, but different moments of a shared continuum of form.

“Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake” is a participatory web and public video installation re-interpreting the original 1929 avant-guard documentary “Man With a Movie Camera” by Dziga Vertov. “The Global Remake” illuminates the capabilities of the internet to achieve global collaboration by encouraging culturally diverse participation. The piece includes footage shot by people around the world creating infinite possible versions of the film.

Video Pool Media Arts Center, in collaboration with Ace Art Inc and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts invite you to celebrate LITE NITE: ART’S BIRTHDAY 2012: an evening of light inspired installations, workshops, performances, si…lent auction and cake!

TAG TALES is a web-based interactive word game situated on screen in Studio 393 in Portage Place Shopping Centre. Tag Tales was conceived to be played in public areas where people shut down and turn on cell phones, mobile devices and portable computers.

Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music and spent much of the early part of the 20th century driving across America in a car that he modified to house his recording equipment so that he could record the folk music of the American people. He contributed a large amount of recording to what would come to be the Smithsonian Folkways Collection. The mission statement of Smithsonian Folkways states that their mission “is to document people’s music.’”

A panoramic image of the local cityscape suspended in a 3-D environment is displayed on the LCD screens, outfitted in the helmets. As the viewers wear the HMD’s, they become linked to a network where their physiological outputs are tracked and measured, in turn altering the panoramic images. The panoramas on the screen are commonly seen city images used in postcard, travel advertisements, and promotional items showing famous landmarks or buildings. Over time the image becomes entirely different from the original, exposing the panorama – a depiction that can be easily constructed and manipulated.