Exhibition & Event Archive

Video Pool welcomed residents of Winnipeg to talk to
strangers via two intriguing new media projects by Germaine Koh.
Call was an interactive installation involving a hacked vintage rotary-dial telephone that connected immediately to one of several volunteers as soon as the receiver is lifted. Participants were invited to experience the unique opportunity of striking up a conversation about anything or everything with an anonymous individual at the other end of the line.

Germaine Koh delivered a fantastic talk about her work, which surveyed her dynamic and varied conceptual practice encompassing performance,
intervention, installation, new
media, painting, and even knitting.

launched on September 29 with all the appropriate fanfare. This exhibition, which features work by Warren Arcand, Kevin Ei-Ichi deForest, Skawennati Fragnito, and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, was available for viewing until Saturday, November 10 at Urban Shaman Gallery (203-290 McDermot Ave).

Lynne Marsh’s work is influenced and informed by: the infinite spatial expanse of game environment, the Ballroom presents a woman, athletic and glamorous, suspended upside down in the centre of a dancehall, her glittering sequined costume reflects light like a mirror ball. Marsh’s virtually constructed ballroom is based on the existing, south London ‘Rivoli’ ballroom. The spinning woman at the centre of the projection appears small in comparison to her virtual surroundings. The viewer is overwhelmed by the scale of the virtual environment, and, perhaps, is underwhelmed by the limited actions of the virtual performer.

A virtual universe of faraway stars and planets is created from commonplace objects, compressed and reframed by video processing software in Erika Lincoln’s interactive new media installation Sidereal Projections. Through the technological mediation of ordinary objects, Lincoln provokes a subtle distinction between the perceived and the known through making familiar objects and spaces strange. In this work the physical world, the illusion of art and the imagination of the viewer work together to create the sense of a vast and distant universe.

Pool Cue: VP members’ screening. Check out some video art at Video Pool’s 2006 member’s screening.

Reasonable & Senseless: The Technical Disaster is a multi-channel video installation presented on 20 tiny, four-inch monitors displayed in rows, on two shelves. Historic footage depicting a famous disaster is displayed on each monitor, while one animated letter apears and disapears –superimposed as if writen in smoke – on top of each clip. Seen together they spell out the words “reasonable & senseless.”

From September 20th to 23rd, 2006, Winnipeg will play host to the Independent Media Arts Alliance’s annual national conference and will present some of the most innovative and exciting film, video and new media art in the country. This three day festival and conference will showcase impassioned and contentious artwork and thinking in independent media art.

The animated works of Amy Lockhart exemplify the homey charm and naïve humour of do-it-yourself animation. Films in this program span the artist’s 7-year animation practice and include her most recent animation, an epic non-linear narrative, Walk for Walk and the wildly popular Miss Edmonton Teenburger series. Whimsical and absurd, the animated films and videos in this program speak of innocence, dreams and hope. This program is presented in conjunction with the IMAA Conference, September 20-23, 2006.

The Pit Bar, Dawson City deconstructs the seamless representation of perspective and movement in traditional video. Artist Allison Hrabluik meticulously constructs a miniature, three-dimensional stage with paper
cut-outs of figures taken from each frame of her original video and recreates her source footage using stop motion techniques. The video will be installed alongside its toy-like theatrical set and paper figures, providing viewers with a glimpse of the artistic process. The Pit Bar features Canadian indie-rock stars The Constantines and was recorded in Dawson City.