Exhibition and Event Archive

Active Layers: Women Artists and New Media

Curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer, Active Layers presents the work of five women artists using interactive technologies to engage the viewer’s imagination and experience.

Interacting and performing with, through and to the artworks, the viewer explores hidden layers and renders active images.

Walking and Being at Plug In ICA

Following the screening, Walking and Being will be available for viewing February 17-24 during regular Video Pool hours, in the Video Pool third floor studio. Includes Video Pool Media Arts Centre artists: Grant Poier, Brenna George, Nida Home Doherty, Ley Ward and John Morgan, Jack Lauder, Marian Butler, Janet Hawkwood, Terry Billings, Alex Poruchnyk, Erika MacPherson, Val Klassen, Nicole Shimonek, Lori Rogers.

Art’s Birthday

Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications art.

Art’s Birthday Cake Contest

On Saturday January 14th the glycemic index shot up sky-high at Video Pool, when the Art’s Birthday cakes hit the palates of our discerning celebrity judges. The competition was tooth and nail, icing and fork! The results are in…

Real & Surreal Cake Contest Winners

Cakes were judged on their artistic and culinary merits by local food and art critics, Morley Walker (Winnipeg Free Press), Kristin
Pauch-Nolin (Uptown Magazine), Jaeny Baik (CBC Radio) and Cyrus Smith (artist, chef and bon vivant).

The Process of Weeding Out – December 2005

A veritable raw mix tape, The Process of Weeding Out intrigues and investigates the intimate, raw and sometime humourous relationships of artists to their environments. Like a classic mix tape, the program flows across a varied array of ideas and approaches to the medium, creating new relationships beween the juxtaposed works.

Wendy Geller screening at WAG – September 2005

McSwain writes that Wendy Geller’s video work “encompasses a voice and structure that strips away the habits and politeness that shield us from the forces of nature, and the hierarchies of power that suffuse western society. In her humorous satire, her feminist sensibility revels in critiquing Freudian psychoanalysis as well as the role(s) of actresses within the Hollywood star system. However, Geller’s voice finds its most multilayered synthesis in her series Stories for the Garden.

Sarah Cook at aceartinc. – September 2005

September 20, 2005
Video Pool and aceartinc. present a lecture by writer and curator Sarah Cook

Sarah Cook is a Sunderland University doctoral researcher in New Media Curation (a collaboration with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art). She worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and organised the EAT on-line forum there. She has been a curator-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada and has worked at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Garbage Hill: A Retrospective of Discarded Winnipeg Film and TV

Garbage Hill at Cinematheque – August 2005

The ATELIER NATIONAL du MANITOBA & DANIEL BARROW present

Garbage Hill: A Retrospective of Discarded Winnipeg Film and TV

Video Pool’s Poolroom and the Cinematheque
August 26, 27 & 28, 2005

Charles Sheppard: Gameshow – June 2005

A Multimedia Performance by Charles Sheppard
Saturday June 25, 2005

Gameshow version 1.0 is an interactive digital performance art event that explores the issues and dynamics of interactivity by placing a live performer in a computer generated 3D gaming environment, where she can interact with a live studio audience via video projection.