MAR Artist Talks
Elise Dawson & Meganelizabeth Diamond
Event Details:
Date:Â Friday, February 19 , 2021 | 7pm â 8pm CST
Location:Â Online â Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Cost:Â FREE
Limit:Â 100 participants
To wrap up their Media Arts Residencies (MAR) at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, our current artists-in-residence will be presenting artist talks(followed by Q&As) to share what theyâve been working on over the past year. Our second set of artists are Elise Dawson and Meganelizabeth Diamond.
About the artists:
Elise Dawson read once that every image is always two: the one you see, and the one you remember. Dawsonâs practice is driven by this tension, between remembering and forgettingâ and the gaps in the construction or preservation of personal and collective memories. Dawson is a restless Canadian artist caught between multiple mediums: photography, painting, performance, poetry, and video. They graduated from the School of Fine Art at the University of Manitoba in 2012. Since graduating, Elise Dawson has been employed within the film industry and commercial art galleries in Winnipeg and Toronto. Over the course of the last year and half, Dawson has experimented with field recording and played with microphones and effects pedals in streamed live performances. In addition to experimenting with 3-D scanning and augmented reality applications, they also utilized digital tools to complicate their oil paintings and render digital artworks. Dawson subsequently translated fourteen finished oil paintings into a single GIF, Rhythm After Vermeer, that was published by longcon magazine.
www.elisedawson.com
Meganelizabeth Diamond is a lens-based artist living in Camp Morton, Manitoba on Treaty One Territory. Diamondâs practise is a constant exploration of different regimes of image production â from the analog to the digital, the developed to the downloaded. Her photographic roots lay in analog modes of image-making and most recently she has been experimenting with digital modes of production. During the MAR residency, Megâs practise has navigated between photography, video, and collage with a focus on the natural world and digital modes of preservation in media art. Over the course of the last year and a half she has utilized photogrammetry and mobile photography, re-kindled her relationship with the digital darkroom and started learning Maya (an Autodesk program). In an attempt to embrace the limitations of COVID-19 during this residency, Meg worked in her at-home studio with the Apollo microscope video recorder to create âRoses in Full Colourâ. She has a new inventory of scanned .objâs and has been playing a lot in photoshop to create layered constructions and âpaintingsâ.
meganelizabethdiamond.com
About Video Pool Media Arts Centreâs Media Arts Residency (MAR):
The Media Arts Residency supports the creation of new, independent media art works. Eligible projects include video, sound or web based art, VR & Motion Capture, installation or performance works that include a media art component, physical computing, robotic or experimental electronic art. Video Pool gives funding priority to both experimental and emerging art practices. Although eligible, traditional narrative, dramatic or documentary projects are less likely to be awarded funds. Fund recipients have the option to exhibit their work in POOLSIDE GALLERY and / or VPâs new presentation venue.
For more information about MAR and other residency opportunities at VP please see: https://videopool.org/2021/media-arts-residency/
- Please contact our Manager of Creative Programming for more information:Â katnancy@videopool.org
- Closed Captioning will be available for this event.
[Header Image Description:] Two images are positioned side by side, separated by a thin hot pink line.
Image 1: A painting by Elise Dawson mimicking Johannes Vermeerâs painting from 1665 âGirl with a Pearl Earring,â which sees a pale skinned person with dark eyes and red lips, looking over their shoulder directly at the âviewerâ. They are wearing a pearl earring and a blue and yellow headscarf and are set against a deep grey backdrop. This painting by the artist has been photographed and digitally distorted to create a âglitchâ like aesthetic. This effect has the image digitally fragmented in horizontal blocks that differ in brightness and colour quality, and are stitched together in misalignment. In some places, small square pixels stand in for more nuanced detail. The bottom two horizontal blocks are tinted with hot pink, which ties in with the hot pink line that divides the two images.
Image 2: Two singular butterfly wings are digitally placed on a white background. The wings have orange, yellow, black and white details. The artist(Meganelizabeth Diamond) has used digital tools to repair the wings in virtual space, by repeating fragments of the image details to stitch over any parts that may have been damaged/missing in their physical form.