Media Arts Residency
2019-2020 Recipients
Please note that due to a challenging year, the MAR program cycle has been cycle has been delayed. Work from the current artists will be posted when it is ready. Please check back at a later date.
Kristin Snowbird
Kris Snowbird is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist working in visual and performance art, photography and filmmaking. She is from Pine Creek First Nation and of Cree and Ojibwe descent. In 2015, she participated in the Foundation Mentorship Program at Mentoring Women for Women’s Art (MAWA), working one on one with curator, Natalia Lebedinskaia. Snowbird created her first short film SWEAT in 2016, which was funded by the Winnipeg Film Group’s Mosaic Women’s Film Fund. Since 2016, SWEAT is currently been presented on the digital media art platform, VUCAVU and touring around the world at film festivals like that of the 2016 Gimli Film Festival (Gimli, MB), Native Spirit Film Festival (London, England); in 2017, VIMAF (Vancouver, BC), Hot Docs, (Toronto, ON), Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival (Ottawa, ON), St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (St. John’s, NL), ReFrame Film Festival (Peterborough, ON), Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie (Percé, QC); and in 2019 Cinéma Oblò, (Lausanne, Switzerland), Cinéma Spoutnik, (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa, ON). Snowbird has performed with her collaborator and partner, Theo Pelmus, at each of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Winnipeg Nuit Blanche events, as well as the 2017 LIVE Biennale of Performance Art (Vancouver, BC).
Theo Pelmus
Theo Pelmus is a multi-disciplinary artist working in visual and performance art, photography and video. He presented his work nationally (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal) and internationally (Denmark, New Zeeland, NY. USA, Romania. Theo has performed with her collaborator and partner, Kris Snowbird, under the collective name PelmuSnowbird at each of the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Winnipeg Nuit Blanche events, as well as the 2017 LIVE Biennale of Performance Art (Vancouver, BC).
Meganelizabeth Diamond
Meganelizabeth Diamond is an emerging visual artist, programmer and facilitator from rural Manitoba. Diamond’s practice incorporates collage and experimental photo/film work using outdated lens-based equipment, both analog and digital. Her films and images speak to relationships with domestic space, the natural world vs. inorganic world, and image construction. She co-directs and programs the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival and is a collective member of Open City Cinema. She is a current participant in Video Pool’s Media Arts Residency and has toured with Light Terrors, an expanded cinema and audio-visual collective. Her work has shown in artist run centres and festivals across Canada and the United States. Meganelizabeth runs workshops utilizing the darkroom facilities through PLATFORM photographic centre + digital arts and sits on their board of directors.
Kevin Lee Burton
Details on Kevin’s work to follow at a later date.
Elise Dawson
I am a restless artist working between multiple mediums including photography, painting, performance and poetry. Influenced by my work in galleries, I am interested in the subversion of certain assumptions regarding the roles and the responsibilities of artists, the witnessing potentialities of art as well as its resultant commodification, death and resurrection. I am using the Media Residency to further complicate my imagery and performances through explorations with Augmented Reality, field recording and Video Pool’s Motion Capture Suit.