Our new project, INTERVALLO, is now on display in Mantua, Italy at a group show titled TRAVELOGUE. It will remain on display until Sunday September 11. Oh, we gave an interview about the project. You can read it here.
EVENT: VECTOR FESTIVAL 2016
VECTOR, one of the most compelling, original, and daring Game Art festivals on this planet, returns with a vengeance with a killer program. Now in its fourth iteration, the Canadian event has a special focus on algorithmic culture and post-human subjects. Subtitled Autonomous Agents, the festival is "a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. This year’s festival is co-curated by Skot Deeming and Martin Zeilinger and explores themes of autonomous algorithms and machines through emergent media art practices, live performance, screenings, workshops, and lectures. The Festival takes place across multiple venues in Toronto from July 14-17, 2016."
We are delighted to be part of this terrific event! Our project The Fregoli Delusions will be screened and presented in two different locations during the show. Because unlike the United States of Inequality where culture is just for the 1%, Canada is a civilized, democratic, and inclusive country, ticket passes are affordable for most and several events are open/free to the public. In fact, Festival passes are available for just $25 and include FREE access to screening and performance events. Plus, Festival Pass holders get a free drip coffee from Sam James Coffee Bar (Queen St. W. location) throughout the duration of the festival. You can't beat that, frankly.
Below is the full program
JULY 14
VIP Preview
Join co-curators Skot Deeming and Martin Zeilinger for a private tour of the exhibition, The Algorithmic Imagination, and preview the festival's upcoming events. Tickets to this event include free access to Vector screening and performance events. (5:30-6:30pm, $100)
Launch Party and Opening Reception
We kick off Vector Festival 2016 with an energized evening at InterAccess. Festival curators, artists and performers will be in attendance. The works in The Algorithmic Imagination explore the artistic potentials of algorithmic processes. These processes, expressed in the exhibition in kinetic sculptures and screen-based works, are perched between the appropriated and the pre-determined, the autonomous and the random. (7-10pm, FREE)
JULY 15
SCREENING
Basement Revolutionaries, Curated by Amber Christensen and Clint Enns at CineCycle in a time and place awash in the detritus of early 21st Century capitalism, we look to our basement revolutionaries to lead us not upwards but downwards into a bunker of safety to wait it out. Duck and cover, and grab a snack...it may be your only way to survive. (8-11pm, $15)
JULY 16
WORKSHOP
Sonic Pi Live Coding Introductory Workshop, facilitated by Martin Zeilinger
at InterAccess Live coding is an exciting form of experimental digital sound-making that uses on-the-fly programming techniques to mix traditional improvisation with algorithmic composition. This workshop will introduce you to create live electronic music through simple programming techniques using a mix of sound synthesis and digital sampling. In the practice of live coding, the computer code you enter yields an instant sonic feedback. No prior programming skills required. (11am-3pm, $45 regular/$35 member)
PERFORMANCE
Join us for an evening of performances that bridge the spaces between the composed and the improvised, the generative and the algorithmic, the analog and the digital. Featuring live coding, modular synthesis and generative visuals, performers explore the boundaries of control within sonic and visual apparatuses. Featuring Karl Fousek with Dan Browne, and Spectral Sound System (Michael Trommer and Eric Filion). (Doors at 8pm, $15)
JULY 17
PANEL
Algorithms, Generative Art, Machine Agency at InterAccess
In conversation and open discussion with participating festival artists and performers, Vector Co-Curator Martin Zeilinger explores some of the underlying concerns and questions that inform this year’s events: What makes generative art? Can algorithms ever be creative agents? What is the future of the digital as an expressive medium? Featuring
Dan Browne, Eric Filion, Karl Fousek, Justine Lugli, and Michael Trommer. (1-3pm, FREE)
WRAP PARTY at Reposado
Celebrate another year of Vector with a live performance by Castle If. (8-11pm, FREE)
VECTOR FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS
Art on the BIG Screens Vector Festival Preview
July 11, 8-10pm at Celebration Square, Mississauga (300 City Centre Drive)
Works by COLL.EO and Brent Watanabe
The Algorithmic Imagination
July 15 – August 13 at InterAccess (9 Ossington Avenue)
Works by COLL.EO, Adam Donovan, Justine Lugli, Brent Watanabe
Davis Heslep July 1-31 (109 Niagara Street) at Loop Hole
A. Bill Miller
July 14-17 at Common Sort (1414 Queen Street West)
DAY ZERO: PRE-FESTIVAL PARTY
July 13, 8-11pm at Electric Perfume (805 Danforth Avenue)
with a screening curated by Clint Enns
For a complete schedule and to purchase your festival pass, visit vectorfestival.org.
FRAMING GAYS IN THE MILITARY at SOUTHERN EXPOSURE (SF)
We are delighted to announce that FRAMING GAYS IN THE MILITARY (2012) has been selected for the upcoming POINT OF NO RETURN show at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. More than 600 artworks were submitted and 46 of them were selected. The show is curated by Hesse McGraw.
Here's the full description
Opening Reception: Friday, December 7, 2012, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Exhibition Dates: December 7 - 20, 2012
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00 pm
This Friday December 7th, Southern Exposure hosts the opening reception for Point of No Return, our annual Entry-Fee Free Juried Exhibition. We invite you to join us to meet the artists. This year we received 600 entries and 46 artists were selected for the exhibition.
Announcing Point of No Return Artists:
- Jordan Bickett
- Fatema Abdoolcarim
- Shay Arick
- Stacy Asher
- Megan Atherton
- Nicolaus Chaffin
- Takming Chuang
- Coll.eo
- Katey Crews
- Melissa Dickenson
- J.R. Doty
- Mary Fitzgerald
- Bernadette Jiyong Frank
- Joe Glasco
- Daniel Green
- Adrienne Heloise
- Helga Hizer
- Robert Howard
- Kelly Lynn Jones
- David Kim
- Ian Kimmerly
- Laura Arminda Kingsley
- Lex Kosieradzki
- Sarah Loomis
- Lindsey Lyons
- Darrin Martin
- Anne McGuire
- Erin Mitchell
- Pamela Mooney
- Mitsu Okubo
- Michael Pauker
- Byron Peters
- Joshua Pieper
- Tim Pinault
- Andrea Roelandt
- Andrew L. Rogers
- Charlie Callahan and Cory Stafford
- John Steck Jr.
- Joseph Thomas
- Chris Thorson
- Alberto Toscano
- Stephanie D. Wallace
- Kyle H. Welch
- Jacob Wick
- Calder Yates
- Jin Zhu
Point of No Return is a juried exhibition of artwork by Northern California's artists. Southern Exposure's juried exhibition has become an important showcase of contemporary artwork by promising local talent. Each year a different theme is selected to inspire and encourage a broad level of artistic expression. This year's forward-looking theme, Point of No Return, encouraged submissions by artists who are singularly invested in their practice, who have no intention of returning, who are, in a sense, defiantly themselves.
Over the course of two days, over 600 Northern Californian artists entered their work in person, attesting to the extreme popularity of the show. The final 46 pieces were selected by juror, Hesse McGraw, who made his decisions by blind process.
The gallery is located at 3030 20th Street @ Alabama San Francisco, CA 94110
Source: http://soex.org/Exhibit/112.html