EMMEDIA presents:

Fresh Short Shorts

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 @ 9:00 PM
Broken City Patio - 613 11 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta
FREE Admission

EMMEDIA is proud to present a summer series of free outdoor screenings at the relaxing Broken City Patio, showcasing works from different media art centres coast to coast. Starting with the east coast of Halifax and ending in the west coast of Vancouver, experience a unique collection of Canadian video art from across Canada. Join us on a warm summer night as we survey contemporary and historical media artworks that experiment with the medium of video, while enjoying a refreshing pint!

July 29 @ 9 – 10PM: Video Pool showcase (Winnipeg)

Video Pool Media Arts Centre is a nonprofit, artist-run centre dedicated to the creation, exhibition and promotion of independent media art. We foster an innovative community of artists working in sound, video, computing, and emerging technology art, while offering public exhibitions, artist talks and conferences to encourage awareness of and dialogue concerning new media art forms.

"I Watch Videos all Day. The Rest of the Time I Make Dubs."
Curated by Daniel Barrow

My curatorial perspective is one of a born and bred Winnipeg artist, but even more predominantly, as that of an employee of Video Pool’s Distribution department from 1998-2002. When I started working at VP in 1998, my primary duty was making VHS dubs and compilations for festivals and galleries – affording me the opportunity to familiarize myself with a huge number of tapes in the collection. I’m sure I have clocked more repeated viewings of certain tapes than even the artists who created them.

My experience working in the Distribution department is also what guided the compilation of my screening commemorating Video Pool’s thirtieth anniversary. While I have tried to create a kind of thematic rhythm, there is no umbrella theme to the program. The eight tapes in my program are disparate works that I became personally familiar with while working at Video Pool.

It was a real pleasure to have another second opportunity to preview these tapes – each of which has retained its significance to my personal artistic development, as well as Video Pool’s evolution as a creative community.

- Excerpt from curatorial statement by Daniel Barrow

SCREENING PROGRAM:

Armour for Living by Hope Peterson (1987,1:55 min.)
Isolated by Nida Home Doherty (1984, 3:25 min.)
Live Wire by Alex Poruchnyk (1982, 5:42 min.)
Spanghew Decorum by Clark Nikolai (1983, 7:35 min.)
Jill Skinner – Diary of a Star by Wendy Geller (1986, 9:21 min.)
Object/Subject of Desire by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan (1993, 5:15 min.)
Interior Design by Sheridan Shindruk (2001, 4:00 min.)
Freeze Frame by Susan Britton (1983, 2:30 min.)

PROGRAM DETAILS: Click Here >

About the Curator:

Winnipeg-born, Montreal-based artist Daniel Barrow is best known for his use of antiquated technologies, his “registered projection” installations, and his narrative overhead projection performances. Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad.

EMMEDIA's Fresh Short Shorts Series

July 15 - Centre for Art Tapes showcase (Halifax) >
July 29 - Video Pool showcase (Winnipeg) >
August 5 - The Banff Centre showcase (Banff) >
August 19 - VIVO Media Arts Centre showcase (Vancouver) >

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