Soil Digital Media Exhibition
Dates:
Sat Oct 15, 2005 00:00 - Fri Oct 14, 2005
Exhibition Announcement: Regina Festival of Cinematic Arts
Installation of digital artworks, Soil Digital Media Suite &
Off Site Location
October 4 - 27, 2005
Reception, Saturday October 15 at 8:00 pm
1856 Scarth Street, Regina, SK
The Skeleton Crew, XO Skeleton
Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15, 8:00 pm
Regina City Hall
"XO Skeleton", a meditation on ossification and re-animation, will be projected onto Regina's City Hall from 8:00-10:30 pm, October 14 and 15, 2005. This work is created by The Skeleton Crew, a group of subterranean subliminalists,
from Regina dedicated to making art that is gritty, giddy, and inside-out.
Eric Deis, Apartment
Operating on the borders between fact and fiction, a residential apartment is transformed through a routine dousing of water from sources suggested, known and unknown. Through poetic visual rhythms, and soundscapes, the barriers
between the natural and unnatural, and the transcribed and fact, are dissolved. The seamlessly looping video merges perceptions of reality and unreality by blending timelessness with a sense of regularity and normality. Apartment augments the artificiality of the constructed environment in which we live and transforms the banal into a space of metaphor and imagination.
Myriam Yates, Incorporer (s')
Myrian Yates's photography and video based practice tends towards documentary approach, exploring the tenuous relationship between public and private space as well as obsolete urban sites related to leisure and culture.
Michel Boulanger, After Monogram
In the work, After Monogram, Michel Boulanger creates a new life depicted as a surreal experience in a computer generated environment. In this animation, a goat is trapped within a 3D version of a Rauschenburg painting,
unwittingly held between its own grazing and the tilting, sliding world of art. Its maker sends it on a bizarre journey in control of its destiny and end. Here, as in cartoons, the goat stands for the universal us. In its confusion, the goat
has much in common with humans and their responses to their environments. This work follows from a series of paintings in which Boulanger attempts to reconcile nature and culture to learned and popular culture.
In collaboration with the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative.
Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre
& Soil Digital Media Suite
#203 - 1856 Scarth Street
Regina, SK
S4P 2G3
tel: 306-522-7166
fax: 306-522-5075
neutralground@accesscomm.ca
http://www.neutralground.sk.ca
http://www.soilmedia.org
We acknowledge funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the City of Regina, Saskatchewan Lotteries and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Installation of digital artworks, Soil Digital Media Suite &
Off Site Location
October 4 - 27, 2005
Reception, Saturday October 15 at 8:00 pm
1856 Scarth Street, Regina, SK
The Skeleton Crew, XO Skeleton
Friday, October 14 and Saturday, October 15, 8:00 pm
Regina City Hall
"XO Skeleton", a meditation on ossification and re-animation, will be projected onto Regina's City Hall from 8:00-10:30 pm, October 14 and 15, 2005. This work is created by The Skeleton Crew, a group of subterranean subliminalists,
from Regina dedicated to making art that is gritty, giddy, and inside-out.
Eric Deis, Apartment
Operating on the borders between fact and fiction, a residential apartment is transformed through a routine dousing of water from sources suggested, known and unknown. Through poetic visual rhythms, and soundscapes, the barriers
between the natural and unnatural, and the transcribed and fact, are dissolved. The seamlessly looping video merges perceptions of reality and unreality by blending timelessness with a sense of regularity and normality. Apartment augments the artificiality of the constructed environment in which we live and transforms the banal into a space of metaphor and imagination.
Myriam Yates, Incorporer (s')
Myrian Yates's photography and video based practice tends towards documentary approach, exploring the tenuous relationship between public and private space as well as obsolete urban sites related to leisure and culture.
Michel Boulanger, After Monogram
In the work, After Monogram, Michel Boulanger creates a new life depicted as a surreal experience in a computer generated environment. In this animation, a goat is trapped within a 3D version of a Rauschenburg painting,
unwittingly held between its own grazing and the tilting, sliding world of art. Its maker sends it on a bizarre journey in control of its destiny and end. Here, as in cartoons, the goat stands for the universal us. In its confusion, the goat
has much in common with humans and their responses to their environments. This work follows from a series of paintings in which Boulanger attempts to reconcile nature and culture to learned and popular culture.
In collaboration with the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative.
Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre
& Soil Digital Media Suite
#203 - 1856 Scarth Street
Regina, SK
S4P 2G3
tel: 306-522-7166
fax: 306-522-5075
neutralground@accesscomm.ca
http://www.neutralground.sk.ca
http://www.soilmedia.org
We acknowledge funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the City of Regina, Saskatchewan Lotteries and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
E-treatment Web launch SSRI.TV at Soil Digital Media Suite, Regina
Dates:
Sat Oct 15, 2005 00:00 - Fri Oct 14, 2005
Soil Digital Media Suite, Web Launch - Self Science Research Institute
We have all felt lonely and sad at some point. Sometimes, we struggle to recover, probing ourselves for the source of the problem. At other times, we never acknowledge our troubles and tragically just move on with our lives. The Self Science Research Institute (SSRI), directed by Huong Ngo and George Monteleone (Chicago & New York), believes that there are other options to insecurity and emotional isolation. They have created an audio-visual device therapy plan to help individuals monitor their emotions, actions, and surrounding environments to prevent social anxiety, embarrassment, and insularity. On the cutting edge of Self-Monitor Research and Development, they have now launched a Website through which viewers can obtain vital information on new methods, utilize interactive tools to customize their own Self Science Treatment, and read recently published articles about the Institute's research to advance in depth learning and self analysis.
SSRI will officially launch their e-treatment website at SSRI.TV on Saturday October 15, 2005 as part of Soil Digital Media Suite's commission funding program.
Recently, the collaborative research team of Huong Ngo and George Monteleone have published an article in the American Scientician Journal about the Institute's research. Huong Ngo earned her MFA with a concentration in Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work spans
many media and themes. Drawing inspiration from design, fashion, architecture, and contemporary culture, she creates installations, video, sculpture, clothing, and machines that are geared towards catalyzing social interaction and change.
She has shown most recently at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Prague, Walcheturm, Zurich, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She lives and works in New York City.
George Monteleone studied cognitive science and neuroscience at Northwestern University and currently works at the Social Neuroscience
laboratory at the University of Chicago, where he collects and analyzes non-invasive recordings of physiological signals. Outside of the laboratory, he experiments with music, sound, film, video, and performance. In the recent past, he has collaborated with Ngo on a video installation for Chicago's Versionfest, screened films and performed live musical accompaniment at the Silent Film Festival at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Chicago, performed electronically-tinged rock music throughout Chicago and the Midwest, and exhibited experimental videos at the Hayes Valley Market space in San Francisco, CA. His work often deals with cognition, perception, and relationships between
technology and humanity.
The SSRI project responded to Soil's commission program last year on the themes of connectivity and surveillance. Check site for new commission opportunities.
Remote viewing of the Web launch and reception in Regina can be found
8:00 pm CST October 15 at http://24.72.10.70/campage
Web site url at http://soilmedia.org/ssri
We have all felt lonely and sad at some point. Sometimes, we struggle to recover, probing ourselves for the source of the problem. At other times, we never acknowledge our troubles and tragically just move on with our lives. The Self Science Research Institute (SSRI), directed by Huong Ngo and George Monteleone (Chicago & New York), believes that there are other options to insecurity and emotional isolation. They have created an audio-visual device therapy plan to help individuals monitor their emotions, actions, and surrounding environments to prevent social anxiety, embarrassment, and insularity. On the cutting edge of Self-Monitor Research and Development, they have now launched a Website through which viewers can obtain vital information on new methods, utilize interactive tools to customize their own Self Science Treatment, and read recently published articles about the Institute's research to advance in depth learning and self analysis.
SSRI will officially launch their e-treatment website at SSRI.TV on Saturday October 15, 2005 as part of Soil Digital Media Suite's commission funding program.
Recently, the collaborative research team of Huong Ngo and George Monteleone have published an article in the American Scientician Journal about the Institute's research. Huong Ngo earned her MFA with a concentration in Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work spans
many media and themes. Drawing inspiration from design, fashion, architecture, and contemporary culture, she creates installations, video, sculpture, clothing, and machines that are geared towards catalyzing social interaction and change.
She has shown most recently at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Prague, Walcheturm, Zurich, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She lives and works in New York City.
George Monteleone studied cognitive science and neuroscience at Northwestern University and currently works at the Social Neuroscience
laboratory at the University of Chicago, where he collects and analyzes non-invasive recordings of physiological signals. Outside of the laboratory, he experiments with music, sound, film, video, and performance. In the recent past, he has collaborated with Ngo on a video installation for Chicago's Versionfest, screened films and performed live musical accompaniment at the Silent Film Festival at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Chicago, performed electronically-tinged rock music throughout Chicago and the Midwest, and exhibited experimental videos at the Hayes Valley Market space in San Francisco, CA. His work often deals with cognition, perception, and relationships between
technology and humanity.
The SSRI project responded to Soil's commission program last year on the themes of connectivity and surveillance. Check site for new commission opportunities.
Remote viewing of the Web launch and reception in Regina can be found
8:00 pm CST October 15 at http://24.72.10.70/campage
Web site url at http://soilmedia.org/ssri
Exhibition Announcement; Transduction
Dates:
Sat Aug 27, 2005 00:00 - Fri Aug 26, 2005
Marc Fournel
Transduction
Soil Digital Media Suite
Cache-Cachet Series
August 27th - September 24th, 2005
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 27th at 8:00 pm
Artist will be in attendance
1856 Scarth Street, Regina, Sask., Canada
Neutral Ground
http://soilmedia.org
Transduction is an immersive environment that makes use of small spherical electronic interfaces in an audio installation. Within the installation, the interfaces lie spread about here and there on the floor, awaiting interaction. By manipulating the spheres, users trigger the creation and the distribution of sounds. The characteristics of the sounds (frequency, tonality, and pitch) are modulated by the position of each sphere and by the spatial relationship between the interfaces.
Transduction uses the new local positioning system (LPS) prototype developed by Ubisense, (Cambridge, England). This LPS continuously transmits the spatial position (X,Y,Z) of each sphere. The system that integrates this LPS is also able to give a reading of the spin of each ball and it position relative to the other spheres. The sound architecture is programmed with Pure Data. The work takes as its starting point the desire for physical and psychological transference, where actions are guided by a constant permutation of states into real or imagined spaces. Existing in a world where finding our references is an obligation, Transduction places itself in a state of constant instability.
For the last five years, Montreal-based artist, Marc Fournel, has developed new, interactive audio-video installations. His installations generally offer the possibility to create or generate video and audio content by analyzing the position and the movement in space.
The artist gratefully acknowledges funding support from La Fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'Art, la Science et la Technologie, le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, The Canada Council for the Arts, le CIAM, and the Media Arts Commissioning Program of the Canada Council for the Arts through Oboro. The artist would like to thank Christina Oltmann, Thomas-Ouellette Fredericks, Laure Ottman, Serge Provencher, Ubisense and Vitamin Bezeihungen.
Soil acknowledges funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, Cultural Spaces Program & Arts Presentation Canada, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the City of Regina Arts Commission, Sask Lotteries Trust, and SMPIA.
Brenda Cleniuk, Director/Curator
Transduction
Soil Digital Media Suite
Cache-Cachet Series
August 27th - September 24th, 2005
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 27th at 8:00 pm
Artist will be in attendance
1856 Scarth Street, Regina, Sask., Canada
Neutral Ground
http://soilmedia.org
Transduction is an immersive environment that makes use of small spherical electronic interfaces in an audio installation. Within the installation, the interfaces lie spread about here and there on the floor, awaiting interaction. By manipulating the spheres, users trigger the creation and the distribution of sounds. The characteristics of the sounds (frequency, tonality, and pitch) are modulated by the position of each sphere and by the spatial relationship between the interfaces.
Transduction uses the new local positioning system (LPS) prototype developed by Ubisense, (Cambridge, England). This LPS continuously transmits the spatial position (X,Y,Z) of each sphere. The system that integrates this LPS is also able to give a reading of the spin of each ball and it position relative to the other spheres. The sound architecture is programmed with Pure Data. The work takes as its starting point the desire for physical and psychological transference, where actions are guided by a constant permutation of states into real or imagined spaces. Existing in a world where finding our references is an obligation, Transduction places itself in a state of constant instability.
For the last five years, Montreal-based artist, Marc Fournel, has developed new, interactive audio-video installations. His installations generally offer the possibility to create or generate video and audio content by analyzing the position and the movement in space.
The artist gratefully acknowledges funding support from La Fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'Art, la Science et la Technologie, le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, The Canada Council for the Arts, le CIAM, and the Media Arts Commissioning Program of the Canada Council for the Arts through Oboro. The artist would like to thank Christina Oltmann, Thomas-Ouellette Fredericks, Laure Ottman, Serge Provencher, Ubisense and Vitamin Bezeihungen.
Soil acknowledges funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, Cultural Spaces Program & Arts Presentation Canada, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the City of Regina Arts Commission, Sask Lotteries Trust, and SMPIA.
Brenda Cleniuk, Director/Curator
International Symposium & Event: re:mote regina
Dates:
Thu May 19, 2005 00:00 - Thu May 19, 2005
re:mote regina is an experimental symposium and international net-based
festival that links new media practitioners and theorists from diverse
areas through a mixture of live and online presentations.
The first festival took place in Auckland New Zealand in March 2005
(http://www.remote.org.nz). The second in the series 're:mote regina' is
about to be held on Friday, May 20 at Soil Digital Media Suite in, Regina, Canada. (http://www.soilmedia.org/remote).
re:mote: regina will feature on-site and online presentations analysing
the way that digital technologies can augment collaborations across
geographical and cultural distance. Artists and commentators from
Capetown, Auckland, London, Vancouver, Banff, Montreal, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Newcastle will presentation their work via live video stream to an
audience in Regina. Artists from Regina and Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) will also present their work onsite. re:mote regina is to be an ongoing series of events, which will take place at locations around the world. re:mote: auckland was the global premiere of this series.
re:mote explores questions like: what does it mean to be remote in an
electronic art world? Are there 'centres' and 'peripheries' within a world
increasingly bridged, criss-crossed and mapped by digital technologies?
Can technologically mediated communication ever substitute for
face-to-face dialogue? Is geographical diversity a factor in contemporary
art production? Is remote a relative concept?
Particpants include:
Jen Hamilton (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Dr. Shiela Petty (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Dr. Daryl Hepting (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Trevor Cunningham (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Jirayu Uttaranakorn (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Jeff Mortens (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Carrie Gates (Saskatooon, Saskatchewan)
Jon Vaughn (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Sarah Cook (Newcastle, UK)
Marc Tuters (Montreal, Canada)
Thomas Mulcaire (Capetown, South Africa)
Matthew Biederman (Los Angeles, USA)
Zita Joyce (Auckland, New Zealand)
Adam Willetts (Auckland, New Zealand)
The Gates (Vancouver, Canada)
Adam Hoyle (London, UK)
Toby Heys (Montreal, Canada and UK)
Proceedings will be streamed live and a chat room is available. For more
information about how to participate remotely please visit:
http://www.soilmedia.org/remote/where.html
For a schedule and timezone converter please visit:
http://www.soilmedia.org/remote/when.html
Additionally, with the second in this series (re:mote regina) the remote
series is experimenting with telematic workshops. Utilising standard
technologies it is hoped a model for these workshops can be established.
The first trial of this model will be a workshop on MAX/MPS/Jitter lead by
Matthew Biederman. Matthew will be leading the workshop from Los Angeles
and the particpants will be in SoilMedia Lab (Regina, Canada).
re:mote regina
http://www.soilmedia.org/remote
re:mote regina is a collaboration between r a d i o q u a l i a and
Soil Digital Media Suite.
r a d i o q u a l i a
http://www.radioqualia.net
SoilMedia Lab
http://www.soilmedia.org
Soil wishes to acknowledge funding support from the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts and SMPIA.
festival that links new media practitioners and theorists from diverse
areas through a mixture of live and online presentations.
The first festival took place in Auckland New Zealand in March 2005
(http://www.remote.org.nz). The second in the series 're:mote regina' is
about to be held on Friday, May 20 at Soil Digital Media Suite in, Regina, Canada. (http://www.soilmedia.org/remote).
re:mote: regina will feature on-site and online presentations analysing
the way that digital technologies can augment collaborations across
geographical and cultural distance. Artists and commentators from
Capetown, Auckland, London, Vancouver, Banff, Montreal, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Newcastle will presentation their work via live video stream to an
audience in Regina. Artists from Regina and Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) will also present their work onsite. re:mote regina is to be an ongoing series of events, which will take place at locations around the world. re:mote: auckland was the global premiere of this series.
re:mote explores questions like: what does it mean to be remote in an
electronic art world? Are there 'centres' and 'peripheries' within a world
increasingly bridged, criss-crossed and mapped by digital technologies?
Can technologically mediated communication ever substitute for
face-to-face dialogue? Is geographical diversity a factor in contemporary
art production? Is remote a relative concept?
Particpants include:
Jen Hamilton (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Dr. Shiela Petty (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Dr. Daryl Hepting (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Trevor Cunningham (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Jirayu Uttaranakorn (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Jeff Mortens (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Carrie Gates (Saskatooon, Saskatchewan)
Jon Vaughn (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Sarah Cook (Newcastle, UK)
Marc Tuters (Montreal, Canada)
Thomas Mulcaire (Capetown, South Africa)
Matthew Biederman (Los Angeles, USA)
Zita Joyce (Auckland, New Zealand)
Adam Willetts (Auckland, New Zealand)
The Gates (Vancouver, Canada)
Adam Hoyle (London, UK)
Toby Heys (Montreal, Canada and UK)
Proceedings will be streamed live and a chat room is available. For more
information about how to participate remotely please visit:
http://www.soilmedia.org/remote/where.html
For a schedule and timezone converter please visit:
http://www.soilmedia.org/remote/when.html
Additionally, with the second in this series (re:mote regina) the remote
series is experimenting with telematic workshops. Utilising standard
technologies it is hoped a model for these workshops can be established.
The first trial of this model will be a workshop on MAX/MPS/Jitter lead by
Matthew Biederman. Matthew will be leading the workshop from Los Angeles
and the particpants will be in SoilMedia Lab (Regina, Canada).
re:mote regina
http://www.soilmedia.org/remote
re:mote regina is a collaboration between r a d i o q u a l i a and
Soil Digital Media Suite.
r a d i o q u a l i a
http://www.radioqualia.net
SoilMedia Lab
http://www.soilmedia.org
Soil wishes to acknowledge funding support from the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts and SMPIA.
Web site launch: Screen Kiss
Dates:
Thu May 12, 2005 00:00 - Thu May 12, 2005
For Immediate Release
Its spring time in New York and love is in the air. It's also time for Jillian Mcdonald's digital cinematic sequel to Me and Billy Bob, 'Screen Kiss' to be launched.
Responding initially to the powerful anesthesia of the American dream, promoted and sustained by the technologies of spectacle, illusion and simulation available to it, 'Screen Kiss' is about North American celebrity and the artist's object of desire, actor, Billy Bob Thornton.
Responding to and extending Mcdonald's earlier Billy Bob-centered work, meandbillybob.com, in which mere fandom erupted almost into erotomania, the digitally manifested emotional and physical pas de deux between herself and her illusory lover is a fantasy further into the fictional; here, she imagines and digitally actualizes physical relationships with other heart-throb stars who have been similarly inscribed by the media with immense erotic capital and who thus have immense social mobility. 'Screen Kiss' is a gaze within a gaze and the romantic adventures of the artist with Johnny Depp, Billy Crudup, Daniel Day Lewis, Vincent Gallo and others.
Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist living in New York. She says, "In my media work, I am interested in non-linear narrative, pop-culture, confusion, and poetics."
'Screen Kiss' is one in a series of new, commissioned projects from Soil Digital Media Suite in the Cache-Cachet series. It will be on view as an installation at Neutral Ground gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, August, 2005. Funding support generously acknowledged from the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association (SMPIA).
http://www.soilmedia.org/Screen_Kiss/
Its spring time in New York and love is in the air. It's also time for Jillian Mcdonald's digital cinematic sequel to Me and Billy Bob, 'Screen Kiss' to be launched.
Responding initially to the powerful anesthesia of the American dream, promoted and sustained by the technologies of spectacle, illusion and simulation available to it, 'Screen Kiss' is about North American celebrity and the artist's object of desire, actor, Billy Bob Thornton.
Responding to and extending Mcdonald's earlier Billy Bob-centered work, meandbillybob.com, in which mere fandom erupted almost into erotomania, the digitally manifested emotional and physical pas de deux between herself and her illusory lover is a fantasy further into the fictional; here, she imagines and digitally actualizes physical relationships with other heart-throb stars who have been similarly inscribed by the media with immense erotic capital and who thus have immense social mobility. 'Screen Kiss' is a gaze within a gaze and the romantic adventures of the artist with Johnny Depp, Billy Crudup, Daniel Day Lewis, Vincent Gallo and others.
Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist living in New York. She says, "In my media work, I am interested in non-linear narrative, pop-culture, confusion, and poetics."
'Screen Kiss' is one in a series of new, commissioned projects from Soil Digital Media Suite in the Cache-Cachet series. It will be on view as an installation at Neutral Ground gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, August, 2005. Funding support generously acknowledged from the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association (SMPIA).
http://www.soilmedia.org/Screen_Kiss/