Novi_sad + RYOICHI KUROKAWA performance, (2012) Usine C, ELEKTRA 2012, http://elektramontreal.ca/2012/#novi-sad-ryoichi-kurokawa-gr-jp. Clip by Megan Smith. Accessed 11/05/12 ELEKTRA/ International Digital Arts Festival, in it’s 13th year, provides an exciting and critical platform for artists and institutions. This years expansion to an International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN) is a positive and logical step forward for this mature [...]
4 days of magic in the dark/ ELEKTRA & the BIAN
May 14th, 2012Elektra Highlight #2
May 4th, 2012A full day of presentations, vernisages and performances certainly leaves one feeling overloaded, but not so much that I am not looking forward to another day full of information and art. I will choose just one highlight from yesterday and leave the others to digest more fully. Yan Breuleux presented La Tempête during the AV presentation [...]
Elektra – Day 1
May 3rd, 2012
This year the Elektra festival has expanded beyond its usual 6 day scale into a month long digital art bienniale with work everywhere around the core of the city and at all kinds of scales. We will post a number of reflections on the projects we experience here on the blog, and I wanted to start with quick mention of the first work I saw yesterday.
Laser Cut Project #2
May 2nd, 2012Another laser cut project from the lab. This architectural model explores the idea of representing space both as a flat two dimensional “drawing” and a folded model.
Laser Cutting Project #1
May 2nd, 2012
Our Artistic Director has been away at school, and while the organization misses him we know he is bringing back new ideas and lots more experimentation. Over the course fo the last year he has taken a great interest in our laser cutter and has produced a number of projects for school on it. We [...]
DAY 4 – ELECTRIC POW WOW
November 27th, 2011What better way to finish the night then to have a party. Great party was had at the Civilization Museum with the boys from A Tribe Called Red
DAY 3 – SWIM SOUND.
November 26th, 2011Swim Sound was so popular that they added a second performance last night. I went to the first performance and was very jealous I couldn’t get into the water. Something about electronics, water and me not being a great swimmer that doesn’t mix.
Electric Fields: Electric Pow Wow
November 25th, 2011
Tonight, from 10pm to midnight, A Tribe Called Red will be performing in the Grand Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) in Gatineau.The three DJs that make up A Tribe Called Red are Bear Witness, Ian Campeau (a.k.a. DJ NDN) and Dan General (a.k.a. DJ Shub). MTV has dubbed them originators of their [...]
DAY 2 – CHURCH MUSIC.
November 25th, 2011Hope you got the chance to witness Church Music because there’s no way to explain what happened. It was a truly great evening. Well done Jean François Laporte, Martin Bédard and Roger Tellier-Craig. photos by Rémi Thériault
Electric Fields: Church Music
November 24th, 2011
Roger Tellier-Craig will be one of the three performers showcased tomorrow night at 9pm at St Brigid’s Center for the Arts a part of Electric Fields. Two other performances will be Martin Bédard and Jean François Laporte. The line-up has been orchestrated through collaboration between Artengine and Montréal based electro-acoustic festival Akousma. Le Révélateur – [...]