Part 2: Artengine Residency, family and friends, Infinite Nothing at Bird Island, if then do live @ Club Saw… My last post on this blog discussed my trip to Montreal to play the Mutek festival with my electronic music group if then do, with Ryan Stec (Artengine’s artistic director) doing visuals. This trip to Mutek […]
Pitch a tent in Meaford this long weekend
July 27th, 2010This is the Meaford I know. Nestled quaintly on the Southern shore of Georgian Bay, Meaford for me means farming, it means my grandparents homestead, rolling hillsides, markets and lazy summer afternoons. It hadn’t (until recently) meant anything related to new media or electronic arts. That is, however, until I discovered Electric Eclectics ; festival of […]
If you’re in Germany this summer…
July 27th, 2010…Museum Folkwang, Essen, is presenting Hacking the City – Interventions in public and communicative spaces. 16 July to 26 September 2010 www.hackingthecity.org “Hacking the City” is an innovative project reacting to changing structures in the public, mobility and communication in the city. The project is mainly focussed on Essen, Cultural Capital Ruhr.2010. Participants are artists, nerds, […]
My trip to Mutek and Artengine residency in June, Part 1 – Ross Birdwise
July 22nd, 2010This June I flew in to Ottawa from Vancouver to visit friends and family and to perform at the Mutek festival in Montreal. I was performing with the largely Ottawa-Gatineau based electronic music group if then do, of which I am a founding member (I used to live in Ottawa). Ryan Stec, Artengine’s artistic director, had recently collaborated with if then do in the past using his skills as a VJ and video artist to develop live A/V performances with the group. For this year’s Mutek, Ryan also did live visuals, in some cases using our real-time, partially improvised audio feeds to modulate the video image he had created. Ryan also invited me to do an Artengine Residency at the M70 lab while were at Mutek, but I will save that story for my next post…
Firuz Daud on The Fantasy of Reality: an Evening with Mark Coleran
July 8th, 2010My name is Firuz Daud and it’s my pleasure today to be guest blogging on behalf of Art Engine about the Mark Coleran talk they graciously hosted. Just to recap, Mark is a designer of user interfaces for real software and also for Hollywood movies. He refers to his film work as FUIs, fantasy user […]
The Subtle Technologies Festival and the Ghettoblast Sound System
July 6th, 2010This post comes from the Ghetto Blast Sound System crew members Kerry Campbell and Michael Caffrey. Kerry and Michael also make up the core of our GRL Ottawa group. Ghetto Blast has developed a mobile off-the-grid sound system that they use for free parties in the woods and urban sound interventions. In June we sent Ghetto Blast down to Subtle Technologies, a conference and festival centered on the cross section of art and technology, as the theme for this years edition was sustainability.
Vague Terrain 17: Collaborative Spaces
June 26th, 2010Announcing Vague Terrain 17: Collaborative Spaces The newest issue of Vague Terrain is dedicated to exploring and showcasing a range of strategies for collaboration within the arts. Face to face recording sessions, collaborative editing, event organization, software design, intercontinental AV jam sessions and frequent flyer miles all influence the range of projects curated by Vague […]
OpenFrameworks Lab in The Netherlands
June 23rd, 2010I recently returned from a great 5 day workshop at Graphic Design Festival Breda (GDFB), in The Netherlands. The workshop focused on the intersection of graphic design and technology, namely using the openFrameworks C++ library, and was led by Zachary Lieberman and Todd Vanderlin. The GDFB festival is a 3 week long event that takes […]
Construction d’hydrophones à DAÏMÕN
June 14th, 2010Le son sous l’eau m’a toujours suscité un intérêt particulier. Lors de ma jeunesse, le monde subaquatique fut souvent un endroit d’isolement. Cette apesanteur, la sensation d’enveloppement de l’eau et surtout l’environnement sonore étouffé qu’y régnait m’emportaient dans un autre univers.
Riled up? Act up! Art and hockey
June 2nd, 2010If I hit a puck with a stick, does it make me a hockey player? Saying that I am would be the equivalent of a typical comment we in the arts hear constantly when talking about experimental art-making “I can do that.” Common sense tells us that there is more beyond the immediacy of whatever […]