On Saturday 29 January, I attended a panel discussion held by the Ottawa Art Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition The Living Effect. The exhibition and the panel discussion were the result of the research, effort and connections of curator Caroline Seck Langill (although she wasn’t alone and the support of many others was mentioned).
Thelivingeffect Panel
February 22nd, 2011Pecha Kucha in Ottawa
January 18th, 2010This clever little ideas sharing concept is coming to Ottawa this month. It started in Tokyo a number of years ago mainly focusing on networking young designers. The concept for the night is simple and quick. You get 20 slides at 20 seconds each for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds of speaking [...]
Vancouver in Stereo – Channel One
November 25th, 2009Interactive Futures is a rad little festival/symposium in Vancouver. It’s theme this year was stereo. The dominant representation in that theme was stereoscopic video (3D glasses kind of stuff), but the symposium expanded the concept through into more intellectual considerations on the idea of stereo in creative technological practice. Day one IF had heavy representation [...]
Sublte Technologies : Where art and science meet, hang out and catch up on things.
June 20th, 2009I was fortunate enough to visit Toronto for a festival that could be seen as the yin to the yang of Mutek and Elektra. Subtle Technologies focuses on the unique space where science and art meet. This year’s theme was networks, and the presentations ranged from theoretical mathematicians presenting on collaborative problem solving, to TV [...]
PDCon 09
February 20th, 2009This will be the third international gathering of artists and researchers to discuss all things PureData, and if you are using PureData you should really try and head to this event. The call for works and papers is out now. Go here to check it out. Artengine lent a helping hand to the slew of [...]