An Uncomfortable Fascination

This is not a video pool event, but a video event not to be missed! We hope you'll be able to attend...

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THE VIDEO WORKS OF ERICA EYRES:
An Uncomfortable Fascination

Curated By Stacy Abramson
Artist Present

FREE ADMISSION

Friday / July 4 / 7:00 PM
THE WFG'S CINEMATHEQUE,
100 ARTHUR STREET

Her work is dark, eerie and strangely human. She dons costumes to perform in all of her video work creating characters which pushes viewers to the edge. The work of former Winnipeg artist Erica Eyres, who moved to Glasgow in 2002 and received her masters degreee in art in 2004 has been picked up by the Rokeby Gallery in London, England, one of the most trend setting galleries in the UK. She has been developing a name for herself in the European art scene in the past six years. She showed with Bowieart - an exhibition of 16 emerging European artists selected by David Bowie in 2005.

Curator and writer Stacy Abramson said her work is uncomfortable, hilarious, sad and brilliant all at once. We want to laugh, and do, but feel sorry for the characters. We feel guilty about finding all of their misfortune humourous. But this is the reality of human emotions. She is able to shine the harshest light on the dark side of human nature with a strange face of humour. She makes us look at the strange and unsettling reality of these characteristics that we tend to push under the rug. Through each character that she plays in her works, Eyres lets us see that with a critical and brilliant eye. Her total control of the medium of both video and performance are what make her stand-out from so many artists working with the same ideas of humanity."

Late, but not forgotten... Camera-Free Film and Video

Back in February, Video Pool hosted a single channel screening that presented short works by various local, national, and international artists, each of whom had produced film and/or video without the use of a camera. Despite spectacularly bone-chilling Winnipeg weather conditions, we were thrilled to welcome almost a full house to The Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque theatre.

The diverse selection of work proved quite substantial and between laughter, solemnity, and awe, attendees were presented with a great deal to mull over. Dynamic conversation, along with food and drink, were shared across the hallway at PLATFORM.

Thank you to all everyone who joined us! We look forward to presenting another equally intriguing thematic single channel screening next year!

Tomorrow night only... a FREE screening of Camera-Free Film and Video!

It's only going to be -22 degrees tomorrow, so I know that you can venture out of doors and join us for a cozy screening of astoundingly original films and videos.

Camera-Free Film and Video features the work of international and nationally-renowned artists, as well as local luminaries. These artists don't take the camera for granted in their image-making process, but rather break it, bend it or toss it out altogether. Images are created and manipulated using low-tech (scratch animation) and very high-tech (custom-made algorithms) techniques.

Freed of camera work, these artists discover new creative territory and advance experimental film and video practice.

Join us!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 stating @ 7:30 p.m.
The Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque Theatre, 100 Arthur St.
Admission is free of charge
A reception at Platform Gallery will follow the screening

The line-up of fantastic work will include...

"Five Cents a Copy" Ed Ackerman & Gregory Zbitnew (Winnipeg)
"The Death of Natural Language" Clint Enns (Winnipeg)
"Turku Goes Oukkidoukki" Gun Holström (Helsinki)
"American Singles" Ian Robert MacTilstra (Vancouver)
"Asleep at the Wheel" Mike Maryniuk (Winnipeg)
"Pants!" Divya Mehra (Winnipeg/New York)
"Traffiic" Robert Pasternak (Winnipeg)
"Rectangular World" Andrew James Patterson (Toronto)
"Isolating Landscapes" Heidi Phillips (Winnipeg)
"Winged Victory" Victoria Prince (Winnipeg)
"Telephone and Distant Conversation" Nicole Shimonek (Winnipeg/London, UK)
"Malfunction 2.0" Murray Toews (Winnipeg)
"Tilted" Kai Ling Xue (Vancouver)
"Niverville, MB, 08.04" Collin Zipp (Winnipeg)

Coming Soon: Camera-Free Film and Video

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Video Pool Media Arts Centre presents
Camera-Free Film and Video
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Winnipeg, MB (January 23, 2008) – We can always trust artists to challenge assumptions and to seek creative alternatives to conventional practices. In the case of film and video, this is also true.

This screening features experimental techniques for moving image creation and manipulation including: machinima (film and video made using avatars and/or video game environments), computer-based image manipulation, well-established filmmaking techniques such as hand processing, optical printing, and scratch animation, as well as work employing modified cameras or found footage.

Curated through an open call for submissions, Camera-Free Film and Video showcases provocative non-traditional film and video produced by artists from diverse cultural backgrounds and communities. We are pleased to present the work of a number of local artists, underscoring Winnipeg's rich contribution to experimental film and video making in this country.

Featured artists include: Ed Ackerman & Gregory Zbitnew (Winnipeg), Clint Enns (Winnipeg), Gun Holström (Helsinki), Ian Robert MacTilstra (Vancouver), Mike Maryniuk (Winnipeg), Divya Mehra (Winnipeg/New York), Robert Pasternak (Winnipeg), Andrew James Patterson (Toronto), Heidi Phillips (Winnipeg), Victoria Prince (Winnipeg), Nicole Shimonek (Winnipeg/London, UK), Murray Toews (Winnipeg), Kai Ling Xue (Vancouver), and Collin Zipp (Winnipeg).

Join us!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Cinematheque Theatre, 100 Arthur St.
Admission is free of charge

This one-night only screening begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a Q&A session, and then a reception at Platform Gallery

Video Pool thanks the Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque and Platform Gallery for their generous presentation support.

Image: Clint Enns, The Death of Natural Language, 2007 (video still)

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We wish to acknowledge the generosity of our funders: The Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council

VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTRE is a non-profit artist run centre dedicated to advancing the discipline of media art by providing media artists, non-profit organizations and community groups with access to professional video and media equipment, training, distribution and programming. Video Pool strives to be a national leader fostering innovation, experimentation, critical dialogue and advocacy in media arts.


Contact: Milena Placentile, Programming Coordinator
Video Pool Media Arts Centre
#300-100 Arthur St., Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3
http://www.videopool.org +++ http://videopool.blogspot.com +++ 204.949.9134 x1


Coming soon: Video Pool Media Arts Centre celebrates 25 years with a series of exhibitions featuring six newly commissioned works curated by Sigrid Dahle and Grant Guy. Featured artists include: Sharon Alward, Daniel Barrow, Peter Courtemanche + Lori Weidenhammer, Richard Dyck, Steven Loft, and Victoria Prince.

2008 / 2009 Call for Submissions

Video Pool Media Arts Centre
2008 / 2009 Call for Submissions

Theme: Resistance
Deadline: Friday, March 21, 2008

Resistance is a movement, a position, an attitude, and a measure. It is an individual or collective response. It can be political, or it can relate to physical properties of the known universe. It concerns citizens. It concerns artists. It concerns that which is local as well as that which is global. It is about forces, agency, strategy, play, and subversion. It is an argument. It seeks change, or it fights to stay the same. It mobilizes. It is unconscious. It is a side effect. It is intentional and affirmative.

Video Pool invites submissions pertaining to the theme Resistance for the 2008/09 programming season. We encourage projects involving:

• New media
• Experimental electronics
• Installation (with media components)
• Audio art
• Curatorial packages (with media components)

Video Pool is particularly interested in projects that intervene in public space or otherwise make use of non-traditional exhibition settings.

Video Pool’s 2008/09 programming season will include two programs specifically focused on new media performance and single channel film and video that resist conventional thinking and/or assumptions about what constitute video and new media art practices, and possibly the environs within which they take are expected to place.


Submission Requirements:

Please note that due to funding requirements, primary consideration will be given to Canadian citizens.

All Submissions Must Include:

1. Artist/curator CV including current contact information (mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address)
2. A short description of the proposed project or video(s), including an outline of the critical and/or curatorial objectives of the work submitted
3. Names of all participating artists
4. Titles of all proposed projects/videos, as well as year of completion and city of origin
5. Exhibition history of each project, including a description of contexts within which the work will be presented in the coming year
6. A statement indicating if the artist(s)/curator(s) plan to be in attendance with the work and, if so, in what capacity they would expect to participate in the screening/exhibition
7. Support material: Please do not send originals as Video Pool will not accept responsibility for the loss of, or damage to, any support material
   - Still images should be submitted on CD (maximum 20 images, .jpg preferred, please do not exceed 72 dpi or a resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels)
   - Video support material should be NTSC and submitted on VHS, DVD, or Mini DV
   - Audio support material should be submitted on CD
8. Complete list of all audio, video, and images submitted
9. Please include a SASE if you would like your support material returned

Video Pool is committed to reflecting cultural diversity in it’s programming and thereby encourages applications from artists and curators from all communities.

Video Pool encourages the submissions of projects that are already complete or near completion.

Fees are paid in accordance with the CARFAC rate scale.


Please Direct Enquiries to:

Milena Placentile, Programming Coordinator
vpprogramming at videopool dot org
204.949.9134 ext.1


Please Send Submissions to:

Programming Committee
c/o Video Pool Media Arts Centre
#300 – 100 Arthur St.
Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 Canada


All submissions must be received by the deadline: March 21, 2008

Pool Cue III

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a wonderful time at our Winter Member’s Screening, Pool Cue III! The program offered a truly diverse selection of work by local video makers and gave all in attendance a chance to discover what friends and colleagues have been up to this past year. The energy and enthusiasm evident throughout the evening was fantastic!

Special thanks are due to the King’s Head Pub, not only for providing us with great space within which to hold our event, but for treating us to gigantic trays of awesome appetizers, too!

Here are some pics from the night... If anyone has more, please do pass ‘em along!!































PS: As a reminder to anyone who shared a video: if you would like to have your work distributed by VP, please contact vpdist@videopool.org.

Join us at Pool Cue Three... Tomorrow Night!

Just a quick reminder...

It’s Pool Cue III!



This year’s screening will feature work by:

Thor Aitkenhead, Gwen Armstrong, Jake Chénier, Lancelot Coar and Paul Lukeman, Karen Cornelius, John Coutanche, Clint Enns, Elvira Finnegan, Rick Fisher and Don Rice, Susan P. Gibson, Val Klassen, Sandee Moore, Carole O’Brien, Heidi Phillips, Quidam, Lansing Bruce Roberston, Rachel Wells, and Cameron Woykin

We look forward to treating you to your first refreshment of the evening. Plus, extra treats will be served courtesy of the King's Head Pub!

We hope you’ll be able to join us!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
King’s Head Pub, 120 King Street, Winnipeg
Beginning at 8:00 p.m.

It's Pool Cue III!

As another great year draws to a close, Video Pool is eager to gather with friends and neighbors to share in a good time and to look back on an exciting year of video productions by our members.



We welcome you to join us for our Winter Member’s Screening,
Pool Cue Three!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
King’s Head Pub, 120 King Street, Winnipeg
Beginning at 8:00 p.m.

This year’s screening will feature work by:

Thor Aitkenhead, Gwen Armstrong, Jake Chénier, Lancelot Coar and Paul Lukeman, Karen Cornelius, John Coutanche, Clint Enns, Elvira Finnegan, Rick Fisher and Don Rice, Susan P. Gibson, Val Klassen, Sandee Moore, Carole O’Brien, Heidi Phillips, Quidam, Lansing Bruce Roberston, Rachel Wells, and Cameron Woykin

We hope you’ll be able to join us and we look forward to treating you to your first refreshment of the evening!

All the best,
Milena

Call for Submissions: Video Pool’s Winter 2007 Members’ Screening

It's Pool Cue III!

Deadline: December 1, 2007

Video Pool is seeking submissions of new single-channel videos produced by Video Pool members to be included in a members’ screening at the King's Head Pub on December 12, 2007.

Submissions will not be juried; however the screening will be limited to 90 mins, and places will be reserved for Video Pool fund recipients from the past year. Works that are not included in this screening, will be bumped to the top of the list for Video Pool’s next members’ screening in August 2008.

As a non-juried members’ screening, artist fees will not be paid. Video Pool reserves the right to not screen work deemed to be offensive (i.e.: overtly racist, sexist, homophobic or hateful).

Submission requirements:
***** Works must have been completed after January 1, 2007
***** Videos submitted should be no longer than 10 minutes
***** Videos must be submitted on MiniDV or BetaSP
***** Submissions must be produced by Video Pool members
***** One submission per member


Inquiries may be directed to:
Milena Placentile, Programming Coordinator
Video Pool Media Arts Centre
204.949.9134 x 1 /// vpprogramming@videopool.org


Please submit your videos to:
Winter 2007 Members’ Screening
Video Pool Media Arts Centre
c/o Technical Department Office
#300 – 100 Arthur St.
Winnipeg MB R3B 1H3