A Survey of Video Art from Vtape’s Collection

EMMEDIA presents

ALPHABETICTHE

order of things

I-P Curated by Lowell SmithAugust 7, 2014 @ 9-10PM | EMMEDIA Parking Lot - 351 11 Ave SW

Weirdo VS Wack-Job - Where can we draw the line?

Aren’t we all a bit bizarre, it can make us much more interesting but we still must be sane enough that we can have a conversation with them. A collection of videos jumping back and fourth between the border of Weirdo and Wack-Job, two neighbouring states within the nation of insane.

About the curator:

Lowell received his BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design in Media Arts + Digital Technologies and an Electronics Engineering diploma from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. His work builds and manipulates electronics and media in a variety of forms of hardware and software. Gathering ideas from social culture, science, math and spirituality. Creating a conceptual experience with the viewer in the conscious and subconscious.

LOOP HOLESNobuo Kubota2008, 11:44 minutes

For Loop Holes, Kubota uses the Video Lab to recontextualize a single, 14 minute, improvisational sound poem. By sequentially staggering and then looping and rearranging each sequence in a random pattern, Kubota’s performance is transformed into an endless, aleatoric nonet which combines meta-language, vocables and physical gestures in a fascinating recuperation of space, time and memory. Loop Holes creates a sense of opto-acoustic textural chaos in the audio-visual field.

Wavy Plinth #2Geoffrey Pugen2011, 01:00 minutes

Through photography and video elements, Wavy Plinth #2 creates an impossible scenario of Lake Ontario inside a gallery plinth. Created for the installation Long Divisions which renders cinematic and sculptural clichés of science fiction through the digital lens.

The self, unfruitfulJean Paul Kelly2008, 03:57 minutes

The self, unfruitful is a short, allegorical animation that illustrates the pollination, reproduction, and adaptation of pear trees.

“Jean-Paul Kelly’s gorgeous The self, unfruitful, uses animation and the allegory of pear trees to make a powerful statement about diversity.” – Susan G. Cole

Join UsJesi The Elder2008, 04:50 minutes

Join Us is Katie Stelmanis’ first music video. It is a stream of consciousness that dances to the militant rhythm of the song and the stunning power of Katie’s voice. Inspired by the colours and simplicity of a Sesame Street video, it was created with green screen, keying out stock footage of explosions, animating within video editing software, and pencil drawn animation that was digitally coloured in.

Green BunkerJorge Lozano2014, 02:24 minutes

A visual essay on dromology and the possible end of green.

How To Write An AutobiographyPenny Lane2010, 03:45 minutes

This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator’s own life.

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Fall (from Enlightened Nonsense series)Deirdre Logue1997, 2:00 minutes

Enlightened Nonsense (1997-2000) is a series of 10 thematically related film works that were each shot, hand-processed and edited within a total of approximately one week. Each beginning with a specific action, the works express both the physical manifestation of different states of being and a desire to understand one’s complex relationship to our psychological limitations. Sexual deception, humiliation, injury, fear and failure are common themes, however, humour plays a critical role. Though dark, there is a funny, nonsensical quality which provides distance from the complexity of this work as well as some comic relief.

Dance to Miss ChiefKent Monkman2010, 04:49 minutes

Move over J.Lo and Cher! Miss Chief Eagle Testickle has a new sexy video of her club track: Dance to Miss Chief - a playful critique of German fascination with North American “Indians” that is guaranteed to make you want to get up and shake your booty! This remix of contemporary and vintage footage celebrates Miss Chief’s on-screen romance with leading man, Winnetou, fictitious “Indian” from Karl May’s German Westerns.

THE ALPHABETIC ORDER OF THINGSCurated by Lindsay Sorell, Lowell Smith, and Teresa Tam

July 31, August 7, and August 14, 2014 @ 9-10PM | EMMEDIA Parking Lot - 351 11 Ave SW

EMMEDIA is proud to present a summer series of free outdoor screenings in our downtown parking lot, featuring works from prolific video artists in Canada and beyond. Curators Lindsay Sorell, Lowell Smith, and Teresa Tam selected three screening programs using Vtape’s vast catalogue of videos. Vtape is Canada’s leading artist-run, not-for-profit distributor of video art that includes a diverse collection of work from the early 1970s to the present. Join us on Thursday nights as we survey contemporary and historical media artworks that experiment with the medium of video, while breaking barriers and leading the way for avant-garde video artists to come.

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