A Glow in the Dark: Helmcken Alley Film Screening
Friday August 14, 9pm
Helmcken Alley behind Open Space, 510 Fort St.
Entry by parking lot at Fort and Langley streets
Interactive Futures 07
November 15, 16, 17
Papers/Presentations
Bedford Regency Hotel, Pegasus Room 1st floor
1140 Government St. Ph. 250-384-6835.
Performances/Installations/Screenings
Open Space, 510 Fort St. Ph. 250-383-8833.
Conference Hotel
The Fairmount Empress, 721 Government St. Ph. 250-384-8111.
IF07 will explore new forms of screen-based media from a diverse body of artists, theorists, writers, filmmakers, developers, and educators. Interactive visual environments, screen-based performances, new forms of narrative experiences, web-based environments, and innovative educational models will all be explored in The New Screen.
Grand Theft Bicycle
Grand Theft Bicycle: A Game-Installation
One night only, Saturday, June 2nd, 8 PM
at Open Space
Steve Gibson, Justin Love and Jimmy Olson have developed an interactive piece that is as much satirical as it is engaging. Grand Theft Bicycle uses the revolutionary Borgcycle™ to allow the user to enjoy the thrill of killing some fundamentalist diskheads. In Grand Theft Bicycle the participant sits on his or her heavily-armed Borgcycle™, faces a large projection screen, and rides his or her way to victory!
Interactive Futures 06: Audio Visions
Interactive Futures 06: Audio Visions
Thurs. Jan. 26th - Sun. 29th, 2006
Laurel Point Inn
Open Space
Visit the Interactive Futures 06 Website
Telecom History Project: OUTERSPACE
Telecom History Project: OUTERSPACE
Digital Archive website
Click here for the OUTERSPACE website
REFRESH! Conference
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/
REFRESH! complete conference stream launched
The presentation will take place on Saturday October 1, between 2:45pm - 4:45pm MST.
Please follow this link for futher details http://www.mediaarthistory.org/
love dwells, only in the skull
love dwells, only in the skull | Valentine’s Day Performance and Fundraiser
Marilyn Lerner (Montréal) & Daniel Lapp (Victoira)
Monday, February 14, 2005, 9pm
Doors open at 8:30pm, music begins at 9pm
Admission - $35 solo, $50 pair
Lerner and especial local musician Daniel Lapp (trumpet, violin), for two solo
performances and one dancing duet. This Valentine’s Day performance will also be
a primo Open Space fundraising event, raising funds for a grand piano to add to
our dynamic New Music program. Tickets for this priceless event will be sold at
$35 for a solo entrance, and $50 for a duet entrance; tickets can be purchased at
Open Space, A&B Sound, and Ditch Records. Included with the purchase of the
ticket will be a host sushi bar, heaps of chocolate, and one complementary (raffle)
ticket for the Skull & Love prizes. The evening’s raffle will consist of various Skull
& Love prizes, such as: a hotel-room for one steamy night, omnifarious art pieces,
and a one-of-a-kind skull chalice. Do not miss out on this fabulous Valentines Day affair
... on a night like this anything can happen.
INTERACTIVE FUTURES 05: Technology in the Life World
INTERACTIVE FUTURES 05: Technology in the Life World
Feb. 4-6, 2005
Download the Interactive Futures Schedule in PDF format
Julie Andreyev & Steve Gibson (co-curators)
Ten Texts & Two Melodramas
Don Gill, (Lethbridge)
Project Series/Resource Centre Video Screening
October 6 - 9 , 2004
Artist Talk: Saturday, October 9, Noon
Open Space will welcome the return of video artist, photographer and writer Don Gill to Victoria on Saturday, October 9 th . In conjunction with a larger video installation entitled Axis of Coincidence at Gallery 101, in Ottawa http://www.gallery101.org/content, the Resource Centre @ Open Space will personate a satellite for Gill’s work, screening the film Ten Texts and Two Melodramas, October 6 th to 9 th . Revered for both his attuned eye and engaging discourse, Gill will bequeath insight into his world of film-making and photo art, amidst his artists’ talk Saturday, October 9 th , at Noon.
Dream Factory
Milutin Gubash and Althea Thauberger
Performance August 1 @ 8 pm
Artists' Talk August 3 @ noon
Dream Factory is a collaboration between Milutin Gubash and Althea Thauberger that will transform part of the gallery into a reconfigured television studio that will host a performance night consisting of a number of amateur acts. A standard 3-camera studio mode before a "live studio audience" will be used. The stage will consist of a generic backdrop and a live feed will be seen on two TV monitors. Inspired by the format of a "variety show", the performers will be solicited from a "casting call" put out in local newspapers under the classified section. The collaboration will allow the two artists to stage and produce a show in which the performers will be given the freedom to participate without being inhibited or having a direction imposed on them. The people who reply to the advertisement will determine the tone and direction of the event. What makes this project interesting is its ability to access a community who otherwise would not exhibit in a contemporary gallery setting. It thus provides a space in which notions of art and entertainment are expanded and reconsidered.
Expressions in Virtual Reality LiminaL Projects
Monday Nights @ Open Space
Expressions in Virtual Reality LiminaL Projects
Jackson Two Bears, Tanya Doody, Susanna Hood and Tom Kuo (Toronto) in collaboration with Dr. Steve Gibson (Victoria)
LiminaL Projects, a Toronto-based multi-media installation and performance collective will be joined by Dr. Steve Gibson, of the University of Victoria's Centre for New Media Arts, to present this collaborative project. The live improvisational sound performance will include technology wherein bodies and motion within a given space can be detected and decoded as virtual information by computer software. The technology will be programmed to effect the presentation of aural and visual ephemera within a multi-media performance. Susanna Hood's movement work will be integrally involved. Her physical motions will be detected by the tracking system to ultimately effect transmutations of video projections, control vocal processing, and to start and stop audio loops. (www.liminalprojects.org)
Vantage Points: Sighting Along a Line
Vantage Points: Sighting Along a Line - Matt Irving (Los Angeles), Alisdair MacRae (Victoria) & Keith Langergraber (Vancouver) - multimedia installations
Three installations consisting of drawings, photographs, video and sculptural elements indexing three locations outside of the gallery: Bamberton, BC, the Okanagan Valley, and Southern California,with a focus on Los Angeles and Salton City. The artists present distinctive perspectives based on their own research and explorations of these specific sites. They display investigations relating to the individual and his/her surroundings, concentrating on ideas of inclusion and exclusion, visual and physical perceptions of the landscape, entropy, as well as the intermingling of nature and industry.
Bandwidth is Political
NANCY PATTERSON (Toronto)
October 22 Monday Nights @ Open Space
Presentation/talk, free admission
In this presentation Patterson will discuss recent projects - in particular, an online 3D project titled The Library which she has been developing at Seneca@York with their ORAD Virtual Set. Other internet projects such as Stock Market Skirt will be discussed as she explores how and why bandwidth is political. She will also screen a short video titled 'Coppelia' which she recently completed for Bravo. Organized with the support of UVic, Fine Arts.
close-up
Ross Racine
October-November
web projects
The Passion of Joan of Ark
Eye of Newt Collective (Vancouver) - @ Cinecenta, UVic
September 27
The Passion of Joan of Ark - The Eye of Newt Collective is part of the growing Improvised Music scene. The Collective is dedicated to engaging all of the senses. This includes performing original scores to silent films and using cutting edge technology to project large images triggered simultaneously with sounds. The barrage of played images mixed with the music starts to create a new immersive art form. An Open Space and University of Victoria presentation.
Antimatter Festival of Underground Film & Video
Antimatter Festival of Underground Film & Video
September 11-23
Antimatter Festival of Underground Film & Video
Antimatter Festival of Underground Film & Video
September 17-26
Still Life
Still Life
Judith Price
September 9-27
A video installation about the process of grieving.
video screenings: in recognition of AIDS Awareness Week.
video screenings: in recognition of AIDS Awareness Week.
Michael Balser and Andy Fabo
October 4 &5
The video work of Michael Balser and Andy Fabo engages the arts community in a dialogue with the forces for social change including gay rights, anti-censorship and AIDS awareness.
H2O Soundscape in Bastion Square
H2O Soundscape in Bastion Square
Arora Dokken and Marti Hopson
September 28
This outdoor multi-media event combines lighting, music, mirrors and a constructed sound area.
Re-Viewing Canadian Video
Re-Viewing Canadian Video
April 12
Nelson Hendricks, Gitanjali and Luc Bourdon
Re-Viewing Canadian Video: Hard Core Night
Re-Viewing Canadian Video: Hard Core Night
March 29
Significant work by Canadian gay & lesbian artists.
Re-Viewing Canadian Video: Aboriginal Film & Video Alliance
Re-Viewing Canadian Video: Aboriginal Film & Video Alliance
Jennifer Abbott & David Odhiambo, Zachery Longboy, Amait Ikajuritigiit, Jorge Lozano, Kathleen Pirie Adams & Paula Gignac.
March 15
Re-Viewing Canadian Video: Aboriginal Film & Video Alliance
Re-Viewing Canadian Video: Aboriginal Film & Video Alliance
Chris Mullington, Rober Racine, Rick Raxlen
February 23
Re-Viewing Canadian Video: Aboriginal Film & Video Alliance
Re-Viewing Canadian Video: Aboriginal Film & Video Alliance
Shani Mootoo, Women's Video Workshop, Ruby Truly, Dana Claxton, Karen Houle, and others
February 9
A Critical Beauty
A Critical Beauty
Frances Grafton, Lucy Hogg, Patrick Mahon and Gu Xiong
February 8-March 2
February 9
Event Horizon
Event Horizon
Claire Savoie
April 6-22
April 7 Artist's Lecture
Video and sound installation.
Black Holes & Other Lies/Black Lies & Other Holes
Black Holes & Other Lies/Black Lies & Other Holes
Dianne Searle
January 5-28
An eight-piece multimedia installation.