Salon des rejetées: Visual Thinking by BRUCE
http://brucebrucebrucebrucebrucebruce.net/video/visual-thinking/
NMP redesign: new site launch
January 1, 2012 saw the launch of the new NMP site, this time in WordPress. I managed to learn and adapt the WPShower Imbalance to our needs which attests to the good design of WordPress’s backend and frontend alike. I’ve left the old site up for now until I figure out how to archive it...
Fembot Advisory Board
I’ve just been added the Fembot Advisory Board. Fembot is a new concept for multimodal publishing on gender, media, and technology. Fembot refers to three overlapping entities: 1. A collective of scholars, organized as an institute, who will share responsibility for the construction and implementation of a Fembot website, which will provide a platform for collaboration, publication, and distribution; decisions...
Mini Docs: 52 Pick Up Videos 2011-2012
I am currently working on a new mini documentary series of web docs for, Dayna McLeod’s 52 Pick Up Videos, which for me starts in December 2011 and runs until December 2012. The topic has to remain a secret for now because the documentary collects spontaneous, on the spot reactions, to the same question, 52 times. See...
Video Art Interview 002: Cam Matamoros
This is a piece I would like to one day take on as a proper curator; for years I’ve been wanting to programme works that deal with the role of the document within art, or more specifically how the video document becomes art. But since I’m not there yet, I’ve taken to writing about video...
Errors, Failures, Glitches: Another Collection
I’ve started collecting screen grabs of error messages, impasses, glitches, and so on…
Re: by Bruce @ GIV
Re: (2011) by BRUCE from Frédérick Belzile on Vimeo. Had the pleasure of being in the audience at GIV when video artist Frédérick Belzile presented the last ten years of her work. To start off the night, Belzile showed Re:, a video we made together (under the moniker BRUCE). The audience feedback was incredible. BRUCE...
Google Suggestions: Archive of Tech Sense
“Never forget that Google collects data for a commercial purpose. It is not a public archive. Besides this, the Google search engine is getting more and more ‘polluted’, coming up with useless and predictable search outcomes.” - Lovink — Archive of Google’s Tech Sense 2012 coming soon… Tech Sense 2011 Tech Sense 2010
CACS 2011: Mobile Archive
Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS)/ L’Association canadienne des études culturelles (ACÉC) Biennial conference McGill University, Montreal | Nov. 4-6, 2011 Building upon Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s concept of the ‘enduring ephemeral,’ (2008) and Lev Manovich’s ‘anti-narrative logic of the Web’ (2001) this presentation outlines the possibilities for time travel through the interface of the world’s largestonline...
Road Trip, made in Korsakow
Road Trip uses footage I shot across Canada in the mid 2000s. Additional camera work done by Nancy Beaton. I’m in the process of updating Road Trip to the latest version of Korsakow, a software application originally created in 2000. Korsakow allows users without programming expertise to create nonlinear, or database, narratives. Version 5, released in...
NMP 18: “amour”
no. 18 – Amour nov– dec 2011
Online and print-on-demand journal of art, politics and culture
Magazine en ligne d’art, de politique et de culture, imprimé sur demande
www.nomorepotlucks.org Featuring: Transforming Landscapes: An Interview with Isabelle Hayeur
NMP Indu Vashist on Queer India and Co-Existing Diasporic Identities NMP Performing Love #01: I am loving you. Antonia...