S= (KN+KT)R: CAM MATAMOROS, FOUR YEARS LATER
‘Every school-day for 3 weeks i got up and made a 3 minute recording of where i thought i would be in 4 years when i finish my degree. an attempt to create routine, an anchor/reference point for the present and stability and hope for the future. then i edited out everything that wasn’t an...
BREAKING HER OWN RULES: DAYNA MCLEOD TALKS TV REMIX
The following is an interview I conducted with video and performance artist Dayna McLeod. McLeod’s work is ripe with humour and socially charged situations and she has received funding for video projects from the Canada Council and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Over the course of the last month, we have been...
Artengine Blog: Video Cache – Activating the Archive
Video Cache – Activating the Archive: An interview with Mél Hogan This interview takes as a starting point the VIDEO CACHE project. Mél’s research into defunct video art repositories online raises many questions about the ephemeral nature of digital culture, and the social/cultural parameters that frame the preservation of and access to such materials. More...
e-Artexte: An Interview with Corina MacDonald
What follows is part of a conversation that was started through email in March, when Corina was settling into her new job as the e-Artexte Project Manager. e-Artexte is an Open Access (OA) repository for visual arts publishing in Canada, and I think it is safe to say that nothing quite compares to it in...
Review: Chosen by Jackie Gallant
This review is part of an ongoing series of video art reviews located at Wayward. I only review work I love. Chosen by Jackie Gallant If I was a curator, I would programme Chosen into every possible screening. Chosen remixes, re-voices and reconstructs the starstruck gaze. Probably a few of you, like me, think of...
Crashing the Archive/Archiving the Crash
Hogan, Mél. “Archiving the Crash/Crashing the Archive” Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond Youtube Amsterdam – Institute of Network Cultures. 2011 Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube About the book: Video Vortex Reader II is the Institute of Network Cultures’ second collection of texts that critically explore the rapidly changing landscape of...
Review: Wicked Games
Originally posted @ Wayward. Wicked Games by George I find this video magical. And haunting. And really hard to write about. I saw George’s video at the EDGY WOMEN festival, in a programme curated by Dayna McLeod, the founder and project manager ofhttp://52pickupvideos.com. Wicked Games was one video among 39 others at the festival, created...
Review: le jeu du pendu
Originally posted @ Wayward. Les jeux anodins ne sont pas toujours les plus anodins *** le jeu du pendu par lamathilde I recently saw this video again at FIFA. I’d seen it on YouTube soon after lamathilde posted it and I asked her if it could also be featured in NMP: she chose NMP’s love...
Review: Hung Over & Boob Cleaning
Originally posted @ Wayward. Hung Over & Boob Cleaning by Dayna McLeod Dayna McLeod is a writer, video and performance artist whose work is ripe with humour and socially charged situations. She has traveled extensively with her performance work, and her videos have played from London Ontario to London England – across Europe, North America,...
Review: In Four Years (adjectives and adverbs)
Originally posted at Wayward. In Four Years (adjectives and adverbs) by Cam Matamoros (every school-day for 3 weeks i got up and made a 3 minute recording of where i thought i would be in 4 years when i finish my degree. an attempt to create routine, an anchor/reference point for the present and stability...
NMP 13 (Chance) out in POD
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