Salon des rejetées: Visual Thinking by BRUCE
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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...
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...
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
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...
Google Suggestions: Archive of Human 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 Human Sense 2012 coming soon… Human Sense 2012 (currently being archived…) Human Sense 2011 Human Sense 2010...
VIDEO CACHE+SAW Video’s New Website Launch
Video Cache Curated by Penny McCann, Video Cache is a digital video screening comprised of ten works from the original SAW Video Mediatheque launched in 2004. Video Cache was presented in November, 2010 at Montreal’s Groupe Intervention Vidéo as part of Wayward, a collaborative project by Mél Hogan and Nikki Forrest. Wayward is Hogan’s doctoral research creation play...
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...
WNDX :: Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video Art
Thanks to GIV, my video People This 2012 Shit is Hype is playing at the WNDX :: Winnipeg’s Festival of Film and Video Art as part of the New Prairie & Canadian Cinema programme. http://www.wndx.org Founded in 2005, WNDX places special attention on the most innovative and ground-breaking work by Canadian filmmakers and video artists, with a...