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Laura De Decker presents Interzone 002 in Kitchener at The Rotunda Gallery
Artist's reception: Thursday, July 8 from 5-7pm
www.lauradedecker.com
Waterloo artist writes computer programs to create digital art
The Rotunda Gallery takes the leap to digital art in July with Interzone 002. Artist
Laura De Decker creates abstract digital images using original computer programs she
has developed.
"Interzone is a word I use to describe the ambiguous space between traditionally
opposed ideas,” says De Decker. "I create abstract colour images using computer
programs that I write as a tool to facilitate my intuitive exploration of
fundamental visual elements. The images that I create are printed as large-format
giclée prints.”
De Decker generates large-format abstract digital prints using computer programs she
writes to investigate colour and aesthetics. She uses technology that is more than
10 years old.
"It allows me direct control of every pixel in my images with the use of my computer
code,” she says. "This process of working with form and colour in an integrated way
enables me to better explore aesthetic possibilities; I choose carefully defined
parameters to zero in on abstract ideas.”
"My work uses a systematic approach, precision of form, and visual ambiguity,
similar to works by Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, Claude Tousignant
and Guido Molinari,” she says. "My process employs mathematical and scientific
approaches while building on art historical investigations into colour, form and
aesthetics.”
De Decker has a BA in art and art history from University of Toronto and Sheridan
College (1999) and an MFA in visual arts from University of Victoria (2002). Her art
has been exhibited across Canada . De Decker and her husband, Kitchener ’s
artist-in-residence for 2010, Stefan A. Rose, live in Waterloo .
De Decker received assistance from the OAC in support of this exhibition.
Here`s a message from Ed Video Member and artist, Dawn Matheson.
Most of us have attended Nuit Blanche (If you haven't, it's a wild night), but participating-- moreover, performing-- really rocks. I am looking for 10 minutes in the 12-hour duration of the evening. Your time will generate a lot of free promotion (and a potentially HUGE audience) for yourself on the biggest art night of the year. Plus, it'll be a hoot.
(A link to a website of the project will follow, just, er, have to make it first.) In the meantime, I am asking for your help in getting the word out to any and all connections you may have in the ACTING WORLD.
My project for Nuit Blanche (OCTOBER 2-- all night in TORONTO) will be installed at the GLADSTONE HOTEL on Queen St-- hip hip hooray, as it is a great venue at the heart of the Downtown Core exhibition. There is TONS of traffic and they do tons of promotion.
Here's a synopsis of the project:
Project AUDITION is a site-specific audio project performed outside on the second-floor balcony of the Gladstone Hotel to an audience of passersby on Queen Street below. (If ever there was a balcony meant for speeches, that’s the one.) The work is composed of a succession of MONOLOGUES performed live (or rehearsed-- actor's choice) by a mixed bag of amateur, professional, famous and student actors working in film, television and theatre from across Southern Ontario, as if auditioning for the open night, the cityscape panorama, the Nuit Blanche art fan and the Queen Street regular.
AUDITION allows the general public in on the first critical stages of the creative process usually only privy to the director and stage manager. Catching perhaps just a snippet of a soliloquy, accidently eavesdropping on a small intimacy, or hearing a line out of context, the monologue-- always just a part of larger story-- takes on new meanings and potential varying significances in contrast to the surrounding scene on the street below in that moment.
What monologue will stop traffic? Which performance will generate a crowd, which a boo? Here, an actor tosses their calling card off the balcony-- their voices will echo below, as will their passion, their showmanship, their bravado, their fear, fumbling, and false starts.
*It's the actor's choice to remain anonymous (it is difficult to see the speaker from the balcony) or self-promote through an introduction. The choice of monologue(s) will be that of the actors (most actors have a repertoire of many: classic and a contemporary monologues, both dramatic and comedic) but will be determined in advance and scheduled.
For blank slots, I will accommodate impromptu monologues by Nuit Blanche goers. (Yikes!) A new monologue will be performed every 10 minutes. I'm working on free drinks for participants. Whether you need it before or after, it's your call.
Please help me spread the word. I will need approximately 70 actors. It is a short commitment (10 minutes), a fun one and hugely rewarding.
*** If you are involved in the FRINGE FEST or SUMMERWORKS or a SOUTHERN ONTARIO THEATRE or THEATRE SCHOOL, please let me know how I can promote the project there.
And if forwarding email, please include my address so I can keep track.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS.
It should be a GREAT party.
Best,
Dawn Matheson
Guelph
519-780-0251
pigeon28.com (in progress)
Dawn Matheson [mathesondawn@gmail.com]
Jenn E Norton will be speaking at the Drake Hotel in Toronto as part of C Magazine's 'C School' on July 13 at 6:30pm. The topic is about supernatural themes in contemporary art.
Still more of Helenka! by Karen Rose : The film was invited to a Barcelona film festival. Screening begins July 14th. Helenka is part of the best of the Sans Soucci Festival of Dance Cinema, and thus invited.
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Gloria Dent's new book is out. "At my sweet recall", the letters of Edward Johnson and Beatriz d'Arneiro, 1906-1908 is available at The Bookshelf in Guelph or through the author at rgdent@rogers.com.
Jim Riley's "Water’s Edge" video installation May 2- June 20, 2010
Opening: Sunday, May 2, 2010 2-4 p.m.
Exchange Project exhibition at Burlington Art Centre
With Water's Edge, Ed Video member Jim Riley begins to explore a new approach to "video paintings". He uses a painted wall and cut out painted wooden shapes juxtaposed to a portal of video imagery. The painted wall interacts with the video imagery, and creates colours that are not in the source location or the actual video. The video becomes a more painterly medium and a tool to challenge our perceptions about our reality. Images were used from Sudbury and Burlington as the documentary beginning in creating this installation. Works in this exhibition were created after exchange visits between artists in Sudbury and artists in the Burlington area. Other artists in this exhibition are: Mercedes Cueto-Sudbury, Nick Dubecki-Sudbury, Fausta Facciponte-Mississauga, Linda Finn-Elliot Lake, V. Jane Gordon-Hamilton, Sonja Hidas-Missisauga, Marlene Kawalez-Milton, Ron Langin-Sudbury, Jamie Ruddy-Sudbury, Grazna Ziolkowski-Hamilton
Burlington Art Centre
1333 Lakeshore Rd.
Burlington, ON, L7S 1A9
George Wale 905.632-7796 ext. 303 or info@jimriley.ca
Hours
Monday-Thursday 9:00 am-10:00 pm
Friday-Saturday 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sunday 12 noon - 5:00 pm
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Congratulations to Angus McLellan and his team at Bleeding Apple as his film "Her" just won best experimental film at the Open Apperture Film Festival.
Dave McLeod's "The Interview" is an official selection in the Bare Bones Film Festival.
For more information please visit http://www.barebonesfilmfestivals.org/
The short film INUIT HIGH KICK will have it's festival premiere at the upcoming Hot Docs festival in Toronto. Hot Docs is North America's largest documentary festival. It runs for 11 days from April 29 to May 9, 2010. The festival presents over 170 films from more than 40 countries and welcomes hundreds of international filmmakers and industry delegates to Toronto.
http://www.hotdocs.ca
Inuit High Kick is very short - it's only two and a half minutes long. It features athlete Johnny Issaluk performing the high kick in super-slow-motion HD and was directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Both are Iqaluit residents. The film was produced by Mark Hamilton and the production company is Nunavut-based Inuit Communications (ICSL). Original music was composed by Geronimo Inutiq and the film was edited by Mark Hamilton and Philip Joamie.
Inuit High Kick will have two screenings at Hot Docs;
http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/inuit_high_kick
The film will also play as part of a series of short documentaries at a special "rooftop" screening in Toronto's trendy Yorkville neighbourhood;
http://www.hotdocs.ca/festival/rooftop_docs
Inuit High Kick was part of a series of sixteen short films commissioned from across Canada for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The film played to huge audiences in Vancouver and Whistler during the Winter Games in February 2010. Nunavut Film Development Corporation (NFDC) partnered with the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition (CODE) Motion Pictures to commission the series of short films. Additional support for Inuit High Kick was provided by Government of Nunavut, Department of Executive and Intergovernmental Affairs.http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/inuit_high_kick
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