Free VJing workshops offered in Prince Albert by Carrie Gates and Leeane Berger with Common Weal

VJing 101: An Introduction to VJing with Arkaos

Monday, April 23rd to Friday, April 27th 7:00 - 9:00pm,
at Prince Albert's St. Mary's High School computer science labs

Have you ever wondered how VJs create their artwork? Have you ever wanted to create a custom visual projection to work with a dance or theatre piece? Have you ever tried adding live visuals to a band's performance or a DJ set? We can show you how!

Using Arkaos VJing software, instructors Carrie Gates and Leeane Berger will guide you through a series of fun and focused workshops that will take you from recording and digitizing your own video footage to programming video mixing software to being ready for a live VJ performance.

Workshops take place in the evenings, from Monday, April 23rd to Friday, April 27th 7:00 - 9:00pm, at the St. Mary's High School computer science labs. Since there are limited seats, we ask that you send us a short letter or email by April 17th outlining why you would like to learn more about VJing. Let us know if you have any experience working with video, but beginners are also welcome. Up to ten participants will be selected for this free workshop offered by Common Weal Community Arts, Inc.

Please send your application to:
Judy Mc Naughton
nac@commonweal-arts.com
Common Weal Community Arts, Inc.
1010 Central Avenue
Prince Albert, SK, S6V 4V5
Phone: 960-9020 Fax: (306) 953-4814
www.commonweal-arts.com
Applications received after April 17th will not be considered.

Class YouTube Video Website:
http://www.youtube.com/vjnode



More about the instructors, VJs Leeane Berger and Carrie Gates:

Carrie Gates – VJ Instructor
Carrie Gates' diverse art practices span the realms of VJing, experimental turntablism, sound art, sculpture, performance art, digital media, and the catylization of provocative interactive situations. Her work is unified by a pluralist vision and an appetite for teasing the uncanny from the familiar, critically yet playfully using and abusing any media she encounters. Recently, Gates has been working with creating innovative VJ performances using Max/MSP/Jitter and Arkaos software, sharing her findings with her peers through workshops and artist talks to encourage others to reclaim digital media as a tool for personal artistic expression and social change. Since 1996, she has been performing regularly at electronic music events, noise and experimental music shows, new media festivals, and art galleries. Her performances, compositions, videos, and research work have been shown across Canada as well as in Germany and the USA.

http://www.youtube.com/carriegates
http://www.myspace.com/thesoundsofcarriegates
http://www.notype.com/bricolodge
http://www.vinylinterventions.com

Leeane Berger – Assistant VJ Instructor
As part of a new generation of artists, Leeane Berger is currently working in the discovery, documentation and rediscovery of all things - great and small - that make up everyday living in Saskatchewan. In 2004 Leeane set out with a project to refurbish trash from alleys, sidewalks, parks and dumpsters. This endeavor propelled her into further exploration of salvaged and found materials. Leeane works in a variety of techniques and media in attempt to correlate viewer with surroundings. Using simple electronics to bring motion to a piñata television made from found electrical cords, wire and spray paint to the exploration of substance use in adding texture and depth to her found object paintings, Leeane is on a constant look out for new tools of expression. Working most recently in video, a medium she began working with while briefly attending Concordia University in 2005, has lead to experimentation with video mixing and animation. Her videos have since morphed from canadian video art inspired short-films into grungy expressionistic mixups for teasing and pleasing the eye.

http://www.youtube.com/itrashfish
http://www.myspace.com/printedonrecycledpaper



DOWNLOAD THIS INFO AS A PDF FILE HERE:
http://www.otherartists.com/commonweal/pdf/CW-VJ_Poster-April10-07.pdf

Callout: Initiative for Electronic Arts at PAVED

*Initiative for Electronic and Digital Arts*
PAVED Arts (Saskatoon)

This is a note to the membership, interested artists, people with both
arts and technical backgrounds about PAVED Arts interest in creating
more activity around the topics of new media arts (specifically the
Electronic and Digital disciplines). We are beginning a three phase
project in that will hopefully increase the awareness and interest among
our membership and Saskatchewan based artists.

"/You don't have to be a Techie!/"

We would like to create an environment where artists in other
disciplines who have an interest in using new technologies can come and
discuss their ideas with our staff and determine what they need to learn
in order to carry them out.

*Trajectory*

1. *feb-march* 1 day Digital/Electronic arts workshops for members and
others
"PAVED Arts technical director will be providing technical support and
hands on workshops for topics such as Beginners Linux, Electronics for
Artists, Digital Imaging and Web based technologies (HTML/Flash). See
website for details http://www.pavedarts.ca."

/Additional Related Events:/
EXHIBITION: Daniel Dugas - MAX/MSP based installation FIB/BID - Opening
Exhibition feb 23rd
ARTIST TALK: Ed Pas - Art and Vectors - Adobe Illustrator in a fine Arts
Practice – Sat Mar 3

2. *may-june*
RESIDENCY: "_Electronic Arts Scholarship Program_"
"Providing support for 3-5 artists to learn how to program in the
puredata environment for creation of projects involving realtime
audio/video processing. Taught by highly regarded puredata experts
Mathieu Bouchard and Darsha Hewitt (Montreal) they will take beginners
through a 2 month series of workshops to create projects and cover
topics such as live video mixing, interfacing robotics, interactive
sound design, and sensor interfacing. Artists will receive access to
PAVED Arts equipment and technical support. A collaboration between
Artengine (Ottawa) & PAVED Arts (Saskatoon)."
WORKSHOPS: Mathieu Bouchard and Darsha Hewitt - Beginners Guide:
Puredata may 5,19,26 jun 2,9,16.

/Additional Related Events:/
ARTIST TALK: Erika Lincoln - Beyond the Skin Effect: Responsive Systems
- may 9
WORKSHOP: Erika Lincoln - DATAin DATAout - "Understanding how you can
manipulate sound and video with MAX/MSP" - may 12
WORKSHOP: Mfanway Ashmore - Hack and Snack - "Creative appliance
hacking" - june 8,9

3. *july-aug-sept *
RESIDENCY(Projected): _Throughput: Digital Electronic Arts Residency_
"Providing support for one regionally based artist to learn about
electronic/digital arts to create an concept that we can bring in to
reality. The artist will receive a artist fee, technical support, use of
paved equipment and travel expenses to go to the 2007 puredata
convention in Montreal, QC."

Callout: PureData Convention seeking papers and demos

PureData Convention '07 - Call for Proposals

* August 21st-26th, 2007, Montréal Canada

* Deadline for artworks/performances and workshops: February 28th 2007
* Deadline for papers: March 31st 2007

http://convention.puredata.org

The PureData Convention Steering Committee is now accepting proposals
for participation in L'oeuvre ouverte (the Open Work), the 2nd
International PureData Convention. L'oeuvre ouverte invites an open
relation between the artwork and the public as well as open attitudes
and practices in the fields of programming, artistic creation and
scientific research. It will bring together artists, developers and
writers who develop, use and reflect on PureData.

The Convention will acknowledge the broad range of artistic and
technical disciplines that make use of the software and will address
questions of openness and accessibility. It will provide a theoretical
and artistic context for the understanding of the aesthetics and
politics of Free / Open Source Software culture.

Selected proposals will reflect varied perspectives and outlooks on
the artistic possibilities of free software and hardware that emanate
from a wide-ranging community. These include, but are not restricted
to connections to art, science and society as well as demonstration of
innovative and intuitive interactions. We encourage a wide range of
submissions from all levels of proficiency with the software as well
as from emergent and diverse PureData communities. Submissions will be
evaluated by peer review committees.

Proposals are sought in the following categories:

Artwork/Performances:
The selected artworks should make use of PureData. All forms of audio
and visual art including real-time interactive works, improvisations
with technology, instrumental/electroacoustic mixes, sound
installations, performances, network art, robotics, software art and
interdisciplinary work are welcome.


Papers and posters:
We are accepting papers that offer varying perspectives on technical,
social, cultural as well as art theory/historical aspects of PureData
or the aesthetics and politics of Free / Open Source Software (FOSS)
culture.

Demos:
Externals, Performance patches, Packages of abstractions, sensors and
physical computing interfaces, etc.

Workshops:
Beginner to advanced level hands-on workshops, installation
help, DIY etc.

::applicants are invited to submit in multiple categories::

please read the application guidelines:
http://convention.puredata.org/guidelines