Arts Birthday 2012 at Ace Art

Andy Rudolph Light Bright interactive installation



Watching Aaron Zeghers installation



Playing with Lite Nite



Ward Weis video installation




Golden Boy



Jaymez video performance



party people



Freya Olafson video



installation by Ken Gregory with Tracy Woodward



THE MOTHER SHIP HAS ARRIVED!

The Golden Boy's flame acts as a signal to intelligent beings from outer
space that have been in communication with members of the DIY community
in Winnipeg. These beings have been watching us until the politics became
so bad here in Canada that they have finally sent the Mothership to
relocate many of us to one of Saturn's moons: Enceladus. It's warmer there
and there is already a Sal's (somehow Burton Cummings got a hold of this
one before anyone could stop him - at least he made it a bar).Our DIY
Light Emitting Universal Transceiver Thingys are the link to the Golden
Boy and the Mothership.

The beauty of this system is Sam Katz doesn't know about it. He ignores
the Golden Boy (penis envy?). As an aside, there is a similar transceiver
on the dome of one of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, but Harper and
his gang are all relocating to Mars (obviously, there will be more
Americans there and therefore a more conservative planet - they have no
bars). Once the probes go around alerting people that it is time to
relocate, we all enter into the Golden Boy itself and the Mother Ship
attaches to Golden boy lifting us all up up and away.

Art's Birthday 2012 DIY LED Hacking Workshop

Video Pool Media Arts Open Lab Presents:
Art's Birthday 2012 DIY LED Hacking Workshop with Ken Gregory

when: Sunday, January 15, 2012, 12:00pm - 5:00 pm.
where: Video Pool Media Arts Centre @ 300-100 Arthur St.
cost: $2.00 - $5.00 donation to the media lab to cover parts.
no experience with electronics required. All levels of experience welcome.

LED == Light Emitting Diodes

The theme this year for Art's Birthday is Lite Nite. Light up the night with DIY LED based artworks. Learn how LEDs work, build simple circuits for use in Lite Nite based artworks, help others, collaborate on projects, hack hardware and have fun. Bring your creations to our Art's Birthday 2012 celebration on January 17 and light up the night!

Parts, tools and creativity included!

Open Lab at Video Pool Media Arts

Video Pool - Open Lab . . . . . . . . . Thursday July 7th

6:00-10pm Dropin / No Charge / Open to Video Pool Members and Non Members
(Call 801 5631 if you need to get swiped up to the third floor.)

On July 7th from 6:30pm - 10:00pm, Video Pool will be hosting the next amazing
Open Lab featuring the media stylings of Ken Gregory.


/ * + = / * + = / * Open What ? + = / * + = / * + = /

Open Lab is an event for all those interested in New Media Art and technology to
explore the vast resources of Video Pool's New Media Lab and share skills
(show and tell, anyone?) with like-minded explorers.


/ * + = / * + = / * Feature Presentations + = / * + = / * + = /

Ken Gregory

Introduction to the Stamp Micro-Controller with Ken Gregory
Ken will provide an introductory explanation of the Stamp micro-controller by
Parallax as well as show some of the projects that has has created using this chip.


the Oxberry

Andrew Milne will give tour of the WFG Oxberry control system project and the
work that has been completed so far. Tour will include a brief explanation of digital
parallel to serial conversions using a shift register.


/ * + = / * + = / * You Are Welcome + = / * + = / * + = /

We strongly encourage anyone who has an interest in making Media Art and is willing
to explore the world that lies beyond single channel video. All ranges of experience
are welcome. Please bring a project to work on if you have one to bring or, if all you
have are questions, bring those too and we'll do our best.
Cookies and Root-beer are provided.


/ * + = / * + = / * Format + = / * + = / * + = /

The format for these Open Labs will be to provide a space where people can bring work
that they are engaged in and work on it collaboratively (or just with some other people
and brainpower around) or come just as they are and explore some labs or projects that
are set up ripe for modification and tinkering.



If you are interested come by and do some work and play or just chat and say Hi.

Your happy h'andy' hosts - Andy Rudolf and Andy Milne

Arts Birthday 2011!

It's that time of the year! A time to celebrate all that Art gives to us. A great way to start the year.



"This year our theme is Holus Bolus, meaning all together, all at once;
whole, in one big lump. Wear your own whimsical handmade hat to win big prizes (we have jurors, it's a serious thing), or make one at the party, at the Table of Imaginative Materials.

Art's Birthday External Network
Video Pool


Where: Lo Pub & Bistro- 330 Kennedy (Corner of Ellice and Kennedy in the New HI Downtowner Hostel)
When: Saturday January 15
$10.00, or $8.00 with costume
doors open 8pm

Video Pools Top Ten 2010
recent work from Video Pool begins promptly 8:30pm


Festivities continue till we drop:
*MC for the evening Miss Lizzy La La
*VJing by Jaymez and DJing by Rob Vilar
*Skype kiosk to exchange birthday greetings with revelers at East
Street Arts, Leeds, UK
*Art fun at the Table of Imaginative Material
*Best Made Hat Contest and prizes
so so much more...

Electro Lounge

This is what I am up to this week amongst other things.

February 25 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Free.
Video Pool Studio.
Electrolounge is a forum for local artists to “show and tell” each other about their practice in a casual forum mediated by artist Ken Gregory. Artists are invited to show new works, works in progress, documentation, stories, experiences, examples of cool art, experiments, curatorial projects – basically anything and everything that inspires your electronic art practice. Participants are also encouraged to exchange knowledge about techniques and theoretical approaches.

This event is free. Participants are encouraged to register in advance and to bring artwork, inspiration and snacks to share. Please contact vptech [at] videopool.org to register.