http://www.thelatestartists.com
The Latest Artists (Andrew and Deborah O'Malley) are a collaborative, multi-disciplinary artistic duo. Spontaneous electronic music sets are seamlessly blended with improvised video art to create captivating and intriguing, coordinated audio-visual (A/V) performances. Launching their duo act in Berlin, Germany during the summer of '07, they presently hone their craft in Ottawa at their monthly DJ/VJ event, Tech/Tonic, along with regular appearances at arts and music events across the city and beyond. They have previously performed for the National Gallery of Canada's Artspark series, Artengine’s Electric Fields festival, and recently had their audio-visual work screened at the Adelaide Film Festival in Australia.
Taking advantage of various music and video software tools to mix and manipulate a broad range of electronic music, original compositions and beat loops, alongside original video source footage, their various approaches to A/V performance span from club-oriented DJ/VJ sets to experimental and improvisational live PA and video presentations, and cover themes such consumption, travel, self-identity, autobiography, and abstraction.
http://www.otherartists.com
http://www.vagueterrain.net/journal09
http://www.youtube.com/carriegates
http://www.myspace.com/thesoundsofcarriegates
Carrie Gates is a VJ, sound artist, educator, and academic from Saskatoon who has been producing work over the last 13 years for independent electronic music events, public galleries, artist-run centres, festivals, conferences, and symposia. Her work often deals with subjects such as synaesthesia, situationism, and the fantastic, using/abusing technology as a means to tease out diverse perceptions of social and psychological space. Recently, Gates has curated an issue of the online digital culture magazine,VagueTerrain, about the theory and practice of international VJ culture. She is currently working on an installation using EEG signals to control a video mixer that she created in Max/MSP/Jitter, with support from Neutral Ground’s Annual Production Fund. She has been awarded a New Media Production Grant from the Canada Council (2008) and a Professional Development Grant from the Saskatchewan Arts Board (2007), as well as several research grants from the University of Saskatchewan. Her research and artwork has been shared with audiences across Canada, as well as in Germany, New Zealand, and the United States. Gates also the Director of the BricoLodge net.label, and is works as a Media Developer on web design and development at the University of Saskatchewan’s Educational Media Access and Production Department.
Carrie Gates curated the Z-Axis exhibition with the generous support of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, through their New Media Initiatives Grant (2008).
http://www.myspace.com/scantintone
Scant Intone is the solo project of Canadian artist Constantine Katsiris dedicated to his explorations in modern audio. From stark minimalism to densely complex textures, his output incorporates elements of field recordings, raw data and digital sound synthesis. The compositions are experiments in abstract electronic music, with influences including ambient, lowercase, noise, glitch and drone. As a live performer, he has brought his sound to many notable venues, such as the Society for Arts and Technology [Montréal], Whitechapel Art Gallery [London] and Brut Konzerthaus [Vienna].
Constantine has been active in exploring the electronic arts since the early 1990s as a producer, designer and DJ. He was formerly based in Montréal where he was operating the Panospria label and coordinating events locally and abroad since 2002. During a period of over six years he was integral in organizing countless events, including the Textures deep-listening concert series for experimental, improvised and electronic music which ran for 25 editions. These events featured performances by artists from all across Canada as well as international artists from Sweden, Norway, Italy, Japan, USA and Mexico. This experience led him to become involved with programming showcases for festivals such as Mutek and Suoni per il Popolo, both world-renowned. His own live performances are numerous over the past years, including many collaborations and improvisations with like-minded sound and video artists. Scant Intone has also shared the stage with Aidan Baker, Tim Hecker, Sawako, Hive Mind and Vromb, to name a few. He is currently living in Vancouver.
Darsha Hewitt is a Canadian artist from Ottawa Ontario currently residing in Montréal Québec. She makes sound installations and performances using experimental electronics, open source programming software and hardware, and ageing technology. Her interest in working with electronic sound lies in its capacity to act as an audible indicator for processes, information and natural occurrences that we cannot see or that would otherwise go unheard. By handcrafting, rebuilding and cross-wiring basic electronics, she strips them of their commercial obligations and exposes them to the noisy and invisible ethereal realm. Darsha’s artwork makes use of public vicinities and it responds to the environment or people that surround it. It often questions the role of automation in everyday life and how technology-reliant society silences and reinterprets identity.
Her main areas of research are late 19th and early 20th century audiovisual and communication technology. She studies the practices of mid 20th century amateur electronics and radio enthusiasts and how they used homemade technology to augment and understand the world around them. She often draws on the formulas and aesthetics found in vintage D.I.Y. electronics magazines such as Popular Mechanix and Electronics Illustrated. In addition to her art practice, Darsha teaches workshops on experimental approaches to versatile technologies and does consulting with communities new to electronic media and open source practices.
http://www.pavedarts.ca
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22David%20G.%20LaRiviere%22
David LaRiviere received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1989 and later, in 1996, an MA Fine Art degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London in London, England. After returning to Canada LaRiviere taught Contemporary Art Issues as a sessional instructor at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton while serving as the President of Latitude 53 Society of Artists. In 2000 LaRiviere moved to Peterborough, Ontario to become the Director of Artspace, a position that extended to five years when the centre was destroyed by floodwaters on the eve of his original departure date. After re-establishing Artspace through a successful insurance claim, LaRiviere left Peterborough to live and work in Montreal over the following two years. The abiding interest of his multimedia practice is nothing if not critical, but a critique taken up with a philosophy of immanence and therefore concerned with an affirmation of existence. Most recently, LaRiviere has relocated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to undertake the Artistic Director position at PAVED Arts. In this context his aspirations are to learn, collaborate, and embrace every aspect of what might constitute community.
Deon Foster was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1975, and lives
and works in East Lansing. He received a BFA in painting from
Michigan State University in 1998. For the past 6 years, he
has been an adjunct faculty member in MSU’s School of Communication
Arts, teaching courses in 3d graphics and video effects. He
is currently working on his MFA in sculpture.
Mr. Foster’s projects range from live performance, interactive
and time based media, installation, painting, and sculpture.
He has had numerous group and solo exhibitions in the United
States and abroad. He has performed at the 45 Annual Ann Arbor
Film Festival, the Seattle Decibel Festival, the Detroit Electronic
Music Festival, and the New York Eyewash. He has also given
guest lectures at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University
of Windsor, Canada.
Submit has been a key player of the Saskatchewan underground electronic dance community since the late 1990s. He got his start playing local raves and events in the Regina area and has since played many shows in various parts of Canada. His genres have included UK hardhouse, trance, breakbeat, jungle, drum n' bass, house, techno, trip-hop, IDM, nu-disco, and indie-dance, yet his primary focus and love is for minimal techno. He is well known for his deep, glitchy soundscapes and excellent skills on the turntables. Also a producer, Submit has had his productions featured on Jon Vaughn's Pop Quiz net.label. Submit also co-runs Regina's only electronic club night, Decibel Frequency.
Born in Torino Italy in 1965, double bass player and composer, studyed 'Instrumental and Electronic Composition' with Gilius Van Bergeijk and Double bass in the 'Royal Conservatory' of Den Haag in Holland.
In summer 1991 follows the course of High musical specialization in Siena. In 1994 he follows a masterclass in Bruxelles for double bass in contemporay music helded by the specialist Stefano Scodanibbio.
His interest for improvisation and the influence of accademic education, bring his research to the creative possibilities given by the interaction between acoustic instruments, indeterminacy factors and their live processing by electronic devices or computers.
From 1992 he has been present in some of the most important festival as musician improviser or composer in the contemporary and experimental music scene and some of his work is documented by some independent labels of experimental and electronic music (Leo Records - UK, Fringes, Bowindo, Takla - ITA, Ersthwhile - USA).
The wide spectrum of his experiences (that leaded to works like Terra, King Cycle and Objectable) brings him very close to the concept of performance, where he use texts and electronics as in previous works in combination with a coreografic use of the scene space and the projection of visuals made by himself.
From 1994 he is assistant and collaborator of the american composer of electro-acoustic music Alvin Curran. Since 1999 he lives in Palermo.
In 2002 Steim (center for developement of interactive systems for the performance located in amsterdam, Holland) commissioned him a composition for a multi channel spazialization system offering him a composition residency.
He made Interactive Sound installations for art galleries and exhibitions (among these the remarkable Espiral premiered at the Stuttugart FilmWinter festival 2004). Activist in the developement of experimental arts, in 1995 founded the association Antitesi, from 1995 and 1998 organized concerts and little festivals (Antitesi in musica ‘95/‘96, Folk it out! ‘97, i(n)terazioni ‘98, Inaudito! ‘99), in 1997 he collaborated to give birth to the Fringes record label, in 2003 started toghether with other musicians the label Bowindo and founded the national collective iXem (italian eXperimental electronic music).
Ellen Moffat’s work focuses on multi-media and sound installation that explores notions of voice, place, transience and subjectivity/collectivity. The ongoing investigation of her multi-track audio projects includes the spatialization and the visual representation of sound, polyphony, composition and interactivity. Her works are experiential and experimental environments that reference music, computer science and language. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in public and artist-run galleries, off-site and site-specific events including Crossfiring: The Claybank Project (2006), Future Cities, Art Gallery of Hamilton (2004), Utopia Station, Arsenale, Venice Biennale (2003) and the SPASM Public Art Festival in Saskatoon (2002). She has participated in creative residencies in Canada and North America. She is based in Saskatoon.
Erin Gee is an emerging Saskatchewan-based artist working in areas of video, performance, robotics and audio. Drawing inspiration from both science fiction and a desire to connect with the Catholic culture she was raised within, Gee investigates the emotional and mythical underpinnings of science and technology as a way of exploring the gap between "self" and "other". She earned a Bachelors of Music Education(2006) as well as a BFA in Intermedia Studio practice(2009) from the University of Regina.
In addition to presenting at the Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance conference hosted at the University of Regina in 2007, her work has been shown at AKA Gallery, Saskatoon (2009), FilmPop! International Video Festival, Montreal (2008), Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina (2008), and Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax (2007). She has recently presented collaborative audio/visual work with Jeff Morton at Re:Do Regina Dorkbot event at Neutral Ground Art Gallery (2009). This year she received her second production grant from Soil Digital Media Suite, and a Saskatchewan Arts Board Centennial Scholarship. Her audio work is featured in SoundLab VI, a touring audio arts exhibition and online project curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne. Her work was recently featured in online journal Vague Terrain issue 12: Device Art, curated by Rob Cruikshank, Toronto (2009). She is also one of four founding members of holophon.ca, a Regina-based audio collective, website and concert series with a focus on audio diffusion and electroacoustic work.
TIND (thisisnotdesign) is a video art group from Montreal active since 2001. It is formed of VJs, video artists, photographers and multimedia artists. TIND’s style is mainly based on the visual textures created by the errors found in video compression, interferences, bad video signals and video feedback. This texture accumulates itself in layers and then creates a blurry space between the abstract and the figurative world. The visuals are always based on the rythms of the music and the music is also inspired by the visuals...
TIND is a non profit organization. Our goal is to promote Montreal’s video artists and VJs all around the world, but especially in Montréal and in Québec. We specialize in video programs for festivals and workshops. We are also very active on the video art scene in Montreal, where we are part of the SAT[MixSession] (www.sat.qc.ca), the Minute Moments (www.minutemoments.com) and the DÉRAPAGE video festival (www.derapage.ca).
http://www.myspace.com/freidaabtan
http://www.last.fm/music/Freida+Abtan
Freida Abtan is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and composer currently working on her doctorate in Computer Music and Multimedia at Brown University. She has created visual shows for and performed with the internationally renown group Nurse with Wound, and presented her own sound and visual work at festivals internationally. Her first album "subtle movements" is available on United Dairies / Jnana Records.
Garnet Hertz is an interdisciplinary artist, Fulbright Scholar and doctoral candidate in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. He also holds an MFA from the Arts Computation Engineering program at UCI, has completed UCI's Critical Theory Emphasis and is currently an affiliate of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction in the Department of Informatics. His dissertation research explores the creative, historical and cultural advantages of reusing obsolete information technologies in the media arts, and uses these examples to construct a critical theory of a cluster of related activities: circuit bending, D.I.Y., critical design and media archaeology. He has shown his work at several notable international venues in eleven countries including Ars Electronica, DEAF and SIGGRAPH and was awarded the prestigious 2008 Oscar Signorini Award in robotics. He is founder and director of Dorkbot SoCal, a monthly Los Angeles-based DIY lecture and workshop series on electronic art and design. His research is widely cited in academic publications, and popular press on his work has disseminated through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo and CNN Headline News.
Current Employment: Director, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery: 1995 - present
Current Research: Artistic inquiry in virtual worlds (Second Life)
A member of the provincial professional arts community since 1983, Young has integrated personal creative practice with arts programming and administration, organizational development and research of creative community ecologies. Individual studio practice and exhibition history has included painting, printmaking, installation and video with a current focus on digital imaging and new media. Young joined AKA artist run centre in 1985 and served as both program coordinator and administrator over an eight-year period. He co-founded Video Vérité, Saskatchewan’s first electronic media artist run center and subsequently served in both administrative and volunteer management roles with that organization. In 1995, Young moved to his current position at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery at the University of Saskatchewan. Supplemental community based employment has included a management term with BlackFlash Magazine and a role in creating paved Art + New Media through the amalgamation of Video Vérité and The Photographers Gallery.
Past volunteer activity within the arts community includes involvement in professional organizations such as Saskatchewan Writers Guild, CARFAC SASK, Association of National Non-Profit Artists’ Centres, Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association and the Museums Association of Saskatchewan.
Past participation on jury panels includes Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association and Museums Association of Saskatchewan.
Member, U of S EMAP Second Life Project research and development
team -virtual exhibition space builds and art production in
Second Life multi-user virtual environment;
Remote Curator: Mapping Online Communities and Virtual Spaces/Networks,
Small Cities CURA (Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops B.C.)
http://holzkopf666.googlepages.com
Harsh and fast,holzkopf is influenced by psychedelic music scenes in Japan and West Africa and by synthpop, industrial and noise. He has performed alongside diverse musicians, from acoustic percussion groups to rappers, to burlesque troupes, to metal, breakcore and noise performers.
Since 2001, holzkopf has been released on over a dozen labels in North America and Europe. holzkopf has performed at galleries, noise/industrial clubs, grindcore/punk shows, and venues for psychedelic music in Canada,USA, Japan and Eastern Europe.
http://www.nuthre.ca
http://openspace.ca/web/index.php?itemid=103
http://www.notype.com/drones/bio.e/nuthre_/
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Nuthre
Jeff Morton completed his Masters Degree in Music Composition at the University of Victoria in 2008 with composer/performance-artist Christopher Butterfield. Jeff Morton's music composition explores rhythmic patterns, harmonic restrictions, and effusive melodic oddities, simultaneously challenging to perform, yet sounding otherwise simplistic or improvised. Jeff is an active electronic and electro-acoustic musician, producing and performing as a solo artist or in collaboration with musicians, dancers, and visual artists across Canada and internationally. Recently Jeff was part of a performance with projection artist Erin Gee at Neutral Ground Gallery and Artist-Run Centre, as part of Re_Do, a performance exposition of the Regina Dorkbot chapter; as well as participating as composer, sound designer, and technician for The Extras project, a performance art installation and live film shoot produced by Szuper Gallery (UK/Berlin). After Z-Axis, Jeff will travel to Stratford to perform with homemade instruments and music boxes, alongside trumpeter Amy Horvey, as part of Stratford Summer Music.
Some of Jeff Morton’s electronic music has been released on net.labels under the internet-pseudonym “nuthre." Labels include Panospria (Montréal), NoType (Montréal), Bricolodge (Saskatoon), PopQuiz (Saskatoon), Nishi (Vancouver), and Archipel Musique (Germany), among others.
http://www.myspace.com/kelleybolen
kelleY boleN, an Edmontonian as of late, has been a media artist and video jammer/improviser for the last 3 years. She has performed across Canada, throughout the western and parts of the eastern US and in Estonia. She jams her media art live by having a bank of QuickTime files and digital stills that she mixes in response to sound, environment, vibe through a freeware Jitter based program called Dervish, created by Josh Goldberg, then projects the results live on whatever surface she finds appealing. Her clips are a mix of processed and edited found footage and her own stop-motion animations, usually incorporating an element from her surroundings at each performance. In her own compositions she uses a mix of analog and digital: Super8, 16mm and digital stills. Filmmaking, especially in the realm of stop motion, tends to be fastidious in nature. kelleY's clips focus on layering meaning and story in laconic quips, where much thought, preparation, control and perfectionism occurs in solitude. Jamming live is the antithesis of filmmaking for kelleY and may be why it has such a strong draw for her. It is an improvised (a giving up of control), collaborative, mistake-ridden (but that’s where all the good stuff really happens) entity whose frivolity does not exclude serious commentary or depth of symbol.
http://www.djkero.com/
http://www.kerologistics.com/
http://www.detroitunderground.net/
With over 20 releases on some of electronic music’s most celebrated and innovative labels such as Bpitch, Ghostly International and Shitkatapult and most recently Downwards as well as his own critically acclaimed Detroit Underground Records, Kero (nee Sohail Azad) has established a reputation for his unrepentantly brash, yet cultivated compositions and unforgettable live performances, most recently, alongside notables such as Speedy J, Ken Ishii and Funkstorung. Furthermore, he has established himself as a leader within the growing pack of electronic music producers successfully infiltrating contemporary art circles world wide.
His innovative approach to music, graphic design and video
production feeds on the detritus of popular electronic culture,
creating a montage of fleeting musical and visual experiences
that are paradoxically critical and enamored with contemporary
culture.
Drawing on his experiences as a dual citizen of both Canada
and the United States, Kero conducts visual and aural investigations
that are concerned with ideas of the diametric and intermediary.
Subsequently, the ephemeral nature of electronic culture, the
“rave” experience and aesthetics offers a microcosm
to explore similar elements in popular culture. The result is
music that blurs genres from hip-hop to the most rarified of
techno experiments, video art which stirs faint recollections
of print and televised media, and a design language that has
ingrained itself upon the most celebrated electro-cultural market
in the world.
http://wiki.dataflow.ws/LeeaneBerger
http://pavedworks.ca/pompon/
http://wiki.dataflow.ws/PavedArts
http://www.vagueterrain.net/journal09/berger/01
http://www.vimeo.com/pompon
http://www.myspace.com/pomponpompon
http://www.otherartists.com/vj/node.html
http://youtube.com/itrashfish
Concentrating on Video, Audio and Computing, Leeane Berger is a VJ, short video and electronic artist. Making art on the prairies is a defining aspect of her recent pieces, drawing on life in central Saskatchewan and small community living. Her work has been influenced by the DIY community, folk art, early video artists, Fluxus art, Luddites, evolution, and current events.
Circuitry, electronics toys, video games, and other small electronics brought together into breaking, exploring, and remaking audio and video generating devices. Leeane combines low-fi and new technology with home-made electronics, micro-controllers, and computer programming, resulting a sensory loaded environment for serious delving.
http://www.murnimastan.com
http://www.vjmoselleindustries.com
http://www.inqime.com
http://www.myspace/vjmoselle
Murni Mastan (aka Mo Selle) is a Singapore based multi-disciplinary
visual artist.
This multi-media artist enjoys a high-profile with the Asian
music world as a highly innovative Visual Jockey (aka VJ). The
genesis of her artistry is derived from a synchronicity of philosophy,
the spirit of art, culture, and the evocation of music. As a
VJ, she redefines music's purpose of existence through creating
various rites of passage by mixing a procreation of sound and
light. Her intent to demystify technology results in an unwitting
hypnotic vision showered upon the unknowing but accepting audience
through her magical triggers.
Helming the booth of Ministry Of Sound, Singapore, Mo has worked alongside top name DJ's from all over the world. She also participates in a varied spectrum of artistic endeavors. Her contribution to the industry is inclusive of media consultation and music / film event management via SAE Institute (School Of Audio Engineering), to live visual theater performances, to a much more intensified present quest, tipping cultural anthropology through stories as a freelance screenwriter and film director. Her short film “Rahim” was featured at the Singapore International Film Festival in 2006. She is also and active member of Media Art Awareness and can often be found hosting workshops events or curating films. After a formal training in Multimedia Production, she is now on her journey to attain her MA in Film Arts.
http://exposure.cbc.ca/video/feral-children-connect-12
http://www.planetsmag.com/content.php?vn=5&is=26&an=382&sc=9
Feral children is an experimental artist from Saskatoon, Sk whose music contains elements of psychedelic rock, noise, electronica and old pop characterized by a loop pedal, wordless vocals, a four-stringed electric guitar overdriven and usually dancey beats. Unpredictable blissful make-out sessions with your true-true love.
An independent artist immersed in a label-free scene Feral Children has released in limited release four full-length albums over the last three years. The albums are a mix of songs that have been rehearsed and improvisations, without overdub cut and paste, lo-fi drug pop taped and transferred. “Dance” was recorded straight from set-up to computer and was made for the club. Feral children has just completed touring the west coast for the first time along side the Italian husbands of Edmonton, Ab, Jake Hardy aka Holzkopf’s side project. On record there is a distinct submission and delicacy but live feral children rips, stomps and yells like no one else. Live is the true trance.
http://www.redsmarteez.com/
http://www.kaystories.com/
http://www.handmadepuppetdreams.com/2007/2007_The_Kay_Stories.html
Brenda Whiteman and Peter Stinson are multi-disciplinary artists focusing on puppetry and film. Starting in Calgary in 1995, their company, Red Smarteez Marionettes, have created many performances and short films that have played in Canada and the USA. In 2006, they completed The Kay Stories, a series of six short films about Brenda's sister, Kay, a charming Grande Prairie woman with a developmental disability. Most recently, one of Kay's short stories, The Strangers in the Mall, has been showing in Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume III, a touring festival of puppet films curated by Heather Henson. Among other places, the series has beenseen in Atlanta, New York, Minneapolis, and, this year, in Prague.
Dr. Regan Mandryk is an Assistant Professor in the Interaction Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Her multidisciplinary background in Mathematics, Kinesiology, and Computer Science enabled her innovative dissertation research on using physiology to mathematically model human emotion during computer game play. Her current research focuses on understanding user experience, creating novel interaction techniques, and designing persuasive technology and games. She has collaborated with artists and designers on previous projects using technologies such as physiological sensors, large wall and tabletop displays, and gestural interfaces.
http://www.myspace.com/victortronic
http://momentfactory.com
VICTOR [victortronic] composes ambient / electronic / experimental
music.
His sound textures are entirely produced from his voice only,
no synthesizer or sound generator is used.
Every year VICTOR [victortronic] participates in many festivals. His music is also used in contemporary dance performance and as a soundtrack for short films and other experimental videos.
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VICTOR [victortronic] compose de la musique ambiante / électronique
/ expérimentale.
Ses textures sonores sont fabriquées uniquement à partir de
sa voix, aucun synthétiseur ou autre générateur de sons n'est
utilisé.
Chaque année VICTOR [victortronic] participe à plusieurs festivals et sa musique est utilisée en danse contemporaine ainsi que comme bande sonore pour des court-métrages et autres vidéos expérimentales.
With a background in dance and choreography incorporating digital graphic projections, Mere has performed all through Saskatchewan as well as Toronto, California and Finland. She integrated her graphic design, illustration and animation to coincide with contemporary dance into an intense and highly structured performance. Intrigued by the possiblities of mixing her work live, she joined forces with Sisk to move her skills as an artist in a new direction.
Two highly experienced performers, each combining over a decade of experience of electronic art forms. Meredith LaRocque studied Modern and Contemporary dance for eight years at the Conservatory of Performing Arts, the University of Regina and received a scholarship of study at the University of California, Irvine. With a background in dance and choreography incorporating digital graphic projections, Meredith has performed all through Saskatchewan as well as the Toronto Dance Festival and graduate concerts in Irvine,California. She has integrated her graphic design, illustration and animation to coincide with contemporary dance into an intense and highly structured performance.Using her expertise, Meredith was selected as an Artist in Residence for three years and has been involved in several Arts Smarts projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Meredith has recently branched out into the possibilities of live video mixing using her own graphics, poetry and digital video animations. With a passion for technology, she has been actively exploring the interplay between animation and music in real time using various software programs, video projectors, mixing equipment and innovative screens. In conjunction with her partner, Craig Sisk, an electronic music DJ and musician, they have played in Manitoba and Saskatchewan as the performance team, Sisk + Mere.
http://www.vjzoo.com
http://byteme.net.au/
VJzoo is a creative partnership consisting of Jasper Cook and Kat Black. They are VJs as well as live video performance artists. They met at art school – he was a photographer, she was a film-maker and painter and together they found that they could use newly-developed VJing tools to collaborate in an exciting new way. Since then, they have performed around the world, run VJ courses and collaborated in live performances with musicians, dancers, circus performers and DJs. Recently VJzoo have taken to the streets, bringing their own unique style of video performance to a wider audience with outdoor projection.
VJzoo have collaborated over the past six years with a range of artists from many different fields - dancers, circus and burlesque performers, DJs, electronic musicians and jazz combos and orchestras. The collaboration that is at the core of everything we do though is that between us as a couple. Living and working together means that we understand each other so well that we can improvise together without any need for explanations or artifice. Now that we are starting to do audio as well as visual, our collaboration is taking on a new dimension as it's completely conceived from within the VJzoo unit, not initiated as a response to other performers the way it was when we were solely visualists.