Women in the Director’s Chair
Alumni Screening

Saturday, June 7, 7:00 p.m.
Telus Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Free

Canadian short films created by the alumnae of the critically acclaimed Women in the Director’s Chair program. Presented in partnership with the Creative Women Workshops Association and ACTRA. Featuring selected dramatic works by Allison Beda (30 Love), Arlene Hazzan Green (Smart Woman Survival Guide), Claudia Medina (Finding Llorona), Alison Reid (Succubus), and Nadine Valcin (fire and fury).

Locative Learning Project Open House

Friday, June 6, and Saturday, June 7, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Banff Community High School, Free

Join the Banff New Media Institute's Mobile Lab for public demos of the Banff Mobile History Tour. Grade 7 Social Studies students from the Banff Community High School have been working with the Mobile Lab and Learning Through the Arts since September to create locative audio and video recreations of Banff history. The media plays automatically on cell phones to add a fun and informative dimension to self-guided walking tours around town. Tours take approximately 45 minutes to an hour, and can be reserved in advance or you can drop-in as space allows, and let the Mobile History Tour take you away! For more information or to book a time slot, call the Mobile Lab at 762-6246 or email mobilelab@banffcentre.ca

Talk: Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale

Friday, July 25, 2:30 p.m.
BNMI Art Collaboration Lab, JPL 221, Free

Sheelagh Carpendale holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and an NSERC/SMART/iCORE Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies at the University of Calgary. Carpendale will discuss the innovative field of computer visualization, with a particular focus on her past and current work.

Meaningful Media with Dr. Gino Yu

Saturday, July 26, 7:00 p.m.
Donald Cameron Hall Dining Room
$9, Arts Lover Passholders free

Meaningful media communicates inner experience and a personal understanding of "inner peace," which contributes to the harmony of the culture and environment. Yu's research spans design automation, computer animation, video games, creativity, and consciousness for more than 60 publications.

BNMI ART Lab Showcase

July 25, 26, 27, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building, Main Floor
Free

An exhibition of technology based works created by Banff New Media Institute alumni occurring in various locations, including the BNMI Advanced Research and Technology Visualization Lab and Banff National Park’s Hoodoo Trail.   » More

Little Voices

Monday, July 28, 4 – 6 p.m.
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building 313, Free

By Jairo Eduardo Carrillo
Little Voices is a video game experience based on interviews and drawings of a new generation of children (8 to 13 years old) who have grown up displaced by the violence and chaos of the Colombian Civil War. » More

60 Second Southern Video Festival

Tuesday, August 26
Banff Centre Amphitheatre
In case of rain: Professional Development Centre, Room 103
9:00 - 10:30 p.m.

Jack Dingo Ryan, curator, Nashville, Tennessee

This is a unique opportunity to see a large and diverse collection of video and film works by artists whose collective resume includes collaborations with Tom Waits, Wim Wenders, and the Vienna Philharmonic, participation in such major exhibitions as the Whitney Biennial, Berlin Biennial, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and many other institutions in North America and Europe.   » More

Festival Wrap-up

Thursday, August 28, noon – 5:00 p.m.
Bison Courtyard, 211A Bear Street
Free

Activities include Footnotes (Banff), an audio walk where the viewer’s presence activates the sound; Late Fragment, an interactive film that you can watch in your own way; the multi-media web magazine HorizonZero; and screenings of Banff New Media Institute co-productions. » More

mIXED Tape

Thursday, August 28, 7:00 p.m. – midnight
Bison Mountain Bistro, Bear Street
Free

Events include Iron Tomahawks by Jackson 2bears, a performance that explores Native stereotypes in popular culture; Bill Daniel’s Sailvan, aka SUNSET SCAVENGER in which Noah’s Ark meets Hubbert’s Peak, with live music by singer/songwriter Danielle French; DJ SprouT from Golden, British Columbia, who “grew out of the Earth with a piece of vinyl in one hand and a pair of headphones in the other;” and screenings of several installations. » More

Festival Wrap-up

Friday, August 29, and Saturday, August 30
Noon – 5:00 p.m.
Bison Courtyard, 211A Bear Street
Free

Featuring Footnotes (Banff), created by Calgary artist Kay Burns, as part of a self-directed co-production residency at the Banff Centre with the Banff New Media Institute’s Mobile Lab. It is a locative-media audio walk allowing the viewers’ presence within a space to activate the sound. » More