mIXED Tape

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

Jairo Eduardo Carrillo - Little Voices

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; the interviews show how they perceive their reality. These stories are illustrated and animated based on original drawings by these children and presented in an interactive environment that Carrillo constructed during his residency at BNMI.

Jairo Eduardo Carrillo is a Colombian artist who is currently faculty at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. He lived in England for 7 years, where he lectured at several universities and collaborated with the London Symphony Orchestra to produce the digital interactive animation "3D Music". The New York Times acclaimed this piece, calling it "a fortunate hybrid between a fantasy video game and a fantasy Disney movie." Carrillo has co-directed two feature nationally distributed films in Colombia, "Dead With Fear" and "God Brings Them Together and They Separate". The 2003 animated documentary version of "Little Voices" was the winner of 8 international prizes.

Iron Tomahawks: Rebuilding Indian Country

Jackson 2bears, artist, Victoria, British Columbia
Iron Tomahawks is a performance that explores Native stereotypes in popular culture, reflecting on issues of contemporary indigenous identity in a media saturated world that has a history of distributing discriminatory and racist misrepresentations of First Nations people.

Consisting of the live manipulation of video and audio using digital-encoded vinyl in conjunction with specialized software developed by the artist, the Iron Tomahawks performance uses the form of the remix and the mash-up as tools for cultural critique. On-stage samples are taken from film, television, the news, and advertising, and are cut-up, looped, and scratched to the rhythmic patterns of hips-hop breaks and drum and bass sequences.

Bill Daniel’s Sailvan, aka SUNSET SCAVENGER
in which Noah’s Ark meets Hubbert’s Peak

With live music by singer/songwriter Danielle French
Sunset Scavenger is a collage essay on ecological catastrophe, economic improvisation, and self-reliance that presently takes the form of a mobile outdoor video installation called the Sailvan. The Sailvan is a vegetable oil-powered 1984 Ford diesel van rigged with two 25-foot tall sails on to which a two-image video is projected. The Sailvan — a two-masted gaff-rigged schooner — functions as tour vehicle, projection screen, and metaphorical emergency escape craft The 50-minute program deals with issues of sustainability and the ethics of resource use in the post-oil age.

The non-linear program stars hippie houseboaters, punk back-to-the-landers, rubber tramps, off-the-gridders, and desert rats — who are today’s true cultural vanguard — and features a bus-dwelling homeless street preacher who relates Noah’s story to our times.

The project began in 2001 as a study of the outlaw houseboat community in Sausalito, California, and has since grown into a project combining diverse sources of material, from post-Katrina New Orleans to the Flying Nutrinos who built ocean-crossing rafts from garbage collected from the streets of New York. The project continues to grow and evolve.

Sunset Scavenger is a Creative Capital-supported project.

SprouT

Golden, BC
SprouT grew out of the Earth with a piece of vinyl in one hand and a pair of headphones in the other. Taking this as an obvious sign from the divine, she immediately put her earth-given tools to work. With an uncanny ability to mix anything with everything, a DJ sprouT show knows no boundaries, from dubstep to punk rock, disco to hip hop, drum n’ bass to funk, all musical walls are scaled and conquered on the dancefloor with a smile on your face and a tear in your eye.

The following installations will also be screening throughout the evening:

Late Fragment

Late Fragment allows you to watch the film in your own way. With a traditional film, the story unravels as the director intends. With this interactive film, you click enter on your remote control to change scenes. There are no page numbers or menus to chart your course: you decide which storylines you wish to follow, when you want to dig deeper into the history of a character, or when you want to move away. You become the director of the film you are watching. This is a completely new cinematic experience. How do you know when to click your remote? As you watch the story unfold, there may be repeated scenes, pauses that may signal an interesting moment to click, or moments when you intuitively want to click. Every time you watch Late Fragment, you may learn new truths, uncover different histories, and piece together the film in new and very different ways.

In Late Fragment, Kevin, Théo and Faye attempt to piece together the fractured stories of their lives. They are on a quest to reconcile pasts haunted by violence and crime. As you interact with the film, you become part of the quest to uncover the darkness of their pasts, reveal the truths behind their lives, in hopes of restoring wholeness, forgiveness, and perhaps even redemption.

HorizonZero

HorizonZero was a multimedia Web magazine produced by the Banff New Media Institute between August 2002 and December 2004. Focused on digital art and culture in Canada, it was a bilingual virtual space devoted to creativity and critical ideas in the new media canon. The 18 back issues will be available for viewing.

Daniel Fortin — Digital Snow

Digital Snow is a dvd-rom portrait and archive of the work of celebrated Canadian artist Michael Snow, created by Montréal’s studio ÉPOXY.

Kung Fu Numerik — Who We Are

A selection of shorts of www.whoweare.ca, a NFB-produced website created by Montréal’s Kung Fu Numerik that presents a vast interactive mosaic of video portraits of immigrants to Canada.

Steve Woollard —Friend or Foe?

Botega
Friend or Foe? looks at the relationship between our natural and technological worlds. The show aims to draw awareness to the spaces we share with technology and highlight our ever-increasing ambivalence towards them. All of the pieces in the show have been created since Steve moved from Cardiff, Wales, to Banff in November 2007. He accredits this inspirational landscape as a significant influence of the work and invites everyone to come explore the technology hidden within our landscape.

BNMI Co-production Screening

The Banff New Media Institute runs a Coproduction Residency program which supports the development and creation of new works. This screening is a sample of some of past Coproduction projects.

Visions

This Aboriginal poetry video, seen through the eyes of a child, invokes a powerful sequence of visual layers. Produced in collaboration with the Aboriginal Arts program.

Co-producer: Anne Frazier-Henry (Gibson, Canada), 1995
Length: 9 minutes

The Translators

This experimental narrative mixes melodrama and humour with conceptual ideas. As the title suggests, the operative metaphor is translation — a process implicit in every act of communication and understanding — which also refers to the viewers’ untangling of the narrative. The story concerns a couple, he a writer, she an academic, whose personal difficulties and ambitions are tested by chance, fate and misadventure. A cast of friends and strangers, not to mention their own son, help them to elaborate on issues of romantic love, cultural identity, spiritual disquiet, art, loss, and mortality.

Co-producer: John Zeppetelli (Montreal, Canada) 1998
Length: 38 minutes

Logodi Street

A layered subjective documentary shot in Hungary, through a walking visit to the street where the co-producer was born. The video includes testimonies and compelling architecture.

Co-producer: Nina Czegledy (Budapest, Hungary) 1995
Length: 22 minutes

Hitech Culture

A documentary short with interviews of artists and researchers on the place and future of virtual reality. From its origin as a training ground for fighter pilots to a device to ride a mathematical object, artist and researchers talk about their experiences and reasons of using virtual reality. Michael Century, Toni Dove, Perry Hobermann, Michael Scroggins, Diane Gromola, Jo Ann McIntyre, Ron Kuivilla, and Brenda Laurel are featured in this documentary.

Co-producer: Brian Hamilton, 1994
Length: 9 minutes

That Thing Between Us

That Thing Between Us is a nine-minute duet for two performers, where the audience watches from in between the action of the performers. This site-specific video and film installation captures the energy and dynamism of a heated discussion and articulated dance duet. It blurs the line between abstract and personal expression and offers a view of the duet that is impossible in the traditional theatre setting.

Co-producer: Nicole Mion (Calgary, Canada), 2005
Length: 9 minutes

Video Terraform Dance Party

This project is an extension of Jeremy Bailey’s work on VideoPaint, a satirical electronic painting performance software he invented and continues to develop and demonstrate as an ongoing performance. Like VideoPaint, this is totally functional software, and Jeremy has performed the software by demonstrating its functionality and also by telling allegorical stories using the same tools. The final performance contained a dance party in which the audience is invited to dance in the final 3d environment created during the demonstration.

Co-producer: Jeremy Bailey (Toronto, Canada), 2007
Length: 12 minutes