September 10 – 24, 2010 10-5 p.m. (Monday to Saturday)
Opening Reception September 10, 7 p.m.
Vera Frenkel (Toronto)
EMMEDIA is honoured to be presenting the work of renowned Canadian multidisciplinary artist Vera Frenkel, a project that carries powerful resonances to the dissonance of Calgary’s urban and natural landscape. Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive is [...]
EMMEDIA Production Access 2010
September 16, 2010 7 p.m.
The Plaza Theatre
1133 Kensington Road Northwest
Scholarship Program Participants: Marbella Anne Carlos, Josh Fraser, Yvonne Kustec.
Bars ‘n’ Tone Program Participants: Andrea Mann, Alex Moon, Murray Smith.
EMMEDIA supports the innovative and challenging work of a variety of artists working in an array of genres.
Each year we invite applications for our [...]
October 8-22, 2010
Downtown Calgary
Mark Lowe (Saskatoon)
For this interactive installation / audio performance, a steel grain bin will be reconstructed in an urban setting and used as a catalyst for sound creation. The audio created and captured is informed by an industrious, agricultural way of life: the sounds of the prairie wheat belt. In a way, [...]
July 22-25 2010
Alexis O’Hara (Montreal)
Calgary Folk Music Festival
Presented as part of the Calgary Folk Music Festival, Alexis O’Hara’s installation offers an opportunity for experimental folk dissonance.
Installed outdoors in a park setting, the amplified inward – facing speaker cabinets, assembled in the shape of a dome. The structure gains integrity as it is built higher, the [...]
FOR AGES 13 – 17
CAMP ONE:
JULY 26 – 30, 2010
CAMP TWO:
AUG 23 – 27, 2010
9AM – 4PM
COST: $250 + GST
Participants will enjoy 5 days of fun and creativity through various forms of expression – narrative, documentary, experimental, public service announcements, audio/radio and web. Groups will leave with short original media arts work.
August 27, 2010 7 – 9 p.m.
John Greyson (Toronto), Ali Kazimi (Toronto), Richard Fung (Toronto)
EMMEDIA Screening Room
Rex vs. Singh trailer
EMMEDIA presents this innovative collaborative video that draws out a little-known yet contentious narrative in Canada’s history. In 1915, two Sikh mill-workers, Dalip Singh
and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover police in Vancouver and accused of [...]
Friday, June 25th, 2010
7:00 PM
Plaza Theatre – 1133 Kensington Road NW
As part of the Sled Island Film Festival
Presented by Metro Cinema and the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS)
with the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF), EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society and Quickdraw Animation Society (QAS)
Each year, Prairie Tales gathers a selection of some of the best short works made by Albertan media artists during the preceding eighteen months and assembles a feature-length showcase for their exhibition. Prairie Tales’ twelfth annual program consists of fourteen live-action, animated and experimental works.
June 19- July 2, 2010
Kika Thorne (Toronto), Dick Averns (Calgary), Jonathan Culp (Toronto), Jason Jones (New York)
Presented by The Near North Mobile Media Lab Collective (Huntsville, Ontario)
Media lab – http://www.nnmedialab.com
G8Project site – http://www.nnmedialab.com/projects
G8Project blog – http://www.g8summit2010.blogspot.com
G8Project video promo – http://www.vimeo.com/10901075
In partnership with the Near North Mobile Media Lab Collective, [...]
EMMEDIA will be presenting 5 selections from our Production Access Program at this year’s Sled Island Film Festival.
Check out the line up at www.sledisland.com/film.
AMAAS Film Festival Symposium 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010 from 9 AM – 6 PM
Hotel Alma, University of Calgary
The AMAAS symposium will explore issues in media arts programming, discuss funding strategies, and provide networking opportunities to those interested in the Province’s film festival and media arts programming community.
