Anne Marie Nakagawa, Adam Tindale ‘08 / 09
A dramatic film screening
By Anne Marie Nakagawa
EMMEDIA 2008/2009 Artist in Residence
EMMEDIA Screening Room
Suite 203, 351 – 11 Ave SW
In an unnamed place, in an unnamed time, a man and a woman go through the motions of life, fused to each other for a reason neither of them can remember. Meandering through a withering landscape of loneliness and thread-bare self consciousness, Sand Castle is an experimental film that explores the futility of relationship and our inability to escape it. In this stark black and white world, all desires and memories are sublimated into shades of grey.
Anne Marie Nakagawa is a Calgary-based writer and director. She has written and directed several long-form documentary films, as well as numerous experimental shorts that have played at festivals and galleries worldwide. Between: Living in the Hyphen, a National Film Board of Canada production, premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2005 and went on to win numerous awards.
Anne Marie Nakagawa
Sean Smith
Michael Welchman
Cameron Sinclair
Nate Schmold
James D. Hopkins & Barbara Mitchell
A Lecture + Performance by Artist in Residence Adam Tindale
EMMEDIA presents
A Lecture + Performance by Adam Tindale
EMMEDIA Artist in Residence
EMMEDIA Screening Room
Tools are changing. Instead of picking an instrument to play a sound or tune, we can now create digital instruments to leverage the infinite possibilities of the computer. We are able to separate the interface from the sound generator; we can combine guitar with violin or piano with a video game controller. What about moving to the next level? Is a true mastery of the contemporary interface even possible? Adam Tindale will demonstrate the various hardware, software and interfaces that he employs in his efforts to master this technology. Pure Data, ChucK, Marsyas, Linux, Mac OSX, are some of the tools he uses to create custom software for his interfaces. Adam will present a performance and give a short talk about his discoveries and contributions.
EMMEDIA’s 2008-2009 Artist in Residence Adam Tindale is an electronic drummer and digital instrument designer. Adam performs on his E-Drumset, a new electronic instrument with an intuitive physical interface that utilizes physical modeling and machine-learning.He is a permanent instructor of Interaction Design in the Media Arts and Digital Technologies Program at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. He completed a Bachelor of Music at Queen’s University and a Masters of Music Technology at McGill University. He is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Music, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Victoria.