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01/12/08 Studio XX special holiday edition of Femmes Br@nchées Studio XX invites you to a special holiday edition of
our Femmes Br@nchées salon, A first at the Studio! This year Studio XX invites you to a special holiday edition of our Femmes
Br@nchées salon, December 14, from 5pm to 8pm. For this occasion we invite you to bring your project or work, (either
a work in progress or a completed piece). We will draw names from a hat
and those selected will be allocated a maximum of 5 minutes of presentation
time each. The following equipment will be made available for your presentations:
A video projecter, G4 computer, slide projector. The presentations will
be continuous and the order will be determined by chance. Studio XX staff
members will be on hand to help with set-up, as well as fostering a supportive,
relaxed atmosphere. Entrance is free for our members, the price of entry for non-members
is $3.00. Along with your entry ticket you will receive one ticket for
a door prize to be presented during the festivities We look forward to seeing you, and to sharing in your projects and ideas.
For those that will not be able to join us that evening we give you our
best wishes for the holidays and the new year. Staff and Volunteers of Studio XX RSVP For more information please contact Helene or Miriam at the Studio. 845-7934 or by email; miriam@studioxx.org |
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01/11/22 Studio XX : Musical intervention SOUNDS LIKE PEACE PRESS RELEASE Musical intervention SOUNDS
LIKE PEACE
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01/11/09 Studio XX BENEFIT CONCERT PRESS RELEASE Studio XX Benefit concert Thursday, November 15, 2001
at 10 p.m. Studio XX is very honored to announce that Thursday November 15 Hands on Hip Happenings at Casa Del Popolo will benefit Studio XX with a concert celebrating original music, word and dance. The show starts at 10 p.m sharp. Doors will open at 9 p.m.. Tickets are only $6 at the door. The Casa Del Popolo is located at 4873 St-Laurent (below St-Joseph). The phone number is : (514) 284-3804. Heather McLeod will share the bill with performances by : Ensemble Rubia (inventive & irreverent vocal quintet), The New Internationals (laid-back, ear-catching, blue-grass grooves), dancer/choreographer Allison Vishnovska and spoken word icon Corey Frost. The show never slows except to dance, laugh, toast the audience and applaud - it's all over by midnight (or shortly thereafter) so come early, catch a seat and don't miss a moment. Heather McLeod is a singer/songwriter who performs accompanied only by her gut-string-guitar. She is currently in studio recording her third album of her own songs (before which she released three jazz albums). Ensemble Rubia is an a capella group of five women who sing everything from medieval french love songs to modern blues with breath-taking harmonies. The New Internationals is a five piece ensemble with fiddle, mandolin and upright bass that play original folk-pop tunes driven by toe-tapping, hip-swinging rhythm. Choreographer & dancer Allison Vishnovska is one of Montreal's rising stars who dances with both reverence for the beauty of body-made art and with an irresistible sense of humour. Corey Frost is a passionate and dramatic spoken word artist. Hands on Hip Happenings is a monthly cabaret series hosted and produced by Heather McLeod at Casa Del Popolo. Each concert features a different line-up of artists who perform their own original music, words or dance. Each show also features and helps raise awareness of a different Montreal Community Organization. Hands on Hip Happenings are sponsored by CKUT RADIO 90.3 FM and by Casa Del Popolo. For more information contact Heather at 722-7918 HBellaMuse@aol.com. To learn more about Studio xx, visit www.studioxx.org Studio XX, 338, Terrasse Saint-Denis Montréal (Québec)
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01/11/02 Artist Talk - Tara Bethune-Leamen Tuesday, November 6th, 2001 at 3 p.m. Studio XX is pleased to invite the public to come and meet our Artist in residence Tara Bethune-Leamen. She will be presenting her most recent work produced at the Studio on Tuesday, October 6th from 3 pm to 5 pm. Tara Bethune-Leamen is a multi-disciplined writer/director/videographer. Though working in different media her work has a consistant theme-subverting pop genres while letting you enjoy the ride. Most recently she directed a music video for Virgin Records Spain, with live-action lowriders, and animation in the style of graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo. Last year, while living in New York, she also interviewed the porn star Houston for the London based lifestyle magazine Sleazenation, also for broadcast on CakeNYC.com. Her last assignment was editing Moby's self-shot tour footage, "Give An Idiot A Camcorder", for his DVD "PLAY". The project she will be presenting, Virus Corp, was produced during her residency at StudioXX this fall. The piece is a website which allows the visitor to unleash a pseudo-virus in the form of an animated creature ('Virus Corp'), on their website of choice. The creature is 'in-corp-orated' in both interpretations of the word - having a physical body and being legally incorporated. With the omnipotent rights of a corporation, 'Virus Corp' symbolically goes head to head with the virtual representations of corporations on the internet. This event is free and open to the public. |
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01/10/31 STUDIO XX Co-productions: Monument du vide STUDIO XX Co-productions In Montreal at Studio XX, 338 Terrasse Saint-Denis and at the Laboratoire de poche, 5505 Saint-Laurent boulevard./ In Trois-Rivières at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Benjamin-Sulte Pavillion, 3351 Des Forges Boulevard, suite 1006BS./ In Hull at Daïmon, 205 Montcalm street. Invited artists : Élisabeth Mathieu, Julie Lapalme, laura-jeanne lefave, Andrée Préfontaine and the Daïmon members, Claire Piché and I8U. This 8th and final Alica Manouvre, Le Monument du Vide is a collaborative Web art piece. Artists from three different cities have been invited to participate in the creation of a living web creature. Artists will collaborate and build the Web creature's heart. This piece will represent and contain the essence of it's Web specificity. The public is invited to send heart related imagery via the organ donor page at (www.ontogenetic.org). More information on this project as well as a cyber report can be found on line at (www.3e-imperial.org). The Webcreature will be visible via the (www.ontogenetic.org) web site. The public is invited to all the physical locations to view the process live. Marie-Christiane Mathieu has received grants from the Canadian arts council as well as from the Quebec Arts council . Her work focuses on questions pertaining to digital media and holography. Marie-Christiane Mathieu is acting as interim Director at Studio XX. She is finishing her doctorate degree in art at the University of Quebec in Montreal as well as teaching media arts both there and at Concordia University. Alica has been produced by 3e imperial . Le monument du vide has been coproduced with Studio XX among other centers. Studio XX is a media arts and multimedia ressource center dedicated to women. The Studio is proud to participate in the co-production of projects that examine and reflect the studio's mandate. |
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01/10/29 CIAC'S Electronic Magazine No. 14: Special Issue on Web Art in Quebec In the context of Québec New York 2001, the Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal is producing a special edition of the Electronic Art Magazine devoted to Web art in Québec. We want to thank the Bureau des saisons du Québec for this opportunity
to showcase in this special issue the creativity of Quebec Web artists
and professionnals.
This special edition also provides links to all texts on Web and new media art in Quebec that we published in previous editions of the Magazine. In short, this is a leading reference on creative production in electronic
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01/10/11 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Maid in Cyberspace Festival Studio XX is seeking artists proposals for the fifth edition of the
Maid in Cyberspace Web art Festival. The theme for the upcoming festival
is: The next edition of Maid in Cyberspace will reflect upon questions relating to the creation and the presentation of Web art. Works selected will reflect on concepts of the other, the shadow and the notion of contamination present in Web art. A questioning of the genre or an effort to go beyond its limits will be highlighted. We are particularly interested in work that questions off screen, off monitor space or suggests unusual and/or different manners of presenting Web art. SUBMISSIONS : Submissions are welcome for on-line projects and installations. Applications should be sent to Studio XX via email or snail mail.
Deadline for application is November 30th 2001. Artists will be notified in December of the outcome. Only completed projects will be accepted. |
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01/10/10 Artist Talk - Steina Valuska at Studio XX Artist Talk - Steina Valuska at Studio XX Steina Valuska is considered a pioneer in the field of media arts. It is with great pleasure that Studio XX announces that she will be at the Studio on Tuesday, October 16th at 5:30 PM to present her work. An informal exchange will follow. This special event is possible due to the presence of the Valuskas (Woody and Steina) in Montreal for The International Festival New Cinema New Media. The festival is paying them a tribute and showcasing a retrospective of their work. Her main practice involves creating Video Tapes and Installations works. She has recently created interactive performances in public places, in which she plays a digitally adapted violin which moves video images broadcasted on large video screens. Steina was born in Iceland in 1940 and is presently living in Santa Fé, New Mexico. In 1959, she received a scholarship from the Czechoslovak Ministry of Culture to attend the State Music Conservatory in Prague to study violin. Woody and Steina married in Prague in 1964 and since that time they have been closely collaborating on numerous projects. After moving to the United States in 1965 she worked in New York City as a freelance musician. She began working with video in 1969. In 1971 she co-founded The Kitchen, an Electronic Media Theater in New York, since then her various tapes and installations have been exhibited in USA, Europe and Asia. She has received funding from various well known associations including the New York State Council for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, just to name a few. She has also receive prizes for her innovative work in video and in new media. In 1993 she co-curated with Woody the exhibition and catalogue, "Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt (Pioneers of Electronic Art)" for Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. This event is free and open to the public. We invite you not to miss
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BABES IN THE WOODS - SNEAK
PREVIEW ! Wednesday May 16th at Studio XX - Playnight - A drop in after 5 p.m. to try out Babes in the Woods, a girlgame , fun for everyone, by Robin C Pacific. You can also pick up your free copy of this innovative game at Studio
XX. If you live outside of Monreal, you can email Robin
after May 16th for your own copy. The first 25 requests will be answered
with free signed copies.
ARTIST BIO Robin C. Pacific is an artist, activist and writer whose work
is informed by a desire to make art part of everyday life. She is the
co-founder of Art Starts Neighbourhood Storefront Cultural Centre which
has the mandate to use the arts to help create a healthy community, and
has installations in the local fire hall, health and community centres.
She recently put 2,000 books in a Toronto ravine, following the course
of a buried river.
The Babes in the Woods is an art computer game for women (men can play too). Drawing on literature, theatre and art history, it plays with narrative, with ideas about childhood and old age, with popular culture, with issues of cultural globalization. It’s an envelope in which I can put all those letters I’ve been meaning, for years, to write. It’s above all, a game--a riddle, a quest, and a parody. There are computer games; there are educational CD ROMS; there are artist’s books on CD ROM; there are formal experiments in art by women seeking different kinds of expression. The Babes in the Woods hybridizes all of these. Its visual style transgresses aesthetic rules to include drawings, cartoons, images scanned from old books, photographs, clip art, typography and animation. The players solve thematically related puzzles to help three characters achieve their quests: A doll on a mission to find her pubic hair; Cleopatra, who seeks her identity as a woman of colour; and Ethel, an Anglo Saxon bag of bones looking for flesh. As each of the six puzzles is successfully solved, the player receives a "sacred object" (a pomegranate, a dog biscuit, a speculum, a pearl), which must be retrieved and used in special ways at the end in order to enter the Great Yoni. "Clicking around" in a multimedia project is a metaphor for tangential, associative "women’s thinking". The illusion of penetration at the mouseclick (the punctum) is a metaphor of female self discovery through a journey into the psyche and into the body. Mulier ludens - woman playing. Finally, my game, like all games, is about play. Puzzles, riddles, the play of language, the taking on of personae. A most serious business, which is sometimes just too silly for words.
Contact Information: Robin C. Pacific, 28 Heathdale Road, Toronto, ON |
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01/09/27 Journées de la culture Special media arts workshop: Cyberstories On behalf of the Studio XX and in collaboration with Les Journées
de la culture, you are cordially invited Friday september 28th between
10:00 AM and 5:00 PM to participate in a special media arts workshop entitled
“Cyberstories.” You can see the work in progress of the participants sites here. |
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01/09/19 STUDIO XX AND 'LES ÉTATS NOCTURNES' STUDIO XX AND 'LES ÉTATS NOCTURNES'
As part of the Les États nocturnes event organised by Vidéographe, Studio XX invited the public to attend an all-woman Web jam at the Théâtre de Verdure in Parc Lafontaine. Studio XX, the media arts and multimedia resource
centre for women in Montreal, invited the dauntless to participate in
an experimental Web jam with female local artists and artists from Austria
and Latvia.The Web jam is a sound piece based on improvisation and retroactivity
that transmits itself through high bandwidth streaming: the "stream" interlinks
all the participating artists to one server.
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01/09/04 MACADAM TRIBUS - RADIO CANADA Studio XX’s former Programming Coordinator, Patricia Kearns,
was interviewed by Annie Richer for MACADAM TRIBUS. Hear the interview with Patricia Kearns. [Real Player] To read the article go to: http://radio-canada.ca/refuge/ |
01/08/24 Studio XX’s former
Programming Coordinator, Patricia Kearns, is featured in SHIFT magazine,
v9.3, “Why technology is failing us (and how we can fix it).”
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Dear members & friends of Studio XX, We are conducting this survey to improve the Workshops series at Studio XX. Your feedback from this 5-minute survey will help us see which courses you are interested in, and help us improve our service to you. All information is strictly confidential & will not be shared, distributed or used outside of Studio XX. We thank-you for your time & energy. Please fill out the form once in either English or French. |
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01/07/11 STUDIO XX needs volunteers How often have you longed for the chance to give the sweat of your labour to Studio XX's varied and marvellous events, soirees and projects? For free? Now's your chance! Please send an e-mail to benevoles@studioxx.org with your name, e-mail address and a brief list of interests, hobbies or skills you wish to share and acquire and we will add you to our database. What will our corps of elite volunteers get from their devoted service to Studio XX? That's entirely up to you the volunteers, we would like to help you co-ordinate your experience with us and provide you with space and time for your own projects. Studio XX needs You! Don't hesitate, EMAIL NOW! |
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01/07/11 JOB POSTING : RESEARCH ASSISTANT In the fall of 2001, the Studio will be launching a membership campaign.
In collaboration with our Campaign Manager the Research Assistant will
make daily updates to our database, do web based research for potential
members, work with the database to make changes, and communicate by both
snail-mail and by e-mail with our membership.
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01/07/11 JOB POSTING : PROGRAMMING CO-ORDINATOR Studio XX is now accepting applications for the position of Programming
Co-ordinator. The Programming Co-ordinator is responsible for co-ordinating public
events at Studio XX, and supervising collaborative projects with
artists and residencies. The Programming Co-ordinator directs the Maid
in Cyberspace annual web art festival and the Femmes br@nchées
“show-and-tell” series on women and technology. The Programming
Co-ordinator will supervise the Studio’s monthly electronic newsletter
and oversee its inclusion on the web site. The Programming Co-ordinator
would also be expected to provide the general manager with support in
writing grant applications.
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STUDIO'S SINCERE APOLOGIES STUDIO'S COMING ACTIVITIES NEXT MAID FESTIVAL NEW STUDIO XX STAFF MEMBER Sebastian Yeung is the new Workshops Coordinator. She would be happy to go over the Workshops schedule with you and/or reserve you a space in a workshop. SUMMER SCHEDULE |
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01/04/24 TWO NEW STUDIO XX STAFF MEMBERS! Studio XX welcomes two new staff Members to go with our improved computer lab:
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01/04/09 MILE-END HARMONY FESTIVAL Studio XX took part in the Mile-End Harmony Festival within International Earth Week 2001, Saturday, April 28th, from 11am until 5pm at St. Michael's Church Hall on St.Viateur, corner of St. Urbain. |
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Workshops Coordinator The workshops coordinator is responsible for coordinating Studio XX's computer training workshops (regular workshops). These are mainly established and scheduled workshops on new media applications but may include workshops offered in conjuction with other organizations and workshops offered specifically to professionals, to artists or to community groups. Through liaison and cooperation with XX coordinators, Board and GM, the workshops coordinator will actively ensure that Studio XX offers a range of workshops that correspond to the needs of a diverse (income, education, linguistic, ethnic) clientele. The workshops coordinator will also devise and implement a marketing strategy for XX workshops to ensure their visibility in the Montreal arts community. More specifically, the workshop coordinator is responsible for:
This is a core / permanent staff position. The workshops coordinator reports to the general manager of Studio XX. The workshop coordinator will be supported by the Board of Directors, workshops committee and other staff in determining the orientation and content of specific courses according to the Studio's mandate and annual priorities. Required: thorough understanding of computers, interest in and capability of learning computer applications, demonstrated planning and coordination skills, demonstrated marketing skills, experience in training, creativity, fully bilingual. Send cv or inquiries to direction@studioxx.org by April 20. Employment starts as soon as possible.
Fundraising Campaign Coordinator
Studio XX anticipates launching a follow-up campaign in 2003 in
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