Studio XX Newsletter 32 - November 2006

> New @ Studio XX
> Event X :: online archives
> Resident artist :: Andrea-Jane Cornell
> CALL : MAX & Microcontroller Workshop Advanced [Dec 11]
> Workshops coming up
> Initiation à l'archivage en arts médiatiques [Dec 1st]
> Pourquoi le dire? un film d'Hélène Duchesneau [Dec 4]
> National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women[Dec 6]
> http://www.takebackthetech.net[Nov 25 - Dec 10]
> UNESCO Digital Art Award 2007 [Dec 31]
> Women Writing and Reading [Feb 28]
> Women:Memory of Repression in Argentina [Dec 31]

New @ Studio XX

Stéphanie Lagueux, Studio XX's webmaster, will be temporarily leaving us to take care of her brand new little Collin, to be born mid-December. We wish all the best to her family of four. She will be in contact for certain projects at the Studio.

During this time, we have the pleasure of welcoming Brooke van Mossel Forrester who will be maintaining the website and all its realted projects. Brooke is currently purusing a graduate diploma in Community Economic Development at Concordia University. She knows the Studio well as she was recently a part of the realization of the Matricules archiving project. We are very happy to have her join us to complete our team.

Event X :: online archives

Internationally renowned as new media curator, Nat Muller was at StudioXX to host an intimate conference on her curatorial work. Discussion with Alice Ming Wai Jim
:: Meta Femmes br@nchées Archive (Quicktime Video) (240 MB)
:: Archive - conference (Quicktime Video) (140 MB)

Panel composed of representatives of women artist-run centres in Montreal (La Centrale, Groupe intervention vidéo (GIV), Studio XX) and Winnipeg (Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA)) debates on the relevance of feminist initiatives in art.
:: Archive Women's network (Quicktime Video) (177 MB)

Resident Artist :: Andrea-Jane Cornell
Tracing the Sharawadji

Tracing the Sharawadji is an eight channel sound installation that seeks to elicit moments of beauty by recreating and mixing the ephemeral sonorities which resonate in the everyday soundscape along the CP train tracks that run north of the Mile End and Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhoods. The project takes an improvisational approach to soundscape composition resting upon fleeting and spontaneous juxtapositions of sound, which reflect the inherent unpredictability of naturally occurring soundscapes. The project's success rests upon the creation of a graphical musical instrument/user interface in that will serve as both a sampler and a diffuser. The intent is to draw attention to the way that sounds combine and create moments of beauty, bordering on the sublime in the mundane urban soundscape.

Andrea-Jane Cornell likens the sonorities present in the urban environment to an assemblage of musical instrument, which are randomly orchestrated by its inhabitants. She engages in the practice of listening as a creative act where naturally occurring sounds in an environment are relied upon to guide her through their space on both the physical and acoustic planes. A master's candidate in Media Studies at Concordia University her research centers on sonic environments and the perception of such environments when taken out of their context and placed in an enclosed space.

Call for submission [December 11]
Media space – MAX/MSP/Jitter & microcontroller workshop
- Training on the audio, visual and interactive components of multi-media production.

Studio XX requests proposals for interactive audio and/or video projects to be produced within the framework of two professional development workshops intended for female artists.

Workshop 2 : Advanced

A practical Max workshop where participants will learn how (Basic Stamp and Arduino) microcontrollers work and how to construct small electronic circuits to carry out programmed functions. The workshop will enable the artists to master the tools necessary to fully realize all aspects of multimedia projects.

Contents:

_Interactivity
Interface-user, motion tracking, sound tracking, sensors, MIDI protocol and OSC, computer networks, and Internet.

_Circuits
Basic Stamp, electronic components, reading graphs, constructing sensors, motor control circuits.

The training provided by Patrice Coulombe will allow participants to increase their artistic and professional skills by learning:
- to use Max software with a view to creating a digital work the language specific to audio, video and interactive creation
- sensor construction techniques simple electronic circuit construction techniques
- about the functioning of microcontrollers.

Studio XX will present the resulting works within the framework of a Femmes br@nchées salon.

Dates
December 11 : deadline for project proposals
December 11–15: participant selection period
Course starts: January 14
Course duration: 12 weeks
Cost: $175

Please send your proposals and CV to
ateliers@studioxx.org