Studio XX is Moving! [1 May]
This coming May, you will find Studio XX at it's new location: 4001 rue Berri, suite 201. This move is in some ways bringing us back to the beginning, as some of you may recall, because we are returning to the building where Studio XX first started in 1996.
While waiting for confirmation on the project IMAGO, something we have been involved with since 2005, in collaboration with Artexte, Vox and Optica, Studio XX has decided to leave Terrasse St-Denis behind. We have learned that the space above the Studio is contaminated, and for health reasons we are moving our home to a location that is more clean and comfortable on rue Berri. There our neighbours will include other artist centres who share common interests with the Studio.
It is with great pleasure that we await springtime when we envision a new year full of exciting new events!
Happy spring!
Web 2.0 demistified [31 March]
Brunch TechTalk with Marie-Chantale Turgeon and Miriam Verburg
Saturday March 31th, 2007 from 11:00am - 1:30pm
at Studio XX, 338 Terrasse Saint-Denis
$12 / $10 for members
RSVP :: 514 845 0289
In a video posted on YouTube, called Web 2.0: the machine is Us/ing us, Michael Wesh, an assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas City state University declares that Web 2.0 leads us to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, and ultimately ourselves.
At Studio XX, we thought it would be a good idea to discuss and try to clarify the implications of Web 2.0. What defines it? Does it really have, and will it continue to have such an important impact on our lives? How does it differ from the previous forms of Internet and what new tools does it put to our disposal? Theses are some of the questions Marie Chantal Turgeon and Miriam Verburg will address during a conversation at Studio XX on Saturday March 31st 2007. Come and join us for some coffee and croissants, from 11:00am till 1:30pm, to find out more and take part to the conversation.
Femmes br@nchées 65: Spring MOBILITY [12 April]
A Femmes br@nchées in the StudioXX's new location
April 12, 2007, from 7pm-11pm
4001 Berri street, 2nd floor 201 room
$5 / free for members
Before we move into our new location we have invited a group artists to take over the empty space for a night.
Andrea-Jane Cornell, the current artist-in-residence at StudioXX, will present her work Tracing the Sharawadji, a sound installation which reconstructs environmental audio of the Canadian Pacific railway lines between the Mile-End and Plateau Mont-Royal districts of Montreal. Andrea-Jane's installation allows listeners to experience of a part of this enviroment by sharing field recordings which move about the physical space of the installation, creating new harmonies and distances. Andrea-Jane has worked with Max Msp software to create this audio experience.
Beewoo's work explores the tension emerging between urban architecture and the fluxes of wired and wireless media communication, a fuzzy intangible but very real architecture that defies the laws of physics. A playful and graphical re-composition of space takes place on the screens during the presentation which often involves live actions. Beewoo will present a triptych video istallation based on architecture.
Corina Macdonald, DJ CYAN, will play to close the evening in style. The sound of DJ Cyan is born from her growing fascination with the interaction betwen humans and machines. She fuses elements of Swedish and Detroit techno with house and new electro-retro sounds. A cacophonie of technological music, the soul of the machine is finally liberated.
Throughout the evening we will alsopresent a visual recap of the history and mobility of Studio XX which was originally founded in the ground level of this very same building.
Welcome one and all.
JOB OFFER: Technical Director for the HTMlles Festival [15 April]
Application Deadline : April 15th, 2007
Position Start Date: End April 2007
Send in your c.v. and cover letter to : kyd@htmlles.net
Description of the position
The Technical Director is responsible of for the technical direction of the 8th edition of the HTMlles bi-annual festival which will take place from the 17th-21st of October, 2007. The technical director will take note of all technical needs for the involved artists and individual events that make up the festival. She will be responsible, with the festival director, for finding sponsorships and donations for these technical needs, such a borrowing equipment and service exchanges. During the festival, the technical director will be responsible for managing the other necessary technicians, team and volunteers relating to the technical needs and will create and maintain a production schedule which fits the set-up and clean-up needs of the overall festival production. The candidate must agree with the profile of the HTMlles and of the organization which produces this event, StudioXX, which is to the diffusion, creation and critique of digital technologies with a feminist engagement.
The person filling this position will be hired for part-time work from the end of March to the end of October, 2007. Some work for cleanup and final reporting will be required after the festival events.
Salary to be discussed depending on experience. Contract for the beginning of April to the 31st of October, 2007. Flexible availability required. The hired person must be bilingual.
For information on the Htmlles festival - www.htmlles.net and on the organization which produces this event - www.studioxx.org
JOB OFFER: Communications Coordinator for the HTMlles Festival [15 April]
Application Deadline : April 15th, 2007
Position Start Date: End April 2007
Send in your c.v. and cover letter to : kyd@htmlles.net
Description of the position
The Communications Coordinator is responsible for researching, creating and coordinating marketing and publicity initiatives. This involves investigating and pursuing potential community collaborations and fundraising opportunities, initiating new partnerships and sponsorship, and coordinating advertising sales and purchases. Duties also involve sustaining a professional and timely relationship with the general public as a festival liaison to the media/press. This position offers the perfect opportunity to be innovative and daring in the area of art marketing.
For information on the Htmlles festival - www.htmlles.net and on the organization which produces this event - www.studioxx.org
Studio 303: Body and Technology [26-30 March]
with Kondition Pluriel
26-30 March, Monday-Friday from 9am - 12pm
75$ Emploi-Québec / 85$ VIP / 90$ Régulier
This workshop explores the relationship between dance performance and media arts and is above all comprised of situations and practical exercises where the participants work with the tools. The workshop period will also include discussions about the process of creation involved in this type of work. Although the equipment used is technically sophisticated, the accent is put on the undertanding of artistic implications rather than the mastery of the functioning of the technology. Marie-Claude Poulin and Martin Kusch have taught similar workshops in Germany, Latin America and Great Britain.
To read the teacher's bio, you may visit our website at: http://studio303.ca/classes_bios_f.html
For more information on 303's other workshops, http://www.studio303.ca/classes_pro_f.html
Registration: 514-393-3771 or info@studio303.ca
RIOCM: Projet techno-école
Le projet techno-école s'adresse à des jeunes de 18-30 ans qui désire recevoir une formation complète en informatique.
Formation gratuite et d'une durée de 15 semaines
Ordinateur donné gratuitement à la fin de la formation
445, rue Jean Talon Ouest bureau 200
(514) 948-6644 poste 224
