We've moved! [1 May]

As of the first of May, you will find Studio XX at:

4001 rue Berri, suite 201,
T: 514-845-7934
F: 514-845-4941
Montréal, QC H2L 4H2

Our telephone and fax numbers are the same. We look forward to seeing you soon!

New Events Programmer :: Chantal Dumas

Well known in the local and international art scene, we are very happy to have Chantal Dumas amidst our team.

Chantal Dumas is a Montreal sound artist working with radio, who has lately been exploring new sound interfaces. Her latest project with Julian Priest, called CLUSTER, was for mobile listeners/interpreters using the PDA (personal digital assistant) at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta. In October, she presented a radio installation-performance at the radioREVOLTEN Festival, Halle (Germany) (co-author Mario Gauthier).

She has produced over 25 works for radio broadcast on radio and in festivals through-out Canada and internationally. Her work has received numerous awards. In 2005, "Tanz" was nominated in the radio art category at the Phonurgia Nova (France). In 2001, "The little man in the Ear" was awarded the Documentary prize and The Perfume of Women at the EAR competition (Hungary).

New Board Member :: Sandra Lynn Bélanger, administrator

Studio XX is glad to welcome Sandra Lynn Bélanger to the Board!

Sandra Lynn Belanger received a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University with a Major in English Literature and a Minor in Photography. Sandra has many years of experience working as a Communications Assistant for non-profit artist run centers such as Studio XX, Oboro and Galerie La Centrale. Presently, Sandra is the Office Manager for ELAN - English-Language Arts Network. She also designs Web sites and photographs performers; musicians, actors, and performance artists. You can see her work on her Web site at www.fotozone.org

Méta Femmes Branchées [31 May + 1 June]

Méta Femmes Branchées : 31 May : 5-7pm
At Studio XX

Studio XX is happy to welcome the New Zeland-born, cyberperformance artists, Helen Varley Jamieson. She will be presenting her work at the next Méta Femmes Branchées

Helen Varley Jamieson (UK N-Z) has a background in theater as a playwright, director and producer. Since 2000 she has explored the potential of the internet as a site for performance, defining a new genre that she has termed "cyberformance". Most of this work has been as a member of the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision (www.avatarbodycollision.org) which she co-founded in 2002. This pioneering group have devised numerous performances using the internet to bring the remote players together. Their work has been presented at festivals around the world. Helen Varley Jamieson is also the project manager for UpStage, software that creates a web-based venue for live performance on the internet (www.upstage.org.nz).

Workshop : 1 June : 1-5pm
At Studio XX

In this workshop, Helen Varley Jamieson will give an introduction to the software UpStage. UpStage is an open source venue for online performance. The software combines the various elements of virtual performance into a single web page. The audience simply points their browser to the UpStage web site at the appointed time, to watch and participate. UpStage is available free to anyone who would like to use it.

Please reserve your spot with Chantal Dumas : 514-845-7934.

HTMlles8 is on the way! :: www.htmlles.net [17-21 Oct]

HTMlles8 Crowd Control
festival for media art + networked practices
17 - 21 October, 2007
In Montreal

This year we look forward to presenting a provocative program including conferences, sound performances, public actions, web works, projections and workshops on the theme of Crowd Control:

'Occurrences of inclusions and exclusions can be observed when tracking a migrating person, object or concept through time and theory, as well as space. The ability (or inability) to migrate is an invisible measure for the capacity to move. Who/what is able to move? What information is kept and what is left out? What is transferable and what is not? What are possible options for controlling the inclusions and exclusions?'

About
The HTMlles is a bi-annual international media arts festival which explores the various facets of digital technology and the World Wide Web as a medium for the creation and exhibition of artistic works. Presented by StudioXX, the first feminist digital resource center in Montreal, this festival presents an innovative selection of media art and Web art works created by women and engaged feminists from here and abroad.

Come and visit our Web site!
[www.htmlles.net]

Call for Entry :: 2007 Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taiwan [31 May]

The 2007 Women Make Waves Film Festival will take place in mid-October.
The entry deadline is May 31st, 2007.

The 14th Women Make Waves Film Festival, organized by the non-profit Taiwan Women Film Association, will be held in in Taipei in October, 2007. A portion of the selected films will be invited on an island-wide tour shortly after the Taipei exhibition. The Festival aims to celebrate the achievements of outstanding female talents, to explore different aspects of women's lives as well as to promote equality and rights of all genders.

For more information, contact: