Welcome back!
On behalf of Studio XX's Team and Board of Directors, welcome back to our exciting season ahead!
In 2009-10, Studio XX will host visits, events and
collaborations with: Mary
Armstrong, Kat Baulu, Isabelle Bernier, Myriam Bizier, Christine
Brault, Natacha Clitandre, Ginger Coons, De Geuzen (Netherlands), Heba
Farid (Cairo), Melissa Forero, Andrew Forster, Skawennati Tricia
Fragnito, Miriam Ginestier, Salah D. Hassan, Darsha Hewitt, Ximena
Holuigue, Sandra Lavoie, Jonathan L'Écuyer, Allison Moore, Sophie
Le-Phat Ho, Aurélie Pédron, Sara M. Tizhouch, Sophie Ventas, Valérie d.
Walker and The
From China to Québec Collective
among others...
Images from
Digital Ludology 2008-09 Commission Projects, by Myriam
Bizier, Stéphanie Lagueux & Jonathan L'Écuyer and Allison
Moore.
Artists in Residence: Jessica MacCormack, Janna Graham, Audrey Samson.
Instructors: Julien Beauséjour, Jean-Pierre Caissie, Gregory Chatonsky, Patrice Coulombe, Françoise Doherty, Jessica Field, Anne Goldenberg, Michele Ann Jenkins, Heather Kelley, Marie-Jo Leroux, Cindy Poremba, Alexandre Quessy, Tinasoa Ramahali, Marc Roberge, Peg Serena.
.dpi Editorial Committee : Marianne Cloutier, Émilie Houssa, Paule Mackrous, Léna Massiani, Amélie Paquet, Tania Perlini, Sophie Le-Phat Ho.
Programming Committee : Mouna Andraos, Natacha Clitandre, Helena Martin Franco, Hélène Prévost, Nelly-Ève Rajotte, Tamar Tembeck.
Partnerships: Artivistic Turn On, CKUT 90.3FM, Contemporary Image Collective (Cairo), Dazibao, Eastern Bloc, F.A.C.E, GIV, Koumbit, The National Film Board of Canada, OBORO, RCAAQ, Service à la famille chinoise du Grand Montréal, Studio 303, Urbanink.
Studio XX Team: Paulina Abarca-Cantin, Izaak Brandehorst, Annie Briard, Melanie Cuffey, Stéphanie Lagueux, Bérengère Marin-Dubuard and Gisèle Séguin.
Board of Directors: Natacha Clitandre, Alexandra Guité, Mél Hogan, Julie Leblanc, Corina MacDonald, Lucie Marchand, Hélène Prévost, Deborah VanSlet.
See you soon at the Studio or at our Annual General Assembly on October 8, 2009!
Paulina
Workshops at Studio XX this Fall
Registrations are
accepted now!
For information: 514.845.0289 or via email
-- Please note that you must be or
become a member of
Studio XX in
order to enroll in our workshops.
Workshop with Senior Animator Peg Serena
With Peg Serena
This workshop will be given in English.
This class will explore abstract and character animation,
using stop motion animation techniques. Using webcams, free software
and paper, the class will create a collaborative short film using table
top style animation. Participants will begin by creating flowing shapes
and colours, and work up to characters walking and interacting. Whether
participants are a beginner animator or advanced, this course will be
fun and fully creative.
DAY ONE: An
overview of the course, goals, and procedures. A quick
history of animation, and examples of different styles and inspirations
will be presented. Peg will do a demo of some basic animation
principles and how to use the software. Participants will then follow
along, with handouts, using bits of paper to create flowing movement
and designs.
DAY TWO:
Review and handouts with description of lessons for the day.
Participants will expand on what was learned in the last class,
incorporating colour and more advanced movement and designs.
DAY THREE:
Review and handouts with descriptions of lessons for the
day. Participants will begin to learn basic character animation using
paper dolls with simple replaceable faces.
DAY FOUR:
Review and handouts with descriptions of lessons for the day.
Participants will expand on character animation, and incorporate some
abstract background animation with techniques learned in previous
classes.
All work from classes will be cut together as a short film and
available for participants.
The course is limited to 8 people.
Peg Serena is a Canadian animator with 7 years in the industry. She originally studied classical animation at Sheridan College, and most recently worked on the acclaimed stop motion animated feature film "Coraline". Peg has also worked on many television series', music videos and short independent films. Peg is presently freelancing in Montreal and developing a number of projects.
* Dates: Thursday evenings from 6:00 – 9:00 PM // September 24th - October 15th, 2009
* Cost: $225.00(includes GST and TVQ)
Five Professional Development Training Workshops for Artists and Cultural Workers
Studio XX will offer five professional development workshops to be given by experts in the field of art and multimedia, intended for artists and cultural workers from Montréal. 1
These professional workshops offered at Studio XX are generously sponsored by Emploi Québec and are offered at a 10th of their market price.
1. Digital Ludology: Artistic Exploration of Creativity in Video Games
with Blender 3D and its Open Source Game Engine
This workshop offers participants the opportunity to broaden their understanding of digital art by developing the interactive components of their work. Participants will explore specialized tools from the world of video gaming.
Participants will have the chance to explore the different
components of an interactive game project. Theoretical aspects of
design relating to the construction, content and interactive concept
development will be explored to optimize the game structure in the
artist's works. Those who wish to broaden their proficiency with moving
images using Open Source software will be thrilled by the versatility
of Blender 3D and its game engine.
The workshop is ideally suited for artists who have practical
experience in media arts (web, video, audio and installation) wishing
to develop interactive components and expressive content for their work
through game play structure.
Topical presentations by professionals from the industry will be
scheduled to coincide on appropriate dates during the course.
Presentations by artists like Heather
Kelley and Cindy
Poremba from Kokoromi.com, Marc
Roberge from
INIS, Gregory
Chatonsky
artist and teacher at le Fresnois, and Isabelle
Arvers game
art curator, will address interactive scriptwriting, critical and
theoretical issues.
*Format: Artists will acquire a solid foundation in animation, 3D
character modeling, texture environments and an initiation to the "Open
Source" play generator of Blender 3D.
Participants will learn the key technical components required for a 3D production:
- Modeling : Lighting, texture, materials and colours.
- Animation: Armature and animation techniques
- Real-time workflow incorporated into the game engine for Blender 3D and Proce55ing
* Prerequisite: Basic computer knowledge and the desire to have fun!
* Dates: Wednesday evenings from 6PM to 9PM // from September 30th to December 16th, 2009 and from January 6th to March 24th, 2010
* Cost: $225 per session (includes GST and TVQ)
2. Autonomy and Activism: Multimedia authoring with Linux and Open
Source Software.
The workshop
will give artists
the opportunity to discover and develop the creative potential of
multimedia design on the Linux platform. Participating
artists will conceive and create a project and become proficient with
the latest and most popular multimedia Open Source applications
(freeware with Open Source code). Participants will work in a quickly
evolving and dynamic creative space adapting the tools that are
appropriate for them. Workshop sessions will feature talks,
demonstrations and directed work.
Introduction to image
processing with The Gimp (12h) : An introduction to image
processing and image manipulation with GIMP freeware.
Linux Training and
UbuntuStudio “Install fest” (12h) : This introductory
course aims to demystify the Linux operating system as well as other
Freeware. By the end of this course, participants will be able to
configure and adapt their operating system and be able to acquire and
install the freeware that corresponds to their needs. The aim of this
course is to make Linux more accessible to artists by giving them the
opportunity to immediately put into practice what they have learned.
Participants will also learn how to obtain a « Live » operating system
like UBUNTU and UBUNTUSTUDIO which runs from a CD.
Initiation to creating
Web pages with WordPress (30h) : Introduction to creating
Web sites with WordPress, the system for dynamic content management.
Participants will produce a Web site to showcase a portfolio of their
work such as: digital images, animations, video and sound.
* Prerequisite: The desire to work with free software.
* Dates:
Thursday evenings from 6:00 – 9:00 PM // October
22nd to December 18th,
2009 and from January 7th to February 19th, 2010
* Cost: $200 each session (includes GST + TVQ)
3. Media Space: Instruction on MAX-MSP and Micro-controllers
With Patrice Coulombe
This workshop will give artists the chance to realize a multi-media artwork while learning theoretical and practical knowledge of the multiple components in a multi-media work: sound, video, interactivity, Internet, programming software (MAX/MSP Jitter) and physical programming (electronic circuit, ARDUINO micro-controller).
Instructor and media artist Patrice Coulombe
will guide participants through the process of learning the
software. Emphasis will be on the essential
techniques and notions of MAX/MSP and participants will learn and
master elements including: sound options, video manipulation, and
physical interactivity. Any formatting or practical creative questions
that arise during the workshops will be discussed. Artists will have
free time access in the laboratory to fully develop the media
components of their works. By the end of the workshop, artists will
have mastered the necessary tools and skills to fully develop all the
media components of their work.
Format: * Courses have
a supervised workshop component. 2 sessions of 10 classes are offered.
The first session will focus on learning MAX/MSP and Jitter through
projects that implement sound and video. The second session will
primarily focus on learning programming and concentrate on the
technical aspects (sensors and electronic circuits) at an intermediate
level of MAX/MSP.
* Prerequisite: A basic
knowledge of computers and multimedia applications is recommended.
Programming experience is an advantage. Participants should have a
simple project they will work on during the workshop.
* Dates: Sunday
afternoons from 1:00 – 4:00 PM // from
October 4th - December 6th, 2009
and from January 10th to February 14th, 2010.
* Cost: $225 per session (includes GST + TVQ)
4. Digital Audio Workshop: Open Source with Ardour2
During this workshop participants will discover and develop the creative potential of Ardour2, the Linux-based Open Source software for digital audio processing. Participants will create and design a sound project using free tools they will learn to use.
Each aspect of the program's functionalities will be covered: Editing, mixing, recording, audio mastering and synchronization with other software as well the use of free plug-ins. The filters and plug-ins included in Ardour2 are written by hundreds of programmers around the world in the freeware community and offer users a much wider and original range of effects than with the substantially more expensive proprietary software. Participants will learn how to configure all the audio tools to use Ardour and be introduced to reliable peripherals supported by Linux for studio work with Ardour2. Audio cards, MIDI keyboards and surface controls will be presented during this workshop geared for participants familiar with digital audio creation and wishing to upgrade their skills.
* Format: Instruction will be in a workshop setting, where each participant will create audio edits using the techniques taught by the instructor. All stages involved in the production of a complete audio work will be covered.
* Pre-requisite: Basic computer skills, notions of digital audio are a plus.
* Dates: Friday
evenings from 6:00 - 9:00 PM // from
November 6th to December 18th, 2009
and from January 7th to February 19th, 2010.
* Cost: $155 per session (includes GST + TVQ)
5. Dynamic Website Conception (Web 2.0) with the Drupal Content
Management System.
Why make a static website that requires expensive tools when you can make a dynamic one using online Open Source software? In this workshop dynamic websites made with web-based applications called content-management systems (CMS) will be introduced and explained. Participants will learn to install, customize and style an easy-to-update and maintain website using Drupal, a well-known Open Source software.
* Pre-requisite: Basic knowledge of computers and the Internet
* Dates: Tuesday
evenings from 6:00 – 9:00 PM //
from October 6th to December 8th,
2009
* Cost: 225$ (includes GST and TVQ)
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A selection of the works created in the context of these 4 workshops will be presented over the course of the upcoming year during Salons Femmes br@nchées and/or the international Biennale HTMlles at Studio XX.
For information: 514.845.0289 or via email : ateliers at studioxx.org
1 Men are welcome on a space-available basis.
Journées de la culture 2009 at Studio XX
From China to Quebec
Saturday, September 26 from 2:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
at Studio XX, 4001 Berri, Suite 201
In collaboration with Studio XX and Chinese Family Service of
Greater Montreal, artist Christine
Brault initiated this co-creation
project in 2008 with a group of Chinese women now living in Montreal.
The From China to
Quebec Collective draws from Chinese traditional arts
integrating them into contemporary art.
In celebration of the Journées de la culture, the collective will
present a performance where cultural blending unites singing with human
weaving. To learn more about the project, please visit http://www.studioxx.org/en/node/2035.
Impassioned by Chinese culture, in May 2008, Christine Brault realized
an artist residency in Beijing and participated in an international
event in Shanghai.
The
XX Files Radio
Project Begins!
We're proud to announce the beginning of The XX Files Radio Project,
made possible with the support of the Department
of Canadian Heritage
through the Canadian
Culture Online Strategy, CKUT
90.3, F.A.C.E., Koumbit
and Urbanink.
Project Director and Studio XX Webmistress Stéphanie
Lagueux,
will be joined by The
XX Files inceptive and current host Valérie
d. Walker
and Sara
M. Tizhouch,
an instrumental collaborator in the creation of our Matricules Archives
over past last two years. Matricules is an
online digital archive comprised of a dynamic database housing all of
the images, artists and events that making up Studio XX's remarkable
history. The team looks forward to taking this exciting next step
towards documenting the complete Studio XX archives!
The XX Files
Radio Project consists of the digitizing, interpreting and
online publishing of The
XX Files radio show. We'll finally reveal all
the intriguing contents of The
XX Files past and present; interviews with
artists in new media and activism, discussions about the social,
political and economic impacts of information and communications
technology on our community, our country and our world...
Originally conceived by Deborah
VanSlet and Kathy
Kennedy, The
XX Files first aired on May 29, 1996 on CKUT
Radio McGill 90.3 FM and has been going strong ever since thanks to the
work of talented producer/hosts: Valerie
d. Walker, Anita
Cotic, Beewoo
and Britt Wray.
The show airs every Wednesday from 11:30 AM
to 12:00 PM.
Artists will later be invited to delve into the archives and produce
choice thematic selections offered to the public via podcasts.
Additionally, workshops in electronics, audio and radio production will
enable youth and the public to gain awareness about electronic art and
open source software in a dynamic, playful way.
The project is expected to conclude the end of March 2010 will allow The XX Files radio
show to renew itself with a new visual identity and
website linked to Matricules,
as well as constructing a long-term archiving strategy for all the
show's content.
Stay tuned for more announcements soon...
+ CALL OUT
Here is your great chance to contribute to the programming and production of The XX Files, THE Radio show about women and technology on Montreal’s community stellar radio CKUT 90.3 FM www.ckut.ca. For more information, contact: xxfiles at ckut.ca.
Jessica MacCormack,
Artist in Residence at Studio XX
Late August, Studio XX welcomed artist Jessica MacCormack
the 09/10 season's
first Artist in Residence. During her residency, Jessica will create an
experimental animation called PSYCHIC
CAPITAL.
The soundtrack will be generated through collaboration with musician
and sound artist Rae
Spoon. The goal of this
project is to combine experimental animation and sound, to explore how
identity development is informed (and sometimes controlled) by
psychiatry’s relationship with capitalism and it’s broader political
objectives. Using various imagery and sound from both archival and
contemporary sources, she will develop three experimental stop-motion
animations. The video trilogy will focus on three main themes: the
history of psychiatry etand capitalism/consumerism in North America,
the
MKULTRA
in
Montreal during the Cold War, and patient rights within the health care
system in Canada today.
During her residency, Jessica will collaborate with Rae Spoon to create
the soundtrack for the animation. She hopes to produce a non-linear
narrative by mixing samples of recordings (such as interviews, music,
or sound tracks off of stock footage) as well as by generating
electronic sound and noise by manipulating sound waves or acoustic
signals on computer programs. Experimenting with innovative
combinations of stop-motion, graphic animation, cutouts and hand-drawn
processes to explore the visual material, she hopes to expand her
understanding of animation and its artistic potential.
Jessica
MacCormack's art practice combines various elements of
interactivity, performance, intervention, installation and video. Her
projects aim to disrupt concepts of normalcy and function as catalysts
for dialogue while also being attentive to a social critique of
institutional structures that propagate systematized oppression, with a
self-reflexive criticality, so as not to reproduce these same power
structures. Collectivity and community have also largely informed her
practice, taking an active part in artist-run center culture,
performance collectives and collaborations. This has also included an
ongoing commitment to working with women and youth who are dealing with
issues of criminalization through the creation of art projects in
prisons as well as at Crossing
Communities Art Project in Winnipeg. She
is keenly interested in the transformative potential of art to confront
issues of poverty, homelessness, aboriginal colonization,
criminalization, mental-health, trauma and issues relating to queer
identities.
In 2008, she completed an MFA through the Public Art and New Artistic
Strategies program at the Bauhaus University (Weimar,
Germany).
REMINDER : Call for
Papers: .dpi
#16. Theme: "Resistance & Time"
Deadline
for
submissions: September 21, 2009
Final texts must be submitted (about 2250 words) by: October 19, 2009
Public launch: End of
October 2009
Editor-in-Chief: Émilie
Houssa
There’s never enough time, or so we’re told. However, all we really have is time. The impression that time’s a-wastin’ comes from our stressful and time-obsessed environments. To resist time is to transcend it. Time can be transcended by an immediate resistance to the structure of society: only then can we understand that our day-to-day lives are only one form of time. Time can be transcended by resisting the spatial, because we know that time and space are two parts of the same force. Artists have always wanted to create the effect of playing with gravity and thereby giving their audience a sense of time that is beyond our perception normally. Time can be transcended in maintaining inertia. By putting the body to the test of patience, we can experience time in another way. Paradoxically, we live at a time where speed and slowness are equally popularized. The ideas expressed in the Resistance & Time issue will also include the principle of Obstinate Memory (film by Patricio Guzman on the Chilean dictatorship), meaning that we can’t just let time pass. We must resist those that forbid memory; that force us to forget. To resist time is to create a collective memory that resists oblivion.
We encourage artists and theorists inspired by this theme to send a short summary of a proposed article (300 words) accompanied by a short biographical paragraph (100 words). All types of texts will be accepted (essay, critique interview)
Your final paper (roughly 2000 words) must be submitted by the date mentioned.
A stipend of $150 will be given to the authors whose papers will be selected.
Please send your proposals to: programmation at dpi.studioxx.org
Presented by the Festival du nouveau cinéma : THE FNC LAB
The
FNC Lab continues its exploration of the future of cinema in 2009,
by a series of activities, professional encounters and artistic
performances relating to cinema and New Media at its official
headquarters: AGORA du Cœur des Sciences de l’UQAM. Most of these
activities are FREE and open to all!
A FEW CONFERENCES AND ENCOUNTERS NOT TO BE MISSED…
The Archive We Don’t Know
- The American archivist, writer, theorist and filmmaker Rick
Prelinger, will create, exclusively for FNC, a live "film on demand"
that demonstrates both the problems of the archive and its utopian
potential.- October 9th, 5pm
Participative production
- Whether looking for additional funding or a volunteer editor, it’s
becoming easier all the time to use the Net to make films
collaboratively. Is this the next film revolution? – October 10th, 5pm
Beyond Locative Media:
Mapping the New Public Sphere, with Steve Dietz (USA).-
Presentation of projects around the world which use the capabilities to
overlay virtual and physical space to map a new and contested hybrid
public sphere. - October 12th, 5pm
The Paradigm of Numeric
Production -Rebel Alliance presents John Scheele veteran
visual effects supervisor from feature films such as Tron, Blade Runner
to World Trade Centre and Alexander. October
16th, 3pm
Interactive scriptwriting
and new production modes - The interactive revolution has
produced new languages and new ways of telling stories. But what about
the production process? October
16th, 5pm
For more information on the other endifferent events of the FNC
Lab :
www.nouveaucinema
WIDC 2010 - CALL FOR
APPLICATIONS
Led
by award-winning actress, director, producer, Helen Shaver (Castle, The
Bridge, Summer's End), mid-career women directors advance their
story-telling and leadership skills at the acclaimed Women In the
Director's Chair Workshop in Banff. ACTRA actors, professional and
volunteer crew are also invited to apply. WIDC 2010 Director deadline:
September 30, 2009 WIDC 2010 Actor / Crew deadline: October 31, 2009
CTV WIDC CAREER ADVANCEMENT MODULE (CAM) @ THE WFF
Held in collaboration with and at the St John's International Women's
Film Festival, October 20 to 24, 2009, four mid-career women filmmakers
are selected for an intensive mentoring workshop with 6 months follow
up towards their career goals.
For more information about applications and scholarships contact: Carol
Whiteman, WIDC Producer Toll Free: 1.877.913.0747, carol
at
creativewomenworkshops.com
www.creativewomenworkshops.com
Become an XX member !
Membership fees are:
Regular Membership $40,00
Community Membership* $60,00
Supporting Member $100,00 or more
* Reserved for non-profit organizations.
All community memberships
include 3 regular registrations.
** Includes GST + TVQ
Your membership will allow Studio XX to pursue pertinent and innovative projects and respond more adequately to the needs of people such as yourself. Members enjoy privileges such as:
- Small workshops in a friendly and supportive environment
- Technical assistance
- Customized courses
- Open Access to The XX Computer Lab
- Private and personalized workspace on our local server
- Free or reduced admission to all Femmes Br@nchées Salons, mini conferences and the HTMlles Festival
- Newsletter informing you of all of our other activities and preferred information regarding equipment sales.
- Right to vote at our Annual General Assembly
To become a member of Studio XX : Download (PDF file), print and fill out the registration form and send it along with your cheque made to the order of Studio XX. You will receive a membership card and become a part of a great community.
