[Studio XX] Newsletter 36 :: March 2007

Fri Mar 23 11:02:50 EST 2007

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  Studio XX Newsletter 36 - March 2007

    * :: Studio XX is moving! <#b> [1 May]
    * :: Web 2.0 demistified <#a> [31 March]
    * :: Femmes br at nchées 65: Spring MOBILITY <#c> [12 April]
    * :: JOB OFFER: Technical Director for the HTMlles Festival <#d> [15
      April]
    * :: JOB OFFER: Communications Coordinator for the HTMlles Festival
      <#e> [15 April]
    * :: Studio 303: Body and Technology <#f> [26-30 March]
    * :: RIOCM: Projet techno-école <#g>

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  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!

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    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 
<http://www.studioxx.org/newsletter/annonce_web2_techtalk.html#3> and 
Miriam Verburg 
<http://www.studioxx.org/newsletter/annonce_web2_techtalk.html#4> 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.

+ details... <http://www.studioxx.org/newsletter/annonce_web2_techtalk.html>

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    Femmes br at nchées 65: Spring MOBILITY [12 April]

      A Femmes br at 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./

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    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 at htmlles.net 
<mailto:kyd at 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.

+ details... (pdf) <http://www.studioxx.org/HTMlles-tech-07.pdf>

For information on the Htmlles festival - www.htmlles.net 
<http://www.htmlles.net> and on the organization which produces this 
event - www.studioxx.org <http://www.studioxx.org>

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    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 at htmlles.net 
<mailto:kyd at 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.

+ details... (psf) <http://www.studioxx.org/HTMlles-coms-07.pdf>

For information on the Htmlles festival - www.htmlles.net 
<http://www.htmlles.net> and on the organization which produces this 
event - www.studioxx.org <http://www.studioxx.org>

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    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 at studio303.ca <mailto:info at studio303.ca>

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    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.

# Initition aux composantes d'un ordinateur
# Technique d'assemblage et maintient d'un système informatique
# Installation de logiciel libre et système d'exloitation
# Utilisation des divers outils internet
# Sensibilitation aux enjeux environnementaux
# Introduction au traitement de texte
# Encadrement personnalisé pour la recherche d'émploi

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

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