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Signal & Noise festival of video and sound
presented by Video In
Featuring local, national and international artists.

March 27-30, 2003
1965 Main St.
$3-8 sliding scale
festival pass $20


info :
Jen Weih 
exhitbit at telus.net
604.872.8337

Complete  screening schedule & program details below.


Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, with the ease afforded by 
consumer cameras and home editing systems more people than ever 
before wield their own cameras in the face of the totalitarian media 
spectre of television. People are documenting their lives and the 
world around them through the lens of their personal philosophies. 
Philosophies about synthetic violence, transgendered pregnancy and 
cultural excess a la liposuction home job, just to name a few.

Signal & Noise is a collection of these documents, carefully chosen 
to profile excellence in the field of independent media. Expect to 
see visual poems about love, loss and alienation, subversive 
meditations on the interplay of race, gender, fantasy and popular 
culture, and enigmatic explosions of energy that could be lost love 
child of Naomi Klein (No Logo) and MTV.

All of the artists are working with video and sound at the edge of 
what most people are used to seeing on the box or hearing on their 
headphones. Come see what's on the horizon of independent media.






SIGNAL & NOISE 2002 program    tape details below

Thursday March 27

8:00 p.m.	Video In
SITUATION
Videos about culture, power, gender and narrative.

9:30 p.m.	Video In
[sic] *CULTURE
Curated by Tricia Middleton
  Each artist has addressed the ills of a society that is 
so-top-heavy-that-it-must-collapse-the-only-question-is-when, in 
their own unique way.


Friday March 28

8:00 p.m.		Video In
TOTAL RECALL
Fantasy and reality and the blur in between.

9:30p.m.		Video In
IT'S BETTER INSIDE
Curated by Anne E. Low
Awkwardness, banality, and concerted boredom are enacted within 
domestic situations, with the results often becoming frustrating, 
embarrassing, earnest and precocious.



Saturday March 29

8:00p.m.	Video In
REFRACTED FUTURES
Different perspectives on contemporary culture(s) and its myths.

10:00p.m.	@ Inter-mission 1009 Cordova
RAW ON
A full evening of sound-based performance art, Raw On will feature an 
array of works by local artists promoting their own "brand" of 
experimental activism. Testing the thresholds of common sense, Raw On 
is set to prove that the only true action is active action.


Sunday March 30

6:30p.m.	Video In
ANHEDONIA
From Bush to X-box, and Zoloft to MacDonalds.

  8:00p.m.		Video In
BETWEEN THE BODY AND THE DESERT
Looking at war, perception and mutilation.

9:30p.m.		 Video In
RESONANT BLAST
A selection of audio works, including a live performance by Michelle Irving.



Programs with tape descriptions




Thursday March 27
8:00 p.m. Video In

SITUATION
Videos about culture, power, gender and narrative.

Allo Performance!
Mirha-Soleil Ross & Mark Karbusicky,  Toronto, 2002, 13:00	Vtape
From May 2001 to February 2002, Mirha-Soleil Ross appeared pregnant 
every time she was in public as part of her 9 month long performance 
art cycle "The Pregnancy Project."  The Pregnancy Project explored 
transsexual women's  relationships to the personal and institutional 
aspects of motherhood and hoped to foster community discussion around 
controversial reproductive technologies.

White Palace
Jennifer Fisher, Vancouver, 2002, 4:00
White objects started to blur at the edges,  out of the blur and 
bleed, this rehabilitation of individual complicity.

Kevin
Monique Moumblow, Vancouver, 2002, 8:55	Video Out
Two parents reflect on the mischievous and devious antics of a 
character named "Kevin".  Although it is established that they have 
two daughters,  Kevin is spoken of in an intimate and yet distant 
manner.  The viewer is left wondering whether "Kevin" is a fictive 
character or not as there is never an indication of how he fits in 
within the context of this family unit.

First Things First
James Diamond, 2002, Quebec, 2:00		Video Out
First Things First was my attempt at a Public Service Announcement. I 
was comparing the term 'first people' to the term 'first world'. It's 
a first-hand glimpse into the effects of child poverty and the mental 
health industry.

Swing
Laurel Swenson, Vancouver, 2002, 4:14	Video Out
Swing is a quivering response to the cold hard fact that our world 
continues to be a dangerous and poisonous place for girls. In Swing 
our video-maker wheels around with our vulnerability, our anger and 
our sucker punches. After all, girls will be girls.
Part 2 of: Sitting Still: a body of anxiety, technology and hope (a 
series of nine videos)

(Š)
Leatitia Bourget, France, 2001, 9:00		Videographe
Phenomena of the skin reveal activity of the body which is 
independent of the will, a non-conscious consciousness which is 
itself the essence of life.

Lost in Space
Tricia Middleton & Joel Taylor, Montreal, 2002, 11:00		Video Out
Lost in space explores the periphery and banality of daily life by 
placing under its microscope the common spaces most might tend to 
ignore or take for granted. Underscored by a sense of dread that 
never fully subsides, Lost in space wryly ponders environmental and 
social decay, along with the generalised malaise that accompanies 
these phenomena, never losing sight of the possibility that death may 
be the only release from these conditions.



Thursday March 29
9:30 pm Video In

[sic] *CULTURE
Curated by Tricia Middleton

The videotapes assembled into this programme consider an ever 
developing and mutating sickness that seems to be rapidly spreading 
to unknown reaches within of our (stinking rich, capital obsessed, 
repulsively West-o-centric) current cultural milieu. Each artist has 
addressed the ills of a society that is 
so-top-heavy-that-it-must-collapse-the-only-question-is-when, in 
their own unique way. I enjoy each of these tapes immeasurably, 
relentlessly rigorous on their own terms: sometimes sick, sometimes 
twisted, often beautiful and brilliant, and sometimes with a beat.

The Chocolate Factory
Steve Reinke , USA, 2002, 26:00		Vtape
The Chocolate Factory is a suite of monologues in the voice of a 
fictionalized serial killer, one monologue for each victim. The 
camera, with an almost structuralist rigor, pans up and down simple 
line drawings of each of the seventeen victims. Reinke has described 
the tape as, "My autobiography as Jeffrey Dahmer." But really, as the 
tape's narrator says, "It's all about the victims."

Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel
Steve Matheson, USA, 2002, 2:00			VDB
This absurdist, microscopic film noir follows the activities of an 
underground network of ill people, desperate to create alternative 
methods of self-care in a world where natural resources are 
disappearing. While examining the meaning of health, disease, and 
well-being in the post-industrial world, Apple Grown In Wind Tunnel 
imagines the development of a culture at the margins, linked by 
illicit radio broadcasts, toxic waste sites, the highway, and 
ultimately by the overwhelming desire to find a cure.

Here
Sarah Abbott, USA, 2002, 12:00		Vtape
Thoughts of future events, correct behaviour, desires, and triggered 
memories distract us from being present in our daily lives. Here 
magnifies this experience by allowing the viewer to consider this 
phenomenon within their own lives, as they experience this tape, and 
notice their minds begin to wander....

Sattelite (Version 1.0)
Nelson Henricks, Montreal, 5:30, 2002
The human ear. A gatherer of energy. A gatherer of sound. RPMs and BPMs.
Satellites go up to the sky. Blinded by science. Everybody dance now.

Talking to Nature
Tom Sherman, USA, 2002, 2:00
We've always dreamed of speaking nature's own language, of being part 
of the big picture.  But when we talk to nature, we find we are just 
talking to ourselves or, more accurately, to each other.



Friday March 28
8pm Video In

TOTAL RECALL
Fantasy and reality and the blur in between.

Imitation of Life
Mike Hoolboom, Ontario, 2001, 20:00		Vtape
"Hoolboom pillages all of cinema for this epic meta-science fiction,
in which the future and the present are conceived, first, as an
endless parade of images. Science fiction as a realm of displaced
fears and dreams, a place to imagine a future that's already here."
- Images Festival catalogue 2001

Portrait	   1.    Chimera    2. Portrait    3.    untitled
Sydney Vermont, Vancouver, 2002, 9:00

Portrait takes to task three aspects of recorded observation; nature 
photography, the seated portrait, and the media propelled commercial 
product. In chimera, a caterpillar forages in circles, with debris 
stuck to its velcro-like coat.  Portrait traces a day in the life of 
a failed portrait. The third, untitled, spies upon a lo-fi commercial 
operation. Aspiring to its own classicism, Portrait falls short, 
while remaining endearing and human.

From the trailer series: Untitled One
Stacey Lancaster, USA, 2000, 6:14
A pair of perpendicular mirrors is the low-tech focus of a bored woman's
attention. One in a series of videos made during the four year period that I
worked on and lived in a trailer in Brooklyn, New York.

J.-P.
Steve Reinke, USA, 2002, 7:00		Vtape
A remix of the 20 minute "Tuesday and I" by young Canadian artist
Jean-Paul  Kelly. Reinke leaves the 20 minute one-take monologue
intact, speeding up and  slowing down the tape  (mostly speeding up)
to extract empathy for the subject and squeeze sounds out of his body.


One
Rafael Tsuchida , Vancouver, 2002, 5: 20
This video depicts the artist (me) singing the song "One" by U2. It 
is the expression of love and loss through the appreciation of music, 
subverting notions of performance in process.

00:00:15;00
Nikki Forrest, Montreal, 2002, 4:00
00:00:15;00 is an experimental video based on 15 seconds of footage 
which has been processed and repeated 15 times. This structure is 
intended to mirror the processes of repetition and rehearsal, which 
are part of memory.

Chikubi
Meesoo Lee, Vancouver, 2002, 5:08			Video Out
Chikubi is about seduction.  For me, this video has the quality of 
something found rather than something created... or maybe that's just 
my rationalization for wanting to
watch something i would never want to take responsibility for 
filming.  The song was
written by Paul Pittman and performed by young and sexy and is from their
mint records release "stand up for your mother."




Friday March 28
9:30 pm Video In


IT'S BETTER INSIDE
Curated by Anne E. Low

It's Better Inside brings together the video work of eight Vancouver 
artists using interior space as point of departure to explore various 
inflections and slight in the psychoses of the self when one spends 
too much time inside. Awkwardness, banality, and concerted boredom 
are enacted within domestic situations, with the results often 
becoming frustrating, embarrassing, earnest and precocious.  Each of 
the works suggest the inherent conditions within the roles of being 
the artist, the performer and the subject when producing video.

Julia Feyrer
I'm a Smoker
2 minutes, 2002.

Anika Yuzak and Curtis Grauhauser
November Rain
11 minutes, 2002.

Andrew Dadson
Since Each of Us Was Several, There Was Already Quite
a Crowd (All my Clothes and my Roomates)
14 minutes, 2002.

Gareth Moore
untitled
3 minutes, 2003.

Anne Low
Golfing Out my Studio Window
7 minutes, 2002.

Jacob Gleeson
Funnies
5 minutes, 2002.

Amy Pelletier
Tissue Test
6 minutes, 2003



Saturday March 29
2:00 pm Video In

panel





Saturday March 29
8:00 pm Video In

REFRACTED FUTURES
Different perspectives on contemporary culture(s) and its myths.

Gold
Karen Kew, Guleph, 2002, 6:00
Gold explores cultural memory against the backdrop of a southern 
Ontario town and images of pre-revolution China. The old style 1960's 
free standing Chinese restaurant, such a familiar landmark of many 
Canadian towns becomes the repository of the immigrant experience, 
the place where myth is invented.

The worst thing ever
Donna Szoke, Vancouver, 2002, :30 sec.
the worst thing ever questions some basic tenets of western 
mentality. It nods to Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame but at a 30 
second commercial length. Witness to the banality of visual culture 
at large, the work derives from a camera glitch: An image of camera 
case foam is paired with real time conversation. Voices talk of "the 
worst thing ever", revealing the worst thing as one's own boredom 
threshold.

Nobody Knows
Midi Onodera, Ontario, 2001,	3:15		Vtape
Nobody Knows is a short poetic video that eloquently hints at a few
inner thoughts of a solitary young woman. Shot in 2 toy camera 
formats, the Lomographic 35mm Supersampler and the Intel Play Digital 
Movie Creator, Nobody Knows embraces alternative photography in both 
celluloid and the digital realms.

Salty Wet
Winston Xin  And Desiree Lim, Vancouver, 2002, 8:47	Video Out
Salty Wet will take you through a sexy and humorous language 
experience about interpretations of queer Cantonese and English 
slang. Ten Cantonese-English speakers are asked to explain the 
meanings of queer words in English and Cantonese.

Take a Picture with a Real Indian
James A. Luna & David J Merritt, USA, 2001, 12:10		Vtape
Take a Picture is a performance speaking to the commodification of 
American Indian cultures by institutions, media and commercial 
enterprises. It takes a common, playful but demeaning act of taking a 
photo memento of the "exotic" which many times includes cultures of 
other than the norm, Indians have been subjected to this act since 
contact with Western culture.

The Lady of Shallot - A Surveillance Player
Margaret Dragu, Vancouver, 2002, 3:30		Video Out
A video of a performance exploring how we survey one another in 
public spaces - City Hall, a grocery store, and a gallery setting. 
In the gallery window a woman dressed as a running competitor pivots 
with mirrors, catching the reflection of her surrounding environment 
which includes a man from outside watching her.

Roar
Wei Heng Tang, Vancouver, 2002, 4:00
Roar is an experimental video exploring the psychological state of an 
awakening mind.  This video is comprised of two sections.  It 
illustrates the cycle of the roar: the uttering stage and the storing 
stage.

conversation pieces
Laurel Woodcock, Toronto, 2002, 3:20		Vtape
Three short performances on the information highway.

House
Wago Kreider, USA, 2001, 4:45
The captivating, hilarious, and surprising story of a domicile's 
demolition as told from the perspective of a few planks of wood.

California, Mexico
Shawn Chappelle, Vancouver, 2002, 7:30

An ambient travelogue. Hypnotic, stunning and ethereal. All of a 
sudden one is confronted with the "wild".

Pool
Humberto Ramirez, 2002, USA, 3:46
Pool is a short video that explores the intersection of culture, 
memory and values. Through a simple first person voice a story 
develops that relates cross-cultural experiences. The racial 
obstacles encountered in American Society are viewed within the 
context of difference and empowerment.



Saturday March 29
10:00p.m. Inter-mission  1009 Cordova


Intermission presents
RAW ON

A full evening of sound-based performance art, Raw On will feature an
array of works by local artists promoting their own "brand" of
experimental activism.  Raw On performances will thrust experience to
unknown and novel ends by imposing limits on everyday activities.
Testing the thresholds of common sense, Raw On is set to prove that
the only true action is active action.




Sunday March 30
6:30pm  Video In

ANHEDONIA
From Bush to X-box, and Zoloft to MacDonalds.

Plasticman and the Justice League
Jonathan Culp, Toronto, 2002, 16:00
The events and fallout of September 11, 2001 are reproduced, analyzed and
mocked using found pop culture footage from various eras and sources. The
moron in chief receives special attention.

Friendlies
Christopher Kowal, Vancouver, 2002, 3:45
Dear ______________
Thank you for submitting your work to the ______________ festival. We 
are sorry that we were not able to include it in the festival this 
year. ______________ received nearly  ____________ individual 
submissions, as well as ___________ of submissions from distributors, 
so there were many excellent pieces that we were unable to find space 
for.
Thank you for your interest in _____________. We hope that you will 
stay in touch and continue to submit your work.
Best wishes

Metronome
Daniel Cockburn, 2002, Ontario, 10:40		Vtape
"In his latest work Metronome, Daniel Cockburn merges the aesthetics
of his Toronto predecessors Mike Hoolboom and Steve Reinke in order
to weave a compelling tale of domestic routinization that is equal
parts hilarious and heartening."
James Missen, Available Light Screening Collective, Ottawa

Spaghetti 8
Terra Poirier & Adam Garnet Jones, Galiano Island, 2002, 2:30	Video Out
Super 8 gunplay - explosive scratching, amazing stunts and fabulous 
outfits - experimental artgak at its finest!


Unhappy Meal
Greg Richardson & John Richardson, 1999, Vancouver, 7:00
Unhappy Meal is a multimedia assault on McDonalds, cut to the
twisted breakbeats of Toronto musician Patootihed. Using our own film, video
and graphics, R Room goes after the fast food juggernaut that opens a new
restaurant every 5 hours. Learn other disturbing facts, groove to the beats,
plus check out our very own Evil Ronald as we go behind the golden
arches......


Grid Forms
Mark Piron, Vancouver, 2002, 3:21

Grid Forms emerged from my experience of working for large companies 
in minimum wage warehouse jobs. It is a collage of appropriated 
imagery, text and sound, which I hope will give an insight into the 
nature of such environments and their effects on the human psyche.

Anhedonia
Thirza Cuthand, Vancouver, 2001, 9:00		Video Out
Thirza Cuthand's latest Video Work. A personal work about an 
individual's struggle with depression and the effect it has on her 
life.

Hate
Humberto Ramirez, 2002, USA, 7:00
A video in which the cultural dynamics of hatred are explored through 
a series of talking heads and monologues. The video seeks to 
denaturalize a condition in which the potential solidarity amongst 
different people is subverted by notions of nationalism, race, 
gender, class etc. By problematizing what seems to remain hidden or 
at least unspoken this work seeks to provoke a conversation.




Sunday March 30
8:00pm Video In

BETWEEN THE BODY AND THE DESERT
Looking at war, perception and mutilation.


Intruder
Anne E. Low, 2002, Vancouver, 1:30

Addressing the spatial properties between the frame and the monitor, 
with the artist between those parentheses, my work relies on the 
emptying and negation of interior space. By emptying a space of its 
typical use value while the narrative action takes place outside of 
the frame, Intruder, with its reliance on sound, remains uncannily 
diagetic within the spatial expectations of a room.

Transportation
Randy Lee Cutler, Vancouver, 2002, 5:00
How does motion effect consciousness? What are the immersive 
possibilities of reconfigured memory? Transportation is an 
experimental video that explores the ways in which speed (e.g. 
trains, automobiles) alter one's experience of space and time. The 
title references both vehicular travel and how motility can induce 
shifts in consciousness. Our databanks of memory, themselves 
transport devices, destabilize the idea of linear time and fixed 
identity suggesting that all time is equally present.

RE:_OPERATION
Paul Chan, USA, 2002, 27:00			VDB
Based on a set of drawings that depict George W. Bush's 
administration as wounded soldiers in the war against terrorism, 
RE:THE_OPERATION explores the sexual and philosophical dynamics of 
war through the lives of the members as they physically engage each 
other and the "enemy". Letters, notes, and digital snapshots 
"produced" by the members on their tour of duty become the basis of 
video portraits that articulate the neuroses and obsessions 
compelling them toward an infinite war.


untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends..
Jayce Salloum, Lebanon/Canada, 2002, 11:22
An homage to the 1982 Sabra and Shatilla massacre, a reflection of 
the past, it's present context and forbearance. Abdel Majid Fadl Ali 
Hassan recounts a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine, 
the tape permeates into an intense essay on dystopia in contemporary 
times. A elegiac response working directly, viscerally, and 
metaphorically.

Operation
Jubal Brown, Toronto, 1999, 10:00		Vtape
Home operation to remove unwanted fat.  Body vs image. Male Feminism 
vs. female patriarchy.  Personal body control vs the social stigma of 
body image. Individual body ownership vs. the institution of the 
medical profession.








Sunday March 30
9:30 Video In


RESONANT BLAST
A selection of audio works, including a live performance by Michelle Irving.

OmNada
Shaun Friesen, Calgary, 2002, 4:55
OmNada is derived from one particular sound sample taken from a 
recording session in a 6 story concrete stairwell in the Alberta 
College of Art and Design. I ran the loop through an old cassette 4 
track and manipulated the gain, E.Q. and pitch in real time 
(something I've been unable to do with computers), then re-digitized 
the material and layered and looped it on the computer.

Yestourday
Shawn Caza , Toronto, 2002, 2:00
I am currently putting together an online apathetic dilution system. 
A website that allows visitors to search, and contribute information 
to an emotional database.  Poetic multimedia responses are created 
based on search queries, and the donation of 'feeling files'.  The 
project is intended to draw attention to the inherent biases found in 
the predominant information structures of the computer age.

Dreamsong
Colin Dorward, Vancouver, 2002, 6:10
  A multi-timbral journey through morphing soundscapes of varying 
textures and moods.


Uodsn- sound rearranged
Caleb Mueller, Vancouver, 2002, 3:30
This piece is a reaction against the banality and mindlessness of 
radio 'bubble-gum pop' music; it takes the original song (a Britney 
Spears tune), and deconstructs it, bordering on destruction. The key 
point is that though the original song contains adequate 
instrumentation, production and melody, it is arranged in a 
thoroughly unimaginative way. The rearrangement is a statement on the 
clash between art and marketing in society through contrast to 'what 
might have been,' this rearrangement.

Homenage to fukuzound
Alberto Guedea, Vancouver, 2000-01, 8:00
A composition with an overuse of software technology, the Homenage to 
fukuzound is a slightly different version of a fukuzound piece. 
Fukuzound is a minimal-noise project I did between the year 2000 and 
the beginning of 2001.

The Memory of You
The Readymades, Ottawa, 2002, 4:00
"The Memory of You" is constructed entirely from two digitally 
processed recordings of the 1959 love song "Sleep Walk" (the original 
instrumental by Santo and Johnny and a vocal version by Betsy Brye). 
Processed samples have been collaged together to create a piece that 
embodies (through digital glitches and noise) the feelings of longing 
and loss that occur after a failed relationship, while simultaneously 
deconstructing representations of romance.

Music for Drawing
Eli Bornowsky, Vancouver, 2002, 8:15
The piece is a computer sound construction designed to be immersive 
and trance inducing, for aid in the meditative aspects of drawing. I 
hope to create sound that will influence and provide abstract 
associations for the drawing process.

Insectsound
Colin Dorward, Vancouver, 2002, 5:30
  The song of an imaginary race of insect creatures.


Alize
Myriam Bessette , Quebec, 2002, 3:15 audio & video
  This visual and audio fable proposes and avid look at animated hair.


Threshold
Michelle Irving, Vancouver, 2002, 20:00 performance. audio & video

Threshold is an exploration of interstitial space; the point where 
one thing becomes something else; the fine line between darkness and 
light. In this performance audio and video elements create hybrids of 
'natural' and technological metaphors which unfold within the 
simplicity of subtlely looped images and augmented sound samples. 
The work attempts to represent the real world of delightful ambiguity 
and uncertainty.



-- 

Jen Weih
Exhibitions and Programming Coordinator
Video In
1965 Main St.
Vancouver BC V5T 3C1
exhibit at telus.net
t. 604.872 8337
f. 604 876 1185
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