‘Meanwhile’, an interactive, non-linear film I made in 2006 with my collaborators in the group ‘computer.says.no: Shelley Simmons, Chris Mendis and Jeff Howard has won an award at the CINEMA TOUS ECRANS, 14e Festival International du Film in Geneva Switzerland. Our piece won the Reflet d’Or of the best interactive multimedia fiction. The jury said that “The price is awarded to a piece of work that put the multimedia feature in the center of its conception and thus allows to develop a new narrative experience. This experience wanders from the inflexibility of  cinematic narration and of the interactive scenarii of video games.”

We are pretty chuffed and are trying to figure out how we can all get to Switzerland to use the €4000 in production services that comes with the prize.
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The project can be seen here; Meanwhile

‘88 Constellations’ will be included in the installations section of the 12th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA in Novi Sad, Serbia from December 12 - 14th 2008. This is another festival that screened ‘A is for Apple’ in the past and it looks like a really good program with lots of experimental video.

Videomedeja Festival Website.

I’m off to New York next week for an exhibition of ‘88 Constellations’ and ‘A is for Apple’ at the Pace University Digital Gallery. I will be talking on Thursday, November 13 at 6pm. I am showing my work with Michelle Gay who did her MFA years ago at NSCAD. New York should be a blast. Students from the Digital Projects class will be coming down for a class trip and we will be zipping around New York until Tuesday.

Pace University Digital Gallery

‘88 Constellations’ has been included in an exhibition of net.art at the Jyväskylä Art Museum October 29 - November 23, 2008 at the Lower Gallery, Holvi in Finland. You can link to the exhibition here: Live Herring08.

I made it out to the VAD Festival in Girona, Spain. Girona is a smallish city North of Barcelona. The festival took place in the city art gallery and had another venue for performances in the evening. I had a great time hanging out with artists from the US, Germany, Quebec, Belgium, and England. ‘88 Constellations’ was installed  in the gallery which seemed to get  a lot of traffic. The video screenings were great, especially the dance programme.

While I was in that part of Spain I wanted to go visit Walter Benjamin’s grave in the small border town of Port Bou. I made the trip with two artists from the festival and we took a train up to Port Bou, visited WB’s gravesite and even found the hotel where he committed suicide. My motivation for the trip was to research a new project called “The End” that incorporates the story of Benjamin’s death in 1940.

I also made it down to Barcelona where I had a fantastic day exploring the city. I love to wander through a city I don’t know and Barcelona is a great city to explore.

‘88 Constellations’ has been selected for the competition section of the 13rd Canariasmediafest,
which will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (The Canary Islands) from October 28th to
November 1st, 2008.

‘88 Constellations’ has been invited to the VAD Festival Internacional de Video i Arts Digitals in Girona, Spain in October of 2008. I want to try and make it out to this one! The festival website is at: http://2008.vadfestival.net/index.php/presentacioeng

“88 Constellations” has been selected to participate in an exhibition in Los Angeles called “DigitalArt.LA” at the Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art. The programme was selected by Howard N. Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibition will take place August 14 - 16, 2008 in various venues in Gallery Row.

Here is a link to the show: http://digitalart.la/

‘88 Constellations’ has been invited to the FILE2008 festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This will take place  August 5 - 31. The piece will be part of the Media Arts exhibition. I love this festival. I went down in 2002 with “A is for Apple” which won first prize at that festival. It was a great experience, a fabulous city, and a wonderful festival. It looks like it has really grown since then. They are doing residencies and touring shows.

Check out the festival here: http://www.file.org.br/

“88 Constellations” was shown in the exhibition:’.txt’ at the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia in May 2008 as part of a research symposium called “Obsolescence and the Culture of Human Invention” that was organized by Robert Bean and Ilan Sandler at NSCAD University. More about this research project can be seen here: http://www.obsolescence.ca/