Pretty gosh darn excited to see the new media exhibition that Maayan Cohen has been organizing as a part of WIFF New Media Day. Knowing this gal, the Exhibition will be more than a little cool and will be a sight not to miss.
The full exhibition will be up from lunch time (noon) throughout the Molson’s Reception to 6:30 pm on Wednesday March 4th. The exhibits will be joined by some very cool social media / technology applications to check out and inspire your imagination with some new form storytelling at the Molson’s Reception.
You really don’t want to miss this event, get your tickets and join us at the Vancity Theatre on Wednesday.
Here’s a sneak peak at the exhibits:
Lost Cause – An Interactive Film by Kirsten Johnson
Lost Cause is an online interactive film, which allows viewers to navigate between three character’s perspectives at anytime throughout the duration of the film.
Egg Cinema - Art Installation by Angela Smailes
Egg Cinema is a multi-media installation that allows participants to experience the reflective nature of cinema directly. One or two at a time, you are guided to make a short clip on that particular moment in your life. Playback follows almost immediately and may be surprising and revealing.
Tongue Tales - Documentary Series for the Mobile by Tassia Poynter & Sharon Lee
Are Languages dying out? How do we create new words? Is technology hurting saving language? Tongue Tales is a three-part documentary series for mobile platforms that explores the fascinating topic of out language and the changing way in which we communicate with one another.
I Know A Place – Locative Media Installation by Maia Iotzova
I know a Place is a community-mapping project which will create interactive maps of places that people find significant in the are where they live. The project will collect the geographical coordinates of the places, the stories that people tell about them, and photographs they take.
Mordant - Interactive Story by Karin Shmidlin
Inspired by true events, Mordant (meaning an acid or other corrosive substance used in etching to eat out the lines, areas) explores the nature of inspiration and love, suffering and redemption. Carson, the central character, is swept from her life of familiar hardship to artistic opportunity through a chance encounter with an art gallery owner; ultimately, she is forced to chose between the life she knows on the street and the unknown world of material success.
Fluxus - Visual Conversation by Karin Schmidlin
Fluxus is an exploration of the art of conversation. In a digital environment dominated by emoticons and abreviations, Team Fluxus has created a system which abstractly elevates standard text chat to a stimulating, organic, and emotive visual experience.
Graffiti Wall - Art Installation by Alex Beim
Now, artists can digitally “paint” a surface in the same way they can tag a wall with traditional spray paint. This multi-user application is perfectly poised to engage large groups of people at parties or festivals, and immerse them in a cool common activity.
Murmur Video - Multi-Platform Project by Maayan Cohen
How do seemingly isolated places, people and events connect? Inspired by real stories, murmur video brings to life brief moments of interaction in the streets of Toronto. Everyone can engage with this multi-platform media venture using a cell phone, an ipod, a website and out own innovative touch screen kiosk. One click takes you into the heart of the city where places are revealed and stories unfold. As you watch, we invite you to share your own stories and join the common thread that shapes this colourful landscape.
Fearless City
The Fearless Mobile City project is a two-way social media system for marginalized residents and artists of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). It is an interactive communication system that uses Mobile Muse’s technology platform, a free wireless mesh network, distribution and training with mobile handsets, and live screens in public spaces. Fearless City will use mobile muse platform to stream video, text and still images live from New Media Day at Women In Film Festival.
Don’t Stop - Interactive Sound Installation by Julie Gendron
Don’t, Stop is a playground for people to create sound compositions using their voice. Using 40 small recordable boxes labeled with a word of a phrase, the participant is inspired to record sound and create an inspired output. Every participant becomes enmeshed in the madness because they inherently enjoy creating it.
Grafik Dynamo - Web Live Action Comic Strip by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett
Grafik Dynamothat loads live images from the internet into a live action comic strip. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new way. Together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each
other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing.
The Applications that will also be demod during the Molson’s Reception include:
Come be inspired on what a little imagination can do with new and emerging technologies.
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