PULSE: An Interactive Electronics Playground

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EMMEDIA + ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS PRESENTS PULSE: An Interactive Electronics Playground Featuring projections by THE WINDOWS COLLECTIVE, presented by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers

September 25, 2015 @ 8:30 - 10:30PM Central Memorial Park 1221 2 ST SW ~ FREE For more information, head to emmedia.ca

25-27, 2015

ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS

EMMEDIA

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CENTRAL MEMORIAL PARK - 1221 2nd Street SW

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ARTIST GUIDE 1

LOWELL SMITH

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GUY GARDNER

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SARAH STORTEBOOM

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KIM SEUNG PEN

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TODD REDERBURG

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MAEVE ORLADY

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THE WINDOWS COLLECTIVE*

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EVANGELOS LAMBRINOUDIS II

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JORDAN SCHINKEL

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PAUL ROBERT

* Presented by The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF)

INFORMATION BOOTH Please note: Locations are subject to change. If you cannot find an artist, please come to the information booth for an updated location.

Pico-Cicada

LOWELL SMITH

The Cicada, an insect often heard but rarely seen. Only coming out every 13 or 17 years, fortunately this group of Pico-Cicada’s have felt the Pulse and are buzzing and lighting up for one night to mate before they die or run out of batteries.

ABOUT THE PROJECTS 8-bit Serial Match

SARAH STORTEBOOM

Arcade aesthetic meets sports-bar, in this multi-screen, multigame installation. Have a break and indulge in the spectacle of competition while cheering on your favourite team.

The Windows Collective I’d like to think of a situation where we can be close

TODD REDERBURG

Through a consultation with park users I heard that interactive parts of the park are noticed and used. Situations where people can have a common experience and be social are also valued.

By placing art objects (blankets that simulate a heartbeat) in the park, I intend to evoke ideas through sensation related to intimacy, closeness, and care.

PIXIE CRAM, ROGER D. WILSON, PAUL GORDON, BRIDGET FARR, and DAVE JOHNSON Since 2008, The Windows Collective (Ottawa) has explored the subversive possibilities of creating outdoor public film installations and of bringing alternative film practices to a wider audience.

Projecting on to parks, bridges, and heritage sites, Windows works with traditional celluloid-based film and super-8 or 16mm projectors to create new ways of viewing the moving image. The Windows Collective will showcase 16mm installations and 35mm slideshows. This project is proudly presented by CSIF.

Baby’s-breath

JORDAN SCHINKEL

Mesmeric arrangements of Gysophila flowers shift in flow and form in this video-based work.

Noisy Lighty Play Box Red Eye

KIM SEUNG PEN GUY GARDNER

This work explores interactivity and the translation of data between light, sound, physical and digital space. The viewer is encouraged to use their voice to manipulate the work.

The project is an interactive box that plays noise and lights up when buttons are pressed. The box is constructed out of wood, paper, and electronic components.The electronics are running off an Arduino to instruct the interactivity of noise and lights.

Broadcast Trivia Pysche EVANGELOS LAMBRINOUDIS II From the ancient Greek and Roman pagan goddess Trivia to the modern psychoanalytical ramblings of Freud and Lacan, the notion of a “fractured self” raises intriguing and deeply personal questions about the faces we present to the world.

Conjecture

MAEVE ORLADY

Conjecture is a multimedia installation based on human expectation. Mirroring aspects of its surroundings, the cube prepares the visitor for a parallel experience. Inside, only the sound and the pulse of water pierce the cube to a minimalist environment where the requirement is to block out the natural sound and experience the unexpected. Playing with expectation, reality, memory and shared experience, Conjecture is not what the viewer expects.

Boxwords

PAUL ROBERT

This piece takes literally the fact that the same phenomena can be subject to competing descriptions. With a smartphone, connect to the “Boxwords” wifi network and point your web browser to http://10.10.10.10/

ABOUT PULSE EMMEDIA presents PULSE, an interactive outdoor exhibition that focuses on Interactive Electronics. With the rise of popularity in accessible micro computer systems like Raspberry Pis or micro controllers like Arduinos, artists now have an inexpensive and flexible tool to create mini programmable systems that react with sensors and controllers. This free outdoor event will showcase nine local artists that have created a project involving Interactive Electronics.

The works being presented were produced through an EMMEDIA program called Compression Camp, which was facilitated by Carl Spencer and Neal Moignard this year. This program provided participating artists with free and open access to EMMEDIA’s production equipment and post-production facilities. Participants also had the support and guidance from the workshop mentors, to provide critical feedback and inspiration throughout the creative process: from initial group meetings, pre and post-production, through to the final exhibition.

PULSE: An Interactive Electronics Playground is one of many events occurring through out the province during Alberta Culture Days 2015, and supported by the Government of Alberta. Alberta Culture Days is an annual celebration of our culture, heritage, artistic diversity and provincial pride.This province-wide initiative is part of Culture Days – a national movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. To learn more, visit www.AlbertaCultureDays.ca EMMEDIA would like to take the opportunity to thank mentors Carl Spencer & Neal Moignard, designer Whitney Ota, Nicola Waugh at CSIF, and all the artists involved in this project. We would also like to thank Alberta Culture Days & the Government of Alberta for the support of this project, and our funders Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Calgary Arts Development. For more information about EMMEDIA, visit www.emmedia.ca

25-27, 2015