Free VJing workshops offered in Prince Albert by Carrie Gates and Leeane Berger with Common Weal

VJing 101: An Introduction to VJing with Arkaos

Monday, April 23rd to Friday, April 27th 7:00 - 9:00pm,
at Prince Albert's St. Mary's High School computer science labs

Have you ever wondered how VJs create their artwork? Have you ever wanted to create a custom visual projection to work with a dance or theatre piece? Have you ever tried adding live visuals to a band's performance or a DJ set? We can show you how!

Using Arkaos VJing software, instructors Carrie Gates and Leeane Berger will guide you through a series of fun and focused workshops that will take you from recording and digitizing your own video footage to programming video mixing software to being ready for a live VJ performance.

Workshops take place in the evenings, from Monday, April 23rd to Friday, April 27th 7:00 - 9:00pm, at the St. Mary's High School computer science labs. Since there are limited seats, we ask that you send us a short letter or email by April 17th outlining why you would like to learn more about VJing. Let us know if you have any experience working with video, but beginners are also welcome. Up to ten participants will be selected for this free workshop offered by Common Weal Community Arts, Inc.

Please send your application to:
Judy Mc Naughton
nac@commonweal-arts.com
Common Weal Community Arts, Inc.
1010 Central Avenue
Prince Albert, SK, S6V 4V5
Phone: 960-9020 Fax: (306) 953-4814
www.commonweal-arts.com
Applications received after April 17th will not be considered.

Class YouTube Video Website:
http://www.youtube.com/vjnode



More about the instructors, VJs Leeane Berger and Carrie Gates:

Carrie Gates – VJ Instructor
Carrie Gates' diverse art practices span the realms of VJing, experimental turntablism, sound art, sculpture, performance art, digital media, and the catylization of provocative interactive situations. Her work is unified by a pluralist vision and an appetite for teasing the uncanny from the familiar, critically yet playfully using and abusing any media she encounters. Recently, Gates has been working with creating innovative VJ performances using Max/MSP/Jitter and Arkaos software, sharing her findings with her peers through workshops and artist talks to encourage others to reclaim digital media as a tool for personal artistic expression and social change. Since 1996, she has been performing regularly at electronic music events, noise and experimental music shows, new media festivals, and art galleries. Her performances, compositions, videos, and research work have been shown across Canada as well as in Germany and the USA.

http://www.youtube.com/carriegates
http://www.myspace.com/thesoundsofcarriegates
http://www.notype.com/bricolodge
http://www.vinylinterventions.com

Leeane Berger – Assistant VJ Instructor
As part of a new generation of artists, Leeane Berger is currently working in the discovery, documentation and rediscovery of all things - great and small - that make up everyday living in Saskatchewan. In 2004 Leeane set out with a project to refurbish trash from alleys, sidewalks, parks and dumpsters. This endeavor propelled her into further exploration of salvaged and found materials. Leeane works in a variety of techniques and media in attempt to correlate viewer with surroundings. Using simple electronics to bring motion to a piñata television made from found electrical cords, wire and spray paint to the exploration of substance use in adding texture and depth to her found object paintings, Leeane is on a constant look out for new tools of expression. Working most recently in video, a medium she began working with while briefly attending Concordia University in 2005, has lead to experimentation with video mixing and animation. Her videos have since morphed from canadian video art inspired short-films into grungy expressionistic mixups for teasing and pleasing the eye.

http://www.youtube.com/itrashfish
http://www.myspace.com/printedonrecycledpaper



DOWNLOAD THIS INFO AS A PDF FILE HERE:
http://www.otherartists.com/commonweal/pdf/CW-VJ_Poster-April10-07.pdf

VJ Theory - themed chats about critical theory, VJing, and realtime interaction

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VJ Theory would like to invite you to participate on the discussion/
chats we are organizing.
This is a small project to invite our contributors, mailing list and
others to participate in the discussion of ideas and theories
informed by practice.

For this project, six of our contributors moderate six chats online.
Each chat last one hour and has as subject a specific theme within
the area of realtime interaction. There is one in the morning (10AM/
London) and another one in the evening (7PM/London), from the 4th
until the 6th of April.

This is our first experiment in hosting a debate useful for anyone
interested in the subject of realtime interaction. We asked a few of
the VJ Theory project contributors to moderate conversations online
in a chat room.
You are welcome to join and contribute with your ideas to these
conversations.

The resultant texts will be available after each chat through
vjtheory.net.
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From
Vjtheory web site: