Results tagged “newmedia”

The curatorial statement for META, the graduating exhibition from Ryerson’s New Media students, makes some bold claims. “Through an exploration of ideas concerning the environment, the economy, family, scientific matter and even love, we have created stepping-stones into the future of art. We have changed the media, charged it with interactivity, and balanced innovation with the notion of conceptual beauty and artistic vision.”

Two Steps Back, the eighth emerging artists show at Interaccess opened last week. Interaccess has been on a bit of a roll of late, having just hosted a workshop with Second Front, the premiere performance art troupe of Second Life earlier this week.

Indie popsters Stars will be shooting a new video in Toronto tomorrow and Thursday and they want you to be in it. If you missed the Joel Plaskett shoot we told you about earlier this year, you've got another shot at your 15 minutes of fame (or at least becoming known among your acquaintances as "the one who was in a music video"). Aspiring extras should send photos and contact info to extras@blinkpictures.com for their chance to hobnob with Stars.

Alfred North Whitehead is quoted as saying "No one ever says, here I am, and I have brought my body with me." What it means to have a body, our often fractious relationship with it, and how its definitions have played out in relations of power are all topics of increasing importance in the art world. As science and technology expand the limits of the body, artistic practice is exploring new ways of its representation.

After finishing a year of schooling, there can't be anything better than plastering the walls of your collegiate institution with anything you want.

While “citizen journalists” can immediately broadcast breaking news to millions of people through blogs, online communities, free podcasts and webcasts, how do traditional media outlets compete, both from an editorial and business perspective? This Thursday, April 5, the Canadian Journalism Foundation asks (and attempts to answer) the question of journalism’s place in a wired world.

A podcast, in case you didn't know yet, is a downloadable audio or video file, often syndicated through blogs. On February 24 and 25, everyone from podcast amateurs to connoisseurs are welcome to participate in the "unconference" held at Ryerson University. It's fully volunteer operated, and therefore free. All you have to do to join is add your name and information to the wiki and just show up. Not only can anyone attend the seminars and workshops, but anyone can lead one. Among the 35 sessions that will be offered are "Podcast 101," "How to Get 2,427 People to Podcast for a Common Cause," and "Live Interactive Podcasting." You just might learn how to host your own personal "radio show" or how to fund your podcasts with A/V advertisements. The schedule for the weekend is available here.

Toronto may be the business capital of Canada, but it's often an old dog with few new tricks. We also uncomfortably proclaim ourselves the cultural capital, not because Southern Ontario has much of its own, but because we import the most from elsewhere.

The finalists for the Canadian New Media Awards are up for your perusal. A bunch of Toronto area folks are up for awards including our friends at murmur! The only thing we're sad about is just how snore-inducing their site is. Maybe its that traditional Canadian modesty or the organizers unwillingness to outshine those who they are celebrating.

Wednesday, March 15th brings the launch of [murmur] at Hart House. [murmur] currently exists in several places, including Toronto's Kensington Market and along Spadina Avenue. It is an audio archival project made up of signs of big green ears. You call the number on the ear with your cell phone to hear a story that took place in the exact spot you're standing.

-- Wages will increase by 12.6 percent over the life of the contract to March 31, 2009. There will be full retroactivity for all employees on the payroll prior to the lockout, including contract and temporary employees. There will also be a $1000 signing bonus.

OCAD loves its pick-up stick parthenon, and they think you should to. Whatever your opinion of the checkerboard on air, you must like a good party. And tonight's Night of the Unboring aspires to be one. The dinner party is sold out, but tickets for the performance-y art afterparty remain. What kind of performances, you ask? Here's what they offer: "." A troupe of what, we know not. Perhaps it's a parliament of girl guides. Support weird architecture.

Well, we don't know what practicing artist and soon to be OCAD President Sara Diamond has on her OCAD to do list, but one of those line items will definitely include defending Will Alsop's tabletop from Pugly commendation (see below). In keeping with OCAD's tradition of hiring practicing artistes, Ms. Diamond is both video/installation artist and current director of research at the Banff Centre and artistic director of the Banff New Media Institute. She also looks a wee bit like Betsey Johnson.

It all goes down tonight at the NFB Cinema, 8pm, 150 John St. Wear your finest Rosie the Riveter costume!