Grant Writing Workshop for Media Artists

Saturday, August 26 2006 11:00am - 5:00pm

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2 Day Introduction to Avid Xpress DV Editing

DAY 1 Saturday, August 19 2006 12:00pm - 5:00pm
DAY 2 Sunday, August 20 2006 12:00pm - 5:00pm

AVID Xpress DV is the ideal solution for anyone looking to edit DV on the desktop while maintaining many of the same features and the same interface as the more powerful dedicated AVID editing systems. The course will cover all steps of the process from setting up and capturing from a DV device, using the timeline based interface, and outputting back to DV or exporting for the web.

Limited to 4 participants

Instructor: Jake Hanna

$60.00 Members
$85.00 Non Members

Duration: 10 hours

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2 Day Mini-DV Production Workshop

DAY 1 Saturday, September 16 2006, 11:00am - 5:00pm
DAY 2 Sunday, Sunday September 17 2006, 11:00am - 5:00pm

By popular demand, SAW Video's classic Introduction to MiniDV Video Production workshop has been expanded to two full days of instruction! This two-day workshop teaches the basics of camera, audio and lighting through hands on training. On the first day of the workshop, participants will receive basic instruction on all three of SAW Video's prime 3-chip MiniDV cameras -- the Canon XL1, Panasonic AG-DVX100 and the Sony PD-150. Participants will be introduced to three point lighting and dealing with power on location. A variety of mics will be used and their applications will be discussed. Day two of the workshop provides the added opportunity for more hands on time and instruction. Shooting exercises will be indoors and outdoors (weather permitting) simulating varying conditions and situations. The second day of the workshop will focus exclusively on the Sony PD-150.

WORKSHOP LIMITED TO 6 PARTICIPANTS

Instructor: Ray Hagel

$125.00 Members
$150.00 Non Members

Duration: 12 hours

Research and Experimentation Residencies in Montreal

The project proposal submission deadline for Research and Experimentation Residencies in Montreal for Professional Artists from Emerging Countries or Regions is September 30, 2006. A new online application form is now available on our Web site and must be used by all individuals wishing to apply for this program. The Daniel Langlois Foundation offers this program in collaboration with OBORO, an artist-run centre in Montreal. Two residency grants will be offered to professional artists from emerging countries. These grants aim to help the successful applicants in their research, experiments and project development, while allowing them to work in a
different environment than their region or country of origin.

To access the online application form and the program guidelines:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/programmes/obo/menu.html

To access the OBORO New Media Laboratory:
http://www.oboro.net/lab/index_e.html

Centre for Research and Documentation fifth anniversary

On May 26, the Daniel Langlois Foundation's Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) celebrated its fifth anniversary. During the event, Steina Vasulka performed her work Violin Power. On May 27, Hubert and Nicolas Reeves presented a conference entitled Voyageurs itonnis, chercheurs et criateurs au seuil de l'inconnu as part of the Foundation's Matinies-confirences series:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=1822


Catalina Briceno appointed Program Officer

The Daniel Langlois Foundation is pleased to announce that Catalina Briceno, who has been Assistant to the Executive Director since 2003, was appointed Program Officer on July 3, 2006. Ms. Briceno has extensive experience in film and new media production project analysis and management. Her new functions will most notably see her manage programs involving individual artists and researchers and monitor evaluations and supported projects according to the program criteria.

For a more detailed biography of Catalina Briceno:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=699

To consult the list of programs and their guidelines:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=515


9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering fonds: finding aids

The Foundation is pleased to announce that the finding aids of the 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering fonds are now online. The fonds consists mainly of original factual footage (16 mm and 35 mm film) of the nine
evenings as well as some audio recordings on magnetic tape. These finding aids include a detailed record of the fonds in its entirety, records of each of the series in the fonds, and an exhaustive list of its contents. In
addition, the CR+D provides access via the finding aids to documentary resources that complement the fonds: press review of the event, performance descriptions accompanied by bibliographies, biographies and bibliographies of the participants (engineers and artists), etc:
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=1841

The National Film Board is putting the call out to new filmmaking talent with REEL DIVERSITY, a national competition for emerging filmmakers of colour. REEL DIVERSITY will give three promising directors the chance to direct their own documentary with the NFB, to be broadcast nationally on CBC Newsworld: The Lens

Following last year’s revamped competition process, up to 15 semi-finalists will be short listed to develop their proposals and as many as eight finalists will be selected to attend a 3-day intensive training session.

Deadline for submissions is October 27, 2006.

For information on eligibility and how to apply to REEL DIVERSITY, visit <nfb.ca/reeldiversity > or call 1-800-267-7710.   For more info on The Lens visit: www.cbc.ca/thelens/

HOT DOCS EXCHANGE - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
49TH DOK Leipzig Festival
October 31 - November 5, 2006 * Leipzig, Germany

The Exchange
Hot Docs, in partnership with its provincial partners, will bring together a delegation of Canadian documentary producers to attend the 49th DOK Leipzig Festival, October 31 - November 5, 2006.  Founded in 1955, The DOK Leipzig Festival is Germany's largest documentary festival and a major event for the European documentary industry, bringing together filmmakers, producers, distributors, commissioning editors and others from both Eastern and Western Europe.

This initiative also builds on the formal partnership Hot Docs established with GZDOC Festival, China in 2005. In light of the rapid development, as well as the creative and financial potential, of the Chinese market, this
mission to Germany will look at co-production meetings between Canadian, German and Chinese producers in the framework of DOK Leipzig. The idea is to bring together producers from each country to meet and discuss new
documentary projects and to foster collaboration and international co-productions.

The Exchange will provide Canadian participants with full access to the festival and formal and informal opportunities to meet, not only with German documentary professionals (including commissioning editors, distributors, producers/directors) but also with an impressive international delegation.

The Exchange has the following objectives:
- To create advanced networking and professional development opportunities or Canadian producers through group and one-on-one meetings with German and international documentary professionals;
- To increase the participants' international market intelligence and, in particular, their knowledge of the German marketplace;
- To strengthen Canadian and German partnerships;
- To stimulate new financing and co-production opportunities.

Eligibility
Hot Docs is currently seeking applications from Canadian independent producers/directors.  To be eligible for the exchange, applicants must:
- Have produced/directed a minimum of one independent documentary that has been broadcast by a Canadian broadcaster or released theatrically.
- Have documentary projects currently in development with potential for German, Eastern European and/or Chinese co-production.
- Either have experience in or demonstrate the ability to enter the international marketplace.
- Applicants who have experience working with the Chinese market will be strongly considered.

Travel and accommodation subsidies will be provided by your applicable participating provincial agency. Please contact these organizations directly to determine their specific financial support. Hot Docs will organize a
formal itinerary of meetings with German and international documentary commissioning editors and other documentary professionals. Participants will be responsible for all costs above and beyond the subsidy provided by their provincial agency.

Apply Now!
To apply for a position in the Canadian delegation, please submit a brief proposal to the Hot Docs office including:
- A letter outlining your interest in attending the DOK Leipzig Festival and how you feel you would benefit professionally from the experience (maximum 1 page).
- A current resume, including a list of your key production credits (maximum 2 pages).
- A brief description of your current documentary projects in development (maximum 1 page per project).

Please include a cover sheet with your name, the name of your production company, your mailing address, telephone number, fax number and email address.

Deadline for complete applications is 5:00 PM, Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 5, 2006.

Successful Applicants
Following the submission deadline, a selection committee will review all applications. Successful applicants will be informed of their inclusion in the delegation by SEPTEMBER 10th. Exchange participants will be asked to
complete a questionnaire for Hot Docs within one month of their return from the DOK Leipzig Festival and submit a brief update six months after the festival, documenting any production opportunities that arose from their
trip.

Past Hot Docs' Exchanges include Australia (2000), the Nordic countries (2001), Germany (2002), the United Kingdom (2003), the Netherlands (2004) and China (2005). Now in its 14th year, Hot Docs is North America's largest documentary festival. Each year, the festival presents over 100 cutting-edge documentary films from across Canada and around the world, as well as a full roster of professional development and market events geared to documentary professionals. The Hot Docs 2007 Festival will take place April 20 - 29 in Toronto.

For information regarding the application process, please contact: Suzanne Mullett smullett@hotdocs.ca

For information regarding subsidies, please contact the appropriate provincial agency as per the list below.

List of Participating Provincial Agencies:
Alberta Film
BC Film
Manitoba Film and Sound & Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association
Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation
Producers Association of Newfoundland
Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC)
SaskFilm
SODEC
Yukon Film Commission

Shadow Festival (Amsterdam)

Festival for the creative documentary film.
November 20-29, 2006 (7th edition)
DEADLINE: August 20, 2006
Info: 31 20 6715982 - info@shadowfestival.nl - www.shadowfestival.nl

2007 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (Missoula, MT)

THE OTTAWA ART GALLERY
CUBICULES
25 August to 22 October 2006
Organized by Perte de Signal (Montreal)

Jason Arsenault, Alexis Bellavance, Myriam Bessette, Robin Dupuis, Claudette Lemay

The media artists involved in Cubicules agreed to follow a particular constraint, namely to rethink the dimensions of their work in terms of small installations, such as small video objects. Cubicules thus privileges artistic processes that favour experimentation and the revitalization of media arts practices over the presentation of objects for mere contemplation. The video installations included in this exhibition explore new forms of sensorality, as well as ways of reading the moving image, while also creating unique environments: meeting places between human and machine.

Considering video installation in terms of its spatial dimensions led the group to propose interventions that allowed them to push the limits of their art. The work of media artist and Perte de Signal member, Jason Arsenault, is engaged primarily in creating digital video installations and single-channel videos that seek to question the spectator's role, reception, and experience of image and sound. Alexis Bellavance's work concentrates on the hidden facets of "reality," and attempts to give voice to ambiguous silences and the chaotic aesthetic of nature in its more intimate forms through the use of installation, performance, and audio art. Myriam Bessette works primarily in media art, in which she undertakes a variety of digital sound and video installations, as well as single-channel video. Robin Dupuis is a founding member and Artistic Director of Perte de Signal. His work aims to create an aleatory, uncertain and baroque environment within a particular construction. In the work of Claudette Lemay, transformed images of the body create an intimate and poetic universe, to which her voice gives rhythm.

Perte de Signal is a media arts research and development centre whose projects attempt to reconsider how digital works are presented. It is a non-profit organization that provides professional services to the community, including artist representation, production of artworks and events, equipment rental, curatorial work, mentorship, networking, publishing, advocacy for artist rights, ancillary support for improving artist's socio-economic conditions, and promoting media arts.

www.perte-de-signal.org

Events

Vernissage
Thursday 24 August at 5:30 pm

Screening and Book Launch
Incidences, a media arts DVD by Perte de Signal, 2005 (20 min.) brings together the work of Montreal artists who have marked the Canadian video art landscape with their innovative practice. Generated through the use of digital tools, the selected works and remixes recount processes that oscillate between a defined program and the accidental. From here, a zone of creation is born in which the incidental nourishes the artist and their work. Followed by the official launch of the Cubicules exhibition catalogue. Artists from Perte de signal will be present.
Thursday 14 September at 7:30 pm

Screening
Constrictor, co-presented by OAG and Available Light Screening Collective
Thursday 5 October at 7:30 pm


THE OTTAWA ART GALLERY
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2
(613) 233-8699 fax 569-7660
info@ottawaartgallery.ca  www.ottawaartgallery.ca

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LA GALERIE D'ART D'OTTAWA
CUBICULES
Du 25 aout au 22 octobre 2006
Organisee par Perte de Signal (Montreal)

Jason Arsenault, Alexis Bellavance, Myriam Bessette, Robin Dupuis, Claudette Lemay

Les artistes de Cubicules ont choisi une contrainte commune, celle de repenser le format de leurs oeuvres en tres petites installations, tels de petits objets video. Ainsi, l'exposition ne propose pas tant des objets a
contempler que des demarches experimentales visant le renouveau des pratiques en arts mediatiques. Ses installations video explorent de nouvelles formes de sensorialite et de lecture de l'image en mouvement, tout
en creant egalement des environnements singuliers, lieux de rencontre de l' humain et de la machine.

Penser l'installation video en fonction de son format a incite les artistes a proposer des interventions qui repoussent les limites de leur art. Jason Arsenault cree surtout des installations et des monobandes video ou il
questionne le role du spectateur et sa facon de recevoir et d'experimenter l'image et le son. Par l'installation, la performance et l'art audio, Alexis Bellavance se concentre sur les particularites cachees de la < realite > et
tente de donner voix aux silences ambigus et a l'esthetique chaotique de la nature sous ses formes plus intimes. Myriam Bessette axe sa recherche sur la creation, l'installation et la monobande videonumeriques. Robin Dupuis
cherche a creer un environnement aleatoire, incertain et baroque au sein d'une construction precise. Quant a Claudette Lemay, elle fait appel a des images transformees du corps pour composer un univers intime et poetique rythme par le son de sa voix. Arsenault, Bessette, Lemay sont membres de Perte de Signal, Dupuis en est membre fondateur et directeur artistique.

Centre de production, de developpement et de recherches en arts mediatiques, Perte de Signal vise a repenser les modes de presentation des oeuvres numeriques. Organisme a but non lucratif, il offre des services professionnels, dont la representation d'artistes, la production d'oeuvres et d'evenements, la location d'equipement, le commissariat d'exposition, le parrainage, le reseautage, l'edition, la defense des droits des auteurs, et l'appui a l'amelioration du statut socio-economique de l'artiste et le soutien au rayonnement des arts mediatiques.

www.perte-de-signal.org

Vernissage
Le jeudi 24 aout a 17 h 30

Projection et lancement de publication Incidences, un DVD d'arts mediatiques de Perte de Signal, 2005 (20 min) regroupe le travail d'artistes montrealais qui ont marque le paysage de la video numerique au Canada par leurs pratiques novatrices. Les oeuvres choisies et remixees retracent des procedes oscillant entre un plan de travail defini et l'aleatoire que genere l'utilisation de ces outils numeriques. De la, nait une zone de creation ou l'incident nourrit l'artiste et son travail. Le jeudi 14 septembre a 19h30

Projection
copresente par la GAO et Available Light Screening Collective
Le jeudi 5 octobre a 19 h 30

LA GALERIE D'ART D'OTTAWA
La Cour des arts, 2 av Daly, Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 6E2
(613) 233-8699 tilic 569-7660
info@ottawaartgallery.ca  www.ottawaartgallery.ca

SAW Video receives financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Ottawa, Department of Canadian Heritage and the Laidlaw Foundation. Many thanks too, to our corporate sponsors: Adobe Canada, Ntegrating Solutions and to our artist-members.

SAW Video
67 Nicholas Street
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1N 7B9

East of the Rideau Centre in Arts Court (which is at 2 Daly Ave).

T: (613) 238.7648
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