Cinevolution Media Arts

Each year, through the Featured Artist Program, Cinevolution features an artist whose practice has uniquely impacted the media art landscape in Canada. Past Featured Artists have included Paul Wong, Margaret Dragu, Dana Claxton, Vjeko Sager, Sammy Chien, Cindy Mochizuki, Lisa Birke and Terrance Houle, and Nicole Dextras. This year, we are excited to celebrate critically acclaimed artists Nancy Lee and Kiran Bhumber, and their first solo exhibition UNION, presented in part...nership with the Richmond Art Gallery. Inspired by the artists' creative inquiry and the themes of their exhibition, this year's Digital Canrival - Z - focuses on artworks that explore alternative conceptions of the relationship between bodies, gestures, culture and society. Gender, sexuality and the body have long been battlegrounds through which power and control are exercised and social inequalities enforced. Through Z, we seek to present a series of works and events that will make visible alternative ways of occupying and performing the body, past, present, and future. Z references the gender-neutral pronoun ‘zie,’ the emergent generation-Z, and the possibilities for moving beyond the XX/XY binary. Stayed tuned for more details! - Nancy Lee & Kiran Bhumber, UNION, video still. Image courtesy of the artists. [Image Description: White text that reads UNION, Nancy Lee & Kiran Bhumber, Richmond Art Gallery, April 24 - June 5, 2021 overlaid on top of a close up image of two femme-presenting persons leaning into each other in a dark enclosure.] . . . #DigitalCarnivalZ #DCZ2021 #Cinevolution2021 #RichmondArtGallery #DCZUNION

In 20XX, a security specialist named Kawabi wants what everyone wants: to leave behind the scars of sickness, hunger, and war and lead a new life in a new body. She joins The Grove, an idealistic start-up with a fleet of bioengineered and shareable bodies. But when a hostile entity hacks The Grove’s network, colonizing the minds and bodies of its inhabitants, Kawabi must rescue her new home by reckoning with a ghost of the past. A new work of science-fiction created by Vanc...ouver-based interdisciplinary performance collective A Wake of Vultures, led by Siminovitch Prize Protégé Conor Wylie. Originally planned as a live theatre performance, K BODY AND MIND has been re-envisioned as an episodic miniseries for viewing at home. Blending overloaded 90s anime and cyberpunk aesthetics with an off-kilter and mesmerizing minimalist performance style, K BODY AND MIND is an impossible sci-fi epic performed by two bodies in an abandoned 100-year-old theatre. Featuring intricately patterned lights, sound, and choreography, you can watch all three episodes on-demand in our special, limited online release from March 6-14, 2021. RSVP to K BODY AND MIND with the link below

Cinevolution is hiring for a Digital Content Coordinator . The successful applicant will be supporting the production of accessible digital content and the re-design of our website. Funded through the Digital Skills for Youth Program by the Government of Canada, candidate must meet the following criteria to be eligible for this position:... Between the ages of 15 and 30 Legally entitled to work in Canada Have completed post-secondary studies Self-identify as underemployed Read the full job posting at http://ow.ly/i3kD50DNkyk (linked on our Instagram profile) and submit your application by March 12, at 11:59pm PST. - Artist: Paige Smith Artwork: "Static" exhibited at Digital Carnival: FIRE (2019), partial view Photographer: Jessica Li (@yellov.v on Instagram) [Image description: An image of several tube TVs stacked on top of each other on a wooden floor, inside a shipping container. The image is overlaid with bold white text that reads Cinevolution is Hiring: Digital Content Coordinator. Apply by March 12, 2021.] . . . #WeAreHiring #DigitalContentCoordinator #CareerInArts #Cinevolution2021 #StaticByPaigeSmith

On February 24, join Mickey L. D. Morgan, artist, Emily Carr Student and Community Engagement Research Assistant, in an event of story sharing and critical discussion. Mapping East Van is an ongoing community project of both the Digital + Creative knowledge Sharing series and Shumka x Satellite Activism Residency. The project also includes the Mapping East Van podcast, a collaborative ‘zine/poster series, and developing mutual aid initiatives. Learn more about the project an...d the event discussion with the link below. http://ow.ly/fEfl50DH7BG . . . #ecuad #MappingEastVan

Businesses, nonprofits and charities who have been affected financially by the pandemic can now apply for the federal government's new rent subsidy program: Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy. Learn more about the program below.

Thank you all very much for your interest and participation in the Digital Carnival: Z and our call for submissions. We are excited to learn about the amazing artists and to review their work in the upcoming weeks. The lineup will be announced soon after our deliberation. In the meanwhile, stay safe and healthy!

"I began to scan, alter and reverse my drawings, creating exploding / flowering hair piks...this gesture also reflected a personal sense that the world is on fire." OCTOBER 22 - OCTOBER 28 In only 2 days we launch our exhibition of Deanne Achong's PANDEMIK PIKS an interactive series of drawings available in the Digital Shift Gallery from October 22 onwards: https://digitalshift.imaa.ca/space/art-gallery/... This project was originally conceived on Instagram loosely around the idea of hair. Midway through the project, when the deaths of Breonna Taylor and countless others filled the news, the artist’s feed was populated with black squares. In response to these ambiguous squares the artist scanned, altered and reversed the drawings, creating exploding and flowering hair piks. The series now reflects her thoughts on the world being on fire. [Image courtesy of the artist]

Calling all artists! The People's Commission on Basic Income is seeking your testimony. Organized by an affinity group consisting of artists and cultural workers via the MANO-RAMO (Media Arts Network of Ontario) Advocacy Committee, this commission will convene a series of hearings on Basic Income, to combine the stories of artists and people living in poverty in a form understood by the government. If you are an artist based in Canada who is interested in testifying please visit https://forms.gle/6DwdT5Qf3whPtDkE7, or email [email protected] with your questions.

DREAM DELIVERY (2018) // AVAILABLE OCT. 22-28 Zheng Yuan | 2018 | 9 minutes 49 seconds, Single-channel 4K video (4096 1728) 2.35:1, color, sound, 2018... ONE of SEVEN shorts being featured as a part of Ex.Situ/In.Situ, Dream Delivery (2018) explores the other side of the Chinese economic miracle. In an increasingly homogeneous urban life infused with technology and wealth, new kinds of labor and social exploitation surface, byproducts of society’s never-ending mobility and a world of speed without rest. For many of these hyper-mobile workers, sleep poses a costly risk... Don't miss Beijing-based artist Zheng Yuan’s 2018 piece Dream Delivery!! Available on the Independent Media Arts Alliance's Website (link in event page). We are honoured to co-present this work with our friends at VIVO Media Arts Centre

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED *** It's not too late to submit your work for Digital Carnival Z! The deadline has been extended to November 18, 2020 at 11:59pm PST. A festival of cutting-edge media art for audiences of all ages, Digital Carnival will take place as a hybrid festival for the first time from April 16 to June 13, 2021. The festival will highlight emerging media art talent, new and immersive digital technologies, and innovative interdisciplinary art practices.... We are welcoming applications from artists working across all forms of new media, electronic art, or interdisciplinary art practice. -- ARTIST FEES + WORKING CONDITIONS-- Selected artist will receive an artist fee of $682 CAD, and may be invited to take part in additional public programs for additional fees. Selected artworks will be presented virtually via a digital platform which will be designed with a focus on user accessibility. -- EXTENDED DEADLINE -- November 18, 2020 at 11:59pm PST -- HOW TO APPLY -- Cinevolution is dedicated to inclusion and access to the submissions process and will accept applications submitted in: + Digital format, through an online application form + Single PDF document + Video submission. No more than 10-minutes and file size must be less than 200MB + Oral application To see the full submission guidelines, and information on how to apply, please visit this link: http://cinevolutionmedia.com/digital-carnival-z-call-for-s/

LET’S TALK Art + Online Access Cinevolution is inviting folks with lived experience of disability to join us for small group conversations on accessing online content and current experiences with existing tools and platforms. We are seeking people with lived experience of disability who have some interest in the arts or are interested in/open to having arts experiences online.... These discussions will support the development of a Pilot Accessible Online Media Art Presentation Platform to be launched in April 2021. Each group conversation will include 4-5 participants, and centre the experiences of -folks who are deaf+hard of hearing (ASL interpretation will be available) -folks who are blind+partially sighted -folks living with developmental disability These small group conversations will take place this month between November 16-27 over Zoom with an honorarium of $30. Access support will be available. Interested in participating? Please contact our Accessibility Coordinator, Iver Smith by email to the following address at [email protected] or by phone at this number +1.778.803.7150 extension 104. [image description: white background with the words LET’S TALK Art + Online Access in the centre. In the lower right corner is a stylized line drawing of a laptop computer]

CALLING ALL FILM LOVERS Cinevolution is THRILLED to announce the launch of Ex.Situ/In.Situ - poignant and visually stunning, this special line-up of shorts features works from the Video Out Collection by Gabi Dao, Emma Joye Frank, Melissa General, Daniel Negatu, Naween Noppakun, Sara Wylie & Hannah Tollefson, and Yuan Zheng. AVAILABLE from OCTOBER 22nd to 28th!!!... Join us at the CINEMA on the Independent Media Arts Alliance's website to watch screenings from Ex.Situ/In.Situ (link in event page). We are so honoured and grateful to present these works in partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre, as a part of this year's online IMAA conference: Digital Shift!! See you at the Cinema!

In only ONE HOUR we will be joined by Montréal-based artist Yen-Chao Lin via Zoom for a special artist talk on her short film The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay!! See you soon! Image: Yen-Chao Lin at the Adelard residency, Frelighsburg, Quebec in 2019. Photo: Oliver Lewis.

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for our screening of rhzyal maku’ (my land) and Artist Talk with Anchi Lin [Ciwas]. We are continuing the launch of our fall programming with an online artist talk by Montréal-based artist Yen-Chao Lin via Zoom in conjunction with the current group exhibition, We cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughter and Daughters of our Mothers, at Centre A. In this talk, Yen-Chao will discuss the inspirations that influence her practice a...nd the making of her short film, The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay (2019), while also navigating her other interests in areas of spiritual practices, folklore, divination, and religion in connection to her exhibition at Centre A. Following the talk there will be a Q & A session moderated by Hana Amani, the exhibition’s curator. Stay tuned for more information about the artist and the cutting edge projects she is currently working on! DATE: Friday, September 25th, 2020 TIME: 6:00PM (PDT) REGISTRATION LINK: https://bit.ly/362uL0Z

LAST CHANCE to register for this exclusive preview of rhzyal maku’ (my land) - happening TONIGHT! Did you miss Anchi Lin’s recent Artist Talk hosted by the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Mandarin Lecture Series and TAIWANfest Vancouver? You can still catch Anchi TONIGHT at this special presentation of rhzyal maku’ (my land), taking place as a part of Digital Shift 2020, and being hosted by the FLUX Media Gallery in partnership with the Media Arts Alliance of the Pacific (MAAP), th...e National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC) and the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). DATE: Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020 TIME: 7:00PM - 8:00PM (PDT) REGISTRATION LINK: http://bit.ly/AnchiLin [poster is courtesy of the Independent Media Arts Alliance]

rhzyal maku’ (my land) screening + artist talk with Anchi Lin is happening tomorrow at 7PM PST, and spots are limited!! Register for this special presentation here: http://bit.ly/AnchiLin. In 2016, Cinevolution had the great pleasure of showcasing Anchi Lin's performance piece entitled "Aquarium," as a part of Digital Carnival: Water, in partnership with Richmond World Festival. We are thrilled to be joined by Anchi once again in this presentation of her most recent explorati...on of identity, cultural norms and gender. . In rhzyal maku’ (my land), a story sharing video and a non-linear time-virtual space, Anchi responds to the loss of residence and disconnection associated with her ancestral lands, creating her own on-going expansive virtual land as a container in response to the loss of ancestral land in the hope of reconnection. . (Images are courtesy of the artist, from video of her live performance at Digital Carnival 2016)

Cinevolution is honoured and excited to be launching our fall programming with events that feature two women artists, Anchi Lin [Ciwas] and Yen-Chao Lin, with works that trace the imprint of Indigenous rituals, beliefs, and experiences upon the physical and social landscape of Taiwan, past, present and future. In only two days, on Sept. 23rd, we will be joined by Taiwanese-Indigenous artist, Anchi Lin [Ciwas], for a special presentation of her new work-in-progress "rhzyal mak...u’ (my land)," followed by an artist talk. This is a free event, taking place as a part of Digital Shift 2020, and being hosted by the FLUX Media Gallery in partnership with the Media Arts Alliance of the Pacific (MAAP), the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC) and the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). Capacity is limited, so please register early to reserve your spot:https://www.facebook.com/events/1226106287774235/?active_tab=about Later in the week, on September 25th, we will be joined by Montréal-based artist Yen-Chao Lin via Zoom in conjunction with the current group exhibition, We cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughter and Daughters of our Mothers, at Centre A. In this artists talk, Yen-Chao will discuss the inspirations that influence her practice and the making of her short film, The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay (2019). Register for this event below: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZUtdOqhpzMpGtf30jUnpgBw-OT8xXZDE IMAGES: Portraits of Anchi Lin [Ciwas] (left), Yen-Chao Lin (right)

We are excited to co-present The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay: An Artist Talk with Yen-Chao Lin on Friday, September 25 at 6pm PST, in partnership with Centre A. Shot on Super 8 and beautifully hand processed, The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay unravels mixed faith expressions from Daoist ritual possession to Presbyterian funeral, from personal prayers to collective resistance, all the while attempting to trace the memories of past Amis sorcerers on traditional Amis territory on ...the east coast of Taiwan. In this talk, Yen-Chao will discuss the making of the film and the inspirations that influence her practice. This event is part of Centre A's current exhibition 'We cast Spells on the Mothers of our Daughters and Daughters of our Mothers" curated by Hana Amani. The exhibition is on view at Centre A until October 17! (Images courtesy of the artist.)

We're thrilled to announce that Kagan Goh (Poet, Actor, Playwright) and Susanna Uchatius (Artistic Director, Theatre Terrific) will be performing two excerpts from "Surviving Samsara" as a part of Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture's upcoming Still, Life Festival. The performance will take place by Zoom on Sunday, May 31, 3-4pm PST, including a Q & A with the artists. Please join us if you can! To register or for more info: https://bit.ly/2XEGxZp Surviving Samsara spans t...wo decades as Kagan struggles to survive the highs of mania and the lows of depression, tossed up and down on the restless seas of Samsara. To support his continued work on this powerful provocative project, Kagan was recently honoured as the inaugural recipient of the Geoff McMurchy Artist Development Grant. Surviving Samsara is a co-production by Kagan Goh, Cinevolution, and Theatre Terrific.