UPCOMING EVENTS
| FEBRUARY 16, 2011 Factory C4A with Travis Kirton Travis will discuss C4A and present work he has created using this robust framework, and we will showcase student projects born from Travis’s Factory C4A Workshop. |
| FEBRUARY 7-18, 2011 Factory C4A with Travis Kirton Factory C4A is an artist workshop, an intensive bootcamp and an artistic intervention all in one. The project focuses on learning through making, rapid prototyping, intense collaboration, problem solving and rapidly escalating expectations as a means of learning the computer vision, touch-based and interactive computational arts. |
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| MARCH 5, 12 and 19, 2011 Tex(t)ech Tex(t)ech is an interactive laboratory that will bring together artists, technologists, media practitioners and writers to translate across medias and mediums, work collaboratively and explore ideas of narrative, textual movement, performance and sound action. |
PAST EVENTS
| September 10-24, 2010 Cocoa for Artists with Travis Kirton Cocoa For Artists is a project inspired by Processing and MacResearch to promote software literacy, in both research and the arts. Cocoa for Artists aims to make a very reliable and powerful programming language accessible for creative exploration and the production of new forms of art. |
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| March 23-26, 2010 Live Cinema: Real-Time Narratives with Mia Makela (SOLU) As a part of the 2010 Reel Artists Film Festival Calgary, this 4-day intensive workshop with Berlin-based digital artist, Mia Makela will give a good introduction to the practice of real-time audiovisual performances, recently coined as LIVE CINEMA. The workshop ends with a public performance. |
Presentations
Presentations we have hosted/supported.
| January 7-9 & 11, 2011 PopSex! Conference + Artist Discussion PopSex! is an exhibition, academic conference + film series hosted by the University of Calgary and the Alberta College of Art + Design. Using the Institute for Sexual Science (1919-1933) in Berlin as its starting point for discussion, PopSex! brings together artists, scholars, and students to examine the history of sexuality and its significance for pop culture in the past and today. |
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| September 29, 2010 CIRO Day CE3C will present a multitouch event from CIRO project, which we have been developing over a year to research and prototype software and multitouch screen hardware for performance, visualization, exhibition and professional use. |
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| June 10, 2010 APP DEVELOPMENT TO APP ENTREPRENEUR with Michael Sikorsky iPhone and iPad applications have created a whole new market niche for digital industries and artist expression. Come and learn what it takes to succeed, find out about development intern opportunities and the possibilities of starting your own business as an application developer. |
Visiting Artists + Exhibitions
Visiting artists we have invited and presented
| November 29, 2010 POWEr by Alexandre Burton and Julien Roy POWEr is a performance based on high-voltage electromagnetic perturbations, by Alexandre Burton and Julien Roy. Using an audio-modulated Tesla coil as a live instrument, electrical arcs are generated and transformed in an ongoing, realtime audiovisual process. |

Skype class presentation + challenge with celebrity in arts + culture
| November 22, 2010 Champagne Valentine Champagne Valentine creates expressive digital experiences within the interactive media landscape. Working across a wide spectrum of clients from brands, consumers and agencies to galleries and museums, Champagne Valentine creates progressive and bespoke products for a diverse audience. |
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| October 25, 2010 Georges Negri Georges Negri is a freelance art critic based in Troy, NY. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Arts in the history of art, design, and visual culture and has contributed to the Edmonton Journal, Edmonton AM on CBC Radio One, PrairieArtsters.com and Shotgun-review.ca. |
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| October 15, 2010 Jon Cohrs Jon Cohrs is a recording engineer and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Often employing humor and absurdity, his work uses public engagement and site-specific interventions to address global issues. |





