Off Grid
8 April 2005 to 5 June 2005
Curators: Emily Falvey and Milena Placentile

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Video Screening: Avert your eyes/Stare back
Curated by Available Light Screening Collective Read their blog
Thursday 19 May at 7:30 pm
Club SAW (67 Nicholas Street)

Artists: Dan Gainsford, Tania Huerta, Ruthann Lee, John Marriott, Simone Moir & Chantal Rousseau, Cathy Sisler, Ryan Stec, and John Watt


John Marriott
Still from Incidental Park Zones and You


Ryan Stec
Still from Dead End Job


Simone Moir/Chantal Rousseau
Still from Free Play


John Watt
Still from Remember Scannex Man

  

A program of contemporary Canadian experimental film and video that offers a resistant response to the controls - both literal and metaphorical - imposed by the current culture of surveillance. The first artistic response, best described as "sousveillance", reframes technology and the tools of surveillance to allow the surveyed to become the surveyor. The second, based in performative video, challenges normalized modes of public and private behaviours and the social control that surveillance culture commands. Though different in their aesthetic and formal aspects, all of the works in this program exhibit the shared concern among media artists regarding the increasing social controls being placed on the lived urban experience.

Program

Remember Scannex Man, John Watt (Toronto/1982/2:28)
Free Play, Simone Moir & Chantal Rousseau (Toronto/2001/4:45)
Toronto Zoo, Tania Huerta (Toronto/2002/2:00)
Trying to Keep Concentrate, Ruthan Lee (Toronto/2002/2:00)
Incidental Park Zones and You, John Marriott (Toronto/2001/6:00)
Sitting, Tania Huerta (Toronto/2002/2:00)
Meshes Together, John Watt (Toronto/1982/10.52)
Load, Dan Gainsford (Ottawa/c.2002/6:00)
Reflection, Tania Huerta (Toronto/2002/2:00)
Dead End Job, Ryan Stec (Ottawa/2003/3:30)
Aberrant Motion #3 , Cathy Sisler (Ontario/1993/9:30)

Available Light Screening Collective is an Ottawa-based collective devoted to curated presentations of experimental video, film, and new media art. Its members are Penny McCann, Phil Rose, Carol Breton, Jason St-Laurent, Véronique Couillard, James Missen and Nikhil Adnani.