April 19, 2008

 MEDIA ARTS STATE OF AFFAIRS EVENINGS

CQAM and the State of Affairs team have concocted a program that celebrates Media Arts. Four exciting evenings are in store from April 17th to 20th.

OFFICIAL OPENING - Thursday APRIL 17th

5 PM : Official opening ceremony in the Luce Guilbault Hall of the Cinémathèque québécoise with public partners, artists whose works are part of the retrospective and participants in a friendly, launch.

6:30 PM : 10 YEARS OF MEDIA ART IN 3 TAKES :: TAKE I = FILM
Claude-Jutra theatre, Cinémathèque québécoise.
Presented by Claude Forget, curator

Karaoké by Stéphane Lafleur
La main invisible by Sylvain L'Espérance
Du moteur à explosion by Dominic Gagnon

Free of charge for registered participants with a pass


FRIDAY APRIL 18th

5 PM : 10 YEARS OF MEDIA ART IN 3 TAKES :: TAKE  III = NEW MEDIA
Exhibition vernissage of New Media installations – Room R-515, National Library and Archives

Peter Flemming
Sofian Audry

Open to the public free of charge

8 PM : 10 YEARS OF MEDIA ART IN 3 TAKES :: TAKE II = VIDEO
Auditorium, National Library and Archives
Presented by Nicole Gingras, curator
Artists present


En decà du réel by Manon Labrecque 
Oh la la du narratif by Sylvie Laliberté
Karaoke by Donigan Cumming
Stravaig by Nikki Forrest
Rut by Yudi Sewraj
Étincelante by Brigitte Lebrasseur
Site by A. Golden
« A » (comme aveugle) by Nicole Benoît
Sleeping Car by Monique Moumblow
Valo by Nelly-Ève Rajotte
Hernaford rd. or The Distance to Sleep by Rachel Echenberg
My Heart the Interior Decorator by Nelson Henricks
These days by Nathalie Bujold
Mystery and melancholy de Daniel Olson
Biotech by Mathieu Latulippe
Line Up by Julie-Christine Fortier
Karma by Chantal duPont

Open to the public free of charge


SATURDAY APRIL 19th

8:30 PM : 10 YEARS OF MEDIA ART IN 3 TAKES :: TAKE III = AUDIO ART
Auditorium, National Library and Archives
4 audio performances 
Presented by Valérie Lamontagne, curator


Ekumen 
i8u 
Perfo 1. (DL) & 4. (JD), project by Martin Tétrault with audio contributions by Diane Morin, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Rober Racine and Manon Labrecque. 

DJS

David Lafrance (experimental)
d Julie D (techno)

Open to the public free of charge
BAnQ – 475, Boul. de Maisonneuve Est, 
Montreal, (Quebec) H2L 5C4

SUNDAY APRIL 20th

5 PM : Cocktail at the Society for Technology and Art - SAT)

8 PM : CLOSING EVENT


Autoplayback – A performance by Jerôme Minière, accompanied by de Dan Popa

DJ Bliss

VJ Beewoo

Free of charge for participants with a pass. Otherwise, $15 contribution.