Lisa Lipton Maritime-born artist, Lisa Lipton (a.k.a. FRANKIE) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, musician and director who received her B.F.A. from NSCAD University and M.F.A. from the University of Windsor. Her installations exemplify a diversity of interest within the arts combining sculpture, video, costume, paint with performances that involve dance and music. Her projects explore the potential for crossing genres of film, mixed media installation, performance, theatre and music. Her visions are reflective of an interest in directorial and curatorial practices, collaboration and social interaction, as well as working within non-traditional contexts in order to explore the boundaries of performance and filmic production. She has currently completed a major tour throughout North America with her latest drumming project - BLAST BEATS: Phase Three, which will culminate in a multi-media exhibition and her first feature film –THE IMPOSSIBLE BLUE ROSE. She has exhibited her work on both a national and international level, and most recently served as one of the Shortlist representatives for the Maritime Provinces within the Sobey Art Awards - 2015, after being Longlisted in 2012 & 2013.
http://www.frankiefrankie.com
http://www.frankiefrankie.com
Jake Moore, Steve Bates works at the interweaving of object, sound, exhibition and text making in a hybrid yet fluid practice of installation, design, and performative acts. Predicated by a notion of exchange and emissive potential, she works in any medium necessary. Originally from Winnipeg she has worked as an artist, writer, academic, and programmer both within and without many cultural institutions across the country. She currently resides in Montreal, where she is a PhD Candidate in Art History at McGill.
Steve Bates is an artist and musician living in Montréal. The sonic is the starting point for his projects which are evocations of communication networks and systems, or expressions of spatial and temporal experience. He frequently uses sound material that is site-specific in an attempt to uncover place and how the sonic effects our experience of site. Together they produce works as USSA, a name that invokes an impossible place, conflating cold war enemies the USSR and the USA, while auditorially asking, ou ça? Or where is that? It also nods to Vladimir Ussachevsky, and early electronic composer whose work with tape is germinal to our thoughts on time, recording, materiality and sound. http://thingish.net
http://thingish.net
http://stevebates.info/
Steve Bates is an artist and musician living in Montréal. The sonic is the starting point for his projects which are evocations of communication networks and systems, or expressions of spatial and temporal experience. He frequently uses sound material that is site-specific in an attempt to uncover place and how the sonic effects our experience of site. Together they produce works as USSA, a name that invokes an impossible place, conflating cold war enemies the USSR and the USA, while auditorially asking, ou ça? Or where is that? It also nods to Vladimir Ussachevsky, and early electronic composer whose work with tape is germinal to our thoughts on time, recording, materiality and sound. http://thingish.net
http://thingish.net
http://stevebates.info/
Andy Dowden is formally trained as a sound artist but considers himself to be more of a creative listener. Dowden has been fascinated with recorded sound, environmental sound and original music for more than 40 years. Until recently, Andy taught studio courses on sound in the Media Art Department at NSCAD, particularly "Basic Sound", since 1986. He is an artist/producer using recorded sound as the medium for his work, connecting the overlapping disciplines of art, soundtrack and music production. He currently celebrates the wildlife in Middle Sackville, NS.
Stephen Kelly is an artist, computer programmer, and musician living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has exhibited and participated in residency programs both nationally and internationally. His work incorporates sound, electronics, mechanics, and other media in the creation of thematically diverse, often complex systems of cultural exploration. Interested in the intersections between audio art and music, Stephen builds unique musical instruments and approaches sound recording as a creative process. His most recent musical project is The Just Barelys. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Stephen has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design as well as a Master of Computer Science degree from Dalhousie University, where he is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Computer Science. He plans to continue crossing art and science within public installations and ongoing research projects in Machine Learning.
http://www.stephenkelly.ca
http://www.stephenkelly.ca
Divya Mehra’s research-fuelled practice explores diasporic identities, racialization, otherness, and the construct of diversity. Her work has been included in a number of exhibitions and screenings, notably with Creative Time, MoMA PS1, MTV, and The Queens Museum of Art (New York), MASS MoCA (North Adams), Artspeak (Vancouver), The Images Festival (Toronto), The Beijing 798 Biennale (Beijing), Bielefelder Kunstverein (Bielefeld), and Latitude 28 (Delhi). In 2014, Mehra was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award and received the Manitoba Arts Council Major Arts Grant, a Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant, and the Manitoba Arts Council New York Residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn. Mehra holds an MFA from Columbia University and is represented in Toronto by Georgia Scherman Projects. She currently divides her time between Winnipeg, Delhi, and New York.
http://www.divyamehra.com
http://www.divyamehra.com
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is an artist and diarist. In his work you will find bells, bouquets, enchanted forests, gay elders, glitter, gold leaf, love letters, imaginary paintings, madrigals, megaphones, mirrors, naked men, sign language, subtitles, and the voices of birds, boy sopranos, countertenors, and sirens. His work has been exhibited internationally and is part of the permanent collection of the Künsthistorisches Museum Vienna and the National Gallery of Canada.
http://www.nemerofsky.ca
http://www.nemerofsky.ca
William Robinson lives and works in Halifax NS. Robinson earned a BFA (2004) from NSCAD University. His practice is concept based using sound, music, performance, sculpture, video, drawing, print and electronics as needed. Robinson’s works such as Sun Ship Machine Gun (Metallurgy I) (2015), Liberation Snare (2014), Brutalist Song I (Confederation Centre of the Arts) (2014), and Young Prayer (2011) translate and interpret the inherent aesthetic and socio-political dimensions of built environments through the use of auditory elements, and related translational methods and mediums. Robinson has shown in gallery and public festivals, including Rock Show: Art at the Intersection of Music at the AGNS in Halifax NS, White Night in Melbourne Australia and Somewheres at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown PEI. He will be presenting a solo exhibition Brutalist Songs at Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton NB) in the Spring of 2016.
Leah Singer was born in Winnipeg, moving east to Toronto, Montreal and Tokyo before settling in New York City. She is a visual artist and a writer. Her artist publications are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The live manipulated film and video performances she started doing in the early 1990’s in collaboration with musicians, including husband Lee Ranaldo, have toured widely including to The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Reykjavik Arts Festival, and to Nuit Blanche in Toronto. She continues to develop site-specific video installations intended to exist both as static artworks and components to live music performances. She recently contributed video to the multi artist project, The Exhibition of a Film, curated by Mathieu Copeland.
Henry Adam Svec’s music and performance work have been presented in bars and galleries across Canada. Often interested in authoritative voices, institutions, and traditions, his recent projects (e.g. The CFL Sessions, Folk Songs of Canada Now, and Artificially Intelligent Folk Songs of Canada) explore the possibility that he has discovered popular musics of great significance. Also a writer and a researcher, Svec holds a doctorate in media studies from the University of Western Ontario, and he is now an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. His scholarly interests include media theory, popular music, and celebrity.
http://www.henryadamsvec.ca
http://www.henryadamsvec.ca
Aaron Weldon, Mitchell Wiebe The Bad P.I. was a project initiated in Halifax by artists Aaron Weldon and Mitchell Wiebe, active from 2011- 2013. Aaron Weldon is based in Berlin, Germany. Weldon has had recent exhibitions at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto; the Owens Art Gallery, Sackville; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Plugin ICA, Winnipeg; and The Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown. Mitchell Wiebe is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia who has exhibited widely. Wiebe has had recent exhibitions at the Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Calgary, the Massuchusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; The Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown; the Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; and the Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax.
http://www.mitchellwiebe.com
http://www.aaronweldon.ca
http://www.mitchellwiebe.com
http://www.aaronweldon.ca
D’Arcy Wilson is an interdisciplinary Atlantic Canadian artist. Her practice considers the dysfunctional relationship between people wildlife, and instances of failed spectacle in Western Culture’s interaction with nature. Her work has been exhibited across Canada in solo and group exhibitions, and she has participated in numerous artist residencies. D’Arcy is Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus.
http://www.darcywilson.org
http://www.darcywilson.org