Performances presented on 2025
Storytelling Celebration on Art’s Birthday
January 17, 2025, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
FREE
On January 17, come for cake and listen to stories told by South River Seniors. Seniors in the local community have been gathering every Wednesday night since September to share stories and memories. These sessions have led to a weekly Podcast and NAISA Radio program South
River Seniors Telling Their Stories. January 17 is also Art’s Birthday, a celebration of Art around the World. To experience other Art's Birthday parties visit the Arts Birthday Mesh.
January 17, 2025, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
FREE
On January 17, come for cake and listen to stories told by South River Seniors. Seniors in the local community have been gathering every Wednesday night since September to share stories and memories. These sessions have led to a weekly Podcast and NAISA Radio program South
River Seniors Telling Their Stories. January 17 is also Art’s Birthday, a celebration of Art around the World. To experience other Art's Birthday parties visit the Arts Birthday Mesh.
Tree Frog - Sla-dai-aich
Radio Art Performance for online and in-person audiences
By Ben Donoghue
February 1, 2025, 6 pm (Dinner available at 5:15 pm)
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario. Online audiences register in advance for access.
General $12, Vegan meals available for in-person audiences for additional $8-9
Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts - expanding the community's boundaries of the possible. In this work interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio collide through loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise.
Online listeners will enjoy a special video feed of the performance while in-person audiences will hear a localized FM broadcast over dinner. Both audiences will join together in a discussion about the powers of radio to strengthen community ties.
Radio Art Performance for online and in-person audiences
By Ben Donoghue
February 1, 2025, 6 pm (Dinner available at 5:15 pm)
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario. Online audiences register in advance for access.
General $12, Vegan meals available for in-person audiences for additional $8-9
Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts - expanding the community's boundaries of the possible. In this work interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio collide through loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise.
Online listeners will enjoy a special video feed of the performance while in-person audiences will hear a localized FM broadcast over dinner. Both audiences will join together in a discussion about the powers of radio to strengthen community ties.
Ben Donoghue is a Toronto based cultural worker and artist working with
film and sound. Working primarily in analog media, his practice explores histories of political and cultural resistance, the effects of
macro-economic forces on the landscape, and ruptures in the built
environment. His films and performances have been exhibited at galleries,
festivals, and museums internationally.
Donoghue has been a leading
advocate for artist-run collectives and media arts organizations in Canada for over two decades, serving as Executive Director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (2007-2013), and the Media Arts Network of Ontario (2013-2022). He is currently working on a number of projects in Newfoundland, British Columbia, Ireland, Colombia and Peru.
Ice Sounds for Ice Follies
Ice Follies Listening Party
February 15 and 16, 2025, 7 pm
Olmstead Beach, Trout Lake, North Bay
FREE
The Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay is partnering with New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in the presentation of five audio pieces by Shaughn Martel, Lina Choi, Genevieve Kiessling, Kyle Vanderlaan and Stephanie Dupuis on the theme Ozhaashikwaa (The Ice is Slippery). The pieces will use ice sounds recorded on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake and will be played at two special listening parties during the outdoor Ice Follies Festival.
Ice Follies Listening Party
February 15 and 16, 2025, 7 pm
Olmstead Beach, Trout Lake, North Bay
FREE
The Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay is partnering with New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in the presentation of five audio pieces by Shaughn Martel, Lina Choi, Genevieve Kiessling, Kyle Vanderlaan and Stephanie Dupuis on the theme Ozhaashikwaa (The Ice is Slippery). The pieces will use ice sounds recorded on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake and will be played at two special listening parties during the outdoor Ice Follies Festival.
Using Tree Data for Media Creation
Online Workshop
By Jane Tingley
March 8, 2025, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Online Event. Advance Registration Required
General $25
Jane Tingley will introduce the IoT prototyping platform shiftr for connecting sensor data to the Max programming environment. She will teach participants how to think about distributed systems, and how to use shiftr as a server that interconnects these systems.
This workshop will use the same sensor data stream used by Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards, which was collected from the rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge, ON in the summer of 2022.
Tingley will lead participants in the process of importing this data stream into Max, in order to create their own sound and media creations.
Online Workshop
By Jane Tingley
March 8, 2025, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Online Event. Advance Registration Required
General $25
Jane Tingley will introduce the IoT prototyping platform shiftr for connecting sensor data to the Max programming environment. She will teach participants how to think about distributed systems, and how to use shiftr as a server that interconnects these systems.
This workshop will use the same sensor data stream used by Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending towards, which was collected from the rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge, ON in the summer of 2022.
Tingley will lead participants in the process of importing this data stream into Max, in order to create their own sound and media creations.
Jane Tingley is an artist, curator, and Assistant Professor at York University in Toronto (CA). She is interested in how interactivity combined with art objects and installation can be used to explore contemporary experience. She received the Kenneth Finkelstein Prize in Sculpture and the first prize in the iNTERFACES – Interactive Art Competition in Porto (PT). She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in the Americas, Middle East, Asia, and Europe.