stillMOVE (Presented by Video Pool & PLATFORM)

Cost: $70
#Participants: 4 (2-Video Pool, 2-PLATFORM)
Pre-requisite: Need still camera and/or photographs
Dates: Wed., May 14: 7pm - 10pm
Wed., May 21: 7pm - 10pm
Wed., May 28: 7pm - 10pm

Inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 short film, La Jetee, participants will create their own still-photo short film in this workshop.
Individuals will be familiarized with necessary aspects of Photoshop and Final Cut, and will review related conceptual and
technical elements; including: time, motion, and narrative.

Instructor- Cam Woykin is presently working on two of his own film projects, and has screened his work across Canada, France,
and South America. He currently resides in Winnipeg where he maintains his practice as an artist and filmmaker, and holds the
adored title of Education Coordinator at Video Pool.

Monday 28 April 7PM
All are invited to Salon Night at PLATFORM …

Salon Nights are free evenings of informal critique and feedback where members can bring in their art projects for discussion.
Each session is hosted by a different local artist who will facilitate discussion and weigh in with their own experience.

Our next Salon Night will be co-hosted by Heidi Phillip…

About our host:

Heidi Phillips is an emerging artist based in Winnipeg. She uses video, film and animation technologies to create a language that speaks of isolation, fear, and hope. Her completed works can be found in distribution at Video Pool and the Winnipeg Film Group. Her first experimental documentary ‘Direction’ screened
both nationally and interenationally. Phillips attended Transmediale in Berlin, Germany to introduce the work. She is currently working on a Masters Degree in New Media at the Transart Institute in Austria. Phillips recently completed, ‘Isolating Landscapes,’ is a short experimental film which includes found footage of landscapes, sailboats, and people washing in water. Thematically, the work seeks to describe detachment and loneliness.

This is an excellent opportunity to meet other practicing artists and develop a critical art discussion group. Whether you wish to present or not,
you should come out to add to the dialogue and see what other artists have going on in their studios.

SALON NIGHT with HEIDI PHILLIPS
Monday 28 April, 7PM @ PLATFORM

Friday 18 April 2008 @ 8 p.m.
Colin Smith
8×8x7
KRUPSKAYA
ISBN 978-1-92865-028-7
89 pages
$14.00
PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present
a reading by local writer Colin Smith, to mark the release of his recent
book of poems, 8×8x7, with renowned San Francisco publishing house
KRUPSKAYA Books.

8 x 8 x 7 finds the Winnipeg-based poet Colin Smith in panopticon mode,
his eye everywhere, glittering and shifting planes like a human kaleidoscope …
His targets include war, unemployment, sexual category, the talking heads
of TV and continental philosophy, outsourcing, liberal piety and, most touch-
ingly, his own body, once a source of comfort and strength, now a font of
lacerating pain.

Please join us Friday 18 April 2008 @ 8 p.m. for Smith’s reading from 8×8x7.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase [$14.00].

Smith’s reading is in conjunction with the exhibition, Residual, by Victoria-
based visual artist Lynda Gammon at PLATFORM. Ideas of architecture, space,
shelter, and inhabitation are considered through Gammon’s inter-disciplinary
approach to sculpture, performance, assemblage, photography and collage.
Photographs of interior spaces, glued next to one another, layered one on
another, folded, refolded, taped and glued together are combined with
retrieved construction site and household refuse.

This event will double as a closing party for the exhibition. As the Centre
commissioned Smith to respond to Gammon’s work through text, the book
launch allows for reflection on how these two artists’ practices overlap, if at all.

Admission to this event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

This reading + book launch is co-sponsored by Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

Sunday 20 April 2008 10am - 4pm

$65 for user members*

A refresher for those who have been “out of the dark” for too long, this hands-on workshop covers the process of developing black and white film as well as making black + white contacts and enlargements from your negatives.

Individualized instruction | maximum 4 participants

Instructor: Brenda Stuart

Fees include chemicals.

Participants must bring exposed film, RC b+w photographic paper and an old towel.

Non-members must purchase a user membership to participate ($30/annum).

*cash or cheque only, advanced registration required, call the gallery @ 942-8183

Shipwreck Trilogy
2008
ink on paper

PLATFORM’s members’ wall is graciously sponsored by Warehouse Artworks.