September 12 2009

Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is excited to invite you to a Salon coinciding with our Moveable City exhibition, a program that explores potentiality in the built environment.

What does change in the built environment look like? What are the limits of our sensory perception to detect this change? How does measurable vs. durational time alter the way we understand movement in the city? Using an interview with earth artist Robert Smithson as a springboard for beginning the conversation, Moveable City artists Sean Arden, Ross Birdwise, and Holly Schmidt will discuss their work in relationship to the themes of the built environment and change. This program will be moderated by Adrian Sinclair. If you are interested in reading this article before the Salon, please visit our website: http://moveablecity.squarespace.com/salon/

ADRIAN SINCLAIR engages questions regarding the digitally mediated lived-experience of the city within his art practice and theoretical work. During the past few years he has co-produced “MC3” a collaborative digital cartography exhibit at the Societé des arts technologiques and “Fete Mobile,” an interactive blimp and mobile ground station that engaged questions of surveillance in the urban sphere at the ISEA Conference in San Jose. On the theoretical side of things, he recently presented a paper entitled “A Peculiar Repetition of Embodiment” at the annual graduate student conference held at The University of Western Ontario. The paper applied a phenomenological perspective to one’s embodiment via ubiquitous digital media.

SEAN ARDEN is an artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute with a Bachelor of Media Arts and also holds a Diploma in animation from Algonquin College. In 2007 he was nominated for a Canadian New Media Award under Emerging Innovator of the Year category. Arden works in many media and focuses on the subtle ephemera of people and their relationship with technology.

ROSS BIRDWISE's artistic practice encompasses video, audio art, music and occasionally performance. Much of his recent video and performance art work has been explicitly concerned with spatiotemporal issues around photography, video portraiture, identity and time. He holds a Masters degree in Media Arts from Emily Carr University, for which he received a Social Sciences and Humnaities Research Scholarship (SSHRC) from the government of Canada, an undergraduate Visual Arts degree from the University of Ottawa and a photography diploma from Algonquin College.

HOLLY SCHMIDT is an interdisciplinary artist exploring organic processes in relation to architecture and urban planning models. She uses creative practice to explore how environments are designed, engineered and built and the significance of this to all subjects, human and non-human. She is currently doing graduate studies in the media arts stream of the Masters of Applied Arts program at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Schmidt has exhibited nationally and internationally.

MOVEABLE CITY SALON
12 September 2009, 2pm
Cineworks Annes, Ironworks Building [235 Alexander street]
Free