To celebrate the end of our inaugural residency in Syracuse, NY the XPACE crew ventured out of their dark dusty office to see what Dylin and Lena had gotten up to in the empire state.

The Art School in the Art School was there to interview the key participants on both sides, Derek Liddington (XPACE director), Holly Roderick (Spark director), Dylin North (OCAD grad) and Lena Chun (OCAD grad).

Hear the Interview here

For information on the position, responsibilities, and qualifications check out the full listing on our website.

http://www.xpace.info/jobs

A DECADE OF SUPPORTING EMERGING ARTISTS AND CURATORS

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre is now accepting submissions for their 10th Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition!

Call for Emerging Curator, Deadline: May 31, 2010 (details found at: http://www.facebook.com/events/edit/index.php?gid=2266290594&step=2&eid=102850913095185&new#!/event.php?eid=102850913095185″>

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF MEDIA ART
Deadline: June 7, 2010 by 5pm

Since its inception since 2001, InterAccess has organized an annual emerging artists exhibition to showcase new media work by post-secondary students and recent graduates. Curated and organized by a selected emerging curator, this initiative offers young artists and curators professional experience and exposure. Past exhibitions have been reviewed by The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and The National post. Former participating artists and curators have gone on to work and exhibit in such institutions as the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto, Xpace Gallery, The Banff Centre, Western Front, Trinity Square Video, Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art, Space Media Arts in London UK, FACT, Liverpool, and Transmediale in Berlin.

NATURE AND SCOPE OF CALL AND QUALIFICATIONS: InterAccess seeks submissions of new media and electronic works from emerging artists. Artists must be post-secondary students or recent graduates to qualify, and all works submitted must be exhibition ready, and produced in the last two years. No works in progress will be accepted. InterAccess welcomes new media works in the form of: sculpture, installation, video, audio, performance and interactive art. Web-based projects are also welcome. Based on the works selected, the emerging curator will develop an exhibition related to all the submissions received.

Each selected artist will receive CARFAC standard artist fees for participating. The exhibition runs from Friday July 23 until Saturday August 28, 2010.

While we welcome proposals from outside of Ontario, please note that InterAccess cannot provide artist travel fees or cover the shipping of artwork. Participating artists will be responsible for timely transportation of their artwork to the gallery a week before the opening on Friday July 23, 2010. Although the artist is chiefly responsible for installing his/her work, InterAccess will provide technical assistance and basic audio/video equipment.

HOW TO APPLY
All submissions must include:
• an artist statement (1 page)
• a project description (1 page)
• a clear description of technical requirements listing:
1.) materials provided by the artist, including any software and audio-visual equipment
2.) materials expected from InterAccess, including software and/or hardware
• artistic support material of proposed project/piece as well as previous works (DVD is preferred, however, URL links or JPG images are also accepted)
• a current C.V. (3 pages max)

Please send all submissions to:
Emerging Artists Exhibition- Artist Call
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
9 Ossington AvenueToronto, Ontario M6J 2Y8 Canada

Philippe Blanchard and Luke Painter
Exhibition Opening May 7th, 7-10pm.

With separate art practices Philippe Blanchard and Luke Painter come together at 47 in the exhibition Ancestral Vision.

Luke Painter and Philippe Blanchard’s work with projection shares an interest in questioning the historical origins of contemporary forms of popular expression. Their hybrid practices strive to initiate a dialog (or is it a conference call?) between the disciplines of animation, installation and architecture and conceptually between historical periods. Animation is expanded through the use of installation, and is treated as a unique experience that is anchored by the exhibition space. This exhibition features two installations:

Quest for Fire is the result of Philippe Blanchard’s recent research into the history of animation and the moving image. Wanting to expand beyond the single-channel video format, Blanchard has been using installation and live performance as means of reflecting on how animation functions in today’s visual culture. A wall mounted mural piece is activated by synchronized rock-show lighting. Strobing patterns of coloured light interact with the coloured ink, the work becomes simultaneously still and moving. The imagery in the mural explores fire as a metaphor for the human fascination with light and energy. The control over fire is represented as a primordial technological impulse which the artist connects to the pervasiveness of moving imagery in contemporary culture.

From Victorian to Modernism to What? This installation by Luke Painter projects animated works that reflect on the compulsion to personally connect with (and often transform) the architecture of our surroundings. Over the past year Painter and his father have been building a scale model of a Victorian house from a neighbourhood past. Approximately 8’ tall and heavily ornamented, the structure is too small to be a real house and too large to be a dollhouse. On the rear wall of the building, two eyes made from stained glass project animations depicting architectural sites specific to Toronto that have personal resonance with Painter and that nod to the transitioning nature of neighbourhoods in the city.

Both installations harken back to the early days of the moving image and offer a reflection on the potential connections between historical periods, while humourously engaging the viewer.

47 is open Wednesday through Sunday from 12 – 5 p.m or by appointment.

Milky Way, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3L4 Canada
tel 647.436.9109
info@forty-seven.ca

JOB POSTING: April 2010

Summer employment opportunity for Arts, Design or Arts Administration students to gain practical experience in a contemporary art gallery in downtown Toronto.  Candidates who possess an enthusiasm to learn within a creative and challenging environment are encouraged to apply.

GALLERY ASSISTANT (3 POSITIONS)

Employment Term: May through August 2009 (maximum 16 Weeks)

Wage: $11 per hour, 30 hours per week

Gallery TPW has created three summer employment opportunities for students enrolled in Fine Arts or Arts Administration programs.  Gallery Assistant positions are available with a focus in the following areas:

GALLERY ASSISTANT – DIGITAL MEDIA AND WEBSITE

The successful candidate will work closely with the Communication Coordinator to archive digital content, update the website and maintain an inventory of visual images to promote the gallery, exhibitions and programs. Some physical work will also be required during installation and striking.

Required qualifications include:

• A strong knowledge of contemporary art

• Knowledge and experience using creative computer applications including Adobe Creative Suite,• Proficient in HTML and CSS

• Knowledge and experience using social networking tools such as twitter and facebook

• Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills

• Experience using a Content Management System such Joomla and video editing software considered an asset

• Experience with Apple computer systems and basic office programs including database software, spreadsheets and word processing programs

• Educational background in visual arts or arts administration

GALLERY ASSISTANT – ADMINISTRATION AND OUTREACH

The successful candidate will work closely with the Gallery Coordinator to provide support for projects related to fundraising, outreach initiatives, liaising with the public, coordinating special events and office administration. Some physical work will also be required during installation and striking.

Required qualifications include:

• A strong knowledge of contemporary art

• Strong research skills• Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills• Knowledge of Filemaker Pro or other database programs• Excellent written and oral communication skills• Experience with Apple computer systems and basic office programs including database software, spreadsheets and word processing programs• Educational background in visual arts or arts administration

GALLERY ASSISTANT – INSTALLATION AND EXHIBITION TECHNICIAN

The successful candidate will work closely with the Curator, Gallery Staff and Artists to provide installation and technical support for exhibitions, events, and fundraisers.  The Gallery Assistant will also create an inventory of technical equipment and tools, provide technical research for upcoming exhibitions and prep the gallery for the fall season. This position will require physical work.

Required qualifications include:

• A strong knowledge of contemporary art

• Experience painting, handling artwork, installing artwork

• Experience preparing gallery walls and painting

• Experience building considered an asset

• Skills and experience with new media and video installations

• Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills

• Ability to research and solve technical problems independently

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Experience with Apple computer systems and basic office programs including database software, spreadsheets and word processing programs

• Educational background in visual arts or arts administration

Hours will typically be 4 days a week Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 am – 5 pm. Occasional evenings as required.

Eligibility:

These Summer Work Experience positions are funded by Canadian Museums Association (Summer Jobs) through the Young Canada Works Program to provide career-related employment for emerging cultural workers. To participate in this Summer Work Experience, the participant must meet the eligibility requirements outline on the Young Canada Works website at http://www.pch.gc.ca/ycw-jct/info-ppts/101-eng.cfm. You are eligible if you:

• are legally entitled to work in Canada;
• are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, or have refugee status in Canada;
  Note: Non-Canadian students holding temporary work visas or awaiting permanent status are not eligible.
• are between 16 and 30 years of age at the start of employment;
• meet the eligibility criteria of the program for which you have been approved;
• are registered in the YCW on-line candidate inventory;
• are willing to commit to the full duration of the work assignment;
• do not have another full-time job (over 30 hours a week) while employed with YCW;
• have been a full-time student (as defined by your educational institution) in the semester preceding the YCW job;
• intend to return to full-time studies in the semester following the YCW job.

The review of applications will begin APRIL 29, 2010 and will continue until the positions are filled.   Please register on the Young Canada Works website and submit a letter of intent complete with a resumé and references as soon as possible:

Hiring Committee
Gallery TPW
56 Ossington Avenue
Toronto, ON
M6J 2Y7

jobs@gallerytpw.ca

Email submissions only please. Please cite the job title in your email subject heading.

We remind all applicants that Gallery TPW is an equal-opportunity employer, and regret that only those applicants selected for interviews will be contacted. For information on Gallery TPW please visit our website gallerytpw.ca.

Butcher Gallery is accepting submissions of video and performance for a curated video installation! Submissions are due Friday April 23, 2010 at 11:59 p.m., for presentation at the gallery in early summer.

We are looking for video submissions pertaining to themes of trash, desire, destruction, domination and communion in sexy, violent, video (art) made for the Internet or inspired by it. Live performances, performance in front of projection, or performance on video are all welcome. Guest curator, Jennifer Chan will disgorge the selected submissions in a mash up projection installation. Submissions need not be overtly sexy or violent and can be found footage, documentary, animation, violence to or against images, fetishistic…etc.

We are calling for submissions from emerging artists, graduating students, recent graduates, and vloggers. This one night screening provides artists and non-artists, amateur producers, performers and/or web geeks with an alternative exhibition experience.

Accepted artists must consent to their work being remixed, mashed, looped, and effectively hacked apart to pieces by curator Jennifer Chan. High quality .mov files or DV video and stills should be available for accepted submissions. Butcher will provide technical assistance where possible and basic audio/video equipment for live performance (see equipment list).

We welcome submissions from outside of Toronto, but please note that Butcher Gallery cannot provide curator or artist fees, travel fees, or cover the transporting or insurance of artwork—although we wish we could.

All submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee of emerging artists and relevant professionals.

All submissions must include:
- Name
- Contact information: 1) E-mail (our primary mode of communication) 2) Phone number
- title and video via URL link to hosted video, or compressed .mov or h264 video files.
- Performance: video documentation and/or project description (250 words max)

Optional, but not necessary:
- artist statement (1 page)
- current C.V.
- website URL

For performance proposals: please include:
1) list of materials provided by the artist, including any software and audio-visual equipment
2) supplementary documentation of proposed work (DVD is preferred, however, URL links or JPG images are also accepted)
3) duration

Please send all questions and submissions to videobattle(at)butchergallery.com with title “Video submission” or “Performance submission”

Curator bio:
Jennifer Chan is an artist-curator specializing in Visual Culture & Communication at University of Toronto Misssissauga/Sheridan College. She has curated for Vtape and InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre and now assists with programming for Gendai Gallery. Jennifer is a recipient of the 2009 Trinity Square Video Award and 2008 Mississauga Arts Awards for Emerging Talent in Visual Arts. She has exhibited at VMAC, Nuit Blanche and Gallery 1313.

Butcher Gallery is an alternative presentation space in Toronto that is a proactive response to the lack of exposure of hyper-contemporary local and international emerging artists. Spurred by the rising popularity of online exhibitions, Butcher’s goal is to bring the inaccessibility and anti-tactile themes of these collections to three-dimensional reality. Traditional, as well as non-conventional exhibitions, such as lecture series, special installation projects, screenings, and curator/artist collaborations are in Butcher’s future. Founded by and under the direction of Brad Tinmouth and Lili Huston- Herterich with curatorial assistance by Kaitlin Till-Landry, Butcher Gallery is a new and refreshing departure from current art spaces in Toronto.

Pretty Ugly

Teresa Ascencao | Anya Chudnovtseva | Joseph Clement | Barr Gilmore | Hyein Lee | Geneviève Maltais | Josh Morden | Alexei Vella | Lisa Visser

OCAD First-Year Graduate IAMD (Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media and Design) Show

Reception: Friday, April 30th, 2010 from 6 to 9 pm

April 22nd to 30th and May 7th to 8th, 2010

Graduate Student Gallery, 205 Richmond Street West (use Duncan Street entrance), Toronto, Ontario

Gallery Hours: 12 noon to 6 pm

Pretty Ugly is the critique of aesthetic judgment; the interconnectedness of Art, Media and Design; the rain on your parade; the definition, limitation, and possibility across disciplines; the abject, the beautiful, the tactile, the patterned, the provocative, the theoretical, the suggestion of something else.

In early December, Chicago arts and culture blog Bad at Sports ran a series of article on the persistence of what they call “apartment galleries” (obviously galleries run out of peoples apartments and studios). These texts were mostly put together for a publication by Floorlength and Tux (who’ve made the rest of the texts available as a pdf on their website).

While it is mostly presented as a Chicago-only phenomenon (Check out this post about New York’s apartment galleries), it would appear to me that there seems to be an upswing of this type of activity in Toronto. Maybe it’s because I’ve recently graduated and I’m now seeing friends and colleagues try their hand at running a space, but it seems odd in a city as rich with artist-run centers (ARC) and galleries as Toronto. Liz Nielsen tries to explain the impulse:

I have come up with several reasons but there is one that I continually spiral back to, and that is that Chicago has very few “parent galleries”, relative to the number of artists. At risk of being cutesy, parent galleries are the commercial venues that give us artist children shelter, that help us with our homework, hang our work on the refrigerator, talk us up like crazy, send us to art camps/residencies, and above all help us grow into the artists that we are capable of becoming. As it stands, hundreds of art students are pumped out of our schools in Chicago every year — and these are great schools — only to be orphaned with nowhere to show, nowhere to go.

So we parent ourselves.

Judging by recent activities in Toronto (Jamie’s Area, Double Double Land, Butcher Gallery, 107 Shaw, etc) young Toronto artist seem firmly affixed to this no man’s land; orphaned by art school but not quite ready for ARC life. There are other issues at stake here in Toronto, which we can get into in another post, but for now lets see how our neighbours in the windy city do it.

• FLAT’s EC Brown on Chicago’s Domestic/Apartment Gallery Spaces
• Lucia Fabio on Chicago Apartment Galleries
• Erik Wenzel on the State of the Chicago Apartment Gallery
• Jaime Groetsema of the Green Bicycle Organization on Chicago Apartment Galleries
• Eric May of Roots and Culture on Chicago’s Apartment Galleries
• On the matter of public space: or my apartment gallery is an arctic explorer
• Some Notes on Hosting
• Liz Nielsen on Chicago Apartment Galleries

Some people may have noticed a new section appear on the XPACE website over the summer. XWEB is our semi-new project in which we feature web-based art and design on our homepage.

Our first project was Benjamin Bruneau’s Every Wall Drawing #146, a re-imagining of a instructional work by Sol Lewitt. This month XWEB features Brad Tinmouths Youtube Party.

We’ll be bringing you more projects over the next few months, and will be accepting submissions on an ongoing basis. Our goal is to respond to dynamic practices within our community. This now includes the internet.

And of course, XWEB is always looking for submissions from emerging artists and designers doing exciting things on the internet. We will accept work in pretty much any form with the condition that it be able to be viewed in a browser. This includes videos, jpgs, youtube embeds, php scripts, html experiments and pretty much anything else you could think of. If you would like to submit email your information and a link to matthew@xpace.info

MOTEL

A collaboration by:
Alison S. M. Kobayashi and Gintas Tirilis

Curated by Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot and Su-Ying Lee

June 26 – July 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 26, 7 – 10 PM
Panel Discussion: Saturday July 4, 2PM
Yard Sale: Saturday, July 25, 9AM – 2PM