DOMESTIC MEMORABILIA: A VIDEO INSTALLATION BY CAROLINE BLAIS OPENING FRIDAY DECEMBER 7TH, FROM 6PM to 9PM EXHIBITION DECEMBER 8TH TO 15TH 2012, AT VIDEOPOOL, # 300 - 100 ARTHUR STREET, WINNIPEG ENGLISH VERSION After a three months artistic residency in Winnipeg, Caroline Blais invites you to the presentation of her... Continue reading

Post-Cinema: Still and Moving Images by Clint Enns Opening Reception March 8, 7pm Clint Enns is a video artist and filmmaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally at festivals, alternative spaces and... Continue reading

Your contribution will go towards: - Supporting the creation of Media Art Works - Programming - and to our general operating expenses We accept donations by mail, in person or via the website. Support Now: Please make all cheques payable to: Video Pool Media Arts Centre 300-100 Arthur Street Winnipeg,... Continue reading

Douglas Lewis Artist Talk + Screening Friday, August 10, 2012 7pm Video Pool 3rd Floor Studio Free event + open to the public Video Pool Media Arts Centre invites you to attend an Artist Talk and Screening by Winnipeg artist and curator Doug Lewis. Lewis will be presenting his latest... Continue reading

David Rokeby "Dark Matter" Dark Matter: The darkened gallery space is dominated by an invisible sculpture of silent sound. Your body probes the space listening for the sculpture's spatial form to be expressed though the sounds of your contact with its immaterial presence. Infrared sensitive video cameras survey the darkened... Continue reading

Manuel Chantre "Dispergere Maiz" May 24- June 07, 2012 OPENING I June 01, 7:00PM ARTIST TALK I JUNE 01 8:30PM Negative Space 253 Princess Street Manuel Chantre’s work focuses on the construction and deconstruction of cultural symbols. Designed as an immersive and interactive installation, Dispergere Maiz, explores the various representations... Continue reading

Lei Cox " Being There" May 04-June 02 2012 Opening May 4, 7pm Gurevich Fine Art Gallery Winnipeg, MB LEI COX Follow Lei Cox on a journey to fiction and back again in Being There. Video Pool Media Arts Centre in collaboration with Gurevich Fine Art are pleased to present... Continue reading

"Vilém Flusser’s and Marshall McLuhan’s Theories of Communication Revisited" International Conference May 31 & June 01, 2011 Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB www.vpmediaconf.com Video Pool Media Arts Centre in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, Department of English, Theatre and Film, organizes: "Vilém Flusser’s and Marshall McLuhan’s Theories of... Continue reading

CHICO MACMURTRIE Inflatable Robotic Arts in Canada University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery March 30 - April 27 2012 Workshop Dates: March 20-30, 2012 ­ EXHIBITION March 30- April 27 Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in collaboration with The University of Manitoba School of Art is pleased to present:... Continue reading

Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in collaboration with Ace Art Inc. presents: Perry Bard "Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake" Workshop with Perry Bard: February 01, 2012 Exhibition Dates: February 02-23, 2012 "Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake" is a participatory web and public video installation... Continue reading

Art is 1,000 049 years old! Video Pool Media Arts Center, in collaboration with Ace Art Inc and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts invite you to celebrate LITE NITE: ART’S BIRTHDAY 2012: an evening of light inspired installations, workshops, performances, si...lent auction and cake! LITE NITE: Art’s Birthday... Continue reading

TAG TALES NICOLE CROISET November 24 to December 04, 2011 Presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre Opening Reception November 24 | 6-9pm Studio 393 in Portage Place Shopping Centre TAG TALES is a web-based interactive word game situated on screen in Studio 393 in Portage Place Shopping Centre. Tag... Continue reading

PRESENTED BY VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTRE MANITOBA FOLKWAYS COLLECTION RECORD LAUNCH Date: Friday, October 28, 2011 Doors: 8:30pm Show: 9:15pm Location: The Lo Pub Address: 330 Kennedy St, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cover: $10 includes admittance and a copy of the Manitoba Folkways Collection Vol.1 vinyl. “And when you sing a... Continue reading

Erika Lincoln Free Space Loss Opening Oct 6, 7:00pm October 6 - 29, 2011 3rd Floor Video Pool Studio, ArtSpace building. Free Space Loss is a term used in communications to describe the tendency of a wireless signal to spread out over time and distance. Free Space Loss readdresses the... Continue reading

Regular Programming Presentation No. 3 Sandee Moore, Wake Up Winnipeg, October 15-29 2010. Description: Wake Up Winnipeg is a durational performance, during which the artist provides a wake up call service to interested Winnipeg citizens. Video Pool will advertise this free service to members and to the Winnipeg public. The... Continue reading

Regular Programming Presentation No. 5 Michael Klein, i and i, May 14 - June 11, 2010. Description: Michael Klein’s video-audio work i and i invites the viewer to share a private experience that often takes place in public, listening to music on a portable MP3 player. Klein asked people on... Continue reading

Leslie Supnet - Fair Trade Regular Programming Presentation No. 4 Various artists curated by Clint Enns, 2010 Was the World of the Future, January 16, 2010 Description: As part of our annual "Art's Birthday" celebration, Video Pool presented a screening of single-channel video works that deal with concepts of space... Continue reading

Regular Programming Presentation No. 3 Dominic Gagnon, RIP In Pieces America, December 8, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Description: Dominic Gagnon’s Rip in Pieces America is a feature-length single-channel video assembled entirely of video clips sourced from YouTube. The video contains numerous first-person critiques of contemporary western culture; focusing on... Continue reading

Regular Programming Presentation No. 2 Ken Gregory, wind coil sound flow, October 1-31, 2009 Description: In collaboration with Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg, Video Pool presented wind coil sound flow. Gregory built an acoustic electro-mechanical system that poetically reproduced the processes involved in operating an Aeolian Kite Instrument... Continue reading

Regular Programming Presentation No. 1 Turner Prize* (Jason Cawood, Blair Fornwald, John Hampton), Summer of Dreams, September 12-13, 2009. Description: In an effort to have broader community engagement, Video Pool presented Turner Prize’s performative installation, Summer of Dreams. The artists built a geodesic dome in the public plaza at Portage... Continue reading

Aboriginal Video Artist Scholarship - 2011 Download AVAS 2011 info Download AVAS application Continue reading

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Video Pool would like to extend its heartfelt congratulations to longtime member (and former staff member) Daniel Barrow on his 2010 Sobey Art Award! Continue reading

Ho Tam - Artist Talk Sunday, December 19th, 2010 • 2:00pm • Video Pool Media Arts Centre • 300 - 100 Arthur St. • Winnipeg Free! February 2005 Ho Tam traveled with the Canadian Navy on the HMCS Calgary from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii back to the Esquimalt Naval Base, BC.... Continue reading

Artist talk with Artificiel (MTL); Energy phenomena as objective source material for contemporary artworks Presented as part of send + recieve for v.12 (November 23 - 28) Video Pool Media Art Centre 100 Arthur St. 3rd Floor Studio Wednesday, Nov. 24 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. free! International award winning media... Continue reading