The film festival Les Percéides and la Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie are very happy to announce the historical first General Assembly for Media Arts in Gaspésie, which will take place ONLINE, Saturday May 15 and Sunday May 16.
TO PROMOTE AND RECOGNIZE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RELATED TO MEDIA AND DIGITAL ARTS IN GASPÉSIE.
The first General Assembly for Media Arts in Gaspésie, taking place ONLINE on May 15 and 16, 2021, will make history. This exceptional meeting is an invitation to those working in the field of cultural action, to engage in an exchange of views, based on an inventory of media and digital arts in Gaspésie, in order to work together to define a true “charter” of media cultural action in the region.
One of the objectives of the general assembly is to discuss practices in the field and to define key issues, in order to identify the strategic lines of a structuring commitment to the development of media and digital arts in Gaspésie. The Festival Les Percéides and the Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie, as annual events, position themselves as federating bodies for the whole of film and media practices in Gaspésie, with the aim of being able to address professional and political leaders about the defined key issues.
SPEAKERS/INTERVENTIONS/EXCHANGES
CLAIRE MOEDER
Multidisciplinary artist from Gaspésie
Presentation: Où tu vas quand tu crées en marchant ? Une résidence nomade le long du littoral entre texte et image
FABRICE MONTAL
Film and media arts historian
Presentation: Les arts médiatiques: un survol historique
MARYSE GOUDREAU
Multidisciplinary artist from Gaspésie
Presentation: Une plongée dans le vertige des archives
MOÏSE MARCOUX-CHABOT
Film director from Gaspésie
Presentation: Ramailler distance et proximité
GUILLAUME VALLÉE
Experimental filmmaker and video artist
Presentation: Parcours, hybridité et glitch analogique
JOHN BLOUIN
Filmmaker, media artist and independent curator
Presentation: Au seuil de l’analogique et du numérique, l’art
JULIEN BOISVERT
Filmmaker and activist
Presentation: Faire de la webfiction: avantages et inconvénients
ELOI CHAMPAGNE
Technical Director for the National Film Board of Canada
Presentation: Les nouveaux outils de création immersifs et en temps réel : leurs impacts sur la création et la production cinématographique
KARINE BOULANGER
Curator
Presentation: La diffusion des arts médiatiques, quels contextes?
JONATHAN DESJARLAIS
Photographer and VJ from Gaspé
Presentation: C’est quoi le V dans Vjing?
KATHY KENNEDY
Sound artist
Presentation: Rencontre autour du projet Radio Drive-in à Douglastown avec Kathy Kennedy
JONAS LUCYCKX
Filmmaker and producer (Belgium)
Presentation: Les brise-lames, espace de valorisation et de diffusion de paroles de jeunes
DIANE POITRAS, RUI SILVEIRA and VLADIM DUMESH
Labdoc – Research laboratory on documentary audiovisual practices (UQAM)
Presentation: Rencontre autour des projets du labdoc
MYRIAM ACHARD
Head – New Media Partnerships & PR, PHI
Presentation: Rencontre avec Myriam Achard du centre PHI à Montréal
In addition to attending inspiring presentations from these artists and artisans, we will travel to different sites to visit audacious digital art projects such as:
At the Musée de la Gaspésie we will meet Katherine Yockell, head of animation, who will show us an exhibition using digital technologies. We’ll visit the exhibition Le grand large, which tells the story of Gaspésie through fifteen sailboats, Viking drakkars to the Gaspesians, passing through Micmac deep sea canoes. The current exhibition uses augmented reality, virtual reality, and holograms.
In Matane, we’ll meet curator Gilles Artaud, who will guide us through a current exhibition from PHOS, a photographic and digital event which begins its eight edition on May 14, in Gaspésie.
Finally, we’ll meet Myriam Achard, from the PHI Centre in Montreal, who will present the context of Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s digital work, Carne y arena, an exceptional and gripping immersive virtual reality experience which had its world premiere at the Cannes Festival and is currently being presented at l’Arsenal, in Montreal.
SCRIPTING THE FUTURE
Recommendations and a brief will be written in order to promote and recognize professional development related to media arts and “the seventh art” in Gaspésie. “Welcome participants and pathfinders. Let’s write a new page in the history of media arts and independent film in the region together,” declares François Cormier, initiator of the event, co-delegate of the General Assembly of Media Arts in Gaspésie and founder, general and artistic director of the Festival Les Percéides and of the Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie.
“This general assembly will give us the opportunity to reflect, together, on current practices and issues surrounding media arts in the region. I’m convinced that discussion and exchange about media art in Gaspésie will open up new opportunities for fruitful collaboration,” declares Esther Bourdages, co-delegate of the General Assembly for Media Arts in Gaspésie and curator of the Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie.
Director and professor of cinema and philosophy Alexandra Guité, a native of Percé, will act as moderator and cultural mediator for the event. About the event, she states: “If we can’t all be together in the Gaspésie, energized by the ocean spray, let’s seize this virtual opportunity to better understand the state of our artistic fields, to establish precious collaborations and to open new creative horizons.”
Registration is open and participants can register today to get their Digital Passport.
DIGITAL PASSPORT
Registration fee for both days: $ 75.00 (general), $ 45.00 (student)
Early bird price before May 1st, 2021: $ 60.00 (general), $ 30.00 (student)
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