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                        CONFERENCE ARTISTS

Digital Art: Play & Intervention
Camille Turner

Camille will be discussing her projects Transmedia, Teletaxi, Miss
Canadiana, The Container Project and The Final Frontier, and how digital
media artists can help communities and individuals tell their stories, creating
meaningful exchanges that contribute to social change.

Camille Turner is a Toronto-based artist, curator and cultural producer
whose practice explores the social dimensions of technology. A ‘digital
interventionist’, Camille’s projects operate outside of traditional
exhibition, disrupting and challenging the power systems of art and
technology.
She is a founding member of Year Zero One, a trail-blazing collective
operating as a network for the dissemination of digital culture; and curates
for the Subtle Technologies Festival, an event that blurs the boundaries
between art and science. For the past three years Camille has been the artist-
in-residence at Central Neighbourhood House, a social agency in downtown
Toronto. She is working on her new project The Final Frontier, an afro-
futurist Odyssey on the coulees in Lethbridge Alberta.


Contemporary Art & the Mediascape
Michael Campbell

Michael Campbell will be sharing recent audio/video installation projects
and his digital media teaching practices and philosophy. The focus of
Michael’s presentation will be a critique of media saturation in relation to
contemporary art practice, and methods used to challenge the assumptions
that audience and students bring to production.


Michael Campbell’s recent video-installations present implied narrative
fictions that merge obsolete technologies, remote landscapes, purposeless
inventions, suburban boredom, and utopic schemes, with adolescent fantasy.
Sculpture, ambient audio, found objects and digital video are combined into
sprawling installations which reintroduce the ordinary as extraordinary. Past
video sequences have included floating tents in Baffin Island N.W.T,
circling over Las Vegas, Nevada at night, diving in the Pacific off Hawaii
and burning a canoe in the Muskoka river, Ontario. Recent exhibitions
include EXPO 2005 Aichi Japan, Plug-In Institute for Contemporary Art
(Winnipeg), The Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), Red District
Gallery (Marseilles France), the 2002 and 2005 Alberta Biennial (Edmonton,
Calgary and Banff) and YYZ (Toronto), Truck Gallery (Calgary) and The
Deleon White Gallery (Toronto). Michael currently lives in Lethbridge and
is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of
Lethbridge.


Beyond Local: Distributing Media Art
Deirdre Logue

Deirdre Logue will be sharing her expertise in independent film and video
distribution, and stimulating discussion about how Alberta artists can get
their work to wider audiences.

Deirdre Logue has spent the past fifteen years working on behalf of media
artists: organizing independent film, video and new media festivals;
 founding collectives; and participating in forums and symposiums on the
future of independent artistic practice. She was the Executive Director of the
Images Festival from 1995-99, the Executive Director of the Canadian
Filmmakers Distribution Centre from 2001-2006 and is currently the
Development Director at Vtape in Toronto. She is also a respected
filmmaker and has actively exhibited her work since 1990. Deirdre is
perhaps best known for her series of 10 short, handmade, performance films
entitled Enlightened Nonsense completed in 2000. Numerous exhibitions of
her works have taken place nationally at YYZ Artist's Outlet in Toronto,
Neutral Ground in Regina, SAW Gallery in Ottawa, as well as
internationally at Centre d'art Contemporain in France, the San Francisco
Cinematheque, Video Ex Festival in Switzerland, the Honolulu Academy of
Art in Hawaii, Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and was part of
a Canadian video exchange in Cairo, Egypt, to name a few. In 2006, Deirdre
Logue won two awards at the Images Festival for her video installation
"Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes" in the categories of Best
Installation/ New Media Award and the Images Prize.
New Tubes & the Internet Stars
Wes Borg

Wes will offer a presentation on the pros and cons of internet exhibition, the
new ‘tube’, and viral marketing of media work.

Wes Borg is a video artist, producer, presenter, and all-round digital
instigator. He is also a well-known Canadian comedian, playwright and
musician, best known as a member of the comedy troupe Three Dead Trolls
in a Baggie.
Borg co-wrote and starred over 20 Trolls shows, and won Sterling Awards
for both "Kevin Costner's Naked Butt" and "Skippy Gets a Boner”. Among
his many projects as a writer, he has co-written several popular plays
including Ha! with Chris Craddock and Piledriver! with Darren Hagen. He is
well known (globally!) for his short video sketches related to information
technology, the best-known being "Welcome to the Internet Help Desk". In
2004 Borg created and hosted The Geek Show, a thirteen episode TV series
highlighting "the funniest gags, animation, and games of the Internet". His
voice has also appeared in several Bioware video games, including Jade
Empire and MDK2. His most recent project, METRO TV, a collaboration
with Metro Cinema that challenges video makers with television aspirations
to create pilots that are judged by a live studio audience.


Everywhere=Art
Tim Folkmann

Tim Folkman will present random media interventions throughout the
conference.

Tim is a busy multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been created and seen
in many venues. In addition to his solo work, Tim is well known for his
video art/installation collaborations with dancers and performing artists like
Mile Zero Dance and Brian Webb. Tim's innovative methods of art
education for at risk youth are a model for media studies, and outreach
programs that facilitate artistic expression in community settings. He
recently directed and co-produced the much acclaimed and AMPIA award
winning The Carol Project.