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Cinevolution’s Your Kontinent: Digital Carnival is back again!

7-11PM on September 1 & 2, 2017 as part of the Richmond World Festival.

Featured Artist Cindy Mochizuki anchors the show with Compass, a multi-media performance which takes as its starting point historical materials belonging to Cindy’s paternal grandmother, who owned and worked a strawberry farm in Walnut Grove before WWII and the internment of Japanese Canadians on the west coast. Winner of the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Awards for Form and New Media in 2015, Cindy is known for her work with the histories of the Japanese-Canadian community, as well her innovative use of live-animation, found media, and performance in storytelling. Her work is just the beginning of Digital Carnival 2017’s exploration of LAND as a theme in response to Canada 150.

Featuring 15 works by 23 artists, each piece is a unique experience as diverse as the artists behind them. We invite you to think about questions of nation, land, and home as you learn to speak ocean, discover the Fraser River, write a love letter to land, or revisit the days of phone books and analog phones. Or simply relax and feast your senses on art that you can see, hear, touch, and taste!

Here you’ll meet some of the coolest artists from in- and out- of town, and see some truly innovative applications of technology. With works ranging from sound art to intimate performances to videos installations in the “chill tent,” from shadow puppetry to interactive play to community-engaged art, there is something for everyone at this one-of-a-kind festival.

Cinevolution Media Arts Society website for full artist bios and statements

Facebook Event Page

Digital Carnival is co-produced by Cinevolution Media Arts Society and Curator Wynne Palmer.

Events will take place under the stars in Minoru Plaza and inside the Richmond Cultural Centre.

Special Thanks: Cinevolution Media Arts Society,  BC Arts Council, City of Richmond - Local Government, Richmond World Festival, Richmond Arts Centre, VIVO Media Arts Centre.

Photo: Wynne Palmer

I'll be sitting this artist panel at 8pm on July 28, 2017 in conjunction with

CURRENT: A Pacific Northwest Feminist Electronic Art Symposium

Intergenerational Knowledge Sharing in the Electronic Arts & Technology

Panelists: Ruth Scheuing, Wynne Palmer, Norah Lorway, Kiran Bhumber, Holly Peck 
Moderator: Jen Sungshine

CURRENT Symposium website

CURRENT is a multidisciplinary, intersectional, music and electronic art symposium working with women and non-binary artists in Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest. The first iteration of the project will be a 3-day, music and arts showcase featuring events, panels, youth mentorships, and workshops, which will take place July 28th-30th, 2017 in Vancouver, Canada.

The goal of this symposium is to foster and disseminate feminist content through the cross-pollination of ideas, and intergenerational knowledge sharing. By offering free, public, all ages panels and accessible workshops, we wish to cultivate growth within the local community, and create a more equal landscape within the growing Electronic Arts ecology.

Special Thanks:

CURRENT organizers: Ashlee Luk, Nancy Lee and Soledad Muñoz, Vancouver Art & Leisure, CiTR Discorder Magazine and City of Vancouver Community Arts Grants Program

I'll be participating in World Listening Day this year with Jeffrey Langille, sound partner on this project,. The finished audio work will be presented along with other projects at the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC).

World Listening Day is an annual global event held on July 18th to celebrate the listening practices of the world and the ecology of its acoustic environments. This year’s theme is “Listening to the Ground”, and honours the life and legacy of Pauline Oliveros.

“Sometimes we walk on the ground, sometimes on sidewalks or asphalt, or other surfaces. Can we find ground to walk on and can we listen for the sound or sounds of ground?

Are we losing ground? Can we find new ground by listening for it?”

— Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016)

Special Thanks: Jeffrey Langille, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC) and

The World Listening Project.org 

I'm happy to be invited to be the new Board Member for the New Orchestra Workshop (NOW) Society, as of the July 11, 2017 AGM!

The NOW Society began as a community initiative designed to support the vibrant community of Vancouver improvisers. At its formation, the Society presented a critical mass of musicians who gathered together, committed to expressing and presenting improvised creation and to elevating their art through sharing music with their community and on international stages. The founders of the Society included Lisle Ellis, Paul Cram, Paul Plimley, Gregg Simpson, and Ralph Eppel.

Since its establishment in 1977, leadership has incuded Gregg Simpson, Clyde Reed, Paul Plimley, Bruce Freedman, Graham Ord, Kate Hammet Vaughan, Don Druick, Roger Baird, and for the past few decades, Ron Samworth and Coat Cooke. Recently, in the spring of 2014, there was a decisive change in leadership when the Artistic Director Coat Cooke passed on artistic directorship of NOW Society to the capable hands of Lisa Cay Miller.

2017 marks the NOW Society’s 40th year! In addition to our regular programming, the Society looks forward to presenting a four-day interactive installation at the Roundhouse Community Center in November 2017!

Quiet City & Vancouver New Music present:

Game of Drones

Drone Day 2017 // Vancouver (part of a global community event!)
12 noon - 12 midnight marathon of 46 artists
Saturday, May 27, 2017. I'll be the 2:30-3pm slot!
Red Gate Revue Stage - Granville Island, Vancouver, BC

Special Thanks: Constantine Katsiris, Quiet City and Vancouver New Music

I was thrilled to participate in the Element Choir this spring as a backup vocalist for the Inuit master throat singer Tanya Tagaq! As part of the Vancouver Opera Festival, we performed on the Vogue Theatre stage on May 12th for a sold out show!

Tanya Tagaq
Jesse Zubot (viola & violin)
Jean Martin (drums)
Christine Duncan and the Element Choir

Vancouver Opera Festival website

Music on Main

Photo: Tim Matheson

Photo: Jan Gates

Photo: Tim Matheson

Special Thanks: Christine Duncan, Artistic Director Element Choir and Music on Main

Over recent years it is becoming apparent to post secondary institutions the need to acknowledge and foster a new student base. Enter something called 'third age learning'. Third Age Learning Kwantlen (TALK) provides an ecclectic selection of lectures for those retired and of semi retirement age! While there are college and universities providing full-time, part-time and extension classes, there finally is something for those 50+, who would like to continue their education with one-day lectures and workshops. This model in my opinion is not only brilliant, but necessary, for an aging population to stay stimulated, active, and involved in society. I was more than happy to give a talk and demo on behalf of the Vancouver Experimental Theremin Orchestra, "The Theremin in Contemporary Art & Culture," contributing and supporting this essential educational model!

Third Age Learning at Kwantlen Website

Thanks: Nora Holstein, Third Age Learning and Kwantlen University - Richmond Campus

Hello 2017! A quiet post holiday in the studio preparing for this year's line up of shows, artist talks, performances and curatorial/productions and a lovely surprise of being notified of being today's featured artist! A big thank you to Dallas Jeffs for a second review of my work and website through blog articles on Artist Run Website!

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