Write up of the MediaPackBoard experience / involvement with the World Portable Gallery Convention, Halifax, NS.

World Portable Galleries Convention 2012 Halifax, NS A collaborative work instigated by Daniel Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc Here is a first glimpse at the project.  We will be adding to the documentation. For the WPGC we assembled a bamboo ‘fishing pole’ and hooked up a mini-spy cam to it. Valerie put on the MPB and we stepped out to explore views of the city not readily visible to passersby. We talked with other

The World Portable Gallery Convention 2012 is an international convention on portable galleries and alternative spaces hosted by Eyelevel Gallery during the month of September. The project celebrates the variety of spaces with which curators around the globe have extended public interaction with art institutions. http://www.eyelevel-gallery.tumblr.com/galleries Wednesday, September 5th Opening Reception for WPGC 2012 8pm

We just came back from Calgary where our video installation What We Take With Us is being presented at The New Gallery. The opening was on January 5th and the exhibition will continue until February 4th 2012.  We stayed at the John Snow House which is administrated by TNG.  It is an extraordinary place loaded with history. Thanks to everyone at TNG: Tim, Jessica, Noel, Kathryn, Su, Volunteers – and all who came

JUiCYHEADS celebrates 35 years of Sculpture Space! Sculpture Space is unique in North America for its support of sculptors, both those who come to Utica, New York, as residency participants and those who continue after their residencies as working artists. The organization selects 20 artists each year for two-month residencies and has helped to advance the careers of more than 500 national and international artists since

Daniel Dugas and I are working on a documentation booklet for What We Take With Us. The video installation will be shown at The New Gallery in Calgary in January 5 – February 4th 2012!  Here is a

Valerie LeBlanc et moi avons terminé notre nouveau projet : Ce qu’on emporte avec nous, une installation vidéo à deux canaux examinant différents aspects de la présence et de la mémoire.  Une première exposition aura lieu à la Galerie E DANS L’A au mois de janvier 2011.  Pour plus d’information :http://whatwetakewithus.wordpress.com/ Daniel Dugas and myself have just finished our new project: What We Take

• Galerie du Nouvel Ontario, FAAS, Sudbury, ON, 2010 Soundbury is a soundmapping project of the City of Sudbury by Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas. The recordings, collected during 12 hours of walking through the streets, have been uploaded to the website and to a google map.  Additionally, we added a series of thought capsules – red markers on the map. Soundbury was created during the Fair of Alternative Art of

Valerie LeBlanc et moi allons à Sudbury pour présenter Soundbury dans le cadre de la Foire d’art alternatif. Soundbury est un projet de cartographie sonore, une représentation sonore de la ville de Sudbury. Les enregistrements seront collectés dans la ville pendant les douze heures du projet et seront téléversés sur le web à intervalles réguliers. Simultanément une mappe Google tracera l’étendue des

• Vallauris, exterior projection town square, La Dauphine, Vallauris, FR, 2006 • Emmedia, Calgary, AB, 2007 While preparing for the festival season, a small town in the south of France is surprised to receive a rising star in their midst. La Dauphine was created during a residency at A.I.R. Vallauris on the Côte dAzur. The video features local residents and the buzz surrounding the Cannes Film Festival. Une petite