FMC is pleased to present the 15th Annual Members Screening. This screening welcomes work by new and returning members, and showcases a selection of Hamilton’s diverse media artwork.
Featuring works by:
Andres Miramontes, Angel Panag, Chris Myhr, Courtney Green, Derek Jenkins, Donna Akrey, Ingrid Mayrhofer, Jars Hooch, Jessica Rodriguez, Jet Coghlan, John-Riley O’Handley, Justine Smith, Katherine Diemert, Kian Koocheki, Lucille Kim, Mark Prier, Natalie Hunter, Robert Ezergailis, Roberto Santaguida, Ryan Fergueson, Sandra Lim, Shane Pennels, & Sukaina Imam
Screening Program:
John-Riley O’Handley
Uh Oh
Covid Lockdown exploration of isolation of relationships.
Husband and wife team creating films a couple times a year.
Shane Pennells
The Getaway
The Getaway follows two men, one experience, one not so much, as they attempt to rob a bank… with unintended consequences.
Translation
Translation follows a man as he if forced to face his own mortality after a fatal car accident.
Since time immemorial, man has sought to immortalize his memory using the power and beauty of the written word. This is one of those attempts. Remember it fondly. (Twitter: @shanepennells; IG: shanepennells)
Sukaina Imam
Daaman
daman // skirt, walking proudly, or gracefully. daman pakaṛna // to come under the protection, to take refuge; to become an adherent or follower, to surrender at discretion, to cry for mercy. daman phailana // to spread out the skirt; to beg, supplicate, petition; to desire. daman-se lagna // to come under the protection, to depend, claim protection
Sukaina is a 23 year old student based in Hamilton, ON. She is currently pursuing her honours Bachelor of Art degree in Multimedia and Political Science at McMaster University. She is a first-generation immigrant from Pakistan who has lived in Canada since she was 8. She is fascinated with art that layers and dissects. She has worked with The Hamilton Conservatory for The Arts Artasia, McMaster University’s The Silhouette and Factory Media Centre. She has shown her work at the Silhouette’s Sex in the Steel City Launch Party at the Redchurch Cafe + Gallery.
Angel Panag
The North Star: Finding Black Mecca (Trailer)
A 2 minute trailer for the documentary film “The North Star: Finding Black Mecca”. The film highlights the past and present of the Black communities of Chatham-Kent.
Angel Panag is a North End, Hamilton based filmmaker and artist. He is trained in theatre and has also acted in film. Much of his own work centres on the experiences of underrepresented and racialized peoples in Canada.
Andres Miramontes
Sarah Good and the Bads – ‘Owling’ Music Video
Music Video for Sarah Good and the Bads, recorded in a Sony alpha a5100, showcasing random 90s memorabilia and themes about digital media in music videos.
Andres Miramontes He / Him, Mexican born Hamilton based artist who explores mixed media in digital videos and installations. Usually I collaborate with musicians but also with other socially engaged artists. (IG: @sentientblob)
Chris Myhr
Back Again (Promise) (Audio)
This work is from a series of musical “shapes” made this past summer. It suggests cycles, and a gradual transition from “reality A” to “reality A-prime”. It is quiet and patient – it is meant to slow pulses.
It is also a humble return to making music after a decade-long hiatus.
This endeavour has been frustrating – even depressing. My fingers no longer know the fretboard and keyboard, my memory of scales and keys is patchy at best. Yet, it has also been an opportunity to explore and re-invent.
Perhaps this is a perspective we all need right now.
Chris Myhr is a media artist based in Hamilton, whose practice engages with photography, sound, and the moving image. His work seeks intersections between art, science, and ecology.
Myhr is currently developing an extensive body of work titled “Point-Line-Intersection” that examines our complex intertwining with the Earth’s hydrosphere.
The works in “Point-Line-Intersection” revolve around themes of complex interconnectivity, and explore the paradoxical tension between water as life, vitality and industry, as well as a source of immense and unpredictable destructive power.
Chris Myhr’s online portfolio can be accessed at www.chrismyhr.com.
Mark Prier
All Our Wolf Hours (Audio)
All our wolf hours was created by running a radio call-in show about COVID-19 through an analog synthesizer. The sound was processed on the fly and recorded.
Pick up thy severed head and march! (Audio)
Pick up thy severed head and march! was written over a period of several years, but finally completed during the lockdown. It features a number of synthesizers from the 1980s and early 2000s alongside some marching and fingersnaps.
Mark Prier’s artwork examines the interaction between culture and ecology. Working from diverse sources, such as botany, folklore, geology, and history, he rearticulates this examination into sculpture, installation, performance, sound, and video. His exhibitions include shows in Canada, Mexico, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As half of the electronic music duo hellothisisalex, Prier has played the MUTEK Festival in Montreal, done commissions for CBC Radio, and taken part in the National Film Board of Canada’s Minus 40 project.(www.markprier.com; IG: _hellothisisalex_)
Courtney Green
Daprima (Visual Album)
Natalie Hunter
Exhibitions Documentation Reel
Selected documentation of work made between 2016 and 2020. Documentation gleaned from smartphone video clips captured at random during exhibition openings, installations, and studio studies over a four year period. All documentation captured with an iphone 5c and iphone 7. Optimized for social media.
Natalie Hunter is a Canadian artist who grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor of Art in Visual Art with a Concentration in Curatorial Studies from Brock University (First Class Standing). She has shown her work in Canada and the United States in numerous exhibitions. She is the recipient of several awards including Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Project Grants, and a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant. Natalie Hunter lives and works in Hamilton, and teaches sessionaly at the University of Waterloo(Website: natalie-hunter.com; Instagram: @natalogue, Twitter: @hunternatstudio)
Derek Jenkins
Walk
Brief encounters in the woods.
Derek Jenkins is a motion picture photographer and lab technician based in Hamilton, ON. His practice is handmade, personal, and documentary, with an interest in labour, ecology, and social reproduction. His films have screened widely, most recently at Media City Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Fracto Film Encounter, Antimatter [media art] and DocLisboa. His installations include a sound work, “The E6 Process” (2018), at Factory Media Centre as part of HAVN’s Sonic Art Series, and a film loop, “Contents” (2109), in Minding the Archive at Hamilton Artists Inc. In 2020, his film work, “Livestock,” was installed at McMaster Museum of Art as part of the exhibition,Animals Across Discipline, Time and Space. He works at Niagara Custom Lab.
Donna Akrey
Plant Life
Plant Life is from an installation of 9 monitors on plinths. Each has a different plant video on it. The plants are rising and falling from being recorded after watering. Showing one or a series of them is possible. It can be projected out the front window if that works.
Snow Scene
Snow Scene is a beautiful scene from out a window in Montreal during a snow storm.
Kian Koocheki
The Hamilton Spectator From Afar
The story follows a person living in an apartment surrounded by three highways and a main street. Overwhelmed by the noise, confused between memories and reality, the person has a lot to deal with.
Kian Koocheki is a STEM researcher and lecturer, still and motion picture artist, and currently a PhD candidate at McMaster University, from Lorestan. He started photography as a medium of expression for his worldview and perspective on life. He has recently transitioned to videography as a different medium for artistic expression. He started collaborating with FMC in 2018 and has been offering his services for documenting events, multimedia equipment consultations, and helping his fellow artists. He strongly believes in community-wide empowerment, communication, support, and collaboration. His dream is to make art films that evoke positive change in society and the Human Experience. He enjoys scientific research, computer programming, cycling, rock climbing, and paddleboarding.
Justine Smith
The necessary thousand permutations of a question
The Lovely Dirt of Public Spaces
Convergence Theory: On January 25th, 2020, FAWN presented the second edition of a collaborative experimental electronic music series. The show featured music by three exciting creators who are all known for their highly intricate & prolific work: multi-disciplinary artist Xuan Ye 叶轩, and composers Adam Scime and Emilie LeBel.
The event took place at Victory Social Club, and was activated by a multi-media art installation I created in which live performers and audience were immersed. Click Here to read about the event, and please see documentation below.
The videos are creative visualizations imagined/ Directed by Justine Smith, with the assistance of Cinematographer Michael Goencz. All audio was created by Canadian Composer Emilie Cecilia LeBel.
Justine Smith studied Integrated Media, and Drawing and Painting at OCAD University. By incorporating technology and new media into traditional forms, she explores how personal themes relate to wide-ranging, common human experiences. As a well-seasoned musician, performing in numerous metal bands and experimental music projects in the GTA, she frequently involves music in her artistic practice. She has collaborated with FAWN Chamber Creative Artistic Director, Amanda Smith, on a performance-based art installation for Tafelmusik’s Haus Musik series, and has also worked in media festivals such as The
Common Pulse & Electric Eclectics. Justine has shown work at numerous galleries, including Xspace Cultural Centre and Redhead Gallery. (IG: @justinepaints ; Website: https://cargocollective.com/what-cats)
Jet Coghlan
The Night Drive
The work explore the subconscious and analyze the origin of our suffering as a community, as well as individually. The video aspects of this pieces are subliminal and soft toned, to make the audience realize that we inflict the same amount of repression, judgement, confusion that has been put upon us. Both pieces work from a subconscious level an inner narrative that speaks softly and reminds us of what we have avoided to see.
Jet Coghlan is an immigrant from Mexico who has made this place their home for the last 10 years. When they became a citizen, quote “it was a shock to eventually see a very different face of the “Canadian multicultural mosaic”. I am a stranger to this nation, but I am committed to love the earth that feeds me against all our society’s efforts to damage this land. I believe it’s imperative to actively learn from indigenous perspectives, and relations to the land, how to become a positive part of a place that is undergoing the process of decolonization.” (IG @jets_polaroid_film)
TUYUC
Jessica Rodriguez / andamio.in
TUYUC is an experiential document of records that were made from a failed project that had a look of conquering a geography jungle: Yasuní.
TUYUC may be the description of that experience from a blending of image, sound and text, a game of Chinese shadows, trees eating your guts, articulated animals in the gravitation of branches, noises night in the mornings, mornings rolling like marbles…
People involved in the project: Rolando Rodríguez, Alejandro Brianza, Tonalli R. Nakamura, Manuel Zirate, Edison Vaca.
INVOCACIONES [Gabriela Mistral]
Jessica Rodriguez
INVOCACIONES is a series of performances mixing live coding and electronic literature practices with the idea of summoning women poets through her own voices and words.
For this performance, I made a re-interpretation of Gabriela Mistral’s recording “País de la ausencia”, a poem that explores ideas around territory and identity. By mixing live coding with e-poetry practices, the pieces intends to make a re-interpretation of the poem exploring the possible cacophonies created by the author’s own voice and words.
Languages used: Tidal Cycles (voice and cello samples) + pre-recorded video.
Jessica A. Rodríguez [México-Canada] is a Multimedia artist, designer and researcher. She is currently studying a doctorate program in Communications, New Media, & Cultural Studies at McMaster. Her practice and research projects focus on audiovisual practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, sound art, visualization/sonification, live coding, among others, collaborating with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists. She is co-founder of andamio.in, a collaboration platform that uses digital and analogue technologies to explore with text, visuals, and audio. She is also part of RGGTRN, a collective that engages in algorithmic dance music and audiovisual improvisation informed by Latinx experiences. (https://andamio.in/ ) (Social Media https://www.facebook.com/ariannerod)
Ingrid Mayrhofer
He looked around and nodded
sights and sounds of early morning in the bathroom.
Ingrid Mayrhofer (BFA, MA, York University) is a visual artist, curator, art educator and community arts practitioner. Born and raised in Austria, she has exhibited in Canada, Austria, Korea, Japan, Serbia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba and Chile. In addition to her double major media of printmaking and photography, Mayrhofer has worked with installation, site-specific intervention and video.
Katherine Diemert
Windows
Windows is a two-part installation and 3D simulation focusing on light captured in frames within frames. Footage of a sunny sky was filmed and then projected onto a curtain of silk blowing in the wind. This scene was filmed, and then reprojected out onto the same curtain. This process looped further and further, creating frames within frames. In the second part, the resulting videos were then mapped onto a 3D simulated cloth curtain, reminiscent of the original scene, and then rendered out in video.
Katherine Rae Diemert is a visual artist based out of Hamilton, Canada. She makes visual and interactive mixed media work inspired by natural forms and artificial processes. Katherine often begins with drawing or collage, developing work through a process of translation and iteration between mediums. She layers software, motion, assemblage, and installation to transform images and materials. Katherine studied Illustration at Sheridan College (BA, Honors, 2015), and at The School for Poetic Computation (2019). Currently, she teaches at Sheridan while working on ongoing projects. (kdrae.com; instagram.com/k.d.rae)
Lucille Kim
Asleep in Sleeplessness
A bed—it seems so peaceful and healing. However, when the space of one’s mind is the opposite, this bed that once presented sleep as within a soft reach becomes distant and empty.
Lucille Kim, born in 1992, is a Cambodian-Canadian artist based in Hamilton. She received an HBA in Art & Art History at the University of Toronto specializing in drawing and photography. Past-present states and subtle narratives emerging from memory bring forth a history about war and its effect upon the human body. Various examinations about national identities, family, and pain and healing have also led her to work prominently in video and sound. Kim’s works have exhibited at Xpace Cultural Centre, Bunker 2, Factory Media Centre, and Ace Art Inc. (www.lucillekim.com, Instagram @lucillekim_artist)
Robert Ezergailis
Meet You Last Summer
Meet Me Next Summer is part of a body of experimental, abstract, video works, made entirely in autumn 2020. Have screened experimental works at The Factory, HFF, Cinecycle, etc.
Streetscapes: Law, Politics, Brain
Law, Politics, Brain is one of a series of short video bits that I have shot with one or another palm corder, somewhere at some time. This was older footage, 2006, rediscovered and edited into a short 2020.
Active in the Hamilton fringe and underground arts scene, as an organizer, poet, media artist, installation and sometimes performance artist since 1995. One of the founding members of The Factory. What we need are arts groups that actually do art. Collaborations. Conspiracies.
Ryan Ferguson
伏見稲荷アップダウン (Fushimi Inari: Up and Down)
Fushimi Inari is one of the most photographed places in the world, the distinct Torii gates and colours are a staple on Instagram feeds. Most of these photographs are taken in the first 300 meters of the over 4km the path through the Torii gates travels. Captured on B&W Super8 film, 伏見稲荷アップダウン is comprised of over 2,500 still images travelling the full length of the temple’s main path presenting the world heritage site as more than a social media post.
Ryan Ferguson is a musician, visual artist and curator from Hamilton, Ontario. Working in a mix of analog and digital technologies, his work across mediums expresses a sense of nostalgia and loss. Fragments in Rounds (2015 – ongoing) is a project across mediums that explores the idea of memory not as a factual historical record but as a collage of sounds, images, feelings and perspectives that over time blur into what we as individuals believe to be the truth of the moment from which the memory originates. (electroluminescent.ca, @elecluminescent @electroluminescent)
Sandra Lim
Park Episodes
This work is part of series of short archival interventions, which take my family’s home movies and position them in relation to national archives of the post war period and beyond, into the 1960’s and 70’s.
Sandra Lim is a part time lecturer at Ryerson University in Toronto where she teaches courses on Politics and Film. She is also an established media artist working in the field of Artists’ Film and Video. She began making documentary video art on the subject of urban space as a PhD student in 2006; mentored by the pioneering British video artist Mick Hartney. Her work is influenced by European avant-garde, experimental and British Artists’ film and video.
j a r s hooch
Box Opening Video (Pt 1)
A “LIVE-HAND PUPPET” IS A HAND PUPPET, WHICH IS A HAND INSIDE A TINY PUPPET AND OPERATED BY THE PUPPET. A MARIONETTE IS A SINGLE FINGER, AND OPERATED BY INSERTING ONE’S HAND PUPPET, WHICH IS AN OBJECT, OFTEN SPEAKS IN SOME CASES THE PUPPET’S “MOUTH.”
j a r s is a hairy creature born in the northern outpost of winnipeg, and resides in the industrial metropolis of what is currently known as hamilton, ontario. they have multiple degrees and various accolades, many of which are completely fictional. j a r s is a prolific maker, and more than anything loves to create weird and queer thing-objects.
j a r s is partners with a strange, lovely weirdo who goes by the name of Resni. oftentimes they make very gay things together <3 (Website www.jarseswebsite.com; Social Media @jarshooch)
Roberto Santaguida
The Universe According to Dan Buckley
In the beginning, there was nothing. You can get nothing easily.
Since completing his studies in film production at Concordia University, Roberto Santaguida’s films and videos have been shown at more than 300 international festivals. He has also taken part in artist residencies in numerous countries, including Iran, Romania, Germany, Norway, and Australia. Roberto is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.
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