A Scan of Popular CDMLA Resources

About

This listing offers researchers a quick scan of fonds, people, organizations, and events related to our most popular research requests. This guide is representative, not exhaustive. SVES has a long history of engagement with an extraordinary number of communities in addition to its own programming.  Only a portion of that history and resources is represented here. We encourage all researchers to contact us at library@vivomediaarts.com for assistance with your research.

How To Use

You can start by browsing  our GENERAL RESOURCES or narrow your search by identifying people and organizations of interest in MEDIA ART + ACTIVISM + COMMUNITIES. Search the Video Catalogue for video descriptions.

How to View Video

As an artist-run centre, we support artists’ copyright and artist fees so many videos cannot be made freely available online. Researchers who wish to view videos should contact library@vivomediaarts.com

Many videos are in active distribution through Video Out. You can see preview excerpts of 189 of these at VUCAVU. Full works are available on-demand.

BIPOC

Fonds

Significant BIPOC Content

CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium
A multidisciplinary, intersectional, music and electronic art symposium working with women and non-binary artists.

First Nations Video Collective
An Intensive Video Production course in Vancouver, 1997. Fonds nclude documentation of the activities of its predecessors First Nations Video Apprenticeship Program and First Nations Acces Program.[1991-1998]

BIPOC Content

Sara Diamond fonds
Women’s Labour History Project oral histories and related labour research; Media Art research; personal library. [1977-]

Prisoners’ Rights Group
Claire Culhane, prison abolitionist, interviews with prisoners. [1977-1981]

BIPOC-driven Programs

thirstDays – Imminent Future – Safe Assembly – Asian New World –  – Indigenous Media Arts Group  – In Visible Colours – Yellow Peril: Reconsidered – Black Men In America: Changing Reality? – Image Representation and Directing Workshop for Women in Film, Video & Photography – The Priapic Black Stud – Explorations of Black Body – Exploding Images of Black Masculinity –

Event Series with BIPOC artists 

thirstDays – Vancouver Independent Archives Week – Video Communication – Sticky Impulse Archive Nights – Signal & Noise Festival – Destroy Vancouver Series – Spatial Poetics –  Cue Up – Deluding Documentary – Vancouver Mayworks Festival –

Organizations + Centres

Artists & Activists

BPOC: Taki Bluesinger – Shu Lea Cheang – Hwa Cho – Stan Douglas – Andrea Fatona – Shalhevet Goldhar – Thomas Allen Harris – Harou Higuma – Jay Hirabayashi – Amanda Hughes – Jae Woo Kang – Fumiko Kiyooka – Hakudo Kobayashi – Ken Kuramoto – Peter Karuna – Kunsang Kyirong – Laiwan – Helen Lee –  Meesoo Lee – Harkeerat Singh Mangat’ – Pia Massie – Asa Mori – Cindy Mochizuki – Hitoshi Momura – Shani Mootoo – Ko Nakajima – Jennifer Kawaja – Fujiko Nakaya – Cecily Nicholson – David Ohdiambo – Pratibha Parmar – Emilio Rojas – Jayce Salloum – Valerie Soe – Jeremy Isao Speier – Leila Sujir – Ho Tam – Kazumi Tanaka – Nicole Thompson – Henry Tsang – Hirohisa Tsuda – Zainub Verjee – Casey Wei – Paul Wong – Winston Xin – Nimalan Yoganathan Bruce & Norman Yonomoto – Wayne Yung – INDIGENOUS: Rebecca Belmore – Thirza Cuthand – Ruth Cuthand – Dana Claxton – Bracken Hanuse Corlett – Frederick Cummings – James Diamond – Nitanis Desjarlais – San Dee Doxtador – Terry Haines – Annie Frazier Henry – Margo Kane – Zacharias Kunuk – Zachery Longboy – Michael MacDonald – Archer Pechawis – Cleo Reece – Loretta Todd – Two Rainbows – Russell Wallace – – Cease Wyss – Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun –

COMMUNITY CABLE +
RADIO

Fonds

Gayblevision
Metro Media
Women In Focus
Woman Alive [VSW]
Instead of Prisons [PRG]
Amelia Productions [SDA]
Spacific Enigma [LN]
TBA TV

Vancouver community cable programs in Special Collections

Artist Cable Projects

Byron Black Infinity Studio – The Gina Show – Hummer TV – Television Spots – Amazing Powers

Cable Stations / Shows

Vancouver Cable 10 – Cable West – – Calgary Cable – National Cablevision – Tsuyama Cable – Campbell River TV Association – Nelson  TV – Education Television of Ontario – Heiltsuk Community TV – West Kootenay TV – Co-op Radio

Artist TV

Keeping the Home Fires Burning Series [Sara Diamond/Women’s Labour History Project & Knowledge Network]

Tele-Video

Collection

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission [CRTC]

Metro Media Society [LHA sous-fonds]
CRTC Publications/Correspondence- Metro Media Research & Recommendations

Video Inn [SVES] – Metro Media
Video documentation of presentations to the CRTC, c1970s.

U.S. TV Projects

Video Freex -Paper Tiger Television – Downtown Community Television – Deep Dish TV – Coos County TV -KQED-TV – WGBH-TV – Double Helix Corporation – Experimental TV Centre New York –

International TV Projects

Birmingham Film & Television Workshop – Com-Com TV

FEMINIST

Fonds

Sara Diamond
Margaret Dragu
Mary Anne McEwen
Meg Torwl
CURRENT 
Women In Focus
Vancouver Status of Women 

Special Collections with explicit feminist content. Feminist artists and content can be found across all CDMLA resources.

Collectives or Projects

Reel Feelings Media -Kiss & Tell Collective- Venice Women’s Film Collective – Women’s Involvement Program – ISIS Women’s Film and Video – Los Angeles Women’s Communications Collective – Speak Out Productions – The Media Mothers – Press Gang Publishers

Events

Women, Art & the Periphery/Mujer, arte y periferia – Women & West Coast Labour

Artists & Activists

A majority of the women-identified producers in our collection also identify as feminist.  Please use our general resources. If you are looking for a specific producer, you can use the search bar to find references to them on this website.

LGBTQ2S+

Fonds

Special Collections with high LGBTQ2S+ content.

Gayblevision
Joe Sarahan
Mary Anne McEwen
Meg Torwl

Special Collections with important LGBTQ2S+ content.

Sara Diamond
Metro Media
Women In Focus

Finding Aid

Every Queer Thing
A Guide to Archival Materials on Queer Identity & Experiences

A searchable online research tool will direct you to 954 publications/articles, 236 videos and 5 Special Collections at the CDMLA.

Projects & Events

Celebration ’90 Gay Games III
Trans Archival Futures
Dirty Gender Secrets

Artists & Activists

The archive contains a significant number of LGBTQ2S+ producers.  Please use our general resources. If you are looking for a specific producer, you can use the search bar to find references to them on this website. Do check out our  MAAD-LGBTQ2S+ LIst and our Every Queer Thing Finding Aid.

SEXUALITY & CENSORSHIP

BC Context. Contact us for national and US resources.

Fonds

Sara Diamond fonds
Coalition for the Right To View: Artist-initiated anti-censorship, anti-video classification advocacy group, Vancouver. [1987-1991]

Women In Focus
Anti-Pornography slide & sound show and videos.[c.1970s]

Events

The Heat is On Conference
Visual Evidence

Controversies

Confused: Sexual Views [Paul Wong vs VAG]

BC Artists & Activists

Marion Barling – Lorna Boschman – Gary Bourgeois – Maureen Bradley – Gina Daniels – Sara Diamond – Kiss & Tell Collective – Karen Knights – Andrew Power – Jeanette Reinhardt – Joe Sarahan – Stokely Seip – Wimmin’s Fire Brigade – Paul Wong –