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Sign up: https://smallfilemedia.eventbrite.ca
presented by Small File Media Festival and VIVO Media Arts Centre
Registration closes March 19.
9 hours total over 3 sessions, online // $94, or $58 for members
** By donation for those facing reduced income due to COVID-19
Session 1: Sat Mar 20, 10am–1pm
Session 2: Sat Mar 27, 10am–1pm
Session 3: Sat Apr 3, 10am–1pm
All times listed are Pacific Time
Prerequisites & minimum requirements:
Streaming video has an alarmingly high carbon footprint. In response to global warming, the Small File Media Festival challenges media artists to create meaningful works within very small file size limits. Doing so opens up exciting aesthetics and politics, which are the focus of this online workshop.
This workshop will enrich your creative process and approach to media art by challenging you to create an audio-visual work under 10 megabytes and less than 10 minutes. Bring your idea to the group and discuss ways your content and small file size limit can meaningfully inform one another. An overview of software and strategies for making small files will be presented, and their effects compared. Study examples and revise your own project ideas based on the feedback you receive from the instructors and other participants. Help develop new concepts and techniques for small file media making! Between each session, you'll continue researching, editing, and refining your project for further feedback with the group.
You'll be invited to show your small file project at the Small File Media Festival taking place in the summer of 2021. At your discretion, your small file work can also enter Video Out Distribution's collection at VIVO. More info about these can be found at smallfile.ca and videoout.ca or @videooutcollection on Instagram.
During the workshop, participants will be invited to download and install the following free applications as useful additions to their tool kit:
VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.
Laura Marks works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus. Her most recent books are Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (MIT, 2015) and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT, 2010). She programs experimental media for venues around the world. She was a visiting professor in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University in the fall of 2018. As Grant Strate University Professor, she teaches in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, on unceded Coast Salish territory.
Radek Przedpełski is lecturer in media studies and visual culture at Trinity College Dublin, with a background in digital media and sound design. He is co-editor of Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2020. Radek is also a migrant artist working in sound, photography and video.
