M:ST 4.5 Artists
Jessica Thompson (Toronto)
Bike Hack + Soundride Workshop
7PM, July 30th 2009
The Good Life Community Bike Shop
Bike Hack Workshop + Soundride is a collaborative workshop and mobile sound performance that enables participants to contribute to the acoustic ecology of the city through simple sonic experimentation. During the workshop, participants are invited to construct bicycle-mounted noisemakers made of contact microphones, playing cards and mini amplifiers and to take part in Calgary’s monthly Critical Mass ride happening on July 31 2009.
SOUNDBIKE
July 5th - August 1st, 2009
Available for sign out through The Good Life Community Bike Shop
SOUNDBIKE is a portable sound piece that use motion-based mini-generators mounted to an ordinary bicycle to broadcast the sound of laughter as the bike is pedaled through the urban environment. The laughter is generated by playing sequences of short source clips that start when the bike reaches a cruising speed, and then responds to the bike's velocity. When the piece is engaged, the rider simultaneously occupies the role of controller, performer and audience, creating a mobile performative broadcast that adds a human counterpoint to the acoustic ecology of the city.
TR:AFFIC Residency
July 2009, Various locations
TRUCK CAMPER
This summer TRUCK will present a new residency program: Temporary Resident: Artists for Innovative Contemporary Culture (TR:AFICC) that will be run out of CAMPER, TRUCK’s Contemporary Art Mobile Public Exhibition Rig. During the summer months these residencies will provide a space for artistic exploration and public engagement by three contemporary artists. Thompson will be working out of CAMPER for the month of July and presenting a series of public workshops.
Jessica Thompson is a new media artist whose projects explore social interactions within public space through sound, performance and mobile technologies. Her projects have been shown in exhibitions and festivals such as New Territories, (ARCO 2005, Madrid) MACO, (Mexico City) dp003, (Dundee, Scotland) ISEA 2006, (San Jose, CA) the 2006 Conflux Festival, (New York), Kunsthallen Brænderigården, (Denmark) InterAccess Artist Run Centre, (Toronto) and Video Pool (Winnipeg). Her work is represented by p|m Gallery in Toronto, Canada.
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
P.O. Box 22056 Bankers Hall R.P.O, Calgary, AB CA T2P 5G7
PH. 403.837.6678 email: info@mstfestival.org