mIXED TAPE: Banff Summer Arts Festival Wrap Party
August 28 • 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Bison Courtyard and Bison Mountain Bistro, 211 Bear St., Banff • Free
Presented as part of the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival
The Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) will bring live performances by multimedia artist Jackson 2bears and a film screening by “hobo filmmaker” Bill Daniel to the Bison Mountain Bistro on Bear Street on August 28, part of the day-long mIXED TAPE: Banff Summer Arts Festival Wrap Party.
Each year, (BNMI) opens up its Interactive Screen program, a gathering to discuss the current and future state of new media, to the general public for an evening of performance and celebration as part of the Banff Summer Arts Festival. This year’s theme is “Sustain” – a gathering of artists, producers and technologists who work at the intersection of art and ecology and digital activism.
A Ph.D. student at the University of Victoria, 2bears has exhibited his multimedia works in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally at media arts festivals, while Daniels, an active filmmaker and photographer for over 20 years, creates projects that range from large-scale traveling photo exhibitions and video installations, to an eco-activist video ‘zine called Toxxic City Video Dispatch.
In celebration of The Banff Centre’s 75th anniversary, BNMI has expanded the annual event into a day-long affair at the Bison Courtyard that will include the locative media tour Footnotes by Calgary-based artist Kay Burns. There will also be access to Horizon Zero (BNMI's online magazine dedicated to digital culture), and WHO WE ARE (an NFB-produced website created by Montréal’s Kung Fu Numerik that presents a vast interactive mosaic of video portraits of immigrants to Canada).
There will also be screenings of selected BNMI co-productions, screenings of Late Fragment produced by the Canadian Film Centre in co-production with the National Film Board, screenings of the DVD-ROM portrait and archive Digital Snow about the work of celebrated Canadian artist Michael Snow, created by Montréal’s studio ÉPOXY, and access to the Friend or Foe ? exhibition by artist Steve Wollard in the Botega Salon & Gallery.
The Bison Courtyard, a project of Arctos + Bird, is on Bear Street between Caribou and Wolf Streets in Banff.
For more information about the 2008 Banff Summer Arts Festival:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bsaf/
