VIDEO ART YOU CAN DANCE TO
MIXED TAPE: a new style VJ performance by Ryan Stec
For this unique outdoor screening, I reached back into the 70s and 80s generations of video history to create a new viewing experience. This one-time only event was more than just a screening – it was a live set. A taste of some of the best video flavours that history has to offer, reorganized and represented, as have never been seen before.
Mixed Tape was presented by the Available Light Screening Collective in the SAW Complex Courtyard beginning at 9:30 PM on Sunday, July 31st 2005.
Before the rise of the MP3 and the lightning speed of peer-to-peer, the mix tape was how people shared music. Crafted with love and care, music flowed from tape click to tape click, destined for a best friend’s car stereo or a new love’s walkman. Each mix tape was a unique document of, not only the maker’s taste, but also, of a specific time and place. The video program “MIXED TAPE” tries to capture the tape-to-tape spirit that drove millions to record and re-record as new ways to organize the soundtrack for the world around us were discovered.
Also performing under the Sunday, July 31st summer stars in the SAW Courtyard will be the extended members of the CONFIGURE VIDEO SOUND SYSTEM. This ensemble of talented artist-geeks will deliver beautiful live video and audio fit for a perfect long weekend Sunday.
MIXED TAPE Set List:
Jean-Pierre Boyer, L’amertube, 1972
Gordon Monahan (with Bruce Mau), Speaker Swinging, 1987
Eric Cameron, Insertion (an excerpt), 1976
Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Through the Holes, 1981
Philippe Poloni and Daniel Dion, Système des Beaux-Arts, 1981
Rick Raxlen, The Polytechnic World, 1984
The CONFIGURE VIDEO SOUND SYSTEM included artists Stéphanie Brodeur, Sabastien Callender, Michael Caffery, Kerry Campbell, Jacob Hanna, Darsha Hewitt, Chris Ikonomopoulos, Andrew O’Malley, Deborah O’Malley, Neill Petersen and Ryan Stec
AVAILABLE LIGHT SCREENING COLLECTIVE was an Ottawa-based volunteer group devoted to monthly curated presentations of experimental video, film, and new media art in the region. Available Light is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2005 and its current members are: Nikhil Adnani, Carol Breton, Véronique Couillard, Penny McCann, James Missen, Phil Rose and Jason St-Laurent.
