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Infinite Sunshine
Infinite Sunshine is a single-channel generative audio-visual work about sunlight and its interplay with water, wind, and sky. Ultra slow-motion video, music, and field recordings are combined using generative principles to produce an endless, non-repeating experience, one that unfolds differently with each viewing. The generative logic driving the work draws from the compositional strategies of Steve…
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Analogue Video Feedback
After years away from my analogue video equipment, I have returned to experimenting with video feedback again. This collection of experiments has been produced with an Edirol V4, a Korg Kaos Pad and a combination of post-production techniques for increasing the resolution and manipulating frame rates. The YouTube Playlist below will be updated periodically with…
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Temporal Lines: Spiralling Time in the Non-Space of VR
Temporal Lines begins with a table and chair in the material world. An audience of one sits at the table, where there is a collection of domestic objects, a metal knob and a VR headset for them to wear. Once wearing the headset they find the identical table and objects represented in the headset. The…
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Vesely à vélo
This video is an experiment in the representation of space as experience. Its near sundown, and a single hand held shot traces the edge of a body of water while riding on a bicycle. The construction of canal walls contains the water and makes the tracing possible. The video is an experiment in collage through…
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Book of Emotions
The Book of Emotions is colorfulThe Book of Emotions is full of shapes,but not always the ones you seeThe Book of Emotions is not really a book This book begins with six of our most basic emotions: sadness; happiness; anger; surprise; fear and disgust. These six emotions inspired six pictures. These pictures make up half…
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Library and Archives Canada Public Domain Reels Documenting Spots of Beauty and Interest in Ontario and Quebec Sometime Ago Remix Today [VHS] 19752010
In June 2009, SAW Video commissioned seven media artists to create new video works from public domain materials in the film/video/audio collection at Library and Archives Canada. The result is Public Domain, a program of six new videos that premiered in Ottawa June 23rd, 2010 which toured across North America and Europe in 2011-12.
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Disorganised VJ
Worked as the VJ for many of the wonderful days of the Disorganized parties presented by the legendary Ottawa DJs Jokers of the Scene. From MSTRKRFT to GirlTalk, I had the chance to create visuals for some of the best parties of the early 2000s. Below is one of the DJ VJ mixes we produced…
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Muscles – The Lake (Jokers of the Scene VJ Dub)
Made a promotional VJ Dub for the Jokers of Scene Remix of The Muscles track The Lake.
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Bright Lights, Big City
In 2009, I was commissioned to create an audio visual experience during Nuit Blanche. One of the first artist to get access to the new lighting on the CN Tower. Bright Lights, Big City synchronized the lighting system on the CN Tower to a radio broadcast on CIUT. It was visible throughout the city all…
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Motel to Motel
Video by Véronique Couillard and Ryan Stec 6 min 59 sec (2005) Motel to Motel is an experimental travelogue back dropped against the slowly eroding nostalgic atmosphere of the roadside motel. The work blends experimental and documentary approaches with photographic and cinematic influences as it follows a couple through cool and playful snapshots of green…
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dead end job
dead end job was created using a surveillance camera system connected to a digital video mixer. Using the movement of the urban environment surrounding the surveillance system as the launching point the video mixer helps move the images into a blurry dreamscape. Feedback and colorization techniques turn buildings into rivers of architectural shapes as the…
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Jolly Fat Men: a documentary about season on the Christmas throne
Jolly Fat Men (1999) a documentary about life on the throne. Produced, directed and edited by Jacob Hannaand Ryan Stec music by Michael Caffrey staringLen MorinAl PageMarc Bertin Made possible with funding support from: SAW Video and the National Film Board of Canada