Aaron Pollard Roberto Santaguida The Moving Image within Contemplative Spaces
© Roberto Santaguida, National Asian Culture Center, South Korea, 2022. Photo : Jeong Ran
The workshop is currently full, but you may signal your interest via the waiting list here.
Made possible thanks to the support of REPAIRE and the financial support of the Quebec Government, via the Intervention-Compétences program, managed by Compétence Culture.
The workshop The Moving Image within Contemplative Spaces aims to explore the presentation of time-based work in gallery or museum settings while considering the influence of cinematic, televisual and social media languages on video installation. Over the three days of training, we will address the concepts of contamination and of collusion, seeing them as both problems and generative forces in the exploration of audiovisual installation possibilities.
Led by artists Aaron Pollard and Roberto Santaguida, the workshop will prioritize discussions on the aesthetic, political and technical implications of moving image installations. The technical aspects of material generation (such as image and sound acquisition) will be prepared by the trainers in advance, so as to leave more time to concentrate on the placement and juxtaposition of audiovisual materials and the modalities of broadcasting audiovisual installations as such for the duration of the workshop.
The workshop will also briefly address the question of sound spatialization in video installations. Participants will have the opportunity to explore spatialization through a simple stereo panorama or through the strategic placement of speakers in a space, as well as other strategies such as the generation of intelligible cacophony at low volume, localized audio playback and so on.
© Roberto Santaguida, National Asian Culture Center, South Korea, 2022. Photo : Jeong Ran
Aaron Pollard is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal who has been producing and presenting video art and multimedia performances since the early 1990s. His works have been shown in Canada and abroad. He studied at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Concordia University, where he completed an MFA. He is the co-founder of 2boys.tv. He was researcher and head of OBORO’s multimedia sector for 20 years.
Since completing his studies in film production at Concordia University, Roberto Santaguida’s films and videos have been shown at more than 300 international festivals. He has also taken part in artist residencies in numerous countries, including Iran, Romania, Germany, Norway, and Australia. Roberto is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.
