BNMI Co-Production Archives 'G'

Geographiti

While some consider graffiti to be an art form, others see it as vandalism. This project proposes the idea of geographiti as a resolution to this dilemma. The geographiti project proposes a creative application for a Global Positioning System (GPS) that, in essence, will allow the artist, and tomorrows’ networked mobile users, to post digital graffiti to a virtual scale map of the earth. Geographiti is a mobile location service for sending and receiving files over wireless networks that enables users to leave virtual messages in real space by encoding the files with geographic positioning. With a wireless connection to a database server, this project uses waypoint coordinates to create an invisible layer of graffiti over the surface of the globe.

Co-producer: Marc Tuters (Montreal, Canada), 2002
Format: Wireless Interactive Media

Ghost of Industry

This website is part of a series of productions, to seek different modes of representing the relationships between physical culture, time, and interpretation. This interactive website draws the visitor into a self-paced encounter with the artefacts of Bitumount, Alberta. Utilizing Flash and streamed media, the visitor is able to activate still images, which in turn launch vignettes of sound, text, and moving images. The visitor is invited to explore the past as an active participant, behind the physical remains of the present.

Co-producer: Kurtis Lesick and Jason Lee (Calgary, Canada), 2001
Format: Website

Global Telelanguage Resources –

The GTR Language Workbench
Global Telelanguage Resources is an ongoing experimental art project directed by two artists/writers who work exclusively in digital media. The primary objective of this work is to explore different theoretical and aesthetic directions in digital technology for both the field of writing and literary production/distribution. The GTR Workbench is best understood as the first genuine digital studio for language, essentially a digital writing tool able to perform transformative, generative and analytical functions on natural language texts. Technically, this project means to explore how creative writing might take advantage of digital processing applications to create new and innovative forms of literary art, electronic or otherwise.

Co-producers: Andrew Klobucar and David Ayre, (Vancouver, Canada), 2004
Format: Software, Research and Development

The Goddess Within

The Goddess Within is a television documentary following the work of two renowned artists, Hunter Reynolds and Maxine Henryson. The two New York based artists collaborate on both performance and photography for their project titled “IDEA: The Goddess Within”. Their unique guerrilla style performances, staged in both Europe and the United States, challenge viewers to consider notions of gender representation and aspects of spirituality. Over their ten-year collaboration Reynolds and Henryson have been met with responses from exhalation to pure homophobic hatred. This documentary helps to further expose questions of a political, personal,
cultural, and gendered nature.

Co-producer: Robert Sauvey and Shawn Watson (Winnipeg, Canada), 2001
Format: Video, Length: 51 minutes

Golden Rush

A documentary of quirky rural life, this film explores the challenges of small towns indebted to corporate entities for economic survival. Set against the mythical background of the Kootenay Valley, this documentary explores the transitions taking place in Golden B.C., a working mill town of 5500, nestled between Rocky Mountain ranges at the headwaters of the Colombia River. Even small town Golden cannot elude the tendrils of globalization - a stranger has come to town. An international engineering conglomerate has set up shop just past the town's doorsteps. For the residents of Golden the outside world an feel far away, but it just gets closer and closer.

Co-producer: Chris Lockhart and Peter Chrzanowski (Vancouver, Canada), 2003
Format: Video, Length: 52 minutes

Gravity and Grace

Experimental filmmaker, culture critic, novelist, and publisher Chris Kraus joined the Banff New Media Institute in co-production of this feature length video. A drama exploring parallel lives and UFO cult, Krauss unravels with charm and complexity the forces that drive us to excessive belief and millennialism. Shot both in New Zealand and New York City, the film is also about girlfriends: Grace, the beautiful Maori, and Gravity, who was driven, though to nothing in particular. Thematically, this film explores the complicated responses of intelligent people to
the need for faith.

Co-producer: Chris Kraus (Los Angeles, United States), 1995
Format: Video, Length: 70 minutes

Gugging, The Artists’ House

The Artists’ House at Gugging is part of a psychiatric complex near Vienna, Austria which is inhabited strictly by artists, providing them with the opportunity to follow their artistic pursuits while enjoying the benefits of community life and psychiatric care. Since their first exhibition in 1970, the Gugging artists have become famous throughout the world. With work featured in more than 200 exhibitions in museums and galleries from New York to Tokyo, Gugging artists are considered among the most celebrated artists in the field of Art Brut. This video introduces us to the everyday life of artists at the house, its purpose and its unique concept.

Co-producer: Anne-Marie Rocher (Montreal, Canada), 1996
Format: Video, Length: 48 minutes