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More business griping: we placed a furniture order online with Leon's Furniture, and it's been an absolute nightmare. Without getting into the specifics (like why we still don't have our couch 2 months later), here's a useful bit of information, finally, after being refered to the Leons in Ottawa: the number for their head office: 1-800-608-7301.

Why you'd have a 1-800 number, and then not put it anywhere online, I don't know-- but look, problem solved.

Posted by cloo @ 01:26 PM EST [Link]

Tiny videos from CGSA at York!
  Iron Man: I believe that's Dominic Arsenault, Milena Droumeva, (Beth Dillon?), (Trent Cruz?). Sorry, it's dark! And Jim Andrews as the guitar hero.
  Pass or Fail: Video tidbits from Sean Arden's performance.
  Ms. Pac Mondrian: Yes it's Ms. Pac Mondrian herself performing at the Artcade party.

Posted by cloo @ 06:49 PM EST [Link]

The CGSA symposium started yesterday morning at the Tel building at York University. Unfortunately, with 'Artcade' setup and organization taking up most of yesterday, I didn't have the chance to form anything other than an impression of the event so far... so, looseleaf thoughts:

+ It's impressive to see such a large group of researchers attending the event-- you really get the sense of a significant amount of work being done. The range of theoretical interests and projects is impressively diverse: perhaps this is another facet of Canadian 'multiculturalism'. Is this plurality beneficial; or are we just all over the map, with little hope of commonality and exchange? I'll be giving more thought to the multicultural metaphor as the symposium continues...

+ Sean Arden is currently entering {the last hour stretch} of his 24h performance 'Pass or Fail'. Maia Engeli and I came by at 4am to verify the ongoing nature of the performance. That's full value of the work! {note the timestamp is incorrect -- I still had it set to PST. It should read 2:26}
 

+ The Artcade had its opening party last night-- very well attended and active. Probably the highest level of participation I have seen at an interactive exhibition, which is wonderful. Lots of pictures and video to come (once I get back home and have a chance to upload).

+ I am a guitar hero.

Posted by cloo @ 09:26 AM EST [Link]

The Canadian Game Studies Association's symposium Artcade is both an evening social event and an opportunity for Canadian/Canadian-resident game artists to showcase dynamic and diverse game artworks. The CGSA will play host to a range of works including a machinima screening, live performance, game demos and of course playable digital games.

CGSA ARTCADE launch party: Thursday, September 21st, 2006
York University TEL Building
Starts at 7pm
Open to Guests

Here is information on some of the artists scheduled to showcase work/perform/make merry at the Artcade:

   Prize Budget for Boys Calderoids & PacMondrian

   Maia Engeli Dollhouse

   Jim Munroe Pleasure Circuit Overload

   Sean Arden Pass or Fail

  Heather Kelley Lapis

  Lynn Hughes/French Girls group CUBiD

   Jim Andrews Arteroids

  Jonathan Mak everydayShooter

  Myfanwy Ashmore Mario Battle No.1

  yumi -Co. (absent) CuteXdoom

  Barry Smylie (absent) Circ

  Joe McKay (absent) select works

And so my utopian dream of bringing together Canuck art geeks inches onward. In unrelated news, a tiny Mary Flanagan and her giant joystick appear in the print version of September's Edge magazine, giving some legitimacy to its claim as a magazine of videogame culture (which, yes, does go beyond your local EB).

Posted by cloo @ 02:03 PM EST [Link]

Jonah Brucker-Cohen at Concordia University, Montreal, September 11, 2006

The Oboro Gallery is opening an exhibition this Saturday of works by net artist Jonah Brucker-Cohen. As an appetizer (one would imagine) Jonah gave us a talk and intro to his work and methodology yesterday at Concordia's Visual Arts building (the old one). Nice to see some of my favorite pieces such as Police State, and a couple of the other pieces (such as BumpList) made me wish more of the students from the Sociology of Cyberspace course I am TAing this term had come by. A smattering of (strangely disjointed?) questions followed regarding mainstream access and collaborative ownership-- I just enjoyed a moment to think about the collision of real and virtual spaces. The Saturday exhibition opens with a 3pm performance of SimpleTEXT, which if I understand correctly is a collaborative VJing performance.

I wanted to ask how someone who has worked extensively with tangible interfaces saw SimpleTEXT performance-- particularly since performance is commonly quite physical and expressive, and the means of 'performing' in this work is so narrowly bounded (on the surface). But I was just too damn sick-- *snork* -- I'll have to see for myself on Saturday.

Posted by cloo @ 12:12 PM EST [Link]

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