ongoing 2010
//REACT2010.com
Curated by Jason Baerg, Jennifer Pickering and Arthur Schwimmer
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The Alternator is engaging artists and the global community in a creative cultural conversation about the values surrounding the Olympics. REACT2010.com is a dynamic medium for creative expression that we hope will lead to an examination & appreciation of diverse cultural values. Utilizing the medium of your choice, we invite you to react to the values you see expressed in the Olympic Games. REACT2010.com provides the platform to display your art to the world.
On February 1 the REACT2010 curatorial team will select the work of four artists from the REACT2010 website to participate in a group exhibition at the Alternator in Kelowna BC from February 12 - March 20, 2010. Selected artists will receive CAR/FAC artist fees.
The Alternator gratefully acknowledges generous project support from the Central Okanagan Foundation.
*This is not an official project of the Olympic Games
Nous invitons les artistes et la communauté mondiale à s'engager dans un échange créatif et artistique entourant les valeurs mises de l'avant par les Jeux Olympiques. REACT2010.com est un médium dynamique qui encourage l’expression créative et qui, nous l'espérons, mènera vers un examen et une appréciation des diverses valeurs culturelles. Nous vous encourageons à réagir avec la discipline de votre choix aux valeurs inhérentes aux Jeux Olympiques. REACT2010.com constitue une vitrine mondiale pour diffuser votre art.
Lancement Olympique : le vendredi 12 février 2010
The Alternator remercie le Central Okanagan Foundation pour sa générosité et son appui au projet.
*Ceci n’est pas un projet officiel des Jeux Olympiques
July 17, 2010
//Wearable Art Gala
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Self-expression and extravagance reigned at the Alternator's Wearable Art Gala in 2009, as a huge, diverse and daring crowd took in the sold-out theatre show and over 200 partygoers danced late into the night, making it the Alternator's most successful event ever.
The gears are now turning in preparation for the Alternator's 7th Annual Wearable Art Gala coming July 17, 2010. This fun and funky adult event is not a fashion show in the traditional sense - it's an artistic exploration of all types of body adornment. New categories include Indigenous culture, the art of light, dark art, cyber art, emancipation and freestyle.
July 17 - 25, 2010
//G74 Festival
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In the hot summer month of July, Alternator will launch its second annual Music and Media Arts Festival. On the heels of the huge success of Chatter and Whirr Unleashed held in 2009, this multi-day event will feature a fleet of mobile media arts trailers and a nightclub style closing party. DJs will create a lounge-friendly backdrop of groovy Electronic music perfect for mingling, art and dancing.
Three new media artists have been commissioned to create work for the mobile fleet of media art trailers including: Kenneth Newby, Chris Bose and Tim Fehr.
Chris Bose (N'laka pamux artist from Kamloops). Bose is a creator, rebel, disruptor of the established order and, most of all a survivor. A writer, multi-disciplinary artist, musician and filmmaker, he has read and performed at Universities, theatres and coffeehouses at all points from Victoria to Montreal, as well as at the BC Festival of the Arts and the Word on the Street Festival in Toronto.
Tim Fehr (Kelowna). Experimental audio and video artist, Fehr is the founder of spellcast studio and productions. His work combines audience interaction with experimental music video, original composition and performance.
Kenneth Newby (Vancouver) Newby is a Canadian composer, performer and media artist. His art and research involve explorations in computational poetics, theorizing the role of encoded practices in new media, cultural encoding and the development of interactive and generative techniques for the composition, sonification, visualization, and spatialization of media performances and installations. Recently completed works include a major interactive audiovisual installation work exhibited at the Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, California, in 2008. His work has been presented at the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival's Interactive Futures, the Belef Festival in Belgrade and the Elektra Festival in Montreal 2006.
Mobile Festival: July 17-25, 2010
Closing party: July 25, 2010
