This is a job for a qualified documentary video artist / filmmaker with a strong affinity for documenting real-time artistic performance in inventive and new formats.
This position is open to currently enrolled students.

Tasks:
– Unobtrusively document research try-outs, rehearsals, discussions and performances at and around matralab projects.
– Edit the footage and produce documentary videos and promotional video clips. Working knowledge of FinalCut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor is an asset.
– Produce promotional and informational DVDs on matralab research.
– Occasionally participate in research projects as a video artist yourself.

Required qualifications:
– Professionally relevant experience in above tasks.
– Able to work precisely, quickly and efficiently, sometimes to tight deadlines.
– Artistic vision and openness to unconventional approaches to documentation.

Location/Equipment:
Matralab is equipped with basic video documentation equipment.
Additional and high-end video equipment can be accessed through Hexagram.

Time Requirements:
This job is ongoing, but the assistant will need to adapt to Prof. Bhagwati’s schedule requirements that may include short-notice and weekend work (e.g. around deadlines).

– Short intense work sessions approx. once a month, otherwise low-key background work.
– Between 0-15hrs per week, depending on the research situation.
– If collaboration proves fruitful, the weekly time budget could be stabilized. All to be agreed upon individually on an ongoing basis.

Pay:
Depending on the applicants’ qualification, engagement and efficiency of work.
Concordia rates for Graduate Research Assistants (ca. $17 incl.) will be applicable as a minimum during a try-out phase of 6 weeks.
Later rates to be discussed individually.

Please submit a letter of introduction, an up-to-date CV, and a sample of your video work on DVD in a package to:
matralab
EV 4.520

Deadline: Monday, September 26, 2011 by 5:00pm

Contact: Jane Tingley

Adam Basanta’s “feelings I’m too tired for” won 1st prize in the 2011 edition of the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers in the Pierre Mercure category (compositions for solo and duet with or without electronics).
The interactive composition for Bass Clarinet and electronics was created at matralab, and performed by Krista Martyns.

for more information on the award and fellow winners see SOCAN foundation’s media centre at: http://socanfoundation.com/english/socan_foundation.html

Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.

A selection of videos from Karen Zalamea’s WORK WORK WORK series is exhibited in The Art Marathon Festival, an annual summer arts festival organized by Eastern Edge Gallery.

The week-long event features workshops, video screenings, a performance marathon, an evening of artist talks, as well as the 24 hour marathon of live art making with live music venues.
Participating artists include Andrea Carvalho, Donzelle (Roxanne Arsenault, Michelle Lacombe, Skye Maule-O’Brien), Natasha Kudashkina, Thesis Sahib (James Kirkpatrick) and Colette Urban.

The Art Marathon Festival
St. John’s, Newfoundland
August 14 – 21, 2011

For more information about the festival: http://www.easternedge.ca/

Karen Zalamea is a research assistant at matralab.

Jane Tingley’s Plant(iPod)Installation is presently being exhibited at the TransLife: Triennial for New Media Art curated by Zhang Ga at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.

The second edition of this triennial presents 53 works created by more than 80 artists from twenty countries. The exhibition will also display the work of several emerging artists in a large-scale installation designed by the cutting-edge Chinese architect Ma Yansong. This ambitious undertaking is unquestionably among the most significant media arts events of the year.

Organized around a three part theme, the artistic projects selected for TransLife invite one to reflect on ideas pertaining to life, on ethical questions arising in the field of genetics, on conditions which impact perception and sensory experience, as well as on the ecological solutions which are available to the human species in this era of great challenges.

For the TransLife exhibition, Groupe Molior is presenting three major installations created by Canadian artists: Knight of Infinite Resignation by Diane Landry, Plant (iPod) by Jane Tingley, and JND (Just Noticeable Difference) by Chris Salter in collaboration with Marije Baalman and Harry Smoak.

For more information about the exhibition:
http://mediartchina.org/overview

Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.

Affirming Collaboration: Community and Humanist Activist Art in Québec and Elsewhere / Célébrer la collaboration : Art communautaire et art activiste humaniste au Québec et ailleurs will be launched in Montreal on Monday, June 27, 2011 at La Sala Rossa (4848 Boulevard Saint-Laurent). The event, which will run between 6:00-10:00 PM, is free and open to the public and will include performances by the La Maison La Virevolte choir, the Insurrection chaotique ensemble, and many others.

Affirming Collaboration / Célébrer la collaboration (764 pages + DVD) – co-published by Engrenage Noir / LEVIER, LUX Éditeur and Detselig Enterprises – is co-edited by Devora Neumark.

Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.

At 7PM on June 22, 2011 Adam Basanta will present an experimental version of “object / field”, a light and sound environment, as part of Data: Salon IX, Eastern Bloc, 7240 Clark, 2nd floor, Montreal, QC.

http://www.easternbloc.ca

Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.

On June 17, 2011 Adam Basanta presented a paper entitled “Tracing Conceptual Structures in Listener Response Studies”, detailing methodology and analysis of a recent listener response study, at EMS2011, NYC.

http://www.ems-network.org/ems11/conference.html

Adam Basanta is a research assistant at matralab.

This past year has been exceptionally active and successful for matralab.

On June 7, artists and researchers who have worked at matralab over the past year will present and discuss their work in a day-long celebration of matralab activities.

Visitors are welcome. A detailed programme will be available on June 6 on this website.

All presentations will take place at matralab (click here for directions)

On June 2, matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati will give an artist talk about his work as a composer at the Cercle Carré Artists Cooperative located at 36 rue Queen in Montréal (near Fonderie Darling). The talk will be followed by discussions and a get-together.

Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.

AGIR / ART OF WOMEN IN PRISON
An exhibition of artworks created in women’s detention facilities
May 27 – June 16, 2011

Free Admission
Eastern Bloc Gallery
7240, rue Clark, 2nd floor
Montreal (De Castelnau Metro)

Presented by the Societé Elizabeth Fry du Québec and Engrenage Noir / LEVIER
Spokespeople for the event: artists Carole Laure & Devora Neumark

http://www.expoagir.com/en_index.html

Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.