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The Alternator Media Arts Centre offers members access to a video production facility and strives to organize an annual masters level workshop, commissioning projects and a media festival.

  • GeotagArt.com

    June 10 - October 31, 2011 

    GeotagArt.com offers a location-based art experience to a wireless audience. GeotagArt.com invites you to visit the Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park and check-in to... more

  • G74 - Alternator Music and Media Arts Festival

    July 31, 2010 

      A nightclub experience featuring  interactive media-based visual art (audio, video, 3D, lights, performance) and musical guest DJs. Media artists... more

  • Chatter and Whirr Unleashed

    February 6 and 7, 2009 

    BC Festival of Artist-Run Culture Chatter and Whirr is a winter festival celebrating artist-run culture in BC. An initiative of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run... more

  • Fault Lines

    2008 

    A new commissioning project, Fault Lines, is supporting local production of seven short videos about the evolution of media communication. Participants include Alternator... more

  • On Common Ground

    June 10 - 15, 2008 

    The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, in partnership with the Independent Media Arts Alliance, the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition, the Ullus Collective... more

  • Video Salon - 2008

    Curated by Joanne Gervais 

    The videos selected for the salon represent the increasingly hybrid nature of our culture and the diverse and often marginalized perspectives within it. These works... more

  • Mother Tongue

    Curated by Cherie Stocken - 2008 

    Featuring:   Class Clown by RoseAnne Archibald TBA by Melanie Rands $4 Indian by Darlene Naponse (2:00) Black Pearl by Lonnie Hutchinson (2:00) Me+D=Ahh... more

  • Video Salon - 2006

    February 11, 2006. Curated by David Ross 

    Video Salon Ontologies The video salon Ontologiesfeatures artists who deal with the nature of being and reality. Their explorations are situated within various... more

  • Portraits and Landscapes

    Curated by David Ross - 2005 

    Hanan Harchol (New York / Israel) has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited at the Jersey City Museum, the Chicago Cultural Centre... more

  • Temporal Transmissions

    DVD catalogue - 2005 

    Jayce Salloum, Dana Claxton, Randy Grskovic, Portia Priegert, Patrick Connelly, Karen Tam, Christian Nicolay Video artists explore various aspects of local history... more

  • Under arid conditions

    Video by Donna Szoke - 2004 

    In October 2003, the Alternator Media Arts Centre sought participants for Under Arid Conditions. This video production project focused on the site of the Okanagan as... more

  • Video Salon - 2004

    Curated by: Brian Gotro, Holliby Ross 

    Featuring videos by six artists from Australia, Great Britain, the United States and Canada. Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo (New York) Video Title: Labyrinth. Beck... more

  • Lateral Motion

    Group - 2003 

    Lateral Motion was a series of six locally produced artist videos by 10 artists working as part of the New Video Initiatives Project, which was funded by the Media... more

Call for Submissions : Alternator Artist Co-op

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