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‘I Was There Then’, my video has been selected for the Gotta Minute Film Festival 2016! Films in Transit September 26 – October 2,
Article by Linda Hersey, published in the Time & Transcript, July 4,
LAUNCH! MPB-X launched June 9, 2014. Critical Discourse Surrounding Ideas of Portability in Art and Art Dissemination The publication features a foreword by editor Diana Sherlock and is followed by essays from Renato Vitic, Michael McCormack, Daniel H. Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc. The eBook discussions draw from MediaPackBoard (MPB) programming carried out since 2005, in the context of contemporary portable art
Street / Screen Encounter (2012)
No Comments posted in Collaboration,Daniel Dugas,MediaPackBoard,PerformanceWrite up of the MediaPackBoard experience / involvement with the World Portable Gallery Convention, Halifax, NS.
World Portable Galleries Convention 2012 Halifax, NS A collaborative work instigated by Daniel Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc Here is a first glimpse at the project. We will be adding to the documentation. For the WPGC we assembled a bamboo ‘fishing pole’ and hooked up a mini-spy cam to it. Valerie put on the MPB and we stepped out to explore views of the city not readily visible to passersby. We talked with other
The World Portable Gallery Convention 2012 is an international convention on portable galleries and alternative spaces hosted by Eyelevel Gallery during the month of September. The project celebrates the variety of spaces with which curators around the globe have extended public interaction with art institutions. http://www.eyelevel-gallery.tumblr.com/galleries Wednesday, September 5th Opening Reception for WPGC 2012 8pm
Daniel Dugas and I are bringing the MediaPackBoard to EyeLevel Gallery in Halifax to participate in the WPGC 2012! It’s going to be great ! More to come later, in the meantime, here is the
END OF SIGNAL, THE VIEW FROM PEGGY’S COVE (2011)
No Comments posted in MediaPackBoard,Performance,Photography,TelevisionEND OF SIGNAL report for Wednesday, August 27, 2011 – THE VIEW FROM PEGGY’S COVE. Random MPB outings investigate the question of what the viewing audience will lose when the transition* takes place. This evening the MediaPackBoard set out from Halifax to catch non-satellite, non-cable television at this world famous Nova Scotia location. Arriving and setting up at dusk, the MPB was unable to receive any coherent
MPB CELEBRATES THE END OF TELEVISION AS WE KNOW IT (August 2011)
No Comments posted in MediaPackBoard,Performance,Photography,TelevisionIn 2005, the MPB stepped out to create and to perform in public spaces. MPB happenings continue with new experiments. In August, MPB has been making the rounds to access television before it will be necessary to purchase a digital-to-analogue convertor box, or to subscribe to cable or satellite TV. “Taking it out to capture analogue Television, I am surprised to see that I am getting a much better signal than I
• MPB Was There Then, Sackville I’m yours, still: a members’ exhibition, Struts, Sackville, NB This is Real One’s own sense of presence, of being here, of being here now, is the exact momentous hinge. Fleeting, racing, flying in reverse, encapsulated pearls of events are dissolved into the universal space as soon as they breathe life. They become strung on the flowing chain of events ordered through the