REMIXX talkback - youth event

REMIXX talkback
a celebration of youth driven digital culture in Surrey
Thur, Nov 17, 6-9pm
Surrey Art Gallery (Surrey, BC)
13750 - 88 Avenue, 1 block east of King George Hwy.
Tickets: $5 (advance or at door)
Info & Online ticketing: www.arts.surrey.ca (select Theatre Info)

This event is an interactive evening of DJ mixing, electronic music, VJ/audio-visual artistry, and hip-hop dance. Audiences will watch performances and can learn more about these art forms “backstage” including electronic music software, DJ/VJ mixing, sampling and looping techniques and software, and hip hop techniques and tips.

Youth can bring their own digital photos (.jpg or .gif up to 2MB), video (.mov or .avi up to 5MB) and original music samples (.wav or .aif up to 1MB), or just their dance moves to contribute to the jam session.

Featured artists are DJ Eve (www.thekonspiracygroup.com), Connie Jakab (www.shockproductions.ca) and VJ Krunch (www.bluntfaktory.com).

REMIXX.sur.RE
This event is presented in conjunction with the REMIXX.sur.RE youth digital art exhibition, continuing to March 12, 2006. REMIXX.sur.RE uses 700 digital photos, 30 digital video and animation clips, text in five languages and six customized songs and 260 audio clips created by 96 Surrey youth. Its custom-built software engine was designed to produce hundreds of thousands of sound and image compositions from this database. These “remixes” are interactive. They are generated live, on the fly, activated by the movement of visitors. In effect, REMIXX.sur.RE personalizes every visitor’s visual and audio experience.

The exhibition production team configured not only the presentation of the exhibition, but also its system of operation. The project was built during the past summer, in the Gallery’s TechLab. This space, purposed as the youth’s digital media studio, became a hub of training, conversations, computers, conversation, emails, animating and coding (and some drawing and painting on the walls). The production team is Maimoona Ahmed, David Chen, Sylvia Grace Borda, M. Simon Levin, Leonard Paul, Henry Tsang, Jer Thorp, Fiona Lemon and youth volunteers from Surrey.

To learn more about REMIXX.sur.RE, visit www.arts.surrey.ca, select Surrey Art Gallery then Exhibitions-Current.