Tue May 18, 2010 00:00 - Thu May 13, 2010

A Triple First:
Studio XX Launches The XX Files Radio Project, First Person Digital Winners & more!

Montreal, May 12th 2010 - Following the creation of Matricules: one of the world's largest online archives of women's digital artworks in 2008, Studio XX will premiere the completion of the archive's Phase II: The XX Files Radio Project on Tuesday, May 18th at McGill University’s Thompson House.

Created over the past year with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Culture Online Strategy, CKUT 90.3 FM, F.A.C.E., Koumbit and Urbanink, The XX Files Radio Project was spearheaded by Project Director Stéphanie Lagueux, media artists Darsha Hewitt, Sara M. Tizhouch and Valérie d. Walker. The project consists of the digitizing and online publishing of The XX Files radio show: a weekly broadcast exploring the digital world from the perspective of women living and working in it.

Originally conceived by Deborah VanSlet and Kathy Kennedy, The XX Files first aired in 1996. Past hosts Anita Cotic, Bérengère Marin-Dubuard and current host and longtime producer Valérie d. Walker have kept the show as current as ever and on the air every Wednesday from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM on CKUT 90.3 FM. Thanks to The XX Files Radio Project, this unique content spanning over 14 years will now be available worldwide for streaming and downloading via the Studio XX Website.

Featuring keynote addresses by New Brunswick-based radio producer and artist Linda Rae Dornan and Montreal cultural historian Jean-Pierre Sévigny, The XX Files Radio Project launch will treat audiences to a simulated broadcast, commissioned thematic podcasts by media artists Guylaine Bertrand, Valérie d. Walker and Britt Wray and the highly-awaited unveiling of Studio XX’s new Website. Videos of recent workshops enabling youth groups to create electronic art will also be screened.

Rounding out this exciting evening, National Film Board Producer Kat Baulu and Studio XX Director General Paulina Abarca-Cantin will present the finalist teams and projects of First Person Digital and the Digital Ludology project. Artworks from these two initiatives are slated to premiere in November 2010 at Studio XX’s HTMlles: Festival of Media Art and Networked Practices.

THE XX FILES RADIO PROJECT LAUNCH
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Thompson House Ballroom: 3650 McTavish

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Media Inquiries: communications.red@gmail.com

First Person Digital is a training and production initiative for women exploring new approaches to storytelling in multimedia produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with Studio XX and with support from Heritage Canada’s Cultural Development Fund. www.firstpersondigital.ca

Digital Ludology is a game art creation initiative produced by Studio XX with support from The Canada Council for the Arts.

Sun Feb 07, 2010 00:00 - Sun Feb 07, 2010

LNL is a live, late night talk show showcasing the diverse, emerging arts & music scene here in Montreal. Our pilot episode will be taped in front of a studio audience on Friday, February 19th from 9pm - 11pm (Doors: 8pm) at Mile End's Coeur de Jeanne Mance Loft, located at 6585 Rue Jeanne-Mance, loft #301 (corner of Beaubien O.)

We have a great lineup of guests and performances planned for the night, so please join us...

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DOORS: 8PM / TAPING STARTS: 9PM sharp / ENDS: 11PM
Hosted by ANNIE BRIARD, featuring:
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JOSEPH BEMBRIDGE: Theatre Actor, Dancer, Writer, Director & Producer. Founder of the Carney Collective, past member of Dance Animal
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FRÉDÉRIC LOURY: Director of Art Souterrain
http://www.artsouterrain.com/
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Montreal Slam Poets THROW! POETRY COLLECTIVE http://throwcollective.wordpress.com
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Musical performance by Montreal's own dynamo Japanese experimentalists DYNAMO COLEOPTERA http://www.dynamocoleoptera.com

Admission is pay what you can ($5 suggested includes a glass of wine). This is a community event and all proceeds go towards the cost of producing future LNL shows.

A big thank you to our sponsors FASA http://fasa.concordia.ca and Barefoot Wine http://www.barefootwine.com
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The video podcast for this pilot episode will be launched at
http://www.latenightintheloft.com so stay tuned!

Media inquiries: latenightintheloft@gmail.com

Sun Jan 03, 2010 00:00

Studio XX's Electronic Journal.dpi issue #17 ::
Call for Proposals :: "Adherence : Messy Resistance

Guest editor-in-chief: Sophie Le-Phat Ho
Deadline for abstracts + bios: *January 3, 2010*
Selected texts must be submitted by: February 7, 2010
Publication date: February 2010

Brought closer to the notion of resistance, that of adherence seems to
function as an antonym: to resist something is to not adhere to it. On
the other hand, to resist, despite what some inventors of
"nonistes"might claim, is also to adhere to something else.

Between the two, the level of adherence can serve to measure the degree
of resistance against institutionalization or cooptation. Adherence can
be resistance's weapon just as it can be its weakness point.

As such, resistance and adherence go hand in hand.

However their opposition is not a given. Indeed, the notion of
resistance_adherence can be seen rather as a process (of everyday life),
a way of doing, of work to be done at every level (at all times). The
choice of the concept of adherence, rather than that of adhesion
(membership), brings forth the possibility of approaching that concept
in terms of degree, of coefficient -- that is, as measure -- and not as
identity. Adherence hence suggests the ideas of a slippery ground, of a
force of attraction, of friction, lubrication, rhythm, viscosity,
entanglement, as well as dexterity, navigation, sharpness -- or in other
words -- art. How can resistance_adherence be addressed in those terms,
that is, not in oppositions but in levels of intensity? How can an
analysis of resistance_adherence lead to a better understanding of
creativity, of autonomy? Indeed, how could tackling the notion of
resistance from the point of view of adherence expose new tracks, new
points of entry?

Studio XX's feminist journal .dpi welcomes essays, critiques,
interviews, and other web-based forms of expression related to the
thematic cross-roads of technology, women, art and society.

As an electronic periodical, .dpi also seeks proposals that make an
interesting use of the Internet. Usually, essays are no longer than
1500-2000 words and columns, 800-1000 words. Other suggestions can also
be acceptable. Selected authors will receive an honorarium for their
contribution ($150 per selected article and $75 per selected column).

Please send your abstract (300 words) and a short bio (100 words) by
January 3, 2009, to: programmation_AT_dpi.studioxx.org

For more information: http://dpi.studioxx.org