45 years later, the sites and sound of Biggs’ NFB film are re-visited and re-heard as a 16mm film installation.
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45 years later, the sites and sound of Biggs’ NFB film are re-visited and re-heard as a 16mm film installation.
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AKVK is Steve Bates, Joshua Bonnetta and Douglas Moffat.
The exhibition GHOST ACOUSTICS is open from
February 15 to March 21, 2010
at the FOFA Gallery in Montreal.
STEVE BATES is a media artist, musician, and audio technician whose work revolves around improvised and composed music, radio, and installation projects. He founded and directed the Send +Receive Festival of Sound, now in its eleventh year. Bates is the Sound Coordinator at the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and is a graduate candidate in Studio Arts/Open Media at Concordia University.
JOSHUA BONNETTA was born in Oshawa, Ontario 1979. His body of work has exhibited cinematically, as installation and as live performance. He has shown in Russia, Columbia, U.K., Canada, Ireland, U.S., South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. In 2009 he was awarded the National Film Board of Canada award for Best Emerging/Mid-career Canadian Film and Video Maker at Toronto's Images Festival. His practice combines sound and various forms of animation to consider the construction of representation within the cinematic image. He has an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University.
DOUGLAS MOFFAT explores the relationship between sound and the built landscape. Working with field recording, electroacoustics and landscape architecture, his projects are spaces built for listening. Trained as a landscape architect, he completed his MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. His graduate thesis project, The Love Song Effect explored the sonic environment of the Las Vegas Strip. He has presented works at the Jardin de Métis Festival international de jardins and the Send + Receive Festival.
