PAINTING In VIRTUAL REALITY with the WSO

Get Your Crazy Goggles on

because I'll have mine

Project Whitecard
     presents 
Robert Pasternak in 3D in front of the WSO !

Performing / Creating / Live Imagery in VIRTUAL REALITY to a New Music Composition - Migration Patterns by Christos Hatzis

Saturday - January 28th - 7:30pm  (second half approx. 8:30pm)  Tickets $25

Centennial Concert Hall

CHRISTOS HATZIS,  Composer

www.hatzis.com

ROBERT PASTERNAK, Visual Artist

www.robertpasternak.net

Robert Pasternak (NAK) Visual Artist, father, illustrator, graphic designer, novelty product inventor / manufacturer and filmmaker, spanning the themes of the cosmic, surreal, technological, metaphysical and what it means to be human. He has been creating and exhibiting his art in Winnipeg for almost 40 years. His science fiction illustrations have appeared on Amazing Stories and On Spec magazine, on book covers for Guy Vanderhague and Timothy Findley. In 1994 he won the Aurora award in Canadian Sci-Fi art. His short films have played all over the world, with his first experimental short The Affirmation Of Jimmy Brown being selected for the Venice Film Festival in 2004. In 2012 The Wonderful Worlds of Nak , a documentary by Patric Lowe was produced by MTS. In 2015 he performed on stage alongside his daughter Zorya Arrow in her choreographed  theatrical alt-dance Genetics Project. Also in 2015 The Pasternak Award was formed in his honor by the Central Canada Comics Convention (C4) to be given annually to a local Winnipeg Artist who has given back to the community.

Khal Shariff, Creative Director, CEO of Project Whitecard Inc.

www.projectwhitecard.com

Project Whitecard Inc., is an award-winning creative & technical talent. A much-sought-after speaker at industry and forward-looking events, such as the NASA Virtual Worlds Workshop, Khal Shariff is a MacArthur Foundation recipient for his work in Digital Education as a Primary Investigator through the University of California Irvine. Khal Shariff is an alumni of the Banff Center and includes the Canadian Space Agency and NASA as recent collaborators, for whom Project Whitecard has built several 3D immersive learning environments

New Music Festival Kick-Off

Once again my Film 412222 will be shown here in Winnipeg with an original live score by the eXperimental Improv Ensemble. This time at the kick-off performance of the New Music Festival held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. This is pretty much a repeat outdoor gig from Nuit Blanche held last September, which was very Fantastic. It was a great image and sound performance. But for this event there are also many other performances happening. Check it out!

Kick-Off: Tangle

Friday, January 28, 2011 • 8:00 p.m.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Groundswell New Music returns to celebrate our 20th anniversary of New Music Festival. Come see and hear Winnipeg’s own Experimental Improv Ensemble in an exciting work that combines cinema, lights, and sound. Be dazzled by the incredible sound installations created by Daryn Bond. Hear wonderful new works by Winnipeg composers Diana McIntosh, Gordon Fitzell and Jim Hiscott. As well, witness the creation of a new work by visual artist John Funk. Curated by Diana McIntosh and Gordon Fitzell of GroundSwell.

Artists:

eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE); Gordon Fitzell, director Diana McIntosh, voice, piano, percussion Allen Harrington, saxophone Laura Loewen, piano Victoria Sparks, percussion Meredith Johnson, bass Bede Hanley, oboe Herbert Enns, video Gordon Fitzell, electronics Katharine Bruce, real-time visual art John Funk, real-time visual art Daryn Bond, media installation

Program

XIE (CAN): Live soundtracks – Part 1 (see below) Diana McIntosh/Allen Harrington (CAN): Improv Duo Daryn Bond (CAN): Area Clear Gordon Fitzell (CAN): Metropolis Diana McIntosh (CAN): Sampling the Communication Parameters in the Ambience of Structural Phrasing and Dynamics in Contemporary Music Jim Hiscott (CAN): Tangle Diana McIntosh (CAN): …and 8:30 in Newfoundland XIE (CAN):  Live soundtracks – Part 2 (see below)

Live soundtracks to local experimental films: 412222 (2007) by Robert Pasternak, Sitka (2009) by Olga Zikrata, Going going gone (2008) by Carole O’Brien, Chroma-dance (2007) by James Pomeroy, Malaguena (2004) by Coral Aiken, The Great Divide (2008) by Bryan Besant