Adam Lark is a video and installation artist living and working in Regina, Saskatchewan. Adam graduated from the University of Regina with a B.F.A in Intermedia in 2007. He has participated in solo and group shows locally and internationally. His practice is one of observation and exploration, using the camera apparatus to investigate our surroundings and extract hidden meanings from situations and landscapes he encounters. Adam works primarily in video but does not hesitate to mix medias and experiment with traditional and non-traditional techniques and materials.
Ellen Moffat is a multi-media artist currently based in Saskatoon. Originally from Toronto, Moffat has lived and worked throughout much of Canada. Her work includes interactive and multi-media installation as well as sound works. Her interests can be grouped under overarching themes of identity and migration. However, her most recent emphasis has been on language and the voice. She allows viewers to become participants, recombining words to make text based work or to make compositions from phonemes, discrete units of speech. Moffat explores the possibilities of voice and text in their capacity for varied signification through recombination as well as their irreducible otherness.
We are currently privileged to have Ellen take part in one of the BlackFlash 2.0 conversations with curator and scholar Michelle Kasprzak. To read what they have to say about new media and interactivity, read the conversation. Please note that the posts are ordered from newest to oldest. To read the conversation in its entirety, please scroll down to the bottom.
Twicescore, 2008
The quote below is taken from Ellen Moffat’s website:
twicescore is a multi-user visual poetry instrument using dual keyboards and physical controllers. Two keyboards provide physical interfaces for text generation with controllers for manipulation of type as typographic design. The separate texts are projected as integrated concentric circles onto a bed of glass bead on the floor. Poems can be posted to a web site as a publishing outlet and public archive. Inspired by ”zuverspaetceterandfigurinnennenswert ollos”, a 1962 rota-poem by Ferdinand Kriwet, the project fuses interactivity, co-authorship and concrete poetry.
