Paul Robles exhibits on P121 | February 18 - March 11 2010

For the Birds

Digital Prints on Bamboo Paper | 2008|09

Click on image to view art work

Duncan McNairnay exhibits on P121 | 10 December - 7 January 2010

[Left to Right] Courier #6, Courier #3

Fiber Base Print | 2009

PLATFORM will be closed for the holidays from Sunday 20 December - Tuesday 5 January. We will re-open Tuesday 5 January for office hours.

Happy Holidays!

Robert Lowe exhibits on P121 | 10 December - 7 January 2010

Robert Lowe

The Buddha is Jumping

Pigment Prints | 2006-2009

Now with your  PLATFORM membership card, you can receive discounts at local art businesses:

Save 10% at The Labworks (464 Hargave Avenue),

Save 10% off all regular priced items at Photo Central (499 Notre Dame Avenue)

except:
5% off cameras and lenses
5% off harddrives, scanners and printers/ink
20% off photofinishing

and,

Save 20% at Colours Art & Framing (148 Adelaide/337 Pembina Highway)

Websites:

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photo central winnipeg

Saturday 17 October _ 7:30 PM

Join us for a reading night in conjunction with As The Sidewalk Bleeds.

Co-presented by the Winnipeg Writers Festival it will feature selections of bpNichol’s work perfomed by local writers: Charlene Diehl, Christoff Engbrecht, Clarise Foster, Collin Smith, David Streit, Margaret Sweatman.

Print [ART] Swap _ Wednesday 14 October 6-9PM

All members are welcomed and encouraged to attend this Fall Print Swap - a leisurely evening of trading your work for that of your peers.

ANY MEDIUM, AND SIZE, AND SUBJECT MATTER… the more diverse, the better! Bring your photos, paintings, drawings, DVD’s, ‘zines, t-shirts, silk-screens, what-have-you, and trade to your heart’s content!

Refreshments will be served.

This next installment of the 2009 series of off-site Salons is offered to PLATFORM members exclusively, free of charge. This is an opportunity to meet with an artist in the studio, to discuss modes of work, and how one series can potentially inform the next.

Studio Visit: Thursday 24 September 2009 @ 7PM (meet at PLATFORM)

Space is limited; register asap
To register, please contact Natasha at outreach@platformgallery.org, or call 204.942.8183

Sandee Moore  is an artist working in a variety of media, including performance, video, installation and interactive electronic sculpture. Her work has been screened and exhibited across Canada at venues such as the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Images Film and Video Festival, the Blackwood Gallery, the Dalhousie Art Gallery and the Mendel Art Gallery. Through her artworks, she proposes to animate social relationships through personal exchange. She just stepped down from her four-year term as Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg in order to pursue her art practice on a full-time basis.

Visit Sandee’s website at: www.sandeemoore.com

Please Note: Sandee Moore’s studio is located on the fourth floor of a building that has no elevator. If you have trouble with stairs, you may want to make arrangements to come to PLATFORM’s next Salon Night, which will be hosted in-house.

Exhibition

12 September - 24 October 2009

Opening Reception + Artist Talks

Saturday 12 September   7PM

After School Special: a look at pedagogical practices from then to now w/Kristina Lee Podesva

Sunday 13 September  7PM
[Presented by FTW and The Winnipeg Free Museum, 3rd floor Artspace building]

Untitled Palm-Pilot drawing from the Lost Thoughts series / Mike Patten/digital print 2007

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the group exhibition, As the Sidewalk Bleeds, featuring: Eryne Donahue (Vancouver), Mike MacDonald (Mi’kmaq), Sandee Moore (Winnipeg), bpNichol (1944 - 1988), Mike Patten (Montreal), and Kristina Lee Podesva (Vancouver), curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden.

Featuring a mixture of video, digital prints, computer programmed artworks, and a website, this exhibition explores the creative misuse of digital technologies over the last twenty-five years. In his curatorial statement, McFadden [PLATFORM's Director/Curator] claims:

As the Sidewalk Bleeds begins with a conundrum: as an exhibition, the works presented use advances in technologies to question or repurpose the intended applications of such technologies. What is useful to the larger society is useful in an entirely different way to the individual artists who comprise this group. The fallout of misuse is heavily philosophical. If we re-trace the research and development of so much technological advancement, many stem from the proliferation of war. Battle, in all of its of forms, has led to the development of more household techno-gadgets than we might suspect: the camera (in all variations), the internet, alarm systems, televisions, baby-monitors, cellular phones, and so on …

In gathering work by these six artists under the notion of exploring digital technology as cultural artifact, the goal is to create a dialogue concerning supposed trends in avant-garde applications of technological advancements. Placed in this specific, temporary, framework the individual artistic concerns overlap and produce a larger conversation regarding: geo-politics, globalization, poetry, love, and the incorporation of media in the everyday. With such diverse approaches to digital media, As the Sidewalk Bleeds also presents various political acts. To go against or re-appropriate advances in technology for the purposes of an artwork can be seen as a fundamental act of resistance / revolution / advancement / foresight / etc. Furthermore, each piece acts as a personal meditation on navigating our media-saturated time.
Please join us for the opening reception + informal artist talks Saturday, the 12th of September beginning at 7PM. Refreshments will be served.

Stay tuned for future announcements regarding programming associated with As the Sidewalk Bleeds, including: curatorial tours, artist talks, and poetry readings taking place throughout September and October.

PLATFORM wishes to acknowledge the support of its membership, board of directors, volunteers, and staff. As the Sidewalk Bleeds is made possible with funding received from Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Winnipeg Foundation, and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Special mention is owed to our colleagues at Plug In ICA and aceartinc., and Kamloops Art Gallery for their generous in-kind contributions and technical support.