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CANOLA OIL COMPRESSION CAMP - MAY 9 - 14, 2011 A tradition since 2002, EMMEDIA Compression Camps offer EMMEDIA’s members and local media artists the technical and conceptual support needed to translate ideas and concepts, related to a chosen theme, into short media artworks. Works can be experimental, performative, dramatic, reportage, documentary, etc., in any mediated form, from short video or audio pieces to Flash driven web works. The spirit of Compression Camp is derived from the immediacy of digital media, and sets out to approximate television news networks in their ability to report on events the same day they occur. Participants are encouraged to complete production and post-production as rapidly as possible in that spirit. Works completed during a Compression Camp will be compressed and uploaded for on-line web streaming/hosting at compressioncamp.com. EMMEDIA provides creative and technical assistance and support, free of charge for all Compression Camp projects in exchange for permission to host works online. This year’s theme is Canola Oil. The term Canola ties Compression Camp to our region and to EMMEDIA’s current programming theme – Grain. Oil is the important thematic element, especially in how it’s control is affecting our lives so intensely of late, from wars and terrorism, large-scale accidents with serious impact on our surroundings, to how completely our “lifestyles” depend on Oil’s by-products. Oil, in a sense, is the very absence of grain, but the products it makes possible break down into a microscopic granularity that clouds the oceans as a kind of synthetic and indigestible plankton. We are interested in contributing to the global dialogue on how to responsibly manage this most amazing and problematic resource by assisting our community in mediating their perspectives on Oil and how we live with it. All works created during this year's Compression Camp is encouraged to submit to the upcoming screening program, “OIL”, curated by Daniel Dugas which you can find out more about here. Participating Artists: 
Technician (technical support): Eric Becker Eric Becker has over 14 years experience in media production, education, and cultural industries. Eric has worked as the Education Producer at the prestigious Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, where he produced various social justice, environmental, youth action, an educational documentaries. Recently, he resigned from his Production Coordinator position at EMMEDIA gallery and production society to pursue full time work on a Masters of Arts at the University of Calgary in Communication and Film Studies. He has extensive experience producing and teaching film and video production. He continues his non-academic work as a freelance producer in Calgary. 
EManimenteur (creative support): Noel Begin Noel Bégin is an interdisciplinary artist and time based media curator, working spatially with objects, all manner of projected media, and performance. Noel has exhibited and/or curated installation, performance, and media art with the Art Gallery of Calgary, the Glenbow Museum, Banff Centre, the Mountain Standard Time Performance Festival, the Art City Festival and EMMEDIA. Noel received an ACDI grant in 2009, and has served on the board and committees of numerous artist-run centres in Calgary. |
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