The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre
in partnership with
in partnership with
Art Gallery of Hamilton
presents
Innovative Media Masters
Group of Nine – Part 3
Barbara Sternberg
Experimental Explorer
March 12, 2010 7 to 11 PM
Artist in Attendance for Interactive Question & Answer Session
@ The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre
Artist in Attendance for Interactive Question & Answer Session
@ The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre
126 James St. N, Hamilton
ARTIST BIO
Barbara Sternberg has screened widely across North America and Europe, and her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. Sternberg has been teaching at York University, working for Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre, serving on Arts Councils’ juries and committees, helping to organize the International Experimental Film Congress (May 1989) and to found Pleasure Dome Artists’ Film Exhibition Group.
PROGRAMME
1/ Opus 40 14:30 min 1979 colour sound experimental
Repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and rhythm, repetition in order and in revealing.
2/ Transitions 11:30 min 1982 colour sound experimental
A film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being between - between falling asleep and being awake, between here and there, between being and non being.
3/ Like a Dream That Vanishes 40min 2000 colour sound experimental
“A dynamic relationship - a dialectic if you will - between the dark, dense, inert matter of unexposed emulsion and the animating energy of light” ... repetition and variation reminding us that living is, by and large,a matter of repeating things that we have done many times before.
Repetition: repetition in working and living, repetition through multiplicity and series, repetition to form pattern and rhythm, repetition in order and in revealing.
2/ Transitions 11:30 min 1982 colour sound experimental
A film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being between - between falling asleep and being awake, between here and there, between being and non being.
3/ Like a Dream That Vanishes 40min 2000 colour sound experimental
“A dynamic relationship - a dialectic if you will - between the dark, dense, inert matter of unexposed emulsion and the animating energy of light” ... repetition and variation reminding us that living is, by and large,a matter of repeating things that we have done many times before.
- Everyday Wonders in Barbara Sternberg's Like a Dream That Vanishes By William C. Wess
4/ Burning 7 min 2002 colour silent experimental
In Burning there's ... "a question of resettling, of continually re - looking, of jogging yourself out of a comfortable view” … and this continual glancing and re- glancing seems at the very heart of Sternberg's seeing camera practice."
4/ Burning 7 min 2002 colour silent experimental
In Burning there's ... "a question of resettling, of continually re - looking, of jogging yourself out of a comfortable view” … and this continual glancing and re- glancing seems at the very heart of Sternberg's seeing camera practice."
- Mike Hoolboom, email to Barbara Sternberg
5/ Once 3 min 2007 black and white silent with CD sound preface experimental
Poetry, film, light, life. An excerpt from Rilke's Ninth Elegy introduces this silent film that evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We catch glimpses only.
5/ Once 3 min 2007 black and white silent with CD sound preface experimental
Poetry, film, light, life. An excerpt from Rilke's Ninth Elegy introduces this silent film that evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We catch glimpses only.
CURATOR BIO
Nora Hutchinson received her MFA from the University of Guelph in 1988. She has a substantial career in teaching and in producing works in video, performance art, music composition and installation. Hutchinson has taught at The Ontario College of Art [1982-1996], the University of Guelph and York University. She has shown her work both locally and internationally. Her awards include The Lesley Neilson Award, The Portland Oregon Award and The Video Roma Award.
