event

Free - RSVP here!

Location - Gamma Space
6:30pm - Doors open
6:45 - Introductions
7pm - Guest presentations by Jeremy Bailey  and Midi Onodera, followed by Q & A
8pm - Networking

Entrance to Gamma Space, 862 Richmond Street, West is at the end of the passageway along the west side of building. Wheelchair accessible.

This event is a meeting place for artists, moving image-makers, gamers and technologists who are experimenting with art-related digital content and how the moving image is presented in a connected world. Digital culture, social media and networks encourage new ways of storytelling, image making, idea sharing and collaboration. This MeetUp celebrates artists and innovators who are embracing change leading the next wave of creativity.

Speaker Bios

Midi Onodera is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker who has been directing, producing and writing films for over twenty years. She has over twenty-five independent short films to her credit as well as a theatrical feature film and several video shorts. Her recent works feature a collage of formats and media -ranging from 16mm film and Hi8 video to digital video and “low end” digital toy formats such as a modified Nintendo Game Boy Camera, the Intel Mattel computer microscope, and Tyco and Trendmasters video cameras.

Midi’s films have been critically recognized and included in numerous exhibitions and screenings internationally. Some highlights include the Andy Warhol Museum, the International Festival of Documentary and Short Films, Bilbao, Spain; the Rotterdam International Film Festival; the Berlin International Film Festival; the National Gallery of Canada and a number of screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based self-proclaimed Famous New Media Artist. "Since the early noughties Bailey has ploughed a compelling, and often hilarious, road through the various developments of digital communications technologies."(Morgan Quaintance, Rhizome) Bailey has performed and exhibited all over the world, from bathrooms in Buffalo to museums in Moscow, and including recent solo and group exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery in London, Transmediale in Berlin, Mediamatic in Amsterdam and Museums Quartier in Vienna. Recent commissions include projects for FACT in Liverpool, Turner Contemporary in Margate UK, The New Museum in New York and Carroll Fletcher in London. Bailey is represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto.