Projects

by Slow Rise Music Slow Rise Music is a Toronto-based contemporary classical concert series, who has partnered with guest curator Alexandra Fol for the presentation of multimedia showcase, “Where the Eye Meets the Ear”. Inspired by Fol’s neurological condition, pitch-colour…

SUNLAMPS… AND OTHER FORMS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

by Marissa Sean Cruz Over the duration of their 1 month MakerSpace residency, Cruz will workshop a multi-channel videoart and performance piece that follows a hybrid human-ogre, Gloria, reckoning with her failing actingaspirations in her small digitally rendered room. The…

Who’s Afraid of Labour Justice?

Curated by Furqan Mohamed Presenting work by Nahomi Amberber, Saysah, and Farah Ghafoor, Who’s Afraid of Labour Justice? asks what we are afraid of in the pursuit of justice for all workers— does the fear lie in the pursuit itself?…

Mountains Never Meet, But People Do.

by Sonya Mwambu ‘Mountains Never Meet, But People Do’ is an interactive installation that explores Uganda’s intertwined histories within the diaspora and envisions a place for them within an imagined Afrofuture. Building upon the interactive digital archive My Uganda 2.0,…

Interactive Arts Resident: Sonya Mwambu

Mountains never meet, but people do. Artist Bio: Mwambu is an experimental filmmaker and editor based in Toronto. Born in Kampala, they grew up in Canada andtheir work centres on the intersections of their identities through the exploration of race,…

Radio Abyss

by Daria Dora Morgacheva Radio Abyss is a sound installation at the intersection of nature and technology. At its core are field recordings transformed into voices via neural-network-based speech synthesis. These voices attempt to mimic the sounds of nature, but…

After the Flood

by Annette Mangaard & Nathan Bruce AFTER THE FLOOD is an interactive art installation that combines projection mapping, motion tracking, sound design, and footage of the natural world to explore the urgent issues of water and climate change from an…

UNIT 2 Workshops Lighting and Production

In collaboration with Charles Street video, Unit 2’s mission to empower five individuals with comprehensive knowledge of lighting and production, while erasing barriers to accessing creative spaces. This workshop aims to take people’s personal projects and help them with their…

Gem-Theory

”GEM-THEORY” is a free 10-week incubator program for entry level content creators to develop practical skills and knowledge exploring their environment through photo/video documentary.The goal is for participants to understand the important pillars of impactful story-telling by drawing from the…

Echoes of Existence

The House of Synthetic Truths Echoes of Existence: The House of Synthetic Truths is a non-linear, multi-channel film installation that exposes our world of documentation of notions of self determination. The constant surveillance and analysis of our lives normalizes our…

A Sexual History of the Internet

Artist Talk, Events, Exhibitions, Projects

a Lecture Performance This November, x-ights /cros-sites/, an artist collective, is excited to present “A Sexual History of the Internet”, a participatory lecture performance by Mindy Seu, part of the series of the public programs of Bad Timekeepers in partnership…

Raqqa ware 2.0 Museum

Artist, researcher and technologist Jawa El Khash, invites you to explore the 3D ceramic collection inspired by 13th century Raqqa, Syria. This 21st century work revives the ancient art movement from Raqqa, and looks to the future of museology and…

26 or less by Jennifer Lindsay

Interactive exhibition and community-based media program PERFORMANCE DATES August 1, 7 pm-8 pmAugust 3, 7 pm-8 pmAugust 8, 7 pm-8 pm Capacity is limited. Register at no charge for tickets here: https://www.universe.com/events/26-or-less-tickets-78MZQ4 ARTIST STATEMENT In Denielle Elliott’s essay, View of…

WLF Box

by Maziar Ghaderi Designed and constructed by Maziar Ghaderi the WLF Box is a translucent projection cube that is both a live stage and an immersive 360° screen of audio-reactive visualizations and livestream feeds of diasporic communities from around the…

Moonquake

Screenshot with Laura Margaret Ramsey and Dan Tapper Performance Dates: Snow Moon – February 24, 2024 Worm Moon – March 25, 2024 Solar Eclipse – April 8th, 2024 Pink Moon – April 23, 2024 Moonquake is an installation/experience mapping real-time,…

Christian Anderson – Short Film Residency

We are proud to announce Christian Anderson as our 2023 Media Art Creation grant co-winner! Nobody Falls is an important project because it centres the experience of a Black, nonbinary & queer protagonist who not only is dealing with the…

River River

In the flux of a world undergoing catastrophic ecosystem disruption, we often remove ourselves from seeing the impact of our consumption. Collapsing the difference between “here” and “there”, “Trash Island (working title)” is an experimental artist residency and project examining…

Warp

Members Projects, Projects, Uncategorized

by Erin Howley WARP is a theatrical project integrating media arts and performance in a reflection on the deeply intimate and simultaneously unwieldy political dimensions of the drug toxicity crisis. The WARP Makers Space was a series of devised theatre…

Nursing Wounds

by Melisse Watson Nursing Wounds is an interactive exhibition experience that utilizes the visualization of somatic conditions and symptoms to represent the emotional impacts on nurses over 4 years of a pandemic, global crisis in war/genocide, environmental devastation, and the…

Be Vardų, Be Kojų (BVBK)

Members Projects, Projects

by Brigita Gedgaudas Be Vardų, Be Kojų (Without Names, Without Leg) is a Workshop/Exhibition created within a 10-Day Creation Workshop (using CSV programming space and equipment) with an audience Work-In-Progress Showing componant Co-Produced by Arts Collective Chimerik 似不像. Brigita Gedgaudas…

media creation grant 2023 recipients

News, Projects

congrats to csv members christian anderson and aaron jones! CSV is proud to continue efforts to support our members artistic practice. We are excited to present the two recipients of our 2023 Media Art Creation Grant: Christian Anderson for their…

These Are My Reparations Exhibition

Exhibitions, Projects, Residencies

Kim Ninkuru Residency 2021-2023 For the past year, CSV has been working hard behind the scenes alongside Kim Ninkuru to produce the work These Are My Reparations to be presented in winter of 2023. Conceptualized by Kim Ninkuru, These Are…

Members Project: Devani Dianna “When Stars Align”

On set of When Stars Align days 2 & 4Such a pleasure to work this this amazing team. I’m Producer and Director of Photography for this project and I’m so proud of the work I was able to capture with…

Sarah Carrier – ImagineNative/CSV Resident

This residency was developed to offer a mid-career or established Indigenous artist the opportunity to expand their practice and to experiment with the latest video technologies in the creation of a new short video work. This program offers the opportunity…

bill perry residency

Exhibitions, Meeting, Projects, Residencies

360° VPC 2.0: PROJECTION Bill Perry shall test the 360° Video Projection Cylinder over the next 6 months, enabling 360° projection with still images. By this process inviting, encouraging, facilitating, and demonstrating 360° photo projection at CSV, for members interested…

media creation grant 2022 recipients

congrats to csv members true daley and emily ryder! CSV is proud to continue efforts to support our members artistic practice through such difficult times. We are excited to present the 2 recipients of our Media Art Creation Grant: True…

Videatur Program

Projects, Youth Programs

Videatur Collective ran the Videatur Community Film Project, a workshop series that offers a hands-on learning opportunity for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth in Toronto with an interest in film production. The goal of the program is to provide a safe…

full circle workshops

Community Programs, Events, Projects

an online 4-week workshop that explores loop-making with 16mm film. Charles Street Video and Pix Film Gallery are collaborating to host Full Circle, an online 4-week workshop (1 session a week) that explores loop-making with 16mm film. Through the creative…

But I Can Create the Future

Projects, Youth Programs

a virtual exhibition of photography and animation from youth in Media Art for Newcomer Youth (MANY) Created during mandated lockdowns, heightening racial tensions, and a worsening climate crisis, “But I Can Create the Future” is about urgency. Culminating MANY for…

Made In Exile Film Intensive

Projects, Youth Programs

This 4 month program offered by MIE in collaboration with CSV, will allow aspiring filmmakers to learn the craft of filmmaking through mentorship, resource-sharing and workshops with local guest artists. Through the medium of filmmaking, this program aims to encourage…

imagineNATIVE & CSV Residency

The eighth iteration of the annual Residency provides a mid-career Indigenous artist the opportunity to expand their practice and to experiment with the latest video technologies in the creation of a new short video work. This program offers the opportunity…

How to make a film during the plague!

News, Projects, Youth Programs

Are you interested in learning how to make a short film from home during COVID19? With Charles Street Video, we are excited to announce the launch of “How to make a film during the plague”, a special DIY workshop series…

thaumaturgy screening – images festival

THAUMATURGY – IMAGES FESTIVAL SCREENING April 17, 2020, 4 PM via https://imagesfestival.com/ In Person Exhibition Tangled Art Gallery S-122, 401 Richmond St. W Toronto ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Through the art and science of ‘wonder-working’, Thaumaturgy generates an immersive and participatory…

Thoughts Running Residency

New-Zealand-Canadian composer Juliet Palmer is known as a “post-modernist with a conscience” (The Listener) whose work “crosses so many genres as to be in a category of its own” (Toronto Star). Based in Toronto since 1997, Juliet was Artist-in-Residence at…

Kiley May – ImagineNative Resident

January to October 2020 This residency was developed to offer a mid-career or established Indigenous artist the opportunity to expand their practice and to experiment with the latest video technologies in the creation of a new short video work. This…

Media Art Creation Grant

Charles Street Video is proud to present the participants of our first Media Art Creation Grant. CSV is proud to launch this pilot project in an effort to support our member media art practices. We are pleased to announce our…

360° Video Projection Cylinder Project

A 360° Video Projection Cylinder is a modern variation on an ancient form of presentation, the cyclorama, which began with paintings that completely surrounded the viewer, then photographs and now video. 360° VPCs are an alternative to VR headsets. A…

SNAP! Film Program

SNAP! Film Program is led by Keisha James in partnership with VIBE Arts. Six to eight marginalized youth will undergo a four-week program covering basic DSLR and lighting equipment use, scriptwriting/storyboarding, and editing. These sessions will take place at Charles…

Stop Making Sense / Sense Making

Stop Making Sense / Sense Making, a collaboration between SKETCH, CFMDC and Charles Street Video, is a 10 week workshop series for youth on the margins to interact with film, media, and technology and create works to be exhibited in…

Colour Theory Short Film Night

The Colour Theory Shorts Night is an event that has one purpose: to celebrate the work of queer/trans BIPOC filmmakers in an unintimidating, non-industry, non-film festival environment. This year, CSV is partnering with the collective, providing in kind classroom rental…

QTBIPOC Screenwriting Circle

A newly formed group that will meet once a month to create a space for QTBIPOC filmmakers to feel safe enough to share about screenwriting works, practices, and give each other deadlines and feedback. This group will be using the…

The Smiling Room Project

The Smiling Room is an interactive and immersive community engaged media art installation exploring the interplay and politics of Queer Happiness, Resistance and Struggle within the intersections of Toronto’s dynamic LGBTQ2SIA communities.What’s in a Queer smile? Joy, desire, anxiety, disdain,…

Soundtography (The Dabke Collective)

Soundtography is a collaborative artistic project using sound imprints to map out the migration and displacement journey of a group of Toronto based artists who self-identify as women, through a series of 10 collaborative, reflective and meditative workshops. Charles Street…

POC Writers Circle

Led by Maya Annik Bedward, this is a monthly creative writing circle for women-identifying filmmakers of colour. This group would be open to emerging and mid-career screenwriters/directors, who work in documentary, experimental and fiction film. The purpose of is to…

soundtography – an auditory exploration of migration and displacement

In partnership with The Dabke Collective through our MakerSpace platform, Soundtography will be running from our classroom space for 12 weeks! Soundtography is a collaborative artistic project using sound imprints to map out the migration and displacement journey of a…

Thom Vernon’s Writers Circle

Writers’ Circle TO is a unique and safe workshop environment designed to be accessible to creative writers: screenwriters, fiction and nonfiction writers, poets and others (1 person shows, memoirists, etc.). Participation is by invitation only. CSV provides its classroom space…

Hair Scarf

Charles Street Video is providing production support, including 5 days of editing with technical support, 2-3 weeks of exhibition space including support with installation, and a production workflow consultation to artists Monica Mak and Shiva Shoeybi. 2019

AMY Project