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Dave Dyment (Toronto, ON) is a multi-disciplinary media artist, writer and curator whose practice incorporates sound, installation and performance. His artwork mines sound and pop culture for shared associations and alternate meanings, and he has exhibited across the country. Dyment is the former Director of Programming at Mercer Union from 2004 to 2008; prior to that, he spent five years at Art Metropole where he presented small retrospectives of artists such as Yoko Ono, Allen Ruppersberg, Dick Higgins, and Jenny Holzer. Dave is the curator for the Artificial Sweetener Offsite Project Series. www.davedyment.com

Jason de Haan (Calgary, AB) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work concerns itself with the conceptual, poetic and absurd, often manifesting itself as a combination in the forms of sculpture, installation, performance, drawing and bookworks. His projects maintain a desire to achieve the positive. Jason a participant in the Artificial Sweetener Offsite Project Series curated by Dave. jasondehaan.com

Robert Hengeveld (Toronto, ON) is an installation and multi-media artist whose work explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, and where we find ourselves within that relationship. He completed his MFA at the University of Victoria in 2005 and received an AOCAD from the Ontario College of Art and Design. He continues to exhibit his work across Canada and internationally. Robert is one of the artists selected by Dave Dyment to participate in the Artificial Sweetener Offsite Project Series. www.roberthengeveld.com

Eleanor King (Halifax, NS) is a Halifax-based interdisciplinary artist who works with site-specific installation incorporating elements of audio, video, photography, and sculpture. Inspired by everyday life, her work fuses found materials in a playful way to to critique social behaviour and consumer culture. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has participated in residency programs in Canada and the US. Eleanor teaches in the Media Arts department at NSCAD University and holds the position of Exhibitions Coordinator at Anna Leonowens Gallery. She is also a member of the indie-rock band The Just Barelys. King has been selected by Dave Dyment to participate in the Artificial Sweetener Offsite Project Series.

Scott Rogers (Calgary, AB) is a visual artist, writer and curator. His work consists of site-specific, context sensitive and collaborative projects which examine and critique architecture, identity, pedagogy and the nature and politics of creative activity. Scott’s recent interests have focused on experimental collaborations with artists and viewers and architectural interventions investigating the possible subjectivity of built environments. Scott has been selected to participate in the Artificial Sweetener Offsite Project Series. www.scottrogersprojects.com

Alex Snukal (Toronto, ON) is an artist and musician who performs regularly as part of Awesome, Animal Monster, and New Feelings. Recent projects have included Souvenir Pressed Pennies (Nuit Blanche), Symphonic Poem for 100 Delay Pedals (as part of Toronto Free Broadcasting), and Me and Julio down by Diter's Dung Hole (an edition for Nothing Else Press). Alex is a participant in the Artificial Sweeteener Offsite Project Series. www.alexsnukal.com

W.L. Altman (Sackville, NB) is a musician and interdisciplinary artist who works with live electronics, interactive performance, and improvisation. Most recently, his interactive multimedia performance work "Ariadne-Machine" was premiered at Moncton's RE:FLUX festival by Helen Pridmore and Motion Ensemble. The festival also featured his installation DisLocate-DisBody. Altman is one of the four regional artists chosen for the Offsite Project Series presenting "Self- Portrait #42a and 42b", an animated video display and performance. www.myspace.com/sbotnwo

Amanda Fauteux (Sackville, NB) is currently finishing her MFA at Concordia University. Through sewing, zines, animation, and gentle public engagement she weaves together stories, tells secrets and lovingly makes jokes. Outside of school she spends her time in Sackville, New Brunswick. As part of the Offsite Project Series, Amanda will be presenting animations and interventions in the downtown area. www.neverbemean.com

IRiSs Lab (New Brunswick) aims to undertake experiments that abandon the standard modes of cinematic viewing while creating improvisational experiences in which projected images and sounds interact and warp the boundaries between art and science; media and performance; conscious and unconscious states of being. IRiSs Lab #8: Mined Machine Dreams Redux will be screened at midnight in the Sackville Music Hall. www.irisslab.ca

Adriana Kuiper (Sackville, NB) is an installation artist whose recent work explores versions of modified, hidden architectural structures meant to suggest safety from extreme forces, natural or otherwise. She investigates provisionally built structures found in the local landscape, and often adapts and manipulates existing instructions for "Do-It-Yourself" shelters and small buldings. Kuiper's work has been shown across Canada and has been exhibited internationally in Oslo, Norway. Adriana will be working collaboratively with Ryan Suter to create an outdoor installation for the Offsite Project Series constructed from a truck canopy and gramophone.

Ryan Suter (Sackville, NB) is a multimedia artist currently living in deep Middle Sackville. His media work explores the spaces between things seen and things heard through the lens of film, music and galactical anomalies. Ryan teaches part-time at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada and England. Ryan will be working collaboratively with Adriana Kuiper to create an outdoor sculpture as part of the Offiste Project Series.

Elisabeth Belliveau (Montreal, QC) has exhibited in galleries such as YYZ, Museum London, Galerie sans nom and Odd Gallery. Her animations have been screened at the St. John's International Women's Film Festival, Dawson City International Film Festival, and our very own Faucet Media Film Festival. Her drawings are described by Montreal Review of Books as "evocaive and charming, [...] mitigated by self-satire", with a perspective that is "detached, cautious and spare, seeking out meaning in the mundane." She will be screening an animation and launching her new book, don’t get lonely don’t get lost. www.elisabethbelliveau.com

Andrew Miller (Fredericton, NB) founded Motion Ensemble in 1998. He has played with The Canadian Opera Company, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and has written music for orchestra, dance, chamber music, film, theatre and performance art. Andrew is also the host of Re:Sound, a weekly show on community radio CHSR 97.9FM and is currently teaching courses in the audio engineering department of the Centre for Arts and Technology. In addition to performing with Motion Ensemble, Andrew will present two installations, Fan (2009) and Breath I (2010).

Andrew O'Connor (Ontario) is an installation/sound artist and radio producer. He will be presenting his installation Frequent Mutilations, which uses analog tape loops that weave together different sounds and textures into slowly evolving, slightly random compositions. He has presented this work at the Open Ears Festival (Kitchener), the Filmless Festival (Chicago), and the Vancouver New Music Festival.

Caitlin Thompson (Meeting Creek, AB) is a performance and video artist who is interested in small community activities like festivals, parades, and pageants. Caitlin received her BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art + Design, where her work focused on costume and video. Caitlin will be the Open Studio artist-in-residence for the festival, beginning July 1st. caitlinthompson.ca


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Kate O'Connor (Halifax, NS) is an artist, designer and illustrator whose clients include The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and Conde Nast Portfolio. Kate was the art director of Halifax's Alternative Weekly The Coast for three years where she won several awards for design and illustration, and currently works from the Co. & Co. Studio, an award winning art and design collective she co-founded with a group of art school friends in 2003. She holds both a BFA and a BDes from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Kate is a former Open Studio artist-in-residence at Struts and the curator of Thursday’s Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.coandco.ca/kate

Laurel Woodcock (Toronto, ON) works primarily in sculpture, installation, video and performance. Her practice culls from familiar language, which becomes the material from which she explores the possibilities of language, its semantic qualities, and malleable meanings. Woodcock is an Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph and the curator of Wednesday’s Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.laurelwoodcock.ca

Miguel Arteta (Los Angeles, CA) emerged as one of the Sundance Film Festival's success stories in the late '90s as a filmmaker with a gift for portraying off-kilter behavior in all shapes and ethnicities. Miguel earned his MFA in 1993 at the American Film Institute. He has directed television episodes including Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, and feature films Star Maps (1997), Chuck & Buck (2000), and The Good Girl (2002). Miguel will be screening his short film Are You the Favourite Person of Anybody? at our Outdoor Video Drive-In.

Jeremy Bailey (Toronto, ON) is a video and performance artist whose work is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally. He received his MFA in Art Media Studies from Syracuse University in 2006. Jeremy will be screening Public Sculpture at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.jeremybailey.net

Philippe Blanchard (Toronto, ON) is an artist whose practice reflects upon the history of the moving image through the use of animation, video, visual effects and new media installations. Key to his recent practice has been the notion of 'expanded animation': practices that explore our spatial and temporal relationship to the moving image by integrating the animated image with installation or live performance. Philippe is a recent graduate of OCAD's interdisciplinary MFA program. His film Stupid Tricks 3 will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.philippeblanchard.com

Heath Fashina (Toronto, ON) is an experimental video artist and film/television editor. Working with video and interactive art, much of his work investigates interpretations of music, media and technology. His work has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Images Festival, and on television. His 2003 film Peter Mansbridge Sings the Blues will be screened at our Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.heathfashina.com

Ray Fenwick (Halifax, NS) is an artist, illustrator, former improv comedian and theatre school dropout. Ray now occupies himself drawing and painting with a focus on language, text and humour. Fenwick has shown paintings and book works in Canada and the United States, and has illustrated for The New York Times, Nike, Random House, Nickelodeon, Pentagram and others. His second book, a collection of short narrative paintings, will be published by Fantagraphics in late 2010. Ray designed the 2010 Ok.Quoi?! poster and will be screening two films at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. coandco.ca/ray

Neil Goldberg (New York) alerts us to the perplexity of being alive in a body in a particular place and time. Goldberg makes us see how strange it is that we do what we do: eat, breathe, move, wait, feel pleasure, experience surprise, endure disappointment. In each piece, he concentrates his attention — and ours — on the act of attention itself. Neil graduated from Brown University in 1986 with a degree in history and computer science. He has exhibited in galleries such as The Museum of Modern Art (where it is part of the permanent collection); The New Museum of Contemporary Art; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and The Wexner Center for the Arts. Neil will be screening My Parents Read Dreams I’ve Had About Them as part of the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.neilgoldberg.com

Nelson Henricks (Montreal, QC) was born in Bow Island, Alberta and is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art (1986). He moved to Montréal in 1991, where he received a BFA from Concordia University (1994). A musician, writer, curator and artist, Henricks is best known for his videotapes, which have been exhibited worldwide. His video work was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of the Video Viewpoints series (2000). Nelson's film Countdown will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. nelsonhenricks.com

Alison Kobayashi (Mississauga, ON) is a visual artist working in video, performance, installation and drawing. Her interest in found narratives resulted in two video works, From Alex To Alex and Dan Carter. In 2006 she won the TSV Artistic Vision Award for Best Local Short Film at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival and in 2007 was awarded the Mississauga Arts Award for Best Emerging Artist. Her films have been shown in Canada, the U.S., Spain, the Netherlands and Hong Kong. Alison's film Do Good will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.asmk.ca

Mark Lewis (London, England) was born in Hamilton, Ontario and attended Harrow College of Art (London) and the Polytechnic of Central London. Lewis began making films in the mid 1990s, exhibiting at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Hamburger Kunstverein, Musée d’art moderne (Luxembourg), BFI Southbank (London), and the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania). Mark's film The Pitch will be screened during the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.marklewisstudio.com

Deirdre Logue (Toronto, ON) works as the Development Director of Vtape and has served as the Executive Director of the Images Festival and the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre in Toronto. Logue's film, video and installation work focuses on self-presentational discourse, the body as material, confessional autobiography and the passage of ‘real' time. Solo exhibitions have taken place at YYZ Artist Outlet, the Berlin International Film Festival, Beyond/In Western New York, Ottawa's video art Biennial, Art Star and Articule in Montreal. Deirdre will be screening Why always and not just sometimes (excerpt mattress/cat) at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. deirdrelogue.com

Sarah Gregg Millman (Toronto, ON) is a video artist and photographer whose work portrays a fantasy world inhabited by characters going about daily life - where light and airy narratives mask the presence of oppression and anxiety lurking beneath the surface. Sarah graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, studied at Cooper Union, and has exhibited her work in Canada, the US, and Europe. Millman's films Bagdead and Pillowfight will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In.

Monique Moumblow (Hamilton, ON) is a video and performance artist. Her tapes have screened at festivals and galleries in North America and Europe, winning prizes at Cinematexas, The Images Festival (Toronto) and L’immagine Leggera (Palermo). Monique's film Accordion (2000) will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.moniquemoumblow.com

Steve Reinke (Ontario) is an artist and writer best known for his videos which have been screened widely and are in several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Pompidou (Paris), and the National Gallery (Ottawa). His tapes typically have diaristic or collage formats, and his autobiographical voice-overs share his desires and pop culture appraisals with endearing wit. Steve is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University, and his film Falling will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.myrectumisnotagrave.com

Jon Sasaki (Toronto, ON) is a contemporary artist working with performance-for-video, installations and interventions with humorous and antagonistic results. Jon’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Centre Clark (Montreal), Gallery TPW (Toronto), The New Gallery (Calgary), and Latitude 53 (Edmonton). Jon was an active member of the Instant Coffee art collective between 2002 and 2007. Jon will be screening several videos over the two nights of the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.jonsasaki.com

Yudi Sewraj (Montreal, QC) was born in Georgetown, Guyana in 1968. In 1975 his parents immigrated to the Toronto/Hamilton area. Art school was a happy accident for him. He had applied to become a live-in housekeeper in the South of France, but was turned down. He completed his B.F.A. at the Nova Scotia College of Art in 1992. His work was included in the Fragile Electrons show at the National Gallery of Canada and was awarded 2nd prize at Immagine Leggera, in Palermo, Italy. Yudi's film Accordion (2000) will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In.

Soft Turns (Toronto, Malmö) is the name of the collaborative duo Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik. Their work focuses on videos and sculptural installations. They concurrently maintain separate practices; with Sarah Jane’s focus on painting, and Wojciech’s in computer based art (Autocad, Maya). They live and work together in Toronto (Canada) and Malmö (Sweden). At the Outdoor Video Drive-In, Soft Turns will be screening their video enclosed. www.softturns.com

Leslie Supnet (Winnipeg, MB) is a Canadian artist whose drawings and animation explore universal sentiment and emotion, giving voice to common trials and struggles while remaining deeply connected to her personal lived experience. Her animations have screened at various festivals, such as the Images Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Signal & Noise, Image Forum Festival in Japan, and LA Film Forum. Leslie's film Heavy Metal Parking Lot (2009) will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.sundaestories.com

Lee Walton (North Carolina) is an artist whose work includes drawing, concept based systems, performance, video art and public projects. Walton holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from San Jose State University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lee's film Up (2004) will be screened at the Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.leewalton.com

Guido Van der Werve (The Netherlands) constructs possible scenarios and imaginary realities where various geographies collide in order to generate momentary sensations of unusual, dream-like intensity. An accomplished classical pianist, composer, and chess player, he studied industrial design, archeology, and Russian before focusing on fine art—first on painting, then performance work, and finally, film. Guido's film Nummer Zes: Steinway grand piano wake me up to go to sleep and all the colours of the rainbow will be screened during our Outdoor Video Drive-In. www.roofvogel.org


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Martin Arnold (Toronto, ON) is a composer and performer who has studied in Edmonton, Banff, the Hague, and Victoria. Martin is a founding member of the Drystone Orchestra and from 1995-2000 he was artistic director of The Burdocks. Currently he plays guitar, banjo, melodica and live electronics in collaborative projects with Ryan Driver and Eric Chenaux. Martin will be the composer in residence for the 2010 festival.

Eric Chenaux (Toronto, ON) is an experimental musician who works with guitars, ballads and electronics. In the 1980s and 1990s Chenaux sang and played guitar in the post-punk band Phleg Camp and later wrote songs with the guitar duo Lifelikeweeds. He is a co-founder of Rat-drifting, which has released records by The Guayaveras, The Draperies and The Reveries. rat-drifting.com/

Ryan Driver (Toronto, ON) is a guitarist, vocalist, and accomplished improviser; an "unstoppable, quietly torrential flow of music". He has been a key member of a number of ensembles including Deep Dark United, The Reveries, The Silt and The Guayaveras in addition to his own projects. myspace.com/ryandriver

Miscellaneous Marching Band (Halifax, NS) started rehearsing in September 2009, inspired by street brass bands in India. It connects street theatre, improvised music, dancing and large-scale puppetry. These elements combined in this way make a public celebratory explosion of silliness, creativity, fun, colour and sound. The Band fosters positive and courteous expression, respect, free creativity and improvisation, as well as group creation without authorship. Or something like that.

Motion Ensemble (Fredricton, NB) is a musical group who play contemporary classical and experimental music. Motion Ensemble has presented at the Jusqu'aux Oreilles (Montreal), Scotia Festival of Music (Halifax), Sound Symposium (St. John’s) and NUMUS (Kitchener). www.motionensemble.com

Doug Tielli (Toronto, ON) is a singer-songwriter and member of a number of musical projects such as Rock Plaza Central, The Silt, Lenin I Shumov, The Draperies, and The Reveries. His solo work includes The No Man Band, British Isles folk sung through various objects that filter the tone of the voice, such as teapots, bottles, amplified instruments, and bowls of water.