VIVO Media Arts: 50+ Anniversary

VIVO Media Arts: 50+ Anniversary
Join us to celebrate 50+ Years of Media Arts!

It will be an evening full of fun, food, friends and creators, guests from across the globe, highlights from the vault, and so much more! Live music, installations, retrospective, featuring artists from across 50 years of Video History. Has VIVO contributed to your practice?  Have you seen an event or volunteered at VIVO?  Did the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive support your research? We want to welcome you into the space to celebrate 50 years of impact in video art and beyond. 

July 20, 2024
7pm until late
2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver
Tickets: FREE-$50 scroll down for more info

Featuring Artists:

• Reylinn
  For VIVO's 50th anniversary party, Reylinn will be playing a DJ set that mixes experimental electronic music and dance music. 
  Reylinn is a Vancouver based audio/visual artist, DJ, and radio host. They are a founding member of the experimental audio/visual collective Acceleration Radio, and are involved in several collaborative projects - Gulod Tanawin, in motion, and ARCH NEMESIS. Their DJ mixes draw from a wide range of unforgiving and experimental sounds, equal parts braindance and dancefloor driven.
• Andy Zuliani
  Andy will perform a live ambient set on modular synthesizer and microtonal keyboard, drawing material from my new film and sound project, Drumlin: Or, A Vision At The End.
  Andy Zuliani is a media artist and composer working at the zones of overlap between electro-acoustic music, video art, and text. His current practice draws him in the direction of medieval music-making and the invention of seasonal rites.
• Joshua Stevenson — aka Magneticring
  Joshua will be performing a improvised set using a EMS Synthi AKS synthesizer and custom programmed FM synthesizers. He will also be live mixing a series of his code-based video synthesis pieces. Every time the code is run a new iteration of the piece is generated with specific randomization. No one piece will ever be the same. The overall aesthetic is mapped out, but every version will vary from the last. Each of the visual elements in the works influences each other. This work is part of the ongoing series Living Code by Joshua Stevenson. Josh started performing at the Main Street Vivo space back in 2001. He performed there many times over the years solo and with groups Von Bingen and Jackie-O Motherfucker.
  Joshua Stevenson, aka Magneticring, is a musician known for his creative use of vintagesynthesizers such as the EMS Synthi AKS, custom-programmed FM tone generators, andmodified tape effects. Joshua’s unique sound seamlessly blends improvisation with spontaneouscomposition. He has been a prominent figure in the western Canadian and internationalunderground music scenes for over 30 years. His influences range from Gamelan music and20th-century experimental music to noise and the underground music community he emergedfrom in the 1990s.
• prOphecy sun and Joy on Drums
  Embracing a mesh of experiential, rhythmic, vocals, immersive, and site-specific sculptural movements and approaches, prOphecy sun and Joy on Drums will honour the diverse bodies and sounds that have inhabited the VIVO space over the past 50 years.
  prOphecy sun (PhD) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother of three. Her practice celebrates conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and site-specific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond.
  Joy On Drums (Joy Mullen) has played the drum kit for over 35 years. After graduating from the Contemporary Music and Technology program at Selkirk College, she worked professionally full-time as a touring, recording genre-fluid drummer.

For over five decades, under the banner of the Satellite Video Exchange Society, VIVO Media Arts has been at the forefront of the media arts community, championing diverse voices, pushing the boundaries of creative expression, fostering formal and and critical approaches to media arts. Located on the unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations, VIVO has built an engaged audience through workshops, production support, distribution, artist residencies, performances and exhibitions as well as curatorial and archival research, reflecting the diversity of contemporary technologies and communities.

Why "50+"? Because it's more than just a number. It's a testament to our commitment to equitable access, fair compensation, and diverse and inclusive spaces for all artists and practitioners.

Now, it's time to celebrate!

We invite you to join us on July 20, 2024, at 7pm until late for an evening of reminiscing, celebrating, and connecting. We will reflect on 50+ years of facilitating and fostering artistic practices, exploration, and community building, and celebrate this incredible milestone as we nurture our past, celebrate the present, and envision the future of media arts.

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Ticket Accessibility

1. Showpass: General Admission: Supporter - $50
   • Includes a complimentary limited edition 50+ anniversary pin.
     
     
2. Showpass: Accessible Admission - $25
   • Low-barrier option
     
     
3. At Door: Free or PWYC (Pay What You Can)
   • Limited tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Venue Accessibility
For venue accessibility information, please visit our website.

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Support VIVO Media Arts!

As we look ahead, we need your support to continue nurturing media arts discourses and communities. Your donations will enable us to provide essential resources for preservation, production, and dissemination, ensuring that artists have the means and agency to creatively question and participate in their mediated worlds. Donate here

Together, we can make the next 50+ years even more diverse and accessible.

Drumlin: Or, A Vision At The End from Magazinist on Vimeo.

prOphecy sun and Joy on Drums, Live at the Capital Theatre, Nelson BC, 2022 from prOphecy sun on Vimeo.