htmlles - Festival of Media Art + Digital Culture
November 13 - 20, 2010

Tuesday May 18th, 2010
The XX Files Radio Project launch
First Person Digital + Digital Ludology

Following the creation of Matricules: one of the world's largest online archives of women's digital artworks in 2008, Studio XX will premiere the completion of the archive's Phase II: The XX Files Radio Project on Tuesday, May 18th at McGill University's Thompson House.

Created over the past year with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Culture Online Strategy, CKUT 90.3 FM, F.A.C.E., Koumbit and Urbanink, The XX Files Radio Project was spearheaded by Project Director Stéphanie Lagueux, media artists Darsha Hewitt, Sara M. Tizhouch and Valérie d. Walker. The project consists of the digitizing and online publishing of The XX Files radio show: a weekly broadcast exploring the digital world from the perspective of women living and working in it.

Rounding out this exciting evening, National Film Board Producer Kat Baulu and Studio XX Director General Paulina Abarca-Cantin will present the finalist teams and projects of First Person Digital and the Digital Ludology project. Artworks from these two initiatives are slated to premiere in November 2010 at Studio XX’s HTMlles: Festival of Media Art and Networked Practices.

Sunday Feb 21th, 2010
– Erica Priggen:
Creating Content For Change
--From a Woman's Perspective

The Web is increasingly drawing talent from the worlds of film, photography, writing, radio and gaming. How do we take our expertise in these and other fields and translate it into engaging, impactful experiences for new audiences? Isn’t there more to new media than social networking and tweets? As an executive producer at Free Range Studios, an award-winning creative agency that builds campaigns for social change, Erica Priggen creates work that illustrates the promise of the new media frontier. She challenges the idea that new media is all style and no substance, all technology and no storytelling, all buzz and no impact. Using campaigns she’s headed and films she’s produced as case studies, she guides us through the process of crafting stories that add value for the user and for the world around us.

Sunday Feb 7th, 2010
– Kim Sawchuk and Matt Forsythe @ Cinérobothèque:
As Creators, Where Can We Take Mobile Technology?

Tales from the Mobile Trail.

Kim Sawchuk will discuss the current agenda and past projects associated with the Mobile Media Lab, a collaborative bi-located (Montreal-Toronto) creative crucible for the production of wireless, mobile media events.

In reflecting upon the past and emerging itinerary of the Lab, Kim will discuss the current context and boom in mobile wireless technologies, collaborating across the art and science divide, the value of engaging with potential audiences and users before a production is finalized, scripting for mobile media in indoor and outdoor spaces, and finally re-imagining the creative potential of mobile media technologies and practices from a feminist perspective. In her talk she will argue that research-creators not only use mobile devices in their practices, but can learn from experience and experimentation.

A discussion about the NFB iPhone app and how the project helped the National Film Board connect with Canadians and international audiences. Useful lessons for developers, marketers or anyone who works online. NFB.ca

Matt Forsythe is content manager and social media manager at the National Film Board of Canada and teaches new media journalism at Concordia University. Matt is also a founding editor of Drawn.ca, the most popular illustration blog in the world. Drawn was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the "50 Coolest Websites of 2006" and won the Best Canadian Weblog Award at SXSW. Follow him on Twitter at @mattforsythe or find out more about him at www.comingupforair.net

In the new and evolving online world, the greatest momentum goes not to the candidate with the most detailed plan for conquering the web but to the candidate who surrenders her image to the clicking masses the same way a rock star might fall backwards off the stage onto the hands of an adoring crowd...As creators, how do we build, interact and create with our communities? What is our responsibility as creators in the context of community-engaged media?

Reknowned author/speaker Juliette Powell will offer a run-down of the basics of social networks and the Value of Relationships in the modern era.

Join us for a thought-provoking night of art, film and entertainment with award-winning speaker Carol Whiteman, sound artist Janna Graham, multidisciplinary artist Jessica MacCormack and musical guest Rae Spoon.

Rashid & Rosetta is a Web art project on the theme of the Rosetta Stone, a famous Egyptian archeological artifact, created in 196 BC, that played a central role in the decipherment of hieroglyphs.

The project consists of an online exhibition of internet-based artworks created by six artists from Québec, Canada and Egypt. Conceived and curated by Isabelle Bernier and Salah D. Hassan and presented in collaboration with Studio XX and OBORO.

Isabelle Bernier, Rehab El Sadek, Heba Farid, Andrew Forster, Skawennati Fragnito, Hadil Nazmy

*Learn more about the Rosetta Stone