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Vidoodles: Intimate Cinema artist: Midi Onodera |
| The Department of Communication Studies is pleased to present, Midi Onodera’s Vidoodles: Intimate Cinemaat the Media Gallery located in the CJ Building on the Loyola campus (CJ 1.419).Onodera’s exhibition features two mediaworks: Tabletop Viewables (2011) is a multi-screen miniature cinema installation, and her 2009 Movie of the Week will be presented on an interactive touchscreen. Since her 2006 project A Movie a Day, Onodera has been making short videos for private viewing online and on handheld mobile devices such as cellphones and iPods. These intimate, spontaneous movies are a form of miniature cinema or what she has termed, “Vidoodles.” Like a doodle, these experimental narrative videos are unselfconscious expressions, casual amusements that evoke quiet moments of contemplation. Tabletop Viewables is the first in a series of new works that challenge ordinary perception and modes of viewing, and encourage the viewer to view the everyday world differently. This exhibition is co-curated by Communication Studies professors Matt Soar and Monika Kin Gagnon.Midi Onodera is an award-winning filmmaker who has made over twenty-five independent short films, a theatrical feature film and an abundance of short videos since the 1980s. Her current project is FPS, a collection of 24 “Vidoodles.” New shorts are posted on the 1st and 15th of each month and posted at www.midionodera.com. An interview is online at https://www.csj.ualberta.ca/imaginations/?p=258 The Media Gallery exhibits the dynamic creative media work produced in Communication Studies as well as hosting innovative exhibitions by local, national and international media artists. Vidoodles: Intimate Cinema is supported by Communication Studies, Concordia Mobilities Research Network, Vice President, Research and Graduate Studies, FQRSC and SSHRC.Vidoodles: Intimate Cinema opens on Thursday Sept 15 2011, with a public reception from 16:30-18:30. The exhibition runs from September 15–December 9th. Media Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00 to 4:45 and Fridays 9:00 to 12:45. Media Gallery, Communication Studies: CJ Building – 1.419 Loyola Campus Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec.For more information: Monika Kin Gagnon 514-848-2424 x2563 mkgagnon@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Listen to a conversation between Midi Onodera and Alison Loader. In the first part, Midi Onodera talks about her inspiration for the table.
Midi Onodera on her movies of the week Midi Onodera on the significance of each letter
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