Jolly Jams - Boxing Day 2010 poster by Jon Vaughn

Jolly Jams – Boxing Day Party 2010

I am really excited to play at the Jolly Jams Boxing Day party at Ramjam this year! It is a bit of a tradition in the Saskatoon scene to have an annual gathering and performance with all of the cool ex-Saskatonians who are back in town for the holidays (we …

Inverted Wasteland video still by Carrie Gates

Inverted Wasteland by VJ Carrie Gates and DJ KERO on Vimeo

Inverted Wasteland is a 10 minute live video performance piece by Saskatoon VJ Carrie Gates, with sound by Detroit DJ KERO.  This work was made in response to an invitation to perform at an artist salon in Edmonton called “Future Worlds”, organized by the MileZero Dance Company.

Sarah Adorable, Nicky Click, and Carrie Gates, chowing around

Video shoot with Nicky Click and Scream Club

I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago (went to Germany to perform at the Kassel Dokfest), and I had a FANTASTIC time! I did a video shoot with my friends Nicky Click, Sarah Adorable, and Cindy Wonderful, and we are hoping to put together a little video something-something …

VJing - by 375 Wikipedians - Book Published by Greyscale Press, 2010

VJing by 375 Wikipedians Book from the Wiki Sprint at the Mapping Festival

I was invited to participate in a Wiki Sprint at the Mapping Festival in Geneva last May. VJs and academics from around the world gathered and collaboratively rewrote, sourced, and found open source and freely licensed images for a new Wikipedia page on VJing, which was sorely in need of …

Kassel Dokfest 2010 Poster

Carrie Gates Audiovisual Performance at Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest in Germany

I just got back from an amazing trip from Germany where I played at the Kassel Dokfest (as well as in Berlin afterwards). I had a fantastic time! Excellent people and a beautiful atmosphere. It was decorated like an old-school circus and there were all of these beautiful people wearing …

Krystallax Invasion Paper Prototype Demo

Video demo of a paper prototype for a video game that I worked on with Ben Whittaker and Mike Sinclair for a computer science class I took at the university on designing, building, and testing video games, using Processing as the language for implementation.
Video gif by Carrie Gates - There's No Place Like This Place Anyplace

There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace – Video glitch by VJ Carrie Gates

I made a caustom Max/MSP Jitter glitch module to process video. The video source is the sign outside Honest Ed’s in Toronto. Click on the black pic above – it’s just the first frame of the gif – wait a sec and it will start going!

Electric Fields Festival 2008 – Carrie Gates and Squelchbox

Electric Fields is biannual new media festival in Ottawa, Ontario, organized by Artengine and SAW Gallery. This performance took place in a beautiful church on Friday, November 13th, 2008 at the festival s opening event, "Electronic Evangelicals".. Carrie Gates played no-input audio and video mixers, and Squelchbox (Sean Lamothe) played ...