URBANISMS ll: Uber Gurlz Exhibition – video screening and live performance by Carrie Gates

I have four videos (Dirty Two Minutes With You, Meatspace, Awakenings, and Inverted Wasteland) being screened this month at the Mann Gallery in Prince Albert (SK) in an exhibition called URBANISMS II, curated by Michel Boutin and Judy McNaughton. The show features work exclusively from Saskatchewan based women working with …

INDEX Festival New York 2011

VJ Carrie Gates performs live at the INDEX Festival in New York at the [Mis]Adventures In Manipulation event

Two evenings of performances are dedicated to artists who repurpose, hack or deconstruct tools to produce sound and/or light for time-based performances. The selected artists have built instrumentation using various and varied media formats. In a Frankenstonian spirit, these artists fashion composite instruments, for the purpose of engaging further into …

VJ Carrie Gates at the Mapping Festival VJ Competition, Geneva 2010

VJ CONTEST @ Mapping Festival 2010 – new video documentation!

New documentation of the Mapping Festival 2010’s VJ Competition is up on Vimeo! My stuff is at the 1:49 mark or so!

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.

Monkeyboy v. Juana Faulk: Round Two (Remix!): by Carrie Gates and KERO

Featuring the sensual tomfoolery of Juana Faulk and Monkeyboy, this sensual wrestling experiment has been taken to the next level with a sweet soundtrack by KERO and stripey, patterney, glitchery by Carrie Gates. The featured wrestlers share a confined space, aggressively switching top & bottom positions while displaying their allure ...
Carrie Gates VJing at Artspace in Peterborough

Vague Terrain 09: Rise of the VJ

I was asked by the Neil Wiernik and Greg J. Smith at Vague Terrain to curate an edition of their online new media magazine, Vague Terrain, that is published out of Toronto.  I chose work with the theme of international VJ culture. There are over 20 different VJs and VJ …

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BricoLodge

BricoLodge is a net .label that I used to run with Jon Vaughn.

Carrie Gates, Marinko Jareb, and tobias c. van Veen, DJing at the Phantom Power Festival in North Bay, 2004

Phantom Power Festival in North Bay, Ontario

Phantom Power is a three-day audio and video festival featuring some of Canada’s finest experimental artists. Curated by Dermot Wilson of the W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery of North Bay, ON, Phantom Power has invited artists to reflect upon the themes of the supernatural, phantasms, and random frequencies. Performing artists include Kero, …