VJ Carrie Gates – Artist Talk at Eat Your Art Out, Judy Garland Festival – Saskatoon
The Visual Arts Night will feature artist talks by renowned artists Levi Nicholat, Carrie Gates & Zachari Logan as well as an exhibition of works by 15 emerging artists. Starts at 7:00pm and donations graciously accepted. Free snacks and wine for purchase available.
Meet local artists and support your arts community by attending. This event is a part of the Eat Your Art Out, Judy Garland! festival organized by The Avenue Community Centre in conjunction with the Rainbow Explorations Series organized by the USSU Pride Centre.
Festival Passports ($10) give you free or discounted entry to all festival events and free cover to both 302 Lounge & Discotheque and Diva’s Private Club during the duration of the festival! www.eyaojudy.wordpress.com
VJ Carrie Gates – Live at ANTI-GRAVITY by Enchanted Groove
ANTI-GRAVITY was a crazy space-themed event in Saskatoon on Boxing Day of 2011 that I helped put on with my ultra-special team, Enchanted Groove.
VJ Carrie Gates – live at DRAGONCENCE – Saskatoon, SK
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GLI.TC/H/ Festival 2011 – Screening of J + C Feedback Factory
GLI.TC/H/ Festival 2011, Boston, USA
Jon Vaughn and I have a no-input audiovisual duo called J + C Feedback Factory and we have been producing work together under that name since the mid 2000s. We were exceptionally thrilled to be part of the GLI.TC/H/ Festival in Chicago this year.
J + C Feedback Factory Screened at the International Flip Animation Festival in Wolverhampton, UK
Antonio Roberts from hellocatfood.com curated a video from the J + C Feedback Factory project (Jon Vaughn + I, no-input audiovisual mayhem) to be screened at the FLIP Festival in Wolverhampton, UK as part of a GLI.TC/H Festival screening feature.
There are some photos on Flickr of the FLIP Festival…
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 “urban art forms”. I will also be performing live in Prince Albert on September 29th for their event in conjunction with the exhibition. Read on for details!
VJ Carrie Gates screened at Montreal Fetish Week 2011
I had a last minute opportunity last week to create a new video work to be screened at Montreal Fetish Week. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance and created a new 20 minute long video that went along with a live drone performance by the artist Old Wyoming. It was my first completed work completely in black and white, which was exciting to challenge myself with. I’ll post some more pictures when I get the documentation from the wonderful curator of the event, Freida Abtan.
VJ Carrie Gates screened at BYOB Linz, Austria
pack your beamer, grab your laptop, pick your video.
BYOB Linz is taking off on Thursday, September 1st and Friday, September 2nd.
Pop Quiz net.label launched!!!
I just finished making the website for a Saskatoon based net.label called Pop Quiz. it is directed by Jon Vaughn. There is a ton of cool underground electronic, noise, and avant garde music to be downloaded here, so rev up your click finger 
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 the intangible experience. Expanding out, these events will be broadcast both on radio and public television.
Curated by Victoria Keddie
VJ Carrie Gates screened at the Sunday Articue at KMA30 Kosmetik Salon, Berlin, Aug. 7th, 2011
VJ Carrie Gates videos screened at the INDEX Festival Opening Party, New York Aug. 3, 2011
VJ Carrie Gates video screenshot of Scream Club clips mixed live at a Saskatoon rave
Friday Night Main Stage VJ Set at Motion Notion 2011
I had a fantastic time at the Motion Notion festival this year! Excellent company and atmosphere. I have been playing there for six or seven years now and I think this was the most fun yet.
I have a video from my friend Amanda Syryda of a little bit (12 min) of my six hour set. What’s extra fun is that I took a videocamera and screen out there last year and taped some of the fancy people doing their thing and then remixed it on the stage this year, and Amanda was able to get the clip of herself and her friend Letisha (“SaTurn”) Hoop up on the screens. Good times.
Enchanted Groove
This event was a very upbeat little forest themed affair brought to you by one of the grooviest teams I’ve had the pleasure to organize an event with.
I VJed at this event for Dreamaniac, The Depth, DJ Shortcircuit, and DJ Fuuuze. We rocked it – the place was sold out by midnight and the vibe was excellent and warm. Big ups go to my friends Kristen Hodge, Puffy Pop-N-Fresh, and Kiki Roquette for doing the freight elevator costume contest photo booth!
Castle If and Carrie Gates – Live at Jale, June 2011
I recently had the pleasure of performing with Castle If (aka Jess Forrest) in Saskatoon at Jale (the event space above Cafe Sola). She’s a really unique character whom I find quite intriguing…her music is synthy and kraut-influenced, with a splash of sort of an electronic goth vibe.
Check out the videos and see what you think of our fresh collab. I think we’ll be doing this again…
Castle If Website: www.castleif.com
Mannequin Photography from My Travels
I like to take photographs of mannequins in the different cities I travel to. I will update this with more as they happen…
Share NYC at the Issue Project Room, May 2011
When I was in New York recently, I went to the weekly Share event at the Issue Project Room. People bring their projects to show, discuss, and jam with. A lot of people bring custom MIDI controllers, Max/MSP patches, and such…others use it to get feedback on their works in progress, and some come just to jam.
Blip Festival – New York – May 2011
I strangely and accidentally ended up in New York for about 6 days a little while ago. Luckily, the Blip Festival happened to be on! Supercool 8bit and chiptune mega party tracks with live visuals galore! There were some nice booths set up by vendors such as Makerbot (nifty new affordable 3D printers).
Holzkopf + Shawna McLellen, Castle If + Carrie Gates, VYXSYMS, Greenmist, Knar @ Jale/Caffe Sola, Friday June 18, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Friday, June 18th
Jale
38 23rd St E, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
doors 8pm / show 9pm
$10
all-ages
Telegraph Journal Article about my performance with Jon Vaughn at the RE:FLUX Festival 2011 in Moncton, NB
Here is an article written about the upcoming performances (including Merzbow, Martin Tetreault, and Jon Vaughn and I!) in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada at the annual RE:FLUX festival.
Nicky Click, Jeremy Gloff, CJ and The Dolls, Carrie Gates, Feminist Outlawz – Atlanta, Georgia, USA – May 22nd, 2011
So excited! I am going to Atlanta, Georgia (as well as Savannah, New York, and Moncton!) this week on a crazy mini-tour! This event is especially thrilling because I get to perform with my fave high femme queer chow star, Nicky Click! And see LadyJane Meredith again! And meet all of their lovelies in Atlanta! Most excellent reunion, I am sure!!!
