INDEX Festival Opening Party - New York, Aug. 3. 2011

VJ Carrie Gates videos screened at the INDEX Festival Opening Party, New York Aug. 3, 2011

Time Wednesday at 21:00 - 04 August at 01:00 Location M1-5 Lounge 52 Walker Street New York, NY Created by: Opalnest, Helen Wu, Victoria Keddie, Kristin Trethewey More info :: Index Festival 2011 NY Opening :: Please join us on August 3rd for Index Festival's official kick-off party featuring wildflowers ...
Enchanted Groove - June 2011 - VJ Carrie Gates VJing with her taxidermied squirrels, CherChow and Blossom

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 …

Castle If and Carrie Gates - June 2011

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 …

Share NYC at the Issue Project Room, May 2011

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 …

Nicky Click, Jeremy Gloff, CJ and The Dolls, Carrie Gates, Feminist Outlawz - Atlanta - May 2011

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 …

Hlysnan Poster for SoundFjord Gallery, May 3, 2011

“Dirty Two Minutes With You” Screened at the “Hlysnan” event at the SoundFjord in London, UK

SoundFjord Unit 3b - Studio 28, 28 Lawrence Road, N15 4ER London, United Kingdom 03 May · 18:30 - 21:00 SoundFjord Gallery: http://www.soundfjord.org/ Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204590509571553 Hlysnan is SoundFjord’s monthly listening event, exploring the world of sound is all its facets, guises and surprises! Tonight is an evening of film ...
Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn - Live at vive Yaya Series, Caffe Sola, Saskatoon, Jan. 2011

Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn – Live at Vive’s yaya Event Series January 2011

Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn make abstract, fantastical artworks from digital and analog visual and audio technologies. Gates constructs complex and intriguing visual projections in realtime that interact with the audio through methods such as sound-responsive animation and no-input analog signal processing within customized VJ software and hardware setups. Vaughn ...
Video still of Sarah Adorable by VJ Carrie Gates

Whiteflippy feat. Sarah Adorable – Silent VJ Clip by Carrie Gates

This is a silent video clip I use in my mixes in live performance. Shot in Berlin in the spring of 2010, this video features the alluring neo-geo tomfoolery of Ms. Sarah Adorable from Scream Club.

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 …