Carrie Gates - I GOT SLIMED

How to make a slimy slimepunk slime costume

At long last, I have finally revealed the mysteries of my slime costume! Come one, come all, and rejoice in the neon green glow of permaslime!

"Crazy, Sexy, Cool" exhibition curated by Jennifer Chan

Carrie Gates – New GIF in the “Crazy, Sexy, Cool” exhibition curated by Jennifer Chan

Check out this new web exhibition of .gif art put together by Jennifer Chan called “Crazy, Sexy, Cool”!

GIF Wrapping 2013 - Icon for Carrie Gates'GIF to Carlos Saez

GIF Wrapping 2013 – Featuring a New GIF I Made for Carlos Saez

Here’s a bit of seasonal cheer for you: the 2013 annual GIF Wrapping event, hosted by Anthony Antonellis. 119 artists were assigned a “Secret Santa” type of role to another artist – every person made a unique .gif animation for the person that they were assigned.

Second Life Screenshot in Star Trek by Carrie Gates

Carrie Gates’s Screenshot Art Featured in The Creators Project: New Media Artists Pay Tribute To The Star Trek Universe With Screenshots:TNG

One of the Star Trek Second Life screenshots I made for the most awesome group on facebook (#Screenshots ★ TNG, run by Anthony Antonellis) is featured on The Creators Project!

Monad Digital -Hacktist Exhibition in China, 2013

Carrie Gates’ Pizzabook Project in the “Hacktist” Exhibition in China

I’ve never shown in China before, so I am extra happy about this! Systaime Alias Michaël Borras and Matthieu Delourme have put together a new net art exhibition “Hacktist” with a website http://www.monaddigital.net/ where you can check out all of the work. Check out my exhibition page in the “Hacktist” exhibtion!

Behind the scenes at The Light Painting Project - Photo by Carrie Gates

Behind the Scenes at The Light Painting Project

I took some photos at the shoot for The Light Painting Project that I did with a great team of people from the local fashion community.  I took all of these photos inbetween the “official” shots, which you can see here.

Light Painting Project - November 2013 - Mark Tiu, Laurie Brown, Carrie Gates, Lisa Hallam, Alicia Soulier, Zoë Pattenden

The Light Painting Project

I had the pleasure of recently working with a group of really talented folks from the fashion industry at an experimental light painting fashion shoot the other day.

Krystallax Invasion - Game Screenshot

Krystallax Invasion Video Game – CMPT 106 Class Project

Krystallax Invasion is a weird little video game that I created with my university classmates Ben Whittaker and Mike Sinclair. It was made with Processing software in Carl Gutwin’s video game design class (CMPT 106) at the University of Saskatchewan in 2010 as a class assignment.

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 …

Telegraph Journal - RE:FLUX Festival - Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn, Merzbow - May 2011

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.

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 ...
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!

Prairie Scene, 2011

“Prairie Scene” show is screening my work in Ottawa on May 5th, 2011

There is a big show coming up in Ottawa/Gatineau called “Prairie Scene” from April 26th to May 8th, 2011 that features tons of talent from across the Prairies. If you are around there at the right time, you should definitely check out the full “Prairie Scene” lineup and see this …

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 ...