What Color Is The Dress 2015 - Meme Heritage Moments - Video Still by VJ Carrie Gates

Meme Heritage Moments – What color is the dress?

Now for a Meme Heritage Moment: In 2015, a simple image of a dress set the whole world AFLAME WITH MEME MADNESS with the burning question –> WHAT COLOR IS THE DRESS? Slightly different lighting made the dress appear to be very different colors…wars were fought, families were destroyed, fingernails were bitten…but no two souls could agree on the color of this deceivingly simple dress.

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!

20 Year Anniversary Party for Saskatchewan Ravers - July 19, 20, 21 - Design by Yusuf Ahktar

20 Year Anniversary Reunion Rave in Saskatoon

OMG OMG OMG We’re having a 20 Year Anniversary Reunion rave in Saskatoon to celebrate our scene! The party is a three day shindig (just like the good ol’ days) and is from July 19th – 21st, 2019 at a few different  awesome venues in town. I am soooo freakin’ …

Arts Entrepreneurship Business Development Course by the Sask Arts Board and Creative Saskatchewan

Arts Entrepreneurship Business Development Course Artist Talk with Carrie Gates

This past weekend, I did a presentation about my work as an artist and how I became an entrepreneur in digital media production. The presentation was for the “Arts Entrepreneurship Business Development Course” by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and Creative Saskatchewan.  I took this course a few years ago and …

Submerge - January 12 2019

Submerge Show at Paved Arts with VJ Carrie Gates

oOoh gosh it’s already 2019! It felt funny to write that down! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU! :D With no further adieu, SASC and the Uninhibited Crew are starting off the new year off right with a crazy sweet lineup at PAVED Arts in Saskatoon on January 12th….and I’m going …

UBER GURLZ: Denizen Femme at the Art Gallery of Regina

UBER GURLZ: Denizen Femme Exhibit with Performance by Carrie Gates

In just a few weeks, I will be performing a new work in progress at the Art Gallery of Regina as part of the UBER GURLZ: Denizen Femme exhibition curated by Michel Boutin for the Indigenous Peoples Artist Collective. This is the second installment of the UBER GURLZ series and …

Carrie Gates Featured in "My Music" Article in Planet S Magazine

“My Music” Article in Planet S and Prairie Dog Magazine with Carrie Gates

Lovely fun was had when I put together this list of some of my favourite all time songs for Gregory Beatty’s “My Music” feature column for Saskatoon’s Planet S Magazine and Regina’s Prairie Dog Magazine (in the Hallowe’en edition, no less!)! The article is featured in both the print and …

Saskatoon Fashion and Design Festival (SFDF) 2018

Saskatoon Fashion and Design Festival Runway Show with VJ Carrie Gates

Oooooh la la! It’s that time of year again! The fabulous Saskatoon Fashion and Design Festival (SFDF) is coming up again this weekend and I will be doing a live performance for both nights of their runway show at the Delta Bessborough. For both evenings, I am creating custom VJ …

Dirty Two Minutes With You - by VJ Carrie Gates and Phlegm Gadget

Nuit Blanche Edmonton Screening of VJ Carrie Gates and Phlegm Gadget Video

Lovely! Nuit Blanche Edmonton has featured the video “Dirty Two Minutes with You” that I made with music by Phlegm Gadget (aka Jon Vaughn) as part of Constantine Katsiris‘ curated screening by the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS)! It’s all happening on September 29th in Edmonton and you can catch …

Solstice on the South Saskatchewan (Solsask Festival) - 2018 Poster

Solstice on the South Saskatchewan (Solsask) Festival with VJ Carrie Gates

I’m excited to be VJing at the electronic music festival called Solstice on the South Saskatchewan​ (Solsask) from June 21st to June 24th at the One Arrow Rodeo Grounds. They have their hearts in a good place! Their goal is “to improve relations between the First Nations and non-indigenous people …

GIF Fest 3000 in Vancouver - November 16 and 17 2017

GIF Fest 3000 in Vancouver with Carrie Gates

The ever-so-rad Erica Lapadat-Janzen is curating a GIF exhibition in Vancouver at a secret location that will be announced soon on the Facebook page for the event. The show features a whole bunch of my favourite artists and it looks like it’s going to be one heck of a good …

Deep Vibes and Dirty Breaks 2017

Deep Vibes and Dirty Breaks with VJ Carrie Gates

Awesome! The lovely Mr. Mason Cole and Mr. Devon Poth are hosting Mason’s annual “Deep Vibes and Dirty Breaks” event again this year and I’m going to be VJing at it with some of my very best friends in the whole wide world, who also happen to be wicked DJs. …

"Timeworms in Space" Video Still by Carrie Gates

Grey Projects – Arts on Division Screening with Carrie Gates

My silent video “Timeworms in Space” will be presented at the Arts on Division Festival in a public outdoor screening in September 2017, along with 8 other artists.

Nuit Blanche Toronto With Carrie Gates - President's Lounge

OCAD and Nuit Blanche Toronto with VJ Carrie Gates

This year’s edition of Nuit Blanche in Toronto will feature an outdoor screening of one of my silent videos called “Mountain Glitchery”. Curated by Jason Baerg and Tak Pham for OCAD University, and the show is called Tonight’s Special.

MEME Festival 2017

MEME Festival 2017 with VJ Carrie Gates

I’m 1000% thrilled to be performing again at the MEME Festival in Winnipeg, MB. This urban electronic music festival has top notch programming for techno and house with a sophisticated sound and takes place at tons of different swanky venues around the city. I’ll be performing at The Cube in …

SPAMM Power x Lyon - June 1 2017

SPAMM Power Tour in Lyon France

WEB X ART X LYON EXP0S!T!0N EN LIGNE ET PHYS!QUE, TRES B!ENT0T DANS TA V!LLE !! SPAMM T0UR @ LY0N DEB0RDEMENT ART!ST!QUE 145 ART!STES , 145 0EUVRES www.spamm.fr https://www.facebook.com/ SuPer.Art.Modern.Museum/ Production et commissariat par Ellectra Radikal & Michaël Borras A.K.A Systaime Acceuillit à Lyon par Fréderic Niederberger / www.miscible.fr & Lilian Nabera …

Drone Day at Paved Arts - May 27 2017

Street Lipo Live at Drone Day at Paved Arts

So I’m doing sound art again after a 10+ year hiatus! I formed an experimental music band with Lewis Casey (aka DJ Saucer) and we’re called Street Lipo. Come see us perform live at Paved Arts in Saskatoon on Saturday May 27th at 4:30pm. It’s a free show and it …