Electric Fields Festival 2008 – Carrie Gates and Squelchbox

Electric Fields is biannual new media festival in Ottawa, Ontario, organized by Artengine and SAW Gallery. This performance took place in a beautiful church on Friday, November 13th, 2008 at the festival s opening event, "Electronic Evangelicals".. Carrie Gates played no-input audio and video mixers, and Squelchbox (Sean Lamothe) played ...

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 ...
J + C Feedback Factory - In The Mix - no-input a/v still

J + C Feedback Factory – Video #3 for “In The Mix”, Toronto

This collaboration between Jon Vaughn (audio) and Carrie Gates (video) is an intimate, yet risky, dynamic, and colourful presentation of live video and audio mixing using "no-input" techniques. The audio and video are created live, without using any external sources, such as cameras, microphones, or source tapes and CDs. The ...
Video Still, no-input, by Carrie Gates

J + C Feedback Factory – Video #2 for “In The Mix”, Toronto

This collaboration between Jon Vaughn (audio) and Carrie Gates (video) is an intimate, yet risky, dynamic, and colourful presentation of live video and audio mixing using "no-input" techniques. The audio and video are created live, without using any external sources, such as cameras, microphones, or source tapes and CDs. The ...
J + C Feedback Factory - In The Mix - no-input a/v still

J + C Feedback Factory – Video #4 for “In The Mix”, Toronto

This collaboration between Jon Vaughn (audio) and Carrie Gates (video) is an intimate, yet risky, dynamic, and colourful presentation of live video and audio mixing using "no-input" techniques. The audio and video are created live, without using any external sources, such as cameras, microphones, or source tapes and CDs. The ...
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 …

Smarties for Milkhorse – Video by Carrie Gates

This video was made in February 2006 in order to be used as projected video during a crazy show with Saskatoon noise band, Milkhorse. Since then, it has been used as VJ source footage and a hypnotism tool!

The Techne of the VJ: Video Mixing for the Curious (2006) at dorkbot Saskatoon

This video is a series of clips from a talk given by Carrie Gates at paved Art + New Media (artist-run centre), as part of their ongoing series of 'dorkbot' talks. For more information about paved Art + New Media, dorkbot, and dorkbot.sask, please visit: www.pavedarts.ca dorkbot.org/ dorkbot.org/dorkbotsask/ *Note: the ...
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, …