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.

"Abducted for Life" by Carrie Gates and Venetian Snares on Undervolt & Co.

Venetian Snares and Carrie Gates Collaboration Showing at the RENDER Music Video Festival 2015

RENDER International Festival for Music Videos Featuring Carrie Gates and Venetian Snares Collaboration Lineup Announcement in Exclaim Magazine for the 2015 RENDER International Festival for Music Videos – Carrie Gates and Venetian Snares Collaboration to be Featured

Super Mario 2 Glitch Video Still by VJ Carrie Gates

Super Mario 2 Silent 3D glitch videos by Carrie Gates

Here are a couple of silent VJ clips I made that I mix together with other videos when I perform live. I used Super Mario 2 graphics for this set and glitched them up with 3D stuff in modul8.

Video screenshot by Carrie Gates for the Blue Balls Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland

VJ Carrie Gates and DJ Jon Vaughn – Spring Mini Mix Video on YouTube and Vimeo

VJ Carrie Gates - Springy Mini Mix 2012 from Carrie Gates on Vimeo.
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 …

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!

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 ...