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.

The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, 2013

Carrie Gates Videos Screened at The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale

I am insanely excited about today’s launch of The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale!!!!!! It is a maaajor international net art exhibition that features several different curated web pavilions with a huge array of megafresh new digital artwork ranging from gifs to video art to nu skool websites and then some. …

VAMPIRE BEAT 2013 at Paved Arts

VJ Carrie Gates performing at VAMPIRE BEAT

Get your costume and your dancing shoes ready because PAVED Arts and BlackFlash Magazine are bringing back Saskatoon’s favorite Halloween video dance party! With our always legendary costume contest, huge prizes, and performances from Helium3, Ravewind, DJ Market Mall, VJ Carrie Gates and many more, this is the Halloween event …

Video still from "A portrait of a portrait of a portrait of NN" - Carrie Gates, 2013

Video by Carrie Gates: “A portrait of a portrait of a portrait of NN”

The images for this work were created in 2003 for a project where Carrie used a piece of OS9 software art by Adrian Ward called “A portrait of Netochka Nezvanova” to create a generative video collage of a collection of over 10 000 .psd files Carrie had prepared on the …

TUSK - The Rain Keeps Falling Down - Music Video Still by VJ Carrie Gates, 2013

My new music video for TUSK is featured on VICE Germany’s NOISEY SITE!!!

I am really excited about the launch of this new video project I just completed. NOISEY is a music website out of Berlin for VICE magazine that features a lot of cool established and up and coming artist’s work, through music reviews and world premires of music videos.  Thanks to …

Video still of Sarah Adorable by VJ Carrie Gates

Begging – Music video by VJ Carrie Gates for Mz Sunday Luv and Geiger

Mz Sunday Luv approached me to work with her on a music video for her and Berlin-based artist Geiger. We used some video I created from shoots with Sarah Adorable from Scream Club. I am really happy with how it all fit together!

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 …

grrrilla galleries presents BYOB Linz - September 2011

VJ Carrie Gates screened at BYOB Linz, Austria

pack your beamer, grab your laptop, pick your video. BYOB Linz is taking off on Thursday, September 1st and Friday, September 2nd.

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 …

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 …