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These new financial realities have not impeded our core mission of providing access and instruction to artists to the tools of new media technology. We have transitioned from being a Supermarket to an Agency of New Media. Rather than stand alone, we continue to partner with other organizations to bring our daring, audacious and delightful exhibitions, education, equipment, and Youth Programs to the public. 911 Media has never been a building but a community. When the founding mothers started the Center at 911 East Pine, they pooled their resources and their knowledge to create opportunities for New Media Art and Documentary Film in the Seattle metropolitan area. The Center has had a nomadic existence, moving from Capitol Hill to the Cascade neighborhood, then to South Lake Union, and currently residing in the University District.

Achievements in a Down Economy

2012 saw 911 Media receiving support from King County, [4 Culture] and the City of Seattle [Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs]. In March we received a capacity building grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. We received a grant from the Vista Hermosa Foundation for a documentary film project. We also have posted our federal tax returns from the last seven years on our website as individual downloadable pdfs. On October 21st we honored Ed Marquand with the fourth Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award.

Education Achievements

106 Adults took 18 classes in 2011. New courses in Blender, and MAX/MSP were created. Beginning Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Web 101, Photoshop, Web Media Integration, Intermediate Final Cut Pro, HPX Certification, ran in 2011.

Youth Education Achievements

Six hundred youth, 20% of which were defined as “at risk,” took 27 classes. Programs included; Cartoon Animation, Digital Animation with After Effects, Web Design, [Coyote Central], Basic Video Production, [Northwest African American Museum], Young Producers Project [ACRS], Media Literacy Workshop, [Brightwater], Young Producers Project [Old Firehouse Teen Center, Redmond] and Digital Storytelling , 2 Young Producers Projects [911 Media Arts Center, Seattle].

Exhibitions

Move It!

Three exhibitions were presented with Ghost Gallery featuring experimental animation by Brian Markle, Nichole Rathburn, and Duff Hendrickson

Action 2

The exhibition was presented with Ghost Gallery. Organized by 911 Media Affiliate Curator Cait Willis the exhibition featured new video work by Joseph Gray, Keith Tilford, Izzie Lingels, Amanda Manitach, Tudor Robak and a collective group Nicolas Sassoon, Janne Parviainen, Sara Ludy, Sabrina Ratté, Dro Carey and Elekra Kb.

Nepo House 5k Walk Don’t Run

Artist Joe Gray image mapped the exterior of the venue with sonic interactivity.

Open Screening & Docutalk

Both monthly programs were held on the second and fourth Sundays of the month at the Seattle film Institute on Capitol Hill.

On Screen Magazine

The magazine was translated and integrated into the 911 Media website. This process included putting back issues from the last five years both on the web and in downloadable pdf formats, to be available soon. The future issues will be on line and available at no cost to the public.

Community Partnerships

911 Media continues to expanded our outreach by joining with the Museum of History and Industry [MOHAI] to run a community based video competition entitled History is _______!. Other agreements have been signed with the Asian American Journalist Association, Victory Studios and through the World Affairs Council, 911 Media Arts Center has hosted delegations of Media Artists from Central Asia, Europe, Africa, and Canada at the emphatic request of the United States State Department.

Making Media Matters…

…remains the central tenet of our core mission. The power of media and the empowerment of owning our own narrative is what we are here to do.

Peter Carrs has worked in film, theater, television and radio for over 20 years as both an actor and technician. A recent B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Washington follows course work in history, political science, media communications and theater.

The project just received a $15,000 grant from the Vista Hermosa Foundation which was established by Ralph and Cheryl Broetje in 1988 in response to the need for quality, affordable childcare for low-income and farm-working families in southeastern Washington State.

Visit So Close to America‘s website here.

This week’s issue of 911 Media’s e-newsletter, mediaphile, was jampacked with opportunities for youth and adults. Click here to check out upcoming film competitions, a grant being awarded by the Awesome Foundation, 911 Media’s fall schedule and new calls-for-artists.

Ghost Gallery will host Move It! #3, featuring the work of Duff Hendrickson on Friday, September 2 from 7-9pm.

Duff Hendrickson, an eccentric media-artist, has been making film-video-art and animation art since 1970.

In his early years in Hawaii he made psychedelic short 16mm films, including an experimental film of Jimi Hendrix in Hawaii, Strange Day on Maui (1970), and was a pioneer of using film projection imagery in music concerts in the early 70s. In the 80s and 90s he retreated for years as a starving artist painter and struggling with a primitive 2D animation computer in a large drafty studio.

Hendrickson went to Vancouver Film School in 1996-97 to study 3D high end computer animation full-time, followed by 10 years at Seattle’s Human Interface Technology Lab illustrating scientists inventions and assisting virtual reality research.

At present Hendrickson is thinking retro, designing back to a more abstract and expressionistic style of animation art. He’s looking for ways to create mixed-media little theater shows that would incorporate interactive and live performance with layers of recordings. He dreams of future cyber-vaudevillian road-shows playing in old neighborhood movie theaters around the US and Europe.

The small exhibition at Ghost gallery on Sept 2nd will show some movie clips of his experimental styles.

One night only! The screening will be free and open to the public, and shown in looped cycles.

911 Media Arts Center is pleased to announce the 4th Anne Focke Arts Leadership Award Gala at 6pm on Friday, October 21 at the Bullitt Cabaret at ACT Theater. Award recipient Ed Marquand will be honored for his work and support of the Seattle art scene. The event will include a catered dinner and an interview with Ed Marquand and Sheila Farr, former Seattle Times art critic.

Tickets are available for the event via Brown Paper Tickets.

Video and New Media Exhibition sponsored by 911 Media Arts Center

Opens Thursday, July 14th 5-8pm
at Ghost Gallery 504 E Denny Way at Summit

An exhibition of new media and video art at Seattle’s Ghost Gallery on Capitol Hill. ACTION! Part 2 is the second take of temporal visual works co-curated by Laurie Kearney, owner of Ghost Gallery.

ACTION! Part 2 revs up with a series of video works collected by Dumb Eyes creative director Christian Petersen under the moniker ACTION! INTERNATIONAL FILM CLUB. The film club members in this showing are: Nicolas Sassoon, Janne Parviainen, Sara Ludy, Sabrina Ratté, Dro Carey and Elekra Kb.

Amanda Manitach and Izzie Klingels teamed up again this year to create a video using a vintage film montage and cut paper.

Joseph Gray and Keith Tilford also team up for the second take to create an interactive sculpture with the working title “Schrodinbug Descending a Staircase”. The work consists of complex geometries cut and folded from acrylics of various optical qualities with hand-traced projection-mapped light that responds to the viewers movements and gestures through code written in the Processing language.

Nick Bartoletti and and Matthew Ellis have created something involving analog video feedback and hand built video synths. Bound to be state-of-the-art 2011 via 1984 style.

911 Media Arts Center is sponsoring the exhibition with equipment and logistics.

After Party at the UNICORN for Dumb Eyes subtly named monthly event PENETRATION.

Ghost Gallery
504 E Denny Way at Summit
(Entrance on Summit Ave.)

Gallery Hours:
WED-FRI @12PM-8PM
SAT-SUN 12-6PM
Mon-Tue by Appointment
info@ghostgallery.org

Convening of the Warhol Initiative recipients in San Francisco, CA

The Andy Warhol Foundation encourages representatives from each of their funded organizations to attend this convening every three years. 911 Media Arts Center is delighted to participate in this years event, Steven Michael Vroom, Director of the Center, and Joseph Gray, in the role of Board President, are attending on behalf of the organization.

The Warhol Initiative Convening brings leaders from each of the arts organizations it funds to the event to share ideas and information about administration and leadership in the non-profit arts sector. More information about the convening can be found on the website http://warholinitiative.org/.

GROW YOUR GIFT!

Donations made through The Seattle Foundation’s online Giving Center on June 23, 2011 between 7:00 a.m. and midnight will be stretched by $500,000, thanks to support for GiveBIG from The Seattle Foundation and local businesses.

WIN A GOLDEN TICKET!

Throughout GiveBIG, donors will be chosen at random to have additional funds given to the charity that received their donation. We will be giving away one Golden Ticket every hour worth $1,000, and one extra special Golden Ticket worth $5,000!

You can donate to 911 Media Arts Center via The Seattle Foundation’s website by clicking here.