SAW Video presents world premiere of PUBLIC DOMAIN a national media art commissioning project
7:00 PM on Wednesday Jun. 23rd, 2010
Library and Archives Canada auditorium,, 395 Wellington
7:00 PM on Wednesday Jun. 23rd, 2010
Library and Archives Canada auditorium,, 395 Wellington
This ambitious commissioning project has brought seven artists from across Canada to Ottawa to create contemporary video works drawn from the traces of the past.
Launched in June 2009, Public Domain is the first commissioning project of this scope undertaken by SAW Video and the first of its kind in Canada.
SAW Video commissioned seven accomplished media artists working in Canada to create new video works using public domain films and videos footage in the Film/Video/Sound Collection of the Library and Archives Canada. The result is Public Domain, a programme of six new videos which, after its premiere in Ottawa on June 23rd, will tour across North America and Europe in 2011.
Public Domain presents a unique and valuable opportunity to contribute to the ongoing discourse around copyrighting images. According to SAW Video director Penny McCann, “Works that are in the public domain are, theoretically, free from copyright restrictions, however the process for obtaining permission for these ‘public’ works can be expensive and bewildering, The purpose of Public Domain was to offer media artists the opportunity and the resources to crack open the treasure chest of our national archives collection while at the same engaging in questions of what images in our collective past get archived and which do not.”
Launched in June 2009, Public Domain is the first commissioning project of this scope undertaken by SAW Video and the first of its kind in Canada.
SAW Video commissioned seven accomplished media artists working in Canada to create new video works using public domain films and videos footage in the Film/Video/Sound Collection of the Library and Archives Canada. The result is Public Domain, a programme of six new videos which, after its premiere in Ottawa on June 23rd, will tour across North America and Europe in 2011.
Public Domain presents a unique and valuable opportunity to contribute to the ongoing discourse around copyrighting images. According to SAW Video director Penny McCann, “Works that are in the public domain are, theoretically, free from copyright restrictions, however the process for obtaining permission for these ‘public’ works can be expensive and bewildering, The purpose of Public Domain was to offer media artists the opportunity and the resources to crack open the treasure chest of our national archives collection while at the same engaging in questions of what images in our collective past get archived and which do not.”