New Forms Festival
A series of free, all-ages workshops & community events lead by artists and special guests from FACT Magazine, dublab, Simon Fraser University & more. Presented…
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Tim’s Success Story
A partnership with Duplex artist-run centre, Western Front Media Arts is pleased to host this talk by the first Duplex artist-in-residence, Jennifer Laiwint. Laiwint will…
Deanna Bowen: ON TRIAL The Long Doorway
A Black legal aide lawyer is assigned to represent a young white student who has assaulted a fellow student/rising Black athlete. ON TRIAL The Long…
Pacific Crossings: Load Na Dito
Mark Salvatus & Mayumi Hirano
TALK May 22 @ 7pm Load Na Dito is an artistic and research project based in Manila, Philippines. Developed as a home made culture, currently located in Cubao,…
TELEPRESENCE at Western Front
PERFORMANCE / ARTIST TALK Telepresence | Virtual Reality Live Performance Luxe Hall, Western Front, 303 East 8th Ave SOLD OUT The year-long sound installation…
Chris Lee
Chris Lee will be in residence to develop part 1 of LDM, a new project that reimagines a laser distance measurement device as a tool for converting…
TELEPRESENCE
ARTIST TALK / PRESENTATION Telepresence | Virtual Reality Experience Integrated Motion Studio @ Emily Carr University 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver The year-long sound…
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The international contemporary music community convenes in Vancouver for World New Music Days November 2 – 8, 2017, and the Western Front showcases two unique…
The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy
Screening of Campbell’s 2013 film It For Others and dialogue with Jordan Wilson: May 13 @ 2pm Duncan Campbell is known for his films, which…
The Chorus
This multimedia event with Dan Starling will feature a presentation of research and moving images that investigate the notion of the Chorus, a character in Ancient…
Vancouver Independent Archives Week
Western Front is pleased to participate in Vancouver Independent Archives Week with grunt gallery and VIVO Media Arts Centre Archives Week Kickoff Screening Sunday November…
Eternal
Eternal Directed by Daniel Fish Presented with the PuSh International Performing Arts FestivalFebruary 2–6 @ 8pm, February 6 @ 2pm Artist Talk: February 3, following the…
“Postscript on I’m that angel”
Tyler Coburn will share images and stories from I’m that angel, a publication and series of related reading events held at data centres worldwide. These events give…
Collective Works: Questions and Answers
FREE In conjunction with their performance of LIQUID TRUST, international video installation artists Susanne Clausen and Pavlo Keresty of Szuper Gallery, and musician-in-residence and curator…
Krista Belle Stewart in Conversation with Dory Nason
Grand Luxe Hall @ 7pm A conversation and screening with Krista Belle Stewart viewing elements of her new video works, created during recent production residencies…
Lowell Darling
Lowell Darling, AKA Dudley Finds, a California media artist who at that time used the media-newspapers, radio and television-as a kind of exhibition space. Accordingly,…