A Conversation with Artificial Intelligence
Kıvanç Tatar's performance at OPEN to ENTER, Selector's Records.
This performance is a duo with a musical agent, artificial intelligence, making music. The human performer is on the left channel and the musical agent is on the right channel. The agent listens to the human performer and itself real-time, making proactive decisions about future actions. The agent is trained on a 30 minute experimental […]
Next Stop, Aberdeen
The inaugural exhibition at Plaza Projects in Aberdeen Square, Richmond
Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk Plaza Projects presents its inaugural exhibition curated by 7:30assemble, Precarium – Right Until Revocation, which is a convergence of five emerging curators and fourteen artists. Using this commercial space that has temporarily been made available, we are taking this moment of departure from conventional forms of an art institution to more […]
ISEA Disruption video
The VANDOCUMENT recap of ISEA2015. Not for the faint hearted or epileptic.
ISEA2015 was a six-day symposium (14-19th August 2015) featuring over 450 speakers, workshops, tutorials, panels, papers and institutional presentations, showcasing over 160 cutting-edge digital artworks. ISEA2015’s theme of DISRUPTION invited a conversation about the aesthetics of change, renewal, and game-changing paradigms. To go with this theme, this video is packed with raw bursts of energy; […]
Bathed in Blue Light, Banging Steam
A glimpse at the performances of Improvised Resolutions @ Gold Saucer
Photo and video documentation by Ash Tanasiychuk A friendly introduction, A gong, Bass & violin, Guitar, pedals, Lash out noise dance Improvised Resolutions, a night of improvised music at the Gold Saucer. Code of Silence, featuring Kıvanç Tatar on trumpet and electronics, Victor Zappi on D-Box (hackable musical instrument), Matthew Ariaratnam on prepared guitar and […]
Light Therapy
ISEA2015 launches mellow but bright and generous with Instant Coffee party
Ash Tanasiychuk photos “Instant Coffee Light Bar is an ongoing art project that investigates the potential and power of light. The artists come to this idea through necessity. Living in a place such as Vancouver, Canada, where the rain can seem endless, the negative effects of the lack of sunlight on individual psyches and the […]
Wildlife Igniters, Peek A Boo, and the Glacier in the Main Ring
In Dreams group show at Astro Turf gets big Art Waste support
Ash Tanasiychuk photos Oh yeah! Art Waste! My pics from massive group show In Dreams at Astro Turf Massive group show as part of Art Waste 2015 edition. Featuring artists: Olga Abeleva Frances Breden & Emma Lowther The Bush Collective Paul Carr Tanya Crail Natalie Crema Aisha Davidson Caton Diab Grace Eakins Rebecca Dueck & […]
Victory Comes From Combining Creatives
Analog photo portrait show celebrates local creatives, Combine The Victorious launch sophomore album at Make
Photodocumentation by Ash Tanasiychuk On June 4th, Make opened its doors for an exhibit of Vancouver creatives who had been selected for portraits and photographed by analogue photography studio VNB, including: Dan Berish & Ryan Mah, Black Rhino Creative Michael Seymour, installation artist Sarah Bancroft, Vitamin Daily Matt Schroeter, designer & photographer Neils Bendtsen, Bensen […]
Hot Dots
A photo glimpse at Russell Leng's Too Many Maps at FIELD Contemporary
Ash Tanasiychuk photos On a muggy June night, FIELD Contemporary opened it’s doors for an exhibition of Russell Leng‘s newest work entitled Too Many Maps. From the event’s write up: I’m sitting under a tree in the shade, sorting through piles of maps. Some I’ve found here; some I’ve brought with me. They’re rectangles mostly, […]
A Great Discussion
On perspectives and respectful listening.
The request to remove the documentation formerly housed at this url has prompted a great discussion amongst the artistic community. At VANDOC, we have always operated with the best intentions: to celebrate Vancouver based emerging artists. (read more about our mission https://vandocument.com/about/) While some of the articles you’ll read on VANDOC happened because we were asked […]
Lossless
SFU MFA Graduating Exhibition at Audain Gallery
Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk Text from exhibition pdf Lossless is an exhibition featuring graduating projects by MFA candidates at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Video, sculpture, performance and installation projects by this year’s graduates share a number of related concerns, while formulating distinct frameworks for individual investigation. Deborah Edmeades’ video work and […]