Clive Holden | |
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| Occupation | poet, visual artist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1990s-present |
| Notable works | Trains of Winnipeg,Utopia Suite |
| Spouse | Alissa York |
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Clive Holden is aCanadiannew media[1] artist,filmmaker[2] and poet[3] fromVictoria, British Columbia, he is currently living inStratford, Ontario with his wife, writerAlissa York.
In the inaugural exhibition in 2013 ofUNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS[4] at theRyerson Image Centre, Holden worked with archival photographs and snap shots submitted by the public via social media, along with pulsating film leader loops in a large-scale wall composition. The public was asked to nominate their "favourite unfamous unAmericans" for inclusion. The media were composed using a musical analogy so the visuals were listened to rather than viewed. Hundreds of randomization algorithms were also included in the work's code, so that the work's creation wasn't completed until the moment it was viewed, and it could never be viewed the same way twice.[citation needed]
Media, Mediated[5] (2013) is an ongoing series of new media works,net art works, andchromogenic prints. They interrelate in spite of their disparate natures as either ephemeral time-based net art works and installations, or more traditional art objects. Their juxtapositions highlight what they have in common as well as their differences.[citation needed]
Holden's best-known and publicized project to date is the award-winning[6] "film poem" seriesTrains of Winnipeg,[7] a collection of 14short films featuring Holden's poetry with musical accompaniment byChristine Fellows,John K. Samson,Jason Tait, Steve Bates and Emily Goodden.Trains of Winnipeg screened internationally, a.o. at theIFFR.[8] In it is included the haunting short,18000 Dead in Gordon Head,[9] in which Holden recalls the shooting of a young girl in that part of Victoria.[citation needed] The 18,000 in the title refers to the average number ofmurders atelevision viewer has seen by the time they reach the age of sixteen years.[citation needed]
Currently he is working on his projectUtopia Suite,[10] launched at theHolland Festival inAmsterdam (2006),[11] investigating into 21st-century views onutopianism. Utopia Suite has since been touring art-galleries through Canada.[12] Recent works,UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS andMedia, Mediated are parts of the Utopia Suite project.
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