Caroline Martel

Caroline Martel is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, artist and researcher. She is interested in telling historical narratives that incorporate their research in experiential and experimental ways, with a special interest in archives, invisible histories, labour and audio/visual technologies and heritage. Her work has been presented to critical acclaim internationally (TIFF, IDFA, Rotterdam, on SRC, NHK, and SVT, at MoMA and the Pompidou Centre) and includes: Hold the Line (NFB, 52 min., 2001), the montage essay The Phantom of the Operator (productions artifact, 64min, 2004) – “… an enormously imaginative docu … an hour of nonstop visual and intellectual stimulation.” (Variety), and Wavemakers (productions artifact/NFB, 96min, 2012), a feature documentary about the mystery of one of the first electronic musical instruments, the Ondes Martenot. Martel presented a solo show at the Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), Industry/Cinema (2012), was one of the featured guests at the 57th Robert Flaherty Seminar and the 2014 Global Visiting Scholar at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts (Richmond, VA). She holds a BA in Communications and an MA in Media Studies, and is currently working on a network-dissertation as a PhD candidate in the joint Communications Studies program at Concordia University in Montréal.

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Art’s Birthday 2009: Magical Sound Machines

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17 January 2009

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Saturday January 17, 2009 8pm-midnight @ l’Envers, 185 Van Horne between Esplanade and Waverly featuring among others, Darsha Hewitt and Studio XX’s Unstrument Workshop participants. Entrance fee: $5-$10 sliding scale. Come and celebrate with us the 1 000 046th Arts’s Birthday on Saturday, January 17th. Art’s Birthday…

Matricules Launch

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13 May 2008

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Three years in the making, Studio XX presents Matricules: one of the world’s largest online archives of women’s digital art. Created with invaluable support from Heritage Canada’s Canadian Culture Online Program and hosted by Studio XX, Mobile Media Lab and the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Matricules will…

Femmes br@nchées #64 :: Revisiting the voyage of the Htmlles in eastern Europe, EXPORT2

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1 February 2007

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“The HTMlles EXPORT 2” artists mobility project included the travel of five Canadian artists (Chantal Dumas, Caroline Martel, Joanna Berzowska, Jennifer Willet, Michelle Teran), two web art works (by Emily Hermant and Andreja Kuluncic), and one Canadian curator (Kyd Campbell) and seven projects to the cities of Belgrade, Sofia and…

HTMlles EXPORT.2 – 2006 :: peripheries + proximities

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18 October 2006

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About HTMlles:EXPORT 2 From the 18th to the 31st of October a group of artists and works from the 7th edition of the HTMlles Festival: Peripheries + Proximities travelled to Serbia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. The artists presented their works in the format of interactive workshops, artists talks, performances and short…

Salon Femmes br@nchées #61 :: ART.chives: art, archives and databases

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16 February 2006

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_with Ayesha Hameed J. R. Carpenter Projet Matricules outer space Ayesha Hameed outer space is a web-based project that will look at the parallels between tropes in science fiction and the fantasies of colonial expansion. What unites science fiction and the colonial-metropolitan imaginary, is a changed conception…

HTMlles 7 – 2005 :: peripheries + proximities

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18 May 2005

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HTMlles 2005, the seventh edition of Festival. Theme: peripheries + proximities An International Bienniale of cyberart: Where technologies brings together continents, liberates creative voices and provokes collective actions. Come and see! Studio XX is pleased to unveil the program for the 7th edition of the HTMlles Festival which will…