Moderator: Patti Schmidt (Amplify DAI Coordinator, Canada)
With:
Leonara Manyangadze (Somerset House Studios, UK) @im_leonara
France Jobin (Amplify DAI artist, Canada) @france_jobin
Flora Yin Wong (Amplify DAI artist, UK) @floraytw
Patti Schmidt
Based in Montréal, Patti has been heavily involved in Canada's contemporary and underground music and arts communities for more than 25 years—from running labels to performing, making radio and programming events. Best known in Canada for her 17-year tenure at CBC Radio’s Brave New Waves, a national, nightly, new music program specialized in music and culture from the fringes and the future, she has also hosted various other arts programs for public radio. From 2008 until 2019, she worked as a curator, editor and producer for the MUTEK festival of electronic music and digital creativity, based in Montréal. In 2016 she was the Artistic Director and Lead Faculty for Convergence: Electronic Music + Visual Arts, a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She continues to work in digital arts and culture for a variety of organizations including, The British Council Canada, Pride Toronto and Envision Management as a digital arts consultant and in the Artists & Development department.
Leonara Manyangadze
Leonara Manyangadze is Programme Producer for Somerset House Studios, an experimental workspace for artists, makers and thinkers in the centre of London with over 100 residents. The Studios are a platform for the development of new creative projects and collaboration, promoting work that pushes bold ideas, engages with urgent issues and pioneers new technologies. Residents include Beatrice Dillon, Gaika, Gareth Pugh and Laura Grace Ford. She works directly with artists to develop and realise their projects as part of an ongoing public programme of events. Leonara began her career in arts marketing at the Young Vic Theatre in London.
Flora Yin Wong
London-born Flora Yin Wong is a musician and writer whose work incorporates traditional early instruments such as singing bowls, yangqin and kemence. Her debut releases include an album in 2020 on Modern Love as a 2x LP, and PAN’s mono no aware compilation, remixes and commissions for Mun Sing (Giant Swan), Circadian Rhythms, J Colleran, Scintii, Archaic Vaults, and Somerset House Studios. She has performed live at MUTEK Montreal, Peru, and Argentina, New York’s ISSUE Project Room, Volksbühne Theatre Berlin, for Raster-Noton in Kyiv, The V&A Museum, and Somerset House, as well as DJed in clubs liked Berghain, Mutabor Moscow, Razzmatazz Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Vienna, Brussels, Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, and 3HD Festival in Berlin. She regularly guests on radio platforms like NTS Live, Know Wave, Rinse FM, Cxema, BBC Radio 3 and 6, LYL, BCR, Kindred and Boiler Room. Her first book 'Liturgy' is published this summer on PAN x Primary Information, and in October 2021 she will be an artist in residence at Mahler & LeWitt in Italy.
France Jobin
France Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, film composer, and curator residing in Montreal, whose audio art, qualified as “sound-sculpture", reveals a minimalist approach to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect. Her installations incorporate both musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of physical spaces. Her work can be “experienced” internationally in a variety of unconventional spaces and new technology festivals.