Item MS-3-46, 1984-002B - Cabaret up front

Liz MacDougall has worked in the media arts since 1984 after completing a degree in Fine Arts at NSCAD with studies at UCSD, San Diego. Concerned about the social distribution of power, she creates her work through playful applications of new technologies. She is the director of several videos, both art and documentary, including “DEBERT BUNKER: by invitation only,” "Time to Heal" and "the Birth of Sybling," for which she won national awards. Liz has been both an employee and a member of several artist-run film and video spaces including Cineworks Film Co-op - Vancouver, the Centre for Art Tapes - Halifax, and Studio XX - Montreal. In 1996 she founded the Incomplete Dislocations Collective, a group of Halifax artists who create and exhibit new media works. She has curated new media exhibitions for the Incomplete Dislocations Collective, Edge Intermedia, the IMAA Atlantic, and the Centre for Art Tapes. Liz has also taught interactive media at NSCAD and works in Halifax as a video editor and digital media creator.

James (Jim) MacSwain was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and graduated from Mount Allison University with a BA in English. Since 1973, Jim has lived in the Halifax area and was an arts administrator in an artist-run centre in Halifax. He has taught media art production at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, the Centre for Art Tapes, and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative. MacSwain’s videos and films were exhibited at a retrospective at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia that was sponsored by the Centre for Art Tapes in 2005.

Dan Lander was born in 1953 in Oshawa, Ontario and educated at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. During his education, Lander focused in performance, video and sound. Lander became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1984 because of his involvement with a video recording entitled “2 videos by Halifax independent producers” which became a part of their tape collection.