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Audio by Artists' Festival on the Radio
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- Sound recording
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David Craig, Andy Dowden, Micah Lexier
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MS-3-46, 1985-024A
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1985 (Creation)
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2 audiocassettes
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Andy Dowden is a media and sound artist based in the Halifax area. Dowden has taught studio sound courses in the Media Art Department at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University since 1986. He has been involved with the Centre for Art Tapes and the Audio for Artists festival.
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(1960-)
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Micah Lexier is a Canadian multi-media artist, whose practice includes sculpture, installation, photography, and text-based work. Born in Winnipeg in 1960, Micah received his MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984. Lexier has exhibited nationally in more than 100 solo exhibitions, and more than 200 group exhibitions. Lexier’s works within the Centre for Art Tapes tape collection reflect his time living in Halifax, and his multi-media practice.
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David Craig was an artist based in Halifax in the 1980s and became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes.
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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.
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(1951-)
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Ian Murray is an electronic media and video installation artist who has worked with radio, records, audio tapes. performance, and video since the early 1970s. Murray was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia on November 4, 1951. He studied at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax. Murray has taught media arts at various post secondary institutions and acts as a media consultant to government and community groups. His video works are widely exhibited internationally. Videography includes Come on Touch It (1979-83), Diet (1980), Who Can Help an Amateur with Her Delivery?(1978-79), Kids (1978), Interrogation (1978), Pigeons Intimidation #2 (1976), Hold Still (1975-78), Nova Boetia - Another World (1975-76), Selected Reading (1974-78), Keeping on Top of the Song (1970-73), Retreated Advanced (1970-73).
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Paula Fairfield grew up in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia and became a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax in the early 1980s. While at NSCAD, Fairfield became interested in sound and video while undertaking classes in other mediums. Fairfield later moved to Toronto and Montreal to undertake other professional endeavors, before moving to Los Angeles where she currently resides today. Fairfield operates her sound company, Eargasm Inc, in Los Angeles where she works on numerous television and film productions. Fairfield has been nominations for six Emmy awards in sound editing and design for her work in Lost and Game of Thrones. Fairfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1983 because of her video, “Relative activities: doing nothing with somebody” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection
Custodial history
The tape was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 2013 by the Centre for Art Tapes.
Scope and content
Item consists of the first part of Audio by Artists on the Radio, a radio program produced for CKDU Radio as part of the 1985 Audio by Artists Festival. The program was produced by Andy Dowden and Micah Lexier and narrated by David Craig. The program features "You've Got Yours" by Michael Fernandes; "Towards the Northern Service" by Ian Murray; "Inside Issues" and "TV" by William Furlong; "Are You There" and "Cambrian Shield" by Donna Ebert; "Can we Get Personal" by Paula Fairfield; and "The Media Ate It" and "The Past Informs the Present Reflection" and "This Song will Change Your Life" and "Such Wonderful Times" by Dan Lander;
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- English
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Audio can be listened at the Dalhousie University Archives. Advance notice is required.
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See MS-3-46, Box 40, Folder 16, for more information on the Audio by Artists' Festival 1985.
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Copyright is held by the artists.