Item MS-3-46, 1991-017 - CFAT compilation

Ann Verrall is a Halifax-based artist who is currently a writer, director, producer and educator within Shortworks Productions, a film production company that she owns. Verrall received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Verrall’s work specializes in working with young adults for the creation of videos that explores the lives of youth. Her projects have been broadcasted on television channels, including CBC, and exhibited internationally. Verrall has also taught film at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Regina.

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.

Doug Porter is a Halifax based artist and has been working with media and video mediums since the 1980s. Porter has exhibited artworks internationally. Porter is an instructor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.

Diane Poitras is a Quebecois filmmaker and teaches documentary film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Poitras became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1991 because her video recording “Lorsque Cesse le Vacarme” became a part of the centre’s tape collection .