Archives Catalogue

MS-3-46
Collection
1970-2013

Collection contains over 1,300 video and audio tapes created by members or affiliates of the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The collection includes works created between 1975 and 2012.

Centre for Art Tapes

Exclusive memory 4-9-19

MS-3-46, 1987-016D
Item
1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a video by Tom Sherman. Originally conceived of as an installation, “Exclusive Memory” is based on excerpts of a 6 hour monologue by Sherman to a machine, a computer-based video sensing robot, created by the artist.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

Exclusive memory 7-11-12

MS-3-46, 1987-016B
Item
1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a video by Tom Sherman. Originally conceived of as an installation, “Exclusive Memory” is based on excerpts of a 6 hour monologue by Sherman to a machine, a computer-based video sensing robot, created by the artist.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

Sirensong

MS-3-46, 1987-026
Item
1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a video by Jan Peacock. It was not produced at the Centre for Art Tapes.

Peacock, Jan (1955- )

Shuffle

MS-3-46, 1987-021
Item
1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a video by Douglas Waterman. An insert in the U-matic tape box describes the video as follows:

"A static electrical charge is generated by shuffling my clothed feet over an insulator, and by postponing contact with elements having characteristics which would operate as outlets for the charges being generated. The stored charge emits an electrical fields that draws the particles (ashes) toward it. A proportion of the charge from my hand jumps to the particles as the particles rise to and contact my hand. The particles have received an overcharge which opposes it to its source, so is driven back to its resting place. Dispersal time for the particles' energy is (approx. 10 sec.) allowing it to be activated again, initiating another cycle as the particles slowly spread out."

Waterman, Douglas

The dream continues : a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

MS-3-46, 1987-027
Item
1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a video, produced by Ron Gerold, that documents an innovative, multi-layered dramatic presentation on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. This inspiring play was produced for the Cultural Awareness Youth group which is dedicated to teaching black youths their own history.

Gerold, Ron

Gossip : a performance by Elaine Carol

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 121, Item 7
Item
1996

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item is a video document by Ann Verall of a performance by Elaine Carol entitled "Gossip," produced by Centre for Art Tapes at a church.

Verrall, Ann

For the time being

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 121, Item 8
Item
2010

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Clark, David

New art resources

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 121, Item 15
Item
1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains "New art Resources" for the Eye Level Gallery, including interviews with Bernice Purdy and Eric Walker on ASN (ATV) (July 30, 1984); Satire as Discontent by Dan Lander August 29, 1984); and Such Wonderful Times, a performance documentation with video by Bob Tonks and sound by David Barteaux.

Lander, Dan

Jerry Mander talk : Atlantic Film and Video Festival

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 2
Item
October 20, 1983

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Plain talk : part 2 of 3

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 6
Item
January 11, 1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item is part of a series of "Scanner Training Seminars" by Ed Slopek.

Slopek, Edward

Plain Talk : part 3 of 3 and Sci-Fi Vid-Sending : part 1 of 4

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 7
Item
January 11, 1984 - January 18, 1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item is part of a series of "Scanner Training Seminars" by Ed Slopek.

Slopek, Edward

Sci-Fi Vid-Sending : part 2 of 4

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 8
Item
January 18, 1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item is part of a series of "Scanner Training Seminars" by Ed Slopek.

Slopek, Edward

Art, sexuality, censorship : part 1 of 2

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 14
Item
April 4, 1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains the first part of a recording of a talk given by Vard Burstyn at the Halifax Community Y, sponsored by Centre for Art Tapes.

Audio by Artists : A. Lulu's introduction and scratch videos

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 43
Item
1986

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains a recording from the Audio by Artists festival, recorded live at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Paris 1913 : [performance]

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 50
Item
July 10, 1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains a recording of a performance by Mark Frutkin entitled "Paris 1913", recorded at the Eye Level Gallery. The tape also includes a recording of Trisha Lerner at a Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) benefit.

Lerner, Trish

The babbies upstairs

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 64
Item
1996

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains a recording with 10 songs: Open Seas, Halloween, Goodbye to Summertime, Very Clean, Water Music, Milton's Blues, Martin's River, Babbalonia, Midnight/Monday, and Fly me to the Moon.

Craig, David

Still alive

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 81
Item
October 27, 1995

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item was recorded in the Sir James Dunne Theatre at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Centre for Art Tapes project

MS-3-46.2018-014, BD Box 41, Item 67
Item
August 11, 2002

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains material relating to "What's Race...". It was mastered by J. LaPointe at Audio Projects in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Broadcasting for reels : mapping the city

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 98
Item
March 23, 2001

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

CKDU Radio

Travellers

MS-3-46, 1999-010
Item
1999

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a video recording by Tarek Abouamin entitled "Travellers."

Abouamin, Tarek

Old Town Clock

MS-3-46, 1977-007A
Item
1977

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item is an audio recording of a public meeting about the Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Audio By Artists Festival

MS-3-46, 1983-021
Item
1983

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of an audio recording from the Audio by Artists Festival that was recorded in April of 1983 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The recording is affiliated with both Eye Level Gallery and the Centre for Art Tapes.

Dennehy, Clancy

Musicworks 26: A Walk Through the City: The Canadian New Music Periodical

MS-3-46, 1983-024
Item
1983

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of recordings by multiple artists, however the tape is missing from its case.

Musicworks 28: Electroacoustic Music in Canada

MS-3-46, 1983-025
Item
1983

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of an audio recording by multiple artists.

Andy Dowden

MS-3-46, 1983-029
Item
1983

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item is an audiocassette of recordings by Andy Dowden that were recorded and mixed the Experimental Sound Studio at Dalhousie University in the Spring of 1983. The recording features, Side A: "Shore Leave", "One for Marian", "Broken Skin", "A Secret and a Lie", and Side B: "(It Could Go) Either Way", "Heijina Fix", and "Gramps". Item is part of the Andy Dowden Audio Tapes 1983-1985 compilation.

Dowden, Andy

April 10th, 1984

MS-3-46, 1984-007B
Item
1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of an audio recording by Jim Sacouman, which was recorded at CFAT.

Splash Water Sports: Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest

MS-3-46, 2001-002
Item
1980

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a video recording entitled "Splash Water Sports: Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest" which was filed on October 28th, 2001 at Fox Point Beach in Nova Scotia.

Exclusive memory : Sleeping robot variations

MS-3-46, 1987-016C
Item
1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a silent video by Tom Sherman. Originally conceived of as an installation, “Exclusive Memory” is based on excerpts of a 6 hour monologue by Sherman to a machine, a computer-based video sensing robot, created by the artist.

Sherman, Tom, 1947-

Pie y Café

MS-3-46, 1984-014
Item
1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of two copies of a video by Jan Peacock.

Peacock, Jan (1955- )

Sculpture : calling attention to a space

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 121, Item 2
Item
1977

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains a tape edited from the Dalhousie Medical Library Tapes by Theodore Wan.

Wan, Theodore, 1953-1987

101 television celebrities

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 121, Item 4
Item
1972

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains a collection of 30 second video portraitures, started in the spring of 1972 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as an attempt to put as many people as possible on television. Each portrait starts with the individual's name, and then they say or do whatever they want for 30 seconds.

MacNevin, Brian

Eye Level Gallery re-opens on Gottingen Street

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 121, Item 13
Item
February 17, 1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Eyelevel Gallery.

Excerpts by various performers

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 1
Item
1983

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains excerpts from a concert recorded live in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April of 1983.

Tittle, Steve

Art, sexuality, censorship : part 2 of 2

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 15
Item
April 4, 1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains the second part of a recording of a talk given by Vard Burstyn at the Halifax Community Y, sponsored by Centre for Art Tapes.

Maritime popular culture as struggle

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 16
Item
April 10, 1984

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains a recording of a talk given by Jim Sacouman at the Centre for Art Tapes.

Audio by Artists' Festival on the radio : program 1 of 2

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 36
Item
April 1, 1985

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains one of two programs written and narrated by David Craig and produced by Andy Dowden and Micah Lexier on the Audio By Artists' Festival for CKDU radio.

Craig, David

Audio by Artists' Festival on the radio : program 2 of 2

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 36
Item
April 8, 1985

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains the second of two programs written and narrated by David Craig and produced by Andy Dowden and Micah Lexier on the Audio By Artists' Festival for CKDU radio.

Craig, David

Interview with Eric Cameron regarding Edwin's Egg

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 49
Item
April 15, 1987 - May 12, 1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains an interview with artist Eric Cameron about his art piece entitled "Edwin's Egg" (1979).

Cameron, Eric

Centre for Art Tapes benefit : part 3 of 3

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 53
Item
July 11, 1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains recordings of Stephen Monk (with Lisa Monk, Faye Armsworthy, and Jamie Moriera, recorded at Carpenter's Union Hall in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

CKDU interviews with Heather Huston and Cindy Duffy

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 55
Item
1987

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains two interviews created by CKDU radio: one with Heather Huston on Cube Aleph, and the other with Andy Duffy regarding the United States.

Dugas, Daniel

Audio by Artists Festival : Dan Lander interview

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 59
Item
October 20, 1991

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Lander, Dan

Levine and Mars Workshop

MS-3-46.2018-044, Box 122, Item 82
Item
[19--?]

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item was recorded in the Alexandra building, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Levine, Susan

Soundroom

MS-3-46.2018-014, BD Box 41, Item 69
Item
2005

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Kelly, Stephen

King of the world

MS-3-46.2018-014, BD Box 41, Item 75
Item
2011

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Broadcasting for reels no. 1 : radio as folk art

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 84
Item
September 22, 1993

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains the first in a series of audio art presented on the radio by the Centre for Art Tapes and CKDU 97.5 FM.

Battaglia, Noreen

Broadcasting for reels no. 3 : why are all the songs on the radio about love?

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 85
Item
April 13, 1994

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item contains the second in a series of audio art resented by the Centre for Art Tapes and CKDU 97.5 FM for the radio.

Chant for Joy

MS-3-46.2018-014, Box 122, Item 94
Item
1989

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item is a tape with six tracks: Ganesha Sharanam, Satya Ma, Giridhari Gopal Lala, Hara Shiva Shankara, Smite Smite Sundara, and Om Namah Shivaya Gurave. The tape features Divya Prabha (lead voice, guitar, cymbals, tamboura, kartal) and members of the chorus from the I & I Awareness Association of Halifax. Bhupendra Jagatia plays the tabla, and Andy Dowden plays the kartal and was the recording engineer. The tape is "dedicated to the teachings of spiritual master Pundit Ravi Shankar."

Saint Mary's University daycare shoot