Item MS-3-46, 1990-006 - Music compilation tape

Jeff Semple was a musician who was associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax in the late 1980s. For a video recording “Georgia”, Eric Delisle provided graphics and Semple provided music.

Ron Mayfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s because of their involvement in a compilation tape which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Ken Mayfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1980s because of their involvement in a compilation video recording, which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

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.

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.

Alan MacLeod became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1980s because of their involvement in video recordings which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

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.

Steve Comeau became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s because of their involvement in a compilation tape which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Steve Slater was an artist in Halifax and became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1990s through his involvement on tape recordings and exhibitions.