Item MS-3-46, 1985-013 - Videotex for Artists Halifax

Alan Inkpen was a Halifax-based artist in the 1980s who worked within time-based mediums. Video works that he was associated with are a part of the Centre for Art Tapes tape collection.

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

Dean Brousseau is a Halifax-based cinematographer and photographer. Brousseau has an education from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Brousseau has worked as an instructor at the Centre for Arts and Technology in Halifax, teaching courses in cinematography, and as a Director of Photography in the film industry.

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.