Browsing by Author "Wihak, Mark"

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Between the North Pole and New York City
(Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina, 2004) Wihak, Mark
For more than thirty years, some of the most famous artists in the world traveled to a rustic camp beside a small lake in Northern Saskatchewan. Between the North Pole and New York City tells the story of how for five decades, Emma Lake was an important destination for leading artists from Canada, the United States, and Britain, and examines the impact the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops have had on the Canadian and International art world.
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Celebration Of Authorship Program 2022-2023
(University of Regina Library, 2023) Abrams, Kelly J.; Afolabi, Taiwo; Ashton, Emily; Battis, Jes; Bazzul, Jesse; Buchko, Denée M.; Coupal, Chelsea; Crivea, Jocelyn; Dupeyron, Bruno; Eaton, Emily; Fay, Holly; Farney, Jim; Farrell, Issac; French, Lindsey; Fuchs, Jesse; Garneau, David; Gerbeza, Tea; Germani, Ian; Gibb, Ryland; Grimard, Celeste; Harnish, Garett; Hoang Trung, Kien; Horowitz, Risa; Hurlbert, Margot; Jeffery, Bonnie; King, Anna-Leah; Knight, Lindsay; Knuttila, Murray; Kyabaggu, Ramona; Lavallie, Carrie; Lloyd, Kiegan; Lonie, Kelsey; Lundahl, Bev; Lylyk, Stephen; Marsh, Charity; McNeil, Barbara; Moat, Olivia; Moasun, Festus Yaw; Nestor, Jack J.; Novik, Nuelle; Owusu, Raymond Karikari; Panchuk, Kristie; Petry, Roger; Petry, Yvonne; Phipps, Heather; Ratt, Solomon; Ricketts, Kathryn; Riegel, Christian; Robinson, Katherine M.; Rocke, Cathy; Rollo, Mike; Safinuk, Corey; Saul, Gerald; Schroeter, Sara; Schultz, Christie; Wanda, Seidlikoski Yurach; Sirke, Kara; Sterzuk, Andrea; Stewart, Michelle; Szabados, Béla; Tremblay, Arjun; Whippler, Ryan; White, Judy; Wihak, Mark; Zimmer, Jonathon
Archer Library is proud to unveil the 2022-23 University of Regina Celebration of Authorship Program booklet. This downloadable publication highlights University of Regina authors/creators of books, edited proceedings, sound recordings, musical scores and film or video recordings published over the last year in any format (print or electronic). We encourage you to take a moment to view the program booklet and extend your congratulations to all of the University of Regina students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are being celebrated this year.
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Engagement Paper for Hybrid Format Film Meat
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2017-03) Shen, Xin; Wihak, Mark; Saul, Gerald; Stojanova, Christina; Ramsay, Christine
After having suffered the pressure of being a single woman at the age of twenty-five when I was in China, I have made a hybrid format short film Meat to remember my personal experience as being a sheng nu (left-over woman). This engagement paper puts Meat into a theoretical, historical, and personal context. Through the personal-experience-based story, a sheng nu’s relationship with the society and her family will be explored, in an attempt to analyze the social, historical and political problems, faced by single Chinese women during this decade. The paper will also discuss how the creative choices behind the shooting, locations, actors, languages, props, and new technologies, combined with hybrid filmmaking, which includes animation, realist live-action and symbolic live-action, are used to build a complex portrait of young Chinese women today.
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Magdaleena: Reconstructing and Redirecting the 'Dominant Gaze'
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-01) Mikkola, Ella Katriina; Wihak, Mark; Petty, Sheila; Garneau, David; Rollo, Michael; Ramsay, Christine; Long, Timothy
Experimental filmmaking, expanded cinema, art films and gallery installations are all terms that are used to describe cinematic work that moves away from its conventional form and towards something unexpected and engaging. Magdaleena is an MFA research project that uses the form of expanded cinema to explore the act of looking and the act of being looked at. The cinematic gaze has been defined by theorists such as Laura Mulvey and Richard Dyer as ‘male gaze’ and ‘white gaze’. Following Dyer’s and Mulvey’s definitions, I will analyze the power relationships hidden in the act of looking, which I describe as the ‘dominant gaze’. My subjective experience is an important part of the research project, as the exploration of the ‘dominant gaze’ takes inspiration from my own non-binary gender experience. I will analyze how the normative power relationship, based on gender and other signifiers, affects the experience of being the object of the gaze. Through this work I will suggest how these power relationships can be shifted, and how the gaze can be reconstructed and redirected through the cinematic medium. In order to reconstruct the gaze, conventional spectatorship must be disturbed, therefore I will approach the narrative genre experimentally. I will follow filmmaker and artist Maya Deren’s direction on ‘vertical investigation’ in film, and combine analog and digital technologies to create a multi-channel film and installation. This critical engagement paper will describe the work process and methodologies used to create Magdaleena, a work which looks towards the future of expanded cinema and its capability of changing the way people look at moving images, and each other
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Relativity: Synchresis in Art and Applied Science
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2017-11) Wasyliw, Garry; Ramsay, Christine; Caines, Rebecca; Pridmore, Helen; Wihak, Mark; Smallwood, Scott
This critical engagement paper outlines the technical details and theoretical support for my Masters of Fine Arts final project titled Relativity. This project explores philosophies of perception through associations between art and science within an interdisciplinary study of sound art and expanded cinema. These theories are developed through an interpretation of quantized, binary systems in their relationship to natural, continuous forms. The study of relativity is seen a method to reconcile binary positions in thinking, to cross boundaries between art and science, and to serve as a metaphor for hidden knowledges and a movement from polarities to spectrum states of knowing. My project is an installation of an indeterminate system of a double-sided screen with video projections; situated between two wood, sound resonating panels. The visual imagery and sound will evolve in time, between that of clear depiction, and that of abstracted forms through digital effects processing. In preparation for this project, I have employed methods of experimental art, as well as a focus on practice based research. I have been influenced by the writings of art and science theorists, as well as by studies of contemporary art works and theories. The philosophies of scientific research, as well as my own experience in the applied sciences, provides the background for the comparisons with science based methodologies. This project has been informed by postmodern philosophies influencing personal interpretations of perception as developed in contemporary art theory. These theories are supported by the basis of the theory of relativity: that observation is interpreted relative to the context of the viewer.
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Resting Potential
(Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, University of Regina, 2022-02-20) Wihak, Mark
Lucy experiences a fundamental change in her understanding of existence and struggles to find someone who will listen. If seeing, is believing, what happens when nobody believes what you've seen? The film was initially released chapter by chapter. This version of the film has all nine chapters combined, with brief pauses between each chapter.