New Brunswick Media Ticks ­ the title is a statement ­ marked the launch of Struts Gallery’s Media Arts Centre. The various goings on of Media Ticks constituted an upstart for the presentation component of this new centre which will be expanded over the coming years to include production facilities for artists who work or are interested in working in the media arts. This is a beginning and the subject at hand is not hemmed in by already formulated expectations but will rather be created by the community of artists who make use of it. It is the only dedicated centre for media arts of its kind in this province. New Brunswick Media Ticks was based on laying open simple and, however wonderfully naive, possibilities for the media arts available to artists and audiences in New Brunswick.

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The history of media arts doings and happenings in New Brunswick is cobbled from a patchwork of largely isolated events and practices which have transpired here since the late 1960s. In 1998, there are still few accessible resources in New Brunswick for media arts production and presentation nor is there an avenue for the dissemination of ideas current in these areas. There are no production facilities dedicated for artists. In 1979, a group of fourteen filmmakers formed the New Brunswick Filmmaker’s Cooperative Limited in Fredericton to create access to production equipment for filmmakers and to provide a forum for the discussion of film. But, the mandate of the Co-op is strictly related to film, not video, audio or other media arts technologies. And, the Acadian community centred in Moncton continues, as it has since the late 1960s, to produce many accomplished works in film and video. This history has not, at this writing, received serious study. The title of Valerie LeBlanc ‘s essay attests that, This is the Time, This is the Place to get this study under way. LeBlanc’s main area of concentration is on time-based works produced and presented in and around Sackville since the early 1970s. It provides a rallying point around which future discussions, additions and contestations about the living history of the media arts in this province can occur. It is not complete. It cannot be, but it does give a sense of the role, however minor, that the media arts, particularly performance, video and film, have played and continue to play in Sackville.

From: Introduction, New Brunswick Media Ticks by Gregory Elgstrand

This is the Time, This is the Place  (mega.nz 5.3 Mb)

Published by Struts Gallery
An Artist-Run Centre 7 Lorne Street Sackville, NB
Canada , E4L 3Z6

Copyright © 1998 by the contributors, editors and publishers.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data. Main entry under title:

New Brunswick Media Ticks
Includes biographical references. ISBN 1-895337-11-9

1. Media arts – New Brunswick expositions
2. Media Arts – New Brunswick History

Gregory Elgstrand 1969- Gerry Kisil, Valerie LeBlanc

Poster Design Translation
Gregory Elgstrand
Monique Arsenault
Moncton, NB

Editorial Assistance John Murchie

Printing
Tantramar Interactive
Sackville, NB

Mccurdy Printing
Sackville, NB

Produced with the support of the Project Assistance for Artist Run Centres and Artist’s Collectives Program of the Canada Council for the Arts.