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Cinevolution Media Arts Society Digital Carnival Z features live, virtual sci-fi-themed art

Among the exhibits at the Digital Carnival Z is UNION, at the Richmond Art Gallery, by artists Kiran Bhumber and Nancy Lee.

by Stuart Derdeyn

Published by Vancouver Sun

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Imagine a future where no one touches

Nancy Lee and Kiran Bhumber showcase their multimedia art show UNION as part of the digitalcarnival.ca festival

By CBC News

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Cinevolution’s Digital Carnival Z features a speculative sci-fi exhibition at Richmond Art Gallery April 24 to June 5

The Cinevolution Media Arts Society has announced the return of its annual flagship event, Digital Carnival Z.

by Steve Newton

Published by The Georgia Straight

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35 Vancouver arts events happening online in May

DIGITAL CARNIVAL Z Hybrid media-art festival headlined by speculative sci-fi exhibit UNION. To Jun 5, www.digitalcarnival.ca. Free or pay what you can.

by Steve Newton

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Sci-fi exhibition opening at Richmond Art Gallery in April

The exhibition is headlining Cinevolution Media Arts Society’s annual Digital Carnival Z event.

by Valerie Leung

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Sci-fi exhibition in Richmond showcases a world where touch is forbidden

A new sci-fi art exhibit, UNION, is currently showing at the Richmond Art Gallery until June 5.

by Nono Shen

Published by Richmond News

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Kiran Bhumber and Nancy Lee’s post-apocalyptic UNION is grounded in current world issues

A sci-fi exhibition exploring the divide between IRL and URL interactions.

by Gurleen Aujla

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UNION

LOCAL SCI-FI ART EXHIBITION IS A PORTAL INTO THE YEAR 3000.

By Anuja Bhatt

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華裔藝術家打破身份認同禁忌 呼籲包容性別多元化(BC)

Published by OMNI TV

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數碼嘉年華推多媒體科幻展覽 (BC)

Published by OMNI TV [Mandarin]

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《合一》：探討當下人際關係 (BC) – APR 27, 2021

Published by OMNI TV [Cantonese]

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【城市串吧】 2021 年5月8日

Published by Fairchild

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Kiran Bhumber Artist Profile

Published by South Asian Post

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李南屏「棄醫從藝」獻上《合一》 仿似未卜先知 多媒體展預示未來

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大聲說自己是「酷兒」 李南屏勇敢打破禁忌

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Futuristic art exhibition on now at gallery

In the exhibition “UNION,” on through June 5 at Richmond Art Gallery, people can experience what connection might look like in a futuristic world.

by Hannah Scott

Published by Richmond Sentinel

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你我都不知的3000年 《合一》說會是這樣

Published by Ming Pao

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5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (April 26 – May 2)

UNION Art Exhibition

By Alyssa Hirose

Published by Vancouver Magazine

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UNION : une réflexion dystopique sur le rituel du mariage

Nancy Lee et Kiran Bhumber explorent la thématique du rituel du mariage dans un monde post-apocalyptique avec leur performance UNION à la Richmond Art Gallery.

by Nathalie Astruc

Published by The Source [French]

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CiTR 101.9 FM “Arts Report” – Interview – April 14, 2021

The interview begins at the 23:00 minute mark in the show 

by Serra Uncu

Published by CiTR 101.9 FM 

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CiTR 101.9 FM “Queer FM” – Interview – July 13, 2021 

The interview begins at the 18:20 minute mark in the show  

by DJ Denise and Barb Snelgrove

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Cinevolution welcomes six artists who explore the themes of bodies, gestures, culture and society to exhibit at Digital Carnival Z programming this year. 

Natasha “Courage” Bacchus is a Tkaronto-Guyanese Black Deaf Queer Female and former Deafolympican who is passionate about deaf advocacy, fitness and physical expression.

Margaret Dragu works in video, installation, digital and analogue publication, and performance, spanning relational, durational, interventionist, and community-based practices.

Danielle Mackenzie Long is a queer emerging contemporary dance artist and self-taught filmmaker who resides on the stolen and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver).

Mickey L.D. Morgan is a TransLesbian Jewish bookmaker and social practice artist who works primarily with storytelling, translation, diaspora, anti-racism, de-colonialism, queering, cripping, and altogether reimagining the ways we hold space with one another.

Kofi Oduro/Illest Preacha is a Creative Coder, Performative Programmer, Multimedia Artist & Experience Enhancer who highlights the realms of human performance and the human mind in different scenarios.

Juli Saragosa is a Transnational interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. As an active collaborative, her role spans from a grassroots organizer, curator, workshop leader, film and media arts instructor, active community organizer, to mentor.

Location: online at digitalcarnival.ca

Date: April 21 – June 5, 2021

Admission: Free

Cinevolution is thrilled to announce Nancy Lee 李南屏 and Kiran Bhumber ਕਿਰਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਭੰਬਰ as the Featured Artists for Digital Carnival Z. Each year, Digital Carnival celebrates an artist who has contributed significantly to the Canadian media art landscape. 

Since 2014, Lee and Bhumber have been working collaboratively to create technologically-mediated experiences that activate social interaction and reflect our individual and collective relationships with emerging technologies.

UNION is a speculative sci-fi exhibition centred around a narrative of two beings discovering their ancestral memories through the longing for touch and the rituals practiced in their post-apocalyptic wedding ceremony. Drawing on parallels between our world and the speculative future while working through the artists’ diasporic identities, UNION is a potent critique of modern surveillance capitalism, but also a gesture towards hope through the generative possibilities of intimacy, performativity, and presence.

UNION is co-presented by Cinevolution Media Arts Society and Richmond Art Gallery.

Location: Richmond Art Gallery, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9

Date: April 24 – June 5, 2021

Admission: Free

About the Artists

Nancy Lee 李南屏 is a curator of interactions. Her crafted spaces stimulate behavioural dynamics, inviting their release into a broth of intangibles. 

Kiran Bhumber ਕਿਰਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਭੰਬਰ is a media artist, composer, musician and educator. Kiran constructs interactive installations and performance systems that allow performers and audiences to engage with themes relating to cultural memory, embodiment and nostalgia.

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