Hank Bull
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New School of Art, Toronto, 1969/71. Various jobs, construction, bartender, railway, farm labour, etc. Professional musician, Toronto, playing blues and rock'n'roll. Moved to Vancouver and joined Western Front in 1973. Explored radio art and telecommunications from 1975. Extensive travels, including 13 month world tour with Kate Craig in 1980-81. Since the late 1980s various exchange projects with Japan and other Asian countries. [EXHIBITIONS] [FESTIVALS & CONFERENCES] [VIDEO PRODUCTIONS] [TELECOMM & PERFORMANCES] [TEACHING&CURATORIAL] [KUNSTRADIO BROADCASTS] Recent Projects
1998-99 Solo Exhibitions 1994 - Gallery Sansair, Vancouver, "Crum/Bull", with Phillip McCrum. 1993 - University of British Columbia, Faculty Club, paintings. 1989 - Gallery T.O.O., Vancouver, "Lumen Cinerium", video installation, - Oboro, Montreal, "The Wind", video installation. 1981 - Modern Art Galerie, Vienna, - Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris. - "South/North", with Kate Craig, 1976 - A Space, Toronto, "HP at A Space", with Patrick Ready. Group Exhibitions 1997 - Witness Project, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver 1996 - Yokohama Citizen's Gallery, Artists Today, "Displacement", catalogue 1995 - Venice Biennale, contributor to a large collective work, the World Tea Party, part of Transculture. 1994 - Media Galleria, Turku, Finland. "Elsewhere" interactive telephone installation. - Leipzig Medienbiennale, Germany, "Wagon", video installation delivered by videophone. 1993 - Media Galleria, Turku, Finland. "SAFE", video installation. 1992 - Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, "RADIO RETHINK, live radio, symposium, catalogue. 1991 - Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Canadian Video. 1989 - Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, "Radio Painting" etc., live radio works. 1987 - Dokumenta 8, Kassel, 'Snowball Project', performance and communications with Eric Metcalfe et al. 1986 - Venice Biennale. 'Planetary Network', three month interactive telecommunications project. 1985 - Biennale of Peace, Hamburg, "What is the Question?", audio installation. 1984 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, New Video Realities, "Sax Island". - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canadian Video, "Sax Island". 1983 - The October Show, Vancouver, "The Cheekeye Dunsmuir Line", audio sculpture. - Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, "Electra". 1982 - Arts Electronica, "The World in 24 Hours, 12 cities, organized by Robert Adrian. - Science World, Vancouver, "Unclear Free Zone", with Kate Craig, "Six Windows", curated by Paul Wong. 1979 - Audio Scene '79, Moderne Art Galerie (Grita Insam), Vienna, Austria, exhibition, conference and performance. 1971 - McMaster University Hospital, Hamilton, group mural commission. [BACK] Festivals and Conferences 1998 - C'est Tous les Jours Robert, Périgueux, France 1996 - Tokyo International Dance Festival, Distanz, telematic performance. - Parallaxe, Québec, La Méduse, Distanz - 10e Rencontres Vidéo Arts Plastiques - Centre d'art contemporain de la Basse-Normandie, Hérouville, France - Perform Distanz and present carte blanche video survey of Western Front. 1995 -Tokyo Art Conference, "Passage of Death" linking Tokyo and Vancouver. 1994 - Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia, telematic performance. - LITTORAL, Salford College University, Manchester, England, New Zones for Artist-Initiated Activity. 1992 - Free Idea Zone, San Francisco, independent conference of 60 artists. 1991 - Images Video Festival, Toronto, premiere screening of "Duster". - Radio Week, Music Gallery, Toronto. 1986 - Berlin Film Festival, premiere if INFERMENTAL VI, Vancouver edition. 1985 - Holland Festival, Amsterdam, performance by Canada Shadows, "Corpus Colossus". - Talking Back to the Media, Amsterdam, solo performance. 1984 - Kijkhuis Worldwide Video Festival, Den Haag, Netherlands, screening "Sax Island". 1983 - OKanada, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, performance by Canada Shadows, "Aka Nada". 1979 - Audio Scene '79, Vienna, Moderne Art Galerie, solo performance and radio transmission. 1978 - International Festival of Performance Art, Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, shadow play, "Vis-a-Vis. [BACK] Video Productions 1996 - Elena Pavlova, produced in Japan with Hironobu Oikawa and Sonoko Matsuoka. 1995 - Passage of Death, performance document, Tokyo Art Conference. 1993 - Technology and Nature, based on performances in Japan. 1992 - Free Media Mix, produced with students at Vienna Akademie der Bildenden Kunst 1991 - DUSTER, co-producer and director, a western with the collaboration of 8 artists. - Telecom '91, document of telecommunications events, January 1991. 1987 MacBooties at Documenta, with Eric Metcalfe and Mao Kawaguchi. 1986 - Peep Show, with Eric Metcalfe. - INFERMENTAL VI The First International Magazine on Videocassette; producer and director of Vancouver edition; 58 contributions from 25 countries, 6 hours; Over 30 exhibitions worldwide. - Cross-Cultural Television, with Antoni Muntadas. 1984 - Sax Island, with Eric Metcalfe. - Come Fly with Sonny Day, with Fraser Finlayson. - Wiencouver IV, with David Rimmer and Robert Adrian. 1982 - C'est la Vidéo 1979 - The Relican Wedding. 1978 - Piraña Farms, with Eric Metcalfe and Jane Ellison. 1977 The HP Video Show, with Patrick Ready [BACK] Telecommunications Projects & Performances 1996 - Shanghai Fax - Let's Talk About Money, international fax exhibition, Hua Shan College of Art, Shanghai. - Oboro, Montreal, "Hypernation, What is a Nation in Cyberspace", commissioned by Oboro, Montréal 1994 - Western Front, Vancouver, NTV Neighbourhood Television, independent community television transmissions. - Telecommunications and the Democratization of Audio Visual Communications. Live link by videophone to artists at the Delhi conference. 1993 - Live Midi Jam, musical concert between Innsbruck and Vancouver (initiated by Robert Adrian). - Interactive Tea Party, videophone, audio and fax between Vancouver, Banff and Paris. 1992 - Inter/access Telecom Conference, organized by Jeff Mann. 1991 - Telecom '91, a 3-week festival of communications events, producer and director, video document. - Art's Birthday & Protest ("Text Bombs and Videotape") against the war in Iraq, 25 cities, video document. 1990 - Art's Birthday, slowscan between Vancouver and Nantes, trans-Canada fax net. Catalogue and videotape. 1988 - Hyperspace Radio, RADIA Banff, CITR-FM Vancouver and Western Front Vancouver. 1983 - La Plissure du Texte, participant, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. - Wiencouver IV, slowscan and telephone music between Vancouver and Vienna. Video document. 1980 - Conference on the Artists' use of Telecommunication, organised Vancouver participation. 1978-80 - GINA SHOW, Vancouver cable TV, regular contributor, produced by John Anderson. 1979 - Vancouver Art Gallery, assisted Bill Bartlett and Direct Media in telecommunications exhibition. - Slowscan Video between Vancouver and Toronto as part of General Idea's High Profile. 1976-84 - The HP Radio Show, weekly 90-minute radio art performance, CFRO-FM Vancouver Co-op Radio. 1974-76 - IMAGES FROM INFINITY, contributor to artists' weekly television broadcast produced by Byron Black. [BACK] Curatorial and Teaching Projects 1997-98 - Jiangnan, Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River, Vancouver 1997 - Body Electric, Program Director, Vancouver 3rd Annual Electronic Arts Festival 1996 - Santiago Bose, curator, Vancouver residency by Filipino installation and performance artist. - Art in the Age of Digital Dissemination, Teaching seminar at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design 1995 Robert Filliou: from Political to Poetical Economy, co-curator, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver 1993 Building with Water, organize international symposium at U.B.C. 1992 - Tetsuo Kogawa, radio artist, designer of 1-watt FM transmitter, organize tour to Vancouver and Banff. - Goji Hamada, organize 10-city Canadian tour. 1991 Tari Ito and Haruo Higuma, organize 10 city Canadian tour of Japanese Performance Art, 1988-89 - William Burroughs, curate exhibitions in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. 1983-91 - Visual Arts Curator, Western Front. [BACK] Kunstradio Programs 18. 2. 1988: "The Last words of Gertrude Stein" (Radio-Kunst bei CFRO Vancouver)
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