About Merging Mindsets
In cities around the world, the creative arts and interactive digital media sectors are bringing their respective skills together to imagine and create exciting new events, art and products – merging digital technologies with artistic practice. In Manitoba, we’re ready to showcase what our vibrant arts community and interactive digital media sector can do together.

Merging Mindsets will expand opportunities for artists to create using digital technologies while broadening connections with interactive digital media (IDM) related companies that want to innovate using creative talent. Join us as we embark on an exciting series of community-building events exploring the digital tech in art and the art in digital tech while connecting the people in between.

3D Printing

Where you can use a 3D Printer

•  Video Pool Media Arts Centre: www.videopool.org
• North Forge Technology Exchange: www.northforge.ca
• SkullSpace: www.skullspace.ca
• Millennium Library ideaMill: www.winnipeg.ca/library/ideamill

Training

• North Forge Technology Exchange: www.northforge.ca
• Winnipeg Public Library – Has a large collection of resources and educational materials: www.guides.wpl.winnipeg.ca/maker/3d

Meetups

• Women in 3D Printing: www.womenin3dprinting.com/events
• North Forge Fabrication Lab: www.meetup.com/northforgefabricationlab/

News

• Fabbalo 3D Printing News: www.fabbaloo.com

Virtual Reality

Locations to Try VR

• The Portal:  www.theportalwpg.ca
• CTRL-V:  www.ctrlv.ca/ctrl-v-winnipeg-winnipeg-west
• Arena VR:  www.arenavr.ca

Where you can rent VR equipment

• Video Pool Media Arts Centre: www.videopool.org
• The VR Experience: vrexperiencewpg@gmail.com
• On Screen Manitoba, New Media Manitoba, and William. F. White
  • Mobile Media Lab Equipment Rentals: www.onscreenmanitoba.com

Training

• Video Pool Media Arts Centre: www.videopool.org
• New Media Manitoba: www.newmediamanitoba.com
• Unity Learn: www.learn.unity.com/course/oculus-vr
• Udemy: www.udemy.com/course/vrunitygames

Local Meetups

• Winnipeg Unity User Group: www.meetup.com/WUUG-Winnipeg-Unity-User-Group
• Winnipeg Alternate Reality Club: www.meetup.com/Winnipeg-Alternate-Reality-Club/
• Digital Arts Meetup Group: www.meetup.com/Winnipeg-Digital-Art-Group/

Digital Sound Art

Where you can rent sound equipment

• Video Pool Media Arts Centre: www.videopool.org

Available equipment includes:

• • • • • Acoustically engineered Multi-channel surround sound suite (5.1)
        • Tracking Studio (2.1)
        • Foley Stage
        • Isolation Booth

Training

• Video Pool Media Arts Centre-Regularly runs workshops on audio post, field recording, and other sound-related programs: www.videopool.org

Events

• Videopool Media Art Centre: www.videopool.org
  • • Temporal Contours (Sound Art Series) – an open-call for artists working in  live sound. Regardless of your level of experience, we would love to hear about the projects you are developing: improvisation, electro-acoustic, noise, bodily-performance with sonic components, ambient / drone, acousmatic, jazz, synth, etc, HOWEVER YOU DEFINE IT, we want to hear it.
    • Synthy Sunday – Upcoming event series at Video Pool’s The Output
• Space)doxa – Monthly performances at Graffiti Art Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/Spacedoxa/
• Send + Receive: www.sendandreceive.org
• Cluster Festival: www.clusterfestival.com
• Forthwith Festival: www.forthwithfestival.ca

Digital Collaboration

 

Merging Mindsets is an initiative of Creative Manitoba with partners, New Media Manitoba and Video Pool Media Arts Centre; and is funded with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Strategy Fund.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.