JEANNETTE LAMBERT

NEW MEDIA ARTIST & JAZZ VOCALIST

Short Films and Web Art / Workshops / Photography / Graphic Design / Websites / Music 

where are you from? d'où viens-tu?
Web cinema that explores themes of identity, memory, geography and heredity. Autobiographical films are interwoven with orginal poetry, music and animation as a response to the question of the title. Awarded funding from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Screening
- NTT InterCommunication Center, Future Cinema exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, Decmber 03 - February 2004
- Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Future Cinema exhibition, Helsinki, Finland, June - September 2003
- ZKM Center for Art and Media, Future Cinema exhibition, Karlsruhe, Germany, November 2002 - March 2003
- the Irish Museum of Modern Art net.art open intervention, March 2002.
- selected for Links/ligações/Liaison conference for VIROSE at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Porto, Portugal, November 2001.
- Ars Electronica Cyberarts festival, Linz Austria, September 2001.
- Premiere at Women's Art Resource Centre in Toronto for a collaborative exhibition with artist Agatha Schwager, June 2001.

Lone Jack Pine
Experimental digital video short combining jazz, art and poetry.

Screening
- ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, January 2003.
- Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea, November 2001.

Midwinter Ballad
A short digital video for the collaborative digital cinema experiment, Story Streams. Three films with a shared narrative are created in three cities, Montreal, Paris, and Mexico City and mixed live online to create a fourth film. Themes of urban alienation, rites of passage, city as body, are all explored in Midwinter Ballad. For Screen Arts Media. 

Screening
- Story Streams Live Webcast, Streaming Cinema 3.0, Philadelphia, February 2003.
- Chiangmai New Media Festival, Thailand, April 2003.

As Saturn Sweeps Past
An electronic poem/slideshow. Autobiographical hand-coloured photos and a stream of consciousness poem are integrated through 
the use of Flash animation. The passage of Saturn causes one to pause and look back, while the images sweep ahead in cyberspace.

Screening
- Featured at Adobe Online in November, 2000.
- Screened on digital media website, 120seconds.com, 2001.
- ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, March 2003.

Sunset on St-Viateur
This project uses streaming video, poetry, and hypertext to celebrate urban energy. Filmed in Montreal, summer of 1999. 
This project was awarded financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, New Media and Audio Artists Program.

Screenings
-Selected for the Bookmark Series, Forum des Images, ISEA, Paris, December 2000.
- Presented at the Festival International Nouveau Cinéma Nouveaux Médias in Montreal, October, 2000.
- Selected for d>art 00, Australia, June - July, 2000.

Givre (frost)
A short internet film evoking the silent films from the beginning of the last century, based around the jazz song of the same name. Shot in black and white Super 8 film in the picturesque small village of St. Michel de Bellechase along the St. Lawrence River. 

Screenings
- ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, February, 2003 and March 2004.
- Presented by DruidMedia, at the net.congestion festival in Amsterdam, October, 2000.
- The Bit Screen in June, 2000. Streaming Cinema at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema in May, 2000. Streaming Festival in Seoul, Korea.

Recoil
A musical/hypertext project, with animation, javascript and streaming Real Audio.

Exhibition/publication
- trAce , international online writing community, Nottingham, U.K.
International anthology, addressing time and digital revolution
"'My' Millenium", July 1999.

One Night in Greenwich Village
With original graphics, javascript and streaming Real Audio sounds recorded in New York, 1998. Restored and archived by Rhizome.

Exhibitions
- Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1998 exhibition Art on the Net "Beyond Language Barriers"
- Nomads à Washington D.C.
"Open Spaces/Linked Locations", November 1998
- Rhizome Artbase: Archive of Internet Art

Diary of a Mystic Detective
Award-winning online dream and coincidence diary, one of the first online journals, before the invention of blogging, 1997-98.

WORKSHOPS

Singing your dreams, IASD Conference, Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, Netherlands, 2016
How to Sing Jazz, online course, IYA Music, China, 2015
Improvising and jazz vocals, Nine Muses, Jakarta, Indonesia
Creating original art, Université canadienne en France, France.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO

Fotolia
Shutterstock
Dreamstime
Istockphoto
Pond5
Imagebrief

Photography for the Vancouver Island Regional Libraries
Photography for cd album art, multiple albums, Jazz from Rant
Photography for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith Schools Foundation

WEB SITES AND MUSIC

CONTACT
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