Call for Artists to the Toronto Animated Image Society’s visiting artist workshop
ANIMATED MYTH-MAKING WITH MIKE MARYNIUK
Submission Deadline: Tuesday Feb 3, 2015

The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) is seeking five media artists for our Animated Myth-Making workshop with visiting Winnipeg artist Mike Maryniuk (Cattle Call, The Yodeling Farmer). Under Mike’s instruction, from 10am-5pm on Saturday February 28, 2015 at the TAIS Studio, the five participants will learn how to use various animation techniques – including stop motion, pixilation, scratch animation, hand painted film stock mattes, light painting, turning video into paper print outs and other techniques.

Working with both film, video and whatever is at Value Village, participants will create short and dynamic one-minute imaginary propaganda films reminiscent of Canadian Heritage Minutes or the National Film Board’s classic 1970s Vignettes. The goal will be to shoot, animate, edit and output a one-minute vignette by the end of the workshop. The finished films will screen before the retrospective FISH ARMS AND FLYING SQUIRRELS: THE FILMS OF MIKE MARYNIUK later that night.

About Mike Maryniuk:
Mike Maryniuk was born in Winnipeg, but raised in the rural backcountry of Manitoba. A completely self-taught film virtuoso, Maryniuk’s film world is an inventive hybrid of Jim Henson, Norman McLaren and Stan Brakhage. Maryniuk’s films are a visual stew of hand-made ingredients and are full of home-cooked wonderfulness.

Select Filmography:
> Blotto 649 (2013)
>The Yodeling Farmer (2011)
>Cattle Call (with Matthew Rankin, 2008)
>Mahaha the Tickler (2007)
> Death by Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets (with Walter Forsberg and Matthew Rankin, 2006)
>Carrot Teen (2005)

Selected Artists will receive:

• TAIS studio membership valid for one year ($50 value), includes access to studio space and equipment during the workshop
• $250 cash honorarium
• one day intensive workshop with Mike Maryniuk
• Opportunity to screen the finished work before Mike Maryniuk retrospective screening that evening (February 28, 2015).

Each application must include

• Resume
• Brief bio (bio 250 words max)
• Samples of recent work (online link or DVD for time-based artists or 10 images for visual artists)

Please note: Artists must have basic knowledge of Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro in order to finalize editing on their film.

Selected artists will be announced on Tuesday February 10, 2014.

Mailing address for physical submissions:
(Please note physical submissions without a self-addressed, stamped envelope will not be returned)

TAIS Programming Committee
Toronto Animated Image Society
1411 Dufferin St, Unit B
Toronto, ON
M6H 4C7

To submit by email: tais.animation@gmail.com
Please put MIKE MARYNIUK in Subject line.
Phone: 416 533 7889

This project is funded in part with support from The Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.