{"id":2352,"date":"2024-02-24T21:35:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T21:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/?page_id=2352"},"modified":"2024-02-26T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T02:04:00","slug":"brad-necyk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/brad-necyk\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAD NECYK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Necyk and Joynes have been collaborating on several projects, including <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><strong>Joshua Tree<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>and <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>Avatar\u2019s Dream<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, the audio-video installation and virtual reality film <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>Kingdom of Illumination<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, two collaborative dance films with <a href=\"https:\/\/vangrimdecorpssecrets.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Grimde Corps Secrets<\/a> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>The End of the World \/\/ The Birth of the World<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, and have developed and staged an original dance performance with <a href=\"http:\/\/bwdc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Webb Dance Company<\/a> in 2023. Most recently they have produced the film <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><em>Of Dreaming<\/em><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Their current work is producing Artificial Intelligence dance films and interactive installations for an upcoming exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG) in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Of Dreaming<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Brad Necyk &#8211; Video and AI Programming<br \/>\nGary James Joynes &#8211; Original Music &amp; Sound Design Score<\/p>\n<p><em>Of Dreaming<\/em> is an artificial intelligence dance film about an old-growth forest dreaming. It is a meditation on an old-growth forest on Vancouver Island called Avatar Grove.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/814077151?h=0e29baf776&#038;byline=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>The End of the World<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Brad Necyk &#8211; Video<br \/>\nGary James Joynes &#8211; Original Music &amp; Sound Design Score<\/p>\n<p><em>The End of the World <\/em>is a journey from our current moment at the beginning of the visible effects of climate change\u2014loss of biodiversity, extreme weather events, and loss on loss. It begins full of life and living, in a lush natural world as two humans express themselves at the end of the world.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/510882838?h=5909c2488d&#038;byline=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>The Birth of the World<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Brad Necyk &#8211; Video<br \/>\nGary James Joynes &#8211; Original Music &amp; Sound Design Score<\/p>\n<p><em>The Birth of the World <\/em>begins sometime in the future\u2014time passes, and time passes again. We are sometime after <em>the fall<\/em>, the landscape is barren, harsh. We are witnessing the birth of a new world. Two survivors connect, try to heal each other as they are the sole witnesses to a brave new world.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/476661498?h=7f17eee8fc&#038;byline=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Joshua Tree<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Brad Necyk &#8211; Video<br \/>\nGary James Joynes &#8211; Original Music &amp; Sound Design Score<\/p>\n<p><em>Joshua Tree is a single-shot, minimalist experimental film about time, consciousness, and climate change. It is about the experience of time, the movement of time, and the growing sense of being-out-of-time. It is also about a rhythm between waking consciousness and dreaming, where surreal and mystical experiences occur. Further, it is building off of evolving themes of the Anthropocene by directly witnessing landscapes at risk of annihilation, acting as an archive, a memorial. It examines a contribution art could have on shifting and attuning human understanding to something so massive and distributed across time as climate change\u2014that stars no one, that is long in the making, and attritional. All of these ideas were in play when making this work.<br \/>\nJoshua Tree was a collaboration with Brad Necyk and the Brian Webb Dance Company, and was part of an original dance performance with Brian Webb Dance Company which premiered in the summer of 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/385904228?h=b2ca6986fc&#038;byline=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Avatar&#8217;s Dream<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Brad Necyk &#8211; Video<br \/>\nGary James Joynes &#8211; Original Music &amp; Sound Design Score<\/p>\n<p><em>Avatar&#8217;s Dream is a meditation on an old-growth forest on Vancouver Island called Avatar Grove. It is currently at threat from logging and has sparked a resistance called the Fairy Creek Blockade. &#8220;When I sit and meditate in this forest, I imagine the network of Red Cedar and Hemlock roots weaving and knotting with mycelium exchanging nutrients and knowledge. I once read forests dream, and as I meditate, I wonder if I can dream with the forest and if we can fall into each other&#8217;s dreams: because sometimes falling is easier than resisting. Does this forest dream of its birth or death, the fullness of life or coming epochs of deserts? Is it aware of the Joshua Trees 2,482 km south? Does it have nightmares of axes and trucks? Does it sense the activists chaining themselves to its roots? Do these thousand-year-old Bodhisattva\u2019s even perceive all the frenetic activity of us humans? Or does this forest rest and recoil into the soil, slipping into the dreams of the mycelial network waiting for a new epoch?&#8221; &#8211; Brad Necyk<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/534016981?h=1ad357c5fa&#038;byline=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Kingdom of Illumination<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Brad Necyk &#8211; Video<br \/>\nGary James Joynes &#8211; Original Music &amp; Sound Design Score<\/p>\n<p><em>Kingdom of Illumination is a 8-channel video, 16-channel audio installation. A collaboration with Brad Necyk and the Brian Webb Dance Company, which was part of an original dance performance with Brian Webb Dance Company which premiered in the summer of 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, we premiered a 3-channel version of this work as a 100-foot wide projection in the Contemporary Calgary Planetarium.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/470841086?h=0e29baf776&#038;byline=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Film Screenings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2023 Fungi Film Festival. Portland, OR, USA <strong>(Winner: Freshest Fungi Film &#8211; Honours the most unique presentation of fungi or fungi-related topics)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2023 Tangled Art. Toronto, ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022 Radius Gallery. Santa Cruz, CA, USA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022 ParTecK. Vancouver, BC, Canada<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022 Radius Gallery. Santa Cruz, CA, USA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022 Dallas Shorts. Dallas, TX, USA (Semi-finalist)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022 San Francisco Indie Short Festival. San Francisco, CA, USA (Semi-finalist)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 Athens International Art Film Festival. Athens, Greece <strong>(Winner: Best Art Film)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 New Wave Short Film Festival. Munich, Germany (Finalist)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 Roma Short Film Festival. Rome, Italy (Finalist)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 Madrid Indie Film Festival. Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 Himachal Short Film Festival. Himachal Pradesh, India<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 Paris International Film Awards. Paris, France. <strong>(Best SciFi film)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 Vancouver Independent Film Festival. Vancouver, BC, Canada (Finalist: Best animated short)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 Oregon Short Film Festival. The Dalles, OR, USA (Finalist: Best Experimental Film)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 South Film and Arts Academy Festival. Rancagua, Chile <strong>(Best Art Video)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 The Short Film Filmmaker Showcase. Pinewood Studios, UK<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 New York Animation Film Awards. New York City, NY, USA (Semi-Finalist)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 Dumbo Film Festival. New York City, NY, USA (Semi-Finalist)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 ARTsPLACE. Annapolis Royal, NS, Canada<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 Paris Play Film Festival. Paris, France<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 New Indie Film Festival of London. London, UK<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 Twin Rivers Media Festival: Experimental. Asheville,\u00a0NC, USA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 International Festival of Winter Cinema. Edmonton, AB, Canada<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022-23 Collaboration on <em>Of Dreaming <\/em>with the Brian Webb Dance Company<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022-23 Collaboration on <em>Of Visions <\/em>with Action at a Distance<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020-21 Collaboration on an original dance performance with <a href=\"http:\/\/bwdc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Webb Dance Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020-21 Collaboration on a film series with <a href=\"https:\/\/vangrimdecorpssecrets.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Van Grimde\u2019s Corps Secrets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Exhibitions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Upcoming in 2025 <em>Avatar\u2019s Dream<\/em>. The Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Lethbridge, AB <strong>(Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2023 <em>And All of Everything<\/em>. Harcourt House. Edmonton, AB <strong>(Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2023 <em>The Birth of the World. <\/em>Harcourt House. Edmonton, AB <strong>(Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2023 V-Unframed. Vancouver, BC<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2023 <em>Symbiosis<\/em>. Art Gallery of Great Victoria. Victoria, BC<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2022 <em>And All of Everything.<\/em> Art Gallery of St. Albert. St. Albert, AB <strong>(Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 <em>Perspectives From Within. <\/em>Contemporary Calgary. Calgary, AB<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2021 <em>The Birth of the World.<\/em> Espace Corps Secrets. Montreal, QB. <strong>(Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020\u00a0<em>What Makes Us Human?<\/em>\u00a0<em>Art + Genomics<\/em>. Mary Porter Sensnon Art Gallery. Santa Cruz, CA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020 <em>Creative Code Festival<\/em>. Lightbox. New York City, NY<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020\u00a0<em>Beyond Here Lies Nothing.\u00a0<\/em>ARTsPLACE.\u00a0Annapolis Royal, NS <strong>(Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2020\u00a0<em>Telling Stories Otherwise.<\/em>\u00a0Alberta Printmakers. Calgary, AB <strong>(Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2019\u00a0<em>Kingdom of Illumination.<\/em>\u00a0The Ou Gallery. Duncan, BC <strong>(Solo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2019\u00a0<em>Practicing Engagement.\u00a0<\/em>SLSA. Irvine, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Necyk and Joynes have been collaborating on several projects, including Joshua Tree and Avatar\u2019s Dream, the audio-video installation and virtual reality film Kingdom of Illumination, two collaborative dance films with Van Grimde Corps Secrets The End of the World \/\/ The Birth of the World, and have developed and staged an original dance performance with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2352\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clinkersound.com\/frequency-painting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}