Scott Saunders is a very active new media artist located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He develops large scale works for gallery’s and public installation, and participates in many art festivals. As a successful artist, curator, and application composer, Scott has a high output of work, and as such needed a site that could grow and expand along with this practice.
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Ambit is a creative strategy collaboration- creategy if you will… or maybe strativity is more appropriate. Ambit provides a wide range of highly perspective services that realize that in today’s media landscape, no brand or campaign exists in a single form, focus, or media, but is informed by multiple spheres, relationships, and activators. With social media tools and incredible international connectivity, Ambit see’s an opportunity and importance for brands, services, and messages to be fostered and embraced, not simply created and projected.
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I don’t usually participate in political fires, but Canadian’s are in a position of imminent risk when it comes to our freedoms online. The Conservative Bill C-30 is tabled in the Canadian House of Commons, originally coined the “Lawful Access Act”. This bill, if passed, will compromise the rights of all Canadian’s and open up the doors for the implementation of a new government surveillance infrastructure.
Bill C-30 mandates ISP’s to hand over customer information when requested by Police, supplying name, address, IP, screen-names, browsing history, email and phone communication and if available, GPS data. This infrastructure has been in place for a while, but until now, was voluntary; C-30 will make it mandatory for ISP’s to install government issued tracking software on their servers and opens up the ability for warrant-less surveillance.
The bill is branded as a necessity to stop online predators, thus it’s new name as the “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act”. Yes, this is a worthy cause for increased measures of information availability for investigation. My primary issue with the bill is that it uses intentionally generalized verbiage that does not indicate what constitutes a “lawful” right to track a citizen. I support the need for better ability to fight cyber-crime, but not at the cost of colouring all Canadian’s as criminals first. Just as with ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA, the bill has been made intentionally vague to allow it to take on many forms.
C-30 will likely be extrapolated and extended, unquantifiably, to suit the Harper governments agenda. It will provide the framework to implement spy software and behind closed doors surveillance, not subjected to oversight or review, and we’ll find ourselves as citizens only one step away from having our creative, social, and ideological rights at risk.
To do your part in stopping this bill from passing, or being amended to it’s appropriate focus, please visit realprivacy.ca and learn more about the bill and concerns surrounding it. Click on the “Write your MP” link to find contact information for your local MP, and request their support in opposing Bill C-30 in it’s current form. Wikipedia also has a very good writeup. Also, subscribe to openparliament.ca and follow the congressional dialogue surrounding C-30.
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Kim Morgan is an international artist and teacher located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She came to me with a website that was simply not working for her- it was unaccommodating, inconsistent, limited and just wouldn’t play nice with her media. I totally understand the frustration that can come along with fiddling with a website that just doesn’t want to budge; cropping images over and over, video’s being exported dozens of time, text just not appearing where you want- it’s enough to give up on the web.
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Welcome to Chrome Encrusted EP, the debut album by Lukas. I offer you here FIVE audio tracks, free for download. Chrome Encrusted EP melds sentiments of aimless exploration and pleasure craft. A drove of abrupt pianos, swirling guitar riffs, rapt bass lines, shimmering drums; Chrome Encrusted is intent on consuming your space.
Listen to Chrome Encrusted EP
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Cut to the Chase is my second collaborative project with designer Stewart Innes. Working with Owen Roth and Evan Bellam, Cut to the Chase is a reality-based comedy web-series in which the main character, Chase Fountaine, has experienced a falling out with his roommate and filmmaking partner, Josh Wood. Josh goes on to immediately make it big, while Chase is left picking up the pieces of his self-absorbed illusion of fame.
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