Fonds consists of materials related arising from Terry Ketler's association with the Metro Media Society of Greater Vancouver (Metro Media), of which he was a founding member. Materials include photographs of Metro Media production activities (some in the form of contact sheets, some in the form of larger prints), a personal recollection of the history of Metro Media (written in 2015), and a summary of Metro Media's activities in 1971 and 1972. Also included in the fond are seven 1" video tapes, primarily documenting the Vancouver theatre company Savage Gods, and a Sony AVC-3400 DC 12V Portapac videorecorder.
Terry KetlerThe contents of the Sara Diamond fonds spans her years in Vancouver as a member of the Revolutionary Workers League, Bread and Roses Collective, Amelia Productions, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and the Coalition for the Right To View. There are extensive materials related to Diamond’s Women’s Labour History Project, Code Zebra, curatorial projects, critical writing, educational materials, and independent video art.
Types of materials include photographic negatives (35mm) and prints, documents and publications (approx. 30m), audio recordings ( 200+ 1/4″ and compact cassette), video recordings (500+ 3/4″ Umatic, Betacam, Mini-DV), wearable art, and ephemera.
Sara DiamondFonds contains books from the personal library of John Grayson. The fonds contains 24 publications (primarily books and journals) on the topic of music theory, sound sculpture and soundscape, and unorthodox musical creations/instruments. The majority of the publications in the fonds were published by Grayson's organization The Aesthetic Research Centre. Some of the publications include sheet music, and one publication includes an accompanying musical recording on tape cassette. Titles and authors/editors are as follows:
- An Environment of Musical Sculpture - ed. John Grayson
- Biofeedback and the Arts: Results of Early Experiments - ed. David Rosenboom
- Computer Music Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2
- The UNESCO Courier, November 1976
- Cultures, Vol. 1, No. 1
- Desert Plants: Conversations with 23 American Musicians - Walter Zimmermann
- Environments of Musical Sculpture You Can Build - ed. John Grayson
- Five Village Soundscapes - R. Murray Schafer
- The Gitalamkara: L'ouvrage Original de Bharata sur la Musique
- Handbook for Acoustic Ecology - ed. Barry Truax
- Interval: Exploring the Sonic Spectrum, Fall 1983
- Journal of Experimental Aesthetics, Vol. 1, No. 1
- The Music of the Environment - ed. Murray Schafer
- La Musique du Cambodge et du Laos - Alain Danielou
- New Directions, Nos. 24 & 25
- Paysage Sonore Urbain: Deux Journees d'Exposition, d'Ecoute, et de Communications - Plan-Construction
- Pieces: An Anthology - ed. Michael Byron
- Recherches sur l'Histoire de la Gamme Arabe - J.P.N. Land
- Sound Sculpture - ed. John Grayson
- Sound/Sculpture - ed. John Grayson
- Sound : Space - Bernhard Leitner
- Soundings, Nos. 7 & 8
- Toning: The Creative Power of the Voice - Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
- Vibrations: Making Unorthodox Musical Instruments - David Sawyer
Fonds consists of administrative records, collective meeting minutes, event documentation and outreach, program planning, publicity, as well as contact and correspondence files created by the First Nations Video Collective. Records primarily relate to special projects and initiatives carried out when San Dee Doxtdator was the coordinator for the Collective. Materials also include photographs and videos produced during the course the 1997 First Nations Intensive Video Production Course.
First Nations Video CollectiveFonds consists of administrative records, event documentation (photographic and moving images), artist information, and publicity created by CURRENT organizers and volunteers, from June to August 2017.
CURRENT SymposiumThe fonds consists of records generated by the Satellite Video Exchange Society throughout its history.
VIVO Media Arts CentreFonds consists of materials related to the life and career of Margaret Dragu, spanning her years as an artist in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. These materials include audio-visual recordings of her many performances, photographs related to both her art and her personal life, and textual records ranging from correspondence and financial statements to creative writing drafts and chapbooks. There is also a substantial amount of newspaper clippings, programs, promotional materials, and general ephemera. Records in this fonds also document her collaborations with artists and organizations such as Tom Dean, Susan Macpherson, Randy Gledhill, The Western Front, and Breakthrough Films.
Types of materials in this fonds include: printed documents and publications, photographs (printed and digital), photographic negatives and slides (35mm), moving image recordings (MiniDV, DVD, VHS, Betacam SP, 3/4 inch videotape: U-matic, 16mm film, 8mm film), and audio recordings (audio cassette tapes).
Margaret Dragu