Fonds 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 SymposiumFile contains Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2012 media clippings. Materials from GG Awards including invitation, tax receipt info, name tags, and other related documents.
File contains two CD-ROMs: (1) “2012 GGAVMA Event Photos”, (2) Canada Council - The Canadian Press images. There are also a range of items including photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and Dragu’s acceptance speech.
File contains release and contract forms. Also contains materials related to the Rose Community Event — Dec 6, 2009 remembrance ceremony.
File contains materials related to “The Dirty Show” (later called “Sex in the Time of War”) including: a curatorial statement, correspondence, and application paperwork.
File contains Richmond Art Gallery event bill (”Biking Woman: (No) Refuge From Metaphor”); FOMD Laboratory program guide; and blank release forms and contracts.
1 box of files related primarily to Diamond's work with the Banff New Media Institute, and book projects related to the BNMI. Contains 2 binders of drafts of "Euphoria/Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues, 1995-2005." 1 binder of a draft of "Flesh Eating Technologies." 5 files related to "Euphoria/Dystopia:" flesh boxes ; co-pro ; events listing ; glossary of terms; notes on content. Transcripts of a talk at the summit "Skinning Our Tools," by Mervin Jarman, Camille Turner, and Sonia Mills. 1 audio-disk, "Soundtrack of exhibition."
Sara DiamondFile contains financial documents, insurance, invoices, receipts; photocopied sections from Canadian Art (magazine); articles about Dragu’s work; advertisements/posters, listings for screenings of her work (2002); paperwork, contracts, and correspondence related to film at South Arm Community Centre (2005).
File contains correspondence release forms, advertisements, financial documents, V-tape paperwork, reviews, and other records pertaining to “Walking Woman” (video/performance) and “The Art of Autobiography” (video).
1 box of files and binders. Contains 2 binders of documentation of the Code Zebra Habituation Cages; includes promotional material, correspondence, and transcriptions of conversations which happened during the events. Also includes materials relating to conferences including schedules, proceedings, and Diamond's notes, and correspondence about the Code Zebra project.
Sara DiamondFor access to a complete database of this subseries, please contact the archivist at the CDMLA.
Sara DiamondFile contains photographs from Dragu’s “Cleaning and Love It” performance (2000) and also an article about the performance written up in the West End Review.
File contains documents relating to her receipt of the Mall Peepre Regional Fitness Leadership Award.
Series consists of records pertaining to the new media project Code Zebra. Code Zebra was a multi-layered project which Diamond produced as a co-production with BNMI between 2001 - 2004. It investigated visual representation of relationships and social interactions. Elements of the project included performances, exhibitions, workshops, games, fashion shows, and software development. It included the performance series “Habituation Cages,” in which notable artists and scientists would spend 24 hours locked in a monitored room, with all their conversations and actions recorded. Much of the activity was documented on and explored within the interactive website codezebra.net.
The series is divided into two subseries:
- Textual and photographic records
- Audiovisual materials
1 box of files. Contains journal articles and conference proceedings related to Code Zebra. The bulk of the reseach material is Diamond's own research that informed Code Zebra, and does not directly reference the project. Contains files related to production and planning of Code Zebra; these include grant applications to Telefilm, correspondence with partners in the project, and handwritten notes from Diamond. Contains short texts about animals which later appeared on the Code Zebra website.
Sara Diamond1 box of files. Contains materials about the production of Code Zebra including funding proposals and correspondence. Contains material about the Code Zebra Habituation Cages, and Code Zebra's participation in the DEA03 / DEAF festival. Contains release forms and contracts with participants and computer programmers.
Sara DiamondFile contains newspaper clippings, artist profiles, performance bills and programs. There are also press clippings related to the Governor General’s award, the Ethel Tibbits Awards, and the Richmond Arts Awards.