Jessica Rodríguez presents the Chair Report as part of FMC’s 2022 Annual General Meeting. This video is a celebration of our new building and the stability our relocation will bring for the organization for years to come.
About Jessica Rodríguez
Jessica Rodríguez is a multimedia artist, designer and researcher. She is currently studying a doctorate program in Communications, New Media, & Cultural Studies at McMaster. Her practice and research projects focus on audiovisual practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, sound art, visualization/sonification, live coding, among others, collaborating with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists. She is co-founder of andamio.in, a collaboration platform that uses digital and analogue technologies to explore with text, visuals, and audio. She is also part of RGGTRN, a collective that engages in algorithmic dance music and audiovisual improvisation informed by Latinx experiences. She has participated at Sound Though (2016/17 Glasgow, Edimburg), International Symposium of Electronic Art (2015 Vancouver, Canada / 2017 Manizales, Colombia), International Conference on Live Coding (2017 Morelia, México / 2018 Madrid, España / 2019 Limerick, Irlanda), Sound + Environment (2017 Hull, Inglaterra), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2016/17/19), SEGNALI (2017 Italia), Seeing Sound (2016 Bath, Inglaterra), among others.
About Factory Media Centre
The Factory Media Centre is a not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre dedicated to the production and promotion of creatively diverse forms of independent films, videos, and other streaming multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region, who are involved or interested in the art, the craft, and the technologies, of motion picture media. In addition to our mission, we also provide access to facilities, equipment, peer resources and educational initiatives to the community of time-based visual artists, as well as to the community at large. Through our programming we hope to encourage the development and appreciation of all related visual art forms through an ongoing program of screenings and events.