Kent Tate

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS

2023
Catalyst - S8/HD, Live Soundtrack #69 Hypnos Theatre - Malmo, Sweden
ARK & AfterMath - HD//S8 Walthamstow International Film Festival - London, UK
Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain - HD, VAST LAB Visual/Sound Series - Los Angeles, USA
Things We Do & Burning Farm House - HD, VAST LAB Livescore - Los Angeles, USA
Catalyst - S8/HD, Live Soundtrack MUSIK IM RAUM series: Moving Focus - Linz, Austria
ARK - HD, MADATAC Int'l Festival of Audio-Visual & New Media Art - Madrid, Spain
ARK - HD, Dawson City International Short Film Festival - Dawson City, Canada
Pressure & Release - HD, West Virginia Int'l Short Film Festival - Morgantown, USA
Radius - HD, Fisura International Exp Film & Video Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Utopia - HD, Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival Constellation Program - Oaxaca, Mexico
Focal Point - HD, Korean Society of Media Arts, Int'l Invitational Exhibition - Seoul, Korea
Every System has a Dream - HD, Fisura Int'l Film & Video Festival - Mexico City, Mexico

2022
Pressure & Release - HD, Saigon Experimental IV - Hanoi, Viet Nam
Utopia - HD, 6° Festival International Signes de Nuit - Urbino, Italy
Catalyst - S8/HD, Fisura 2022, Demina, Arts Laboratory - Acapulco, Mexico
Radius - HD, KOSMA International Invitational Exhibition - Seoul, Korea
Utopia - HD, 20° Festival International Signes de Nuit - Paris, France
Rupture, HD, Labocine Science New Wave Anniversary - New York City, USA  
Every System has a Dream - HD, Fotogenia Film Poetry Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
Utopia - HD, 20° Festival International Signes de Nuit - Paris, France
Rupture, HD, Labocine Science New Wave Anniversary - New York City, USA
A Tree Gets in the Way & Transit-Destination, FILM+session - Melbourne, Australia
Every System has a Dream - HD, Fotogenia Film Poetry Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
Spark - S8, Official selection VASTLAB Experimental 4 - Los Angeles, USA
Furnace - HD, Official selection VASTLAB Experimental 4 - Los Angeles, USA
Recollection - Premonition, S8, Kinam Int'l Film Festival - Toluca de Lerdo, Mexico
Utopia - HD, Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Spark - S8, Official selection, Antimatter [Media Art] 25 - Victoria, Canada
Recollection - Premonition, S8, Kinam Int'l Film Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Catalyst - S8/HD, Nahui Ollin International Film Festival - Durango, Mexico
Every System has a Dream - Walthamstow Int'l Film Festival - London, UK
Spark - S8, ALC videoart fest, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo - Alicante, Spain
Catalyst - S8/HD, 2nd Fisura Int'l Exp Film & Video Festival - Durango, Mexico
Furnace - HD, 2nd Fisura Int'l Exp Film & Video Festival - Durango, Mexico
10th Frame - S8, 2nd Fisura Int'l Exp Film & Video Festival - Durango, Mexico
Spark - S8, Peace Letter to Ukraine - The New Museum of Networked Art
Furnace - HD, Fisura Int'l Exp Film & Video Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Catalyst - S8/HD, Fisura Int'l Exp Film & Video Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
10th Frame - S8, Fisura Int'l Exp Film & Video Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Recollection - Premonition - S8, Int'l XPRMNTL Film Festival - London, UK
Spark - S8, Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola, Italy
Recollection - Premonition - S8, Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola, Italy
Carbon Sky - HD, ESSENCE / ABSENCE Pavillion 10 @ The Wrong Biennale

2021
Furnace - HD, FIVA International Festival of Video Art - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carbon Sky - HD, Award: Best Original Music, Retro Avant Garde FF - Cairo, Egypt
Recollection - Premonition, S8, Revolutions per Minute Festival - Boston, USA
Recollection - Premonition, S8, FOTOGENIA Film Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Carbon Sky - HD, Finalist: Best experimental - CUCIF - Cuzco, Perú
Carbon Sky - HD, New Media Art Biennale, Madatac selection - Kiev, Ukraine
Landing Sites - HD, Diorama Room, Minor Chord Exhibition - Austin, USA
Furnace - HD, Nature & Culture - Poetry Film Festival - Copenhagen, Denmark
Pressure & Release - HD, Official selection, Timeline BH6 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Pressure & Release - HD, Official selection, Simultan Festival - Timisoara, Romania
No Rest for the Restless - HD, Simultan selection, NOASS Art Center - Riga, Latvia
Carbon Sky - HD, Official selection: 27th OpenEyes Filmfest - Marburg, Germany
Carbon Sky - HD, Invitational, Bibart Biennale Internazionale d'arte - Bari, Italy
Cornucopia - HD, Official selection, Walthamstow Int'l Film Festival - London, UK
Recollection - Premonition, S8, KOSMA Int'l Invitational Exhibition - Seoul, Korea
Spark, Super 8, Official selection, Kinam Int'l Film Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
10th Frame - Super 8, Official selection, DÉRAPAGE 20+1 - Montreal, Canada
Inventory - HD, Official selection, Faenza Video Art Exhibiton - Bogotá, Colombia
Furnace - HD, Official selection,The Restless Look - Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain - HD, The Restless Look - Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
No Rest for the Restless - Kino Pleme / Live Soundtrack - Belgrade, Serbia
Furnace - HD, Official selection, Int’l Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino, Italy
Velocity - HD, Broken Screen, The Veil at Belgrado's - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sensors - HD, Seensound: LOOP Visual/Music Series - Melbourne, Australia
Cornucopia - HD, Official selection, Kinam Int'l Film Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Rupture - HD, Int'l Panorama Vol # 1 and Vol # 2, VisualContainer - Milan, Italy

2020
Velocity - HD, Broken Screen "Technocratic Apocalypse" - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Velocity - HD, Broken Screen "The Treachery of Images" - San Juan, Argentina
Carbon Sky - HD, Official selection, 7th Cine Tornado Film Festival - Curitiba, Brazil
Utopia - HD, KOSMA Invitational Exhibition, Asian Cultural Center - Gwangju, Korea
Velocity - HD, Official selection, Fisura Int'l Film & Video Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Carbon Sky - HD, Official selection, Calcutta Int'l Short Film Festival - Calcutta, India
Utopia - HD, Official selection, Image Play Int'l Video Art Festival - Funchal, Portugal
No Rest for the Restless - HD, Official selection, Unseen Fest - Timisoara, Romania
Catalyst - TIME is Love.12 2020, We Open Space and Wienstation - Vienna, Austria
Focal Point - HD, Official selection, Italy - Greece: Restart, Bibart Biennale - Bari, Italy
Rupture - HD, Official selection, 5th Kannibal Int'l Short Film Festival - Berlin, Germany
Catalyst - HD, Official selection, Non-Museum of Contemporary Art - Dresden, Germany
Catalyst - TIME is Love.12 2020, Blue Oyster Art Project Space - Dunedin, New Zealand
Landing Sites - HD, Official selection, Athens Digital Arts Festival - Athens, Greece
Landing Sites - HD, Official selection, Over the Real Video Art Festival - Lucca, Italy
Inventory - HD, Official selection, III Muestra de Video Arte Faenza - Bogotá, Colombia
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official Selection: TIME is Love.12 - 2020 international world tour:
Catalyst - TIME is Love.12 2020, CRUCE Centre of Contemporary Art - Madrid, Spain
Catalyst - TIME is Love.12 2020, ELY Center of Contemporary Art - New Haven, USA
Velocity - HD, Official selection, Int'l Festival for Environmental Cinema - Gabes, Tunisia
Rupture - HD, Official selection, Winter of the Climate-Haunted Globe - Labocine online


2019
Inventory - HD, KOSMA International Invitational Exhibition, Woosuk Gallery - Seoul, Korea
Furnace - HD, Official selection, CODEC Int'l Film and Video Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain - HD, Official selection, CODEC Int'l Film Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
Furnace - HD, Official selection, FOTOGENIA Film Poetry Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
10th Frame - Super 8, Official selection, 1st Kinoskop Int'l Experimental Festival - Belgrade, Serbia
Turbulence - HD, Official selection, Connect - Digital pavillion at The Wrong Biennale - Foggia, Italy
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, CFMDC Showcase, Kasseler Dokfest - Kasseler, Germany
Landing Sites - HD, Official selection, Korean Society of Media & Arts (KOSMA) - Gwanju, Korea
Rupture - HD, Official selection, Int'l Panorama, 6th Cine Tornado Festival - Curitiba, Brazil
Utopia - HD, Official selection, North Bellarine Film & Video Art Festival - Bellarine, Australia
Turbulence - HD, Official selection, ‘Connect’ International Videoarts Festival - Tampa, USA
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, Timeline BH Int’l l Video Art Festival - Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Utopia - HD, Official selection: Panorama International, MAR Museo - Mar del Plata, Argentina
Cornucopia - HD, Official selection: STRANGLOSCOPE - Mostra Internacional, Florianópolis - Brazil
Cornucopia - HD, Official selection: 26th OpenEyes Filmfest Marburg - Marburg, Germany
Sensors - HD, Official selection, Festival ECRÃ! Museu de Arte Moderna - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Carbon Sky - HD, Official selection, International Festival Signs of the Night - Bangkok, Thailand
Sensors - HD, Official selection, VASTLAB Experimental Film Festival - Los Angeles, USA
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, VASTLAB Experimental Film Festival - Los Angeles, USA
Turbulence - HD, Official selection, ”INTERRUPTED" Int'l video art, NMfestival - New Mills, UK
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival - Bogotá, Columbia
Velocity - HD, Best Experimental, 10th Walthamstow International Film Festival - London, UK
Turbulance - HD, Official selection, Walthamstow International Film Festival - London, UK
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, Montreal Underground Film Festival - Montreal, Canada
Rupture - HD, Official selection, Panorama International, O Sítio - Florianópolis, Brazil
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, "Artificial Identity” (TIME is Love Screening) - Tulum, Mexico
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Composthumanism Film Screening, Pleasure Dome - Toronto, Canada
Velocity - HD, Official selection, WFG Annual Screening, Cinematheque - Winnipeg, Canada
PENEPLAIN - Solo Exhibition, Art Gallery of Swift Current (AGSC) - Swift Current, Canada

2018
Rupture - HD, Official selection, Panorama International VOL #1, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, Denver Underground Film Festival, Denver, USA
10th Frame - Super 8, Official selection, Burnt Experimental Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, The Unforeseen, Int'l Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Rupture - HD, Official selection, 16th International Festival Signs of the Night, Paris, France  
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival, Cuzco, Peru
SIGHTINGS - HD, Official selection, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, Canada
10th Frame - Super 8, Official selection, Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, Canada
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, CODEC Int'l Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
Rupture - HD, Official selection, Kinochrome Sessions No.1, Toronto, Canada
Utopia - HD, official Selection: MARFICI International Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Catalyst - Super 8/HD, Official selection, Walthamstow Int'l Film Festival, London, UK
10th Frame - Super 8, Official selection, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
Catalyst - Super 8/HDV/HD, Official selection, Fracto 2018, Berlin, Germany
10th Frame - Super 8, Official selection, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Velocity - HD, Official selection, 16th Int’l Festival Signs of the Night, Urbino, Italy
No Rest for the Restless - HD, Official selection, Powell River Film Festival, Powell River, Canada
Utopia - HD, Official selection, Short Circuit, Nightingale Room, Brighton, UK
Catalyst - Super 8/HDV/HD, Official selection, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Uncommon Landscapes - HD, two person exhibition - OSAC touring of Saskatchewan, Canada

2017
Utopia - HD, London Experimental Int’l Film Festival, Pumphouse Museum, London, UK
Velocity - HD, Official selection, International Festival Signs of the Night, Paris, France
Velocity - HD, Official selection, 15th International Festival Signs of the Night, Lisbon, Portugal
Orbit - HD, Official selection, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
No Rest for the Restless - HD, Official selection, Int'l Festival Signs of the Night, Urbino, Italy
No Rest for the Restless - HD, Official selection, Int'l Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok, Thailand
Utopia - HD, Official Selection: Annual Screening - Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Canada
Inventory - HD, Official Selection: Annual Screening - Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Canada
Uncommon Landscapes - HD, two person exhibition - OSAC touring of Saskatchewan, Canada

2016
Fire & Water - HD, Official selection, Berliner Listet - Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Fire & Water - HD, Official selection, Milan Listet, Milan - Fair for Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
Navigations through a Pulsing Earth, Screening + Artist talk, AGSC touring, MJMAG, Moose Jaw, Canada
Movies for a Pulsing Earth, Sculpture/Video, Solo Exhibition, AGSC touring, MJMAG, Moose Jaw, Canada
Uncommon Landscapes - HD, two person exhibition - OSAC touring of Saskatchewan, Canada

2015
Outer Edge of Somewhere - HD, Fraser Valley Biennial, The Reach, Abbotsford, Canada
Fire & Water - HD, Official selection, Berliner Liste – Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Reflecting Frames, Selected Movie Screening + Artist talk, CASA, Lethbridge, Canada
Prairie Grizzly talks with Kent - HD, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
Isolated Gestures - HD, Winner Ruth Shaw Award, Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Canada
Landing Sites - HD, Official selection, SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago, USA

2014
Landing sites - HD, Official selection, Light Box Art Gallery, New York City, USA
SIGHTINGS - HD, Official selection, Reel Rave Int’l Film Festival, Waskesiu Lake, Canada
The Sun comes out at night - HD, Official selection, CURRENTS New Media Festival. Santa Fe, USA
SIGHTINGS - HD, Official selection, Chicago International Underground Film Festival, Chicago, USA
SIGHTINGS - HD, Official selection, Fargo International Film Festival, Fargo, USA

2013
SIGHTINGS - HD, Official selection, Zero film Festival, Toronto, Canada
SIGHTINGS Video - HD, Official selection, Zero film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Transmissions on a Thin Line, Video, The Salon, AGSC, Swift Current, Canada
Containers - HD, Official selection, Festival Μiden, Kalamata, Greece

2012
Compression - HD, Official selection, Sask Filmpool Annual, Regina, Canada
Circumstances with some Earth & Sky - HD, Official selection, ISEA 2012, Albuquerque, USA
Circumstances with some Earth & Sky - HD, Official selection, Currents 2012, Santa Fe, USA
Circumstances with some Earth & Sky - HD,Solo Video Installation, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada
Movies for a Pulsing Earth, Solo Sculpture - Video Installation, AGSC, Swift Current, Canada

2011
Altar of Sacrifice - HD, Official selection, Ed Video, Media Arts Centre, Guelph, Canada
Earth & Sky - HD, Official selection, Reel Rave International Film Festival, Waskesiu Lake, Canada
Flood and then some Desert - HD, Official selection, EMMEDIA - Centre for the Media Arts, Calgary, Canada
Circumstances with some Earth & Sky - HD, Official selection, Celebration of BC Media Art Victoria, Canada

2010
Earth & Sky - HD, Summer Salon, Official selection, AGSC, Swift Current, Canada
Circumstances with some Earth & Sky - HD, Sask Filmpool Annual, Regina, Canada
Burning Farm House - HD, Reel Rave International Film Festival, Waskesiu Lake, Canada
Burning Farm House - HD, Eastern Edge Video Series, The Rooms Theatre, St. John’s, Canada

COLLECTIONS: Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive - VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada - University Archives and Special Collections, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada - Winnipeg Film Group (WFG) Winnipeg, Canada - Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) Toronto, Canada - University of British Columbia's Rare Books & Special Collections, Vancouver, Canada

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: 2022 Spark - Special Mention, ALC videoart, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo - Alicante, Spain 2021 Carbon Sky - Best Original Music Award, Retro Avant Garde Film Festival Cairo, Egypt Pressure & Release - Best International Artist Award, SIMULTAN FESTIVAL XVI, Timisoara, Romania 2019 Centrum Foundation Artist Residency, Fort Worden, WA, USA - Velocity, Best Experimental Award, Walthamstow International Film Festival, London, UK 2018 Artist Residency, Mount Revelstoke National Park, Revelstoke, BC, Canada. Catalyst - Finalist, Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival, Cuzco, Peru. Catalyst - 2nd place best experimental, Walthamstow International FF, London, UK 2016 Canada Council Travel Grant 2015 Gushul cottage, Artist Residency, Crowsnest Pass, AB, Canada, Winner Ruth Shaw Award (Best of Saskatchewan) 2013 Wallace Stegner House Artist Residency, Eastend, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan Arts Board Visual Artist Grant, 2012 Saskatchewan Arts Board travel Grant, Film & Media Residency, Banff Art Centre, AB, Canada 2011 Saskatchewan Arts Board Media Arts Grant.

REVIEWS, ESSAYS, & CATALOGUES: 2023 Focal Point: Exhibition Catalogue, Korean Society of Media Arts (KOSMA) 'Floating City’ 2022 Radius: Exhibition Catalogue, Korean Society of Media Arts (KOSMA) 'Real is unreal’ - Kent Tate: Book, Selected Films 2010 - Book - Essay by Julie Oakes & Graphic Design by Richard Fogerty - Spark: Exhibition catalogue, Antimatter [Media Art] Victoria, Canada. 2021 Carbon Sky: Exhibition catalogue, Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art. Kiev, Ukraine - Pressure & Release: Exhibition catalogue, Recollection - Premonition: Poetic Phonotheque Nature & Culture Poetry Film Catalogue, Copenhagen, Denmark Pressure & Release: Exhibition catalogue, Timeline BH 6th Int’l l Video Art Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Recollection - Premonition: Exhibition catalogue “Alone Together: Art from Home”” Korean Society of Media & Arts (KOSMA), Seoul, Korea. Timeline BH 6th Int’l l Video Art Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Recollection - Premonition: Exhibition catalogue “Alone Together: Art from Home”” Korean Society of Media & Arts (KOSMA), Seoul, Korea. 2020 Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain: CODEC International Experimental Film & Video Festival Catalogue, Mexico City, Mexico - Catalyst: Bogotá Experimental Film Festival Catalogue, Bogota, Colombia. 2019 Catalyst: Exhibition catalogue Timeline BH 5th Int’l l Video Art Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Inventory: Exhibition catalogue “Media Companion” Korean Society of Media & Arts (KOSMA) Landing Sites: Exhibition catalogue “Poetic Light” Korean Society of Media & Arts (KOSMA) Seoul, Korea - Catalyst: Kassel Dokfest catalogue, Kassel, Germany - Distributions in Profile: Vtape & CFMDC, Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, Germany - Exhibition catalogue Marcus Miller essay: AGSC Exhibition, Swift Current, Canada 2018 Rupture: catalogue for "The International Panorama VOL #1: Video Art and Experimental Cinema" Porto Alegre, Brazil - Catalyst: film festival catalogue, CODEC International Experimental Video/Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico - Utopia: film festival catalogue, Marfici International Independent Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina. 2017 “ âkâm'askîhk  ᐋᑳᒼ'ᐊᐢᑮ ” (Across the Land) - Daina Warren essay on VUCAVU 2016 Movies for a Pulsing Earth: Exhibition catalogue, Movies for a Pulsing Earth; Moose Jaw, Canada 2015 Isolated Gestures: Saskatchewan Arts Board Annual Review 2014 The Sun comes out at night: Currents International Film/New Media Festival catalogue, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2013 Sightings: Zero film Festival catalogue, Montreal & Toronto, Canada 2012 Galleries West: review, Movies for a Pulsing Earth, Prairie Post: review, Movies for a Pulsing Earth: Jeff Nye essay: AGSC Exhibition, Swift Current, Canada.

FILM DISTRIBUTORS
The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) distributes Prairie Grizzly’s Peneplain, Landing Sites, 10th Frame, Rupture, Sensors, Furnace, Carbon Sky, Cornucopia, Catalyst, Velocity, Utopia, Spark, Recollection - Premonition, Focal Point, Transit - Destination, Inventory, A Tree Gets In The Way, Air & Earth, Burning Farm House, Fire & Water, Isolated Gestures, Nautilus ,No Rest for the Restless, Pressure & Release, Shadows from Magnets, Sightings, The Sun Comes out at Night, & Turbulence The Winnipeg Film Group distributes Burning Farm House, Compression, Focal Point, Isolated Gestures, Landing Sites, Sightings, Transit - Destination, The Sun comes out at Night & Inventory. The Satellite Video Exchange Society (VIVO Media Arts Centre) distributes No Rest for the Restless, 10th Frame, Sensors, Furnace, Carbon Sky, Cornucopia, Catalyst & Radius.