Clive Holden is a

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new media artist,

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and poet from

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, he is currently living in

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with his wife, writer Alissa York.

New Media

In the inaugural exhibition in 2013 of ''UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS'' at the

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, Holden worked with archival photographs and snap shots submitted by the public via social media, along with pulsating film leader loops in a large-scale wall composition. The public was asked to nominate their "favourite unfamous unAmericans" for inclusion. The media were composed using a musical analogy so the visuals were listened to rather than viewed. Hundreds of randomization algorithms were also included in the work's code, so that the work's creation wasn't completed until the moment it was viewed, and it could never be viewed the same way twice. ''Media, Mediated'' (2013) is an ongoing series of new media works,

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works, and chromogenic prints. They interrelate in spite of their disparate natures as either ephemeral time-based net art works and installations, or more traditional art objects. Their juxtapositions highlight what they have in common as well as their differences.

Trains of Winnipeg

Holden's best-known and publicized project to date is the award-winning "film poem" series '' Trains of Winnipeg'', a collection of 14

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s featuring Holden's poetry with musical accompaniment by

Christine Fellows Christine Ann Fellows (born 1968) is a Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. History Born in Windsor, Ontario, and raised in France and Kelowna, British Columbia, Fellows lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Guelph and Montreal ...

, John K. Samson,

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, Steve Bates and Emily Goodden. ''Trains of Winnipeg'' screened internationally, a.o. at the IFFR. In it is included the haunting short, ''18000 Dead in Gordon Head'', in which Holden recalls the shooting of a young girl in that part of Victoria. The 18,000 in the title refers to the average number of

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viewer has seen by the time they reach the age of sixteen years.

Utopia Suite

Currently he is working on his project ''Utopia Suite'', launched at the

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(2006), investigating into 21st-century views on

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. Utopia Suite has since been touring art-galleries through Canada.Foreman Gallery showing the touring Utopia Suite
/ref> Recent works, ''UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS'' and ''Media, Mediated'' are parts of the Utopia Suite project.

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Clive Holden

''Trains of Winnipeg''
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