{"id":10192,"date":"2018-02-26T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/?p=10192"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:21:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:21:42","slug":"midi-onodera-wins-governor-generals-award-in-visual-and-media-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/midi-onodera-wins-governor-generals-award-in-visual-and-media-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Midi Onodera wins Governor General\u2019s Award in Visual and Media Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519673987845_3303\">\n<p>The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that Midi Onodera is among this year\u2019s winners of the $25,000 Governor General\u2019s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.\u00a0 The prestigious awards are funded by the\u00a0Canada Council for the Arts, recognizing artistic achievement in visual and media arts and fine craft.<\/p>\n<p>Onodera, a JC Toronto media artist, has been making films and videos for over 30 years. She has more than 25 independent short films to her credit as well as a theatrical feature film and short videos. Beginning in 2006, Midi created some 500 short videos or \u201cVidoodles\u201d for various projects. She has published two essays on mobile cinema for the media journal <em>Jump Cut<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;a thoughtful, daring filmmaker at a time when there was very little diversity in Canadian art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Midi Onodera gained critical acclaim very early in her career with two remarkable films:\u00a0<em>Ten Cents a Dance<\/em> (Parallax)\u00a0(1985) and<em>\u00a0The Displaced View<\/em>\u00a0(1989) which launched her reputation as a thoughtful, daring filmmaker at a time when there was very little diversity in Canadian art. In recent years she refers to herself as a \u2018moving image\u2019 artist, combining her deep understanding of filmmaking with 21st century technologies and modes of distribution to make tiny movies, or \u2018Vidoodles.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy tiny movies have a very different relationship with the viewer than larger screen movies. Unlike conventional cinema that draws on techniques and a visual\/auditory vocabulary of over 100 years, tiny cinema\u2019s history is only 5 years old, marked by Apple\u2019s introduction of their fifth generation iPod.\u201d \u2013 Midi Onodera, in an interview published in\u00a0<em>Imaginations: A Journal of Cross-cultural Image Studies<\/em>, 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Tanya Mars, performance artist and GGArts winner (2008) (nominator)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>wording from the Canada Council For The Arts press release.\u00a0\u00a0See: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/midionodera.com\">midionodera.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1519673987845_3327\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that Midi Onodera is among this year\u2019s winners of the $25,000 Governor General\u2019s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.\u00a0 The prestigious awards are funded by the\u00a0Canada Council for the Arts, recognizing artistic achievement in visual and media arts and fine craft. Onodera, a JC Toronto media artist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10695,"featured_media":10193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10205,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions\/10205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}