Hank Bull


    Seven months independent study in Europe, 1967-68.
    New School of Art, Toronto, 1969/71.
    Various jobs, construction, bartender, railway, farm labour, etc.
    Professional musician, Toronto, playing blues and rock'n'roll.
    Moved to Vancouver and joined Western Front in 1973.
    Explored radio art and telecommunications from 1975.
    Extensive travels, including 13 month world tour with Kate Craig in 1980-81.
    Since the late 1980s various exchange projects with Japan and other Asian countries.
    and much much more ....

Curriculum Vitae updated September 2012
HANK BULL

Solo Exhibitions
2012
The Commons, Vancouver, "Bowls and Horizons" with Glen Lewis
2012
Wakayama Museum, Tokyo, "Open Sea", paintings and video
2006
Studio exhibition, "Poisson d'avril", assemblage works
1994
Gallery Sansair, Vancouver, "Crum/Bull", with Phillip McCrum
1993
University of British Columbia, Faculty Club, landscape paintings
1989
Gallery T.O.O., Vancouver, "Lumen Cinerium", video installation
1989
Oboro, Montreal, "The Wind", video installation
1981
1989
Modern Art Galerie, Vienna, "South North", with Kate Craig
Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, "South/North", with Kate Craig
1976
A Space, Toronto, "HP at A Space", with Patrick Ready


Group Exhibitions
2012
Studienzentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Bremen, "Kunstradio 25"
2012
Quinary Projects, Vancouver "The Material Glitch"
2011
Public Access, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, "HP", curated by Weekend Leisure Club
2009
MKG127, Toronto, "rockpaperscissors", curated by Jayce Salloum
1999
Littoral, Lancashire & Cumbria, England, "MerzMuzeum", Homage to Kurt Schwitters", internet webcast
1999
a relatively small collection, audio art exhibition, Ace Art, Winnipeg
1997
Witness Project, Vancouver, video installation, "Li Jiang"
1996
Yokohama Citizen's Gallery, Artists Today, "Displacement", video installation.
1994
Media Galleria, Turku, Finland. "Elsewhere" interactive telephone installation.
1994
Leipzig Medienbiennale, Germany, "Wagon", video installation delivered by videophone.
1993
Media Galleria, Turku, Finland. "SAFE", video installation.
1992
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, "RADIO RETHINK, live radio, symposium, catalogue.
1991
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Canadian Video.
1989
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, "Radio Painting" etc., live radio works.
1987
Dokumenta 8, Kassel, 'Snowball Project', performance and communications with Eric Metcalfe et al.
1986
Venice Biennale. 'Planetary Network', three month interactive telecommunications project.
1985
Biennale of Peace, Hamburg, "Last Words of Gertrude Stein", audio installation.
1984
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, New Video Realities, "Sax Island".
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canadian Video, "Sax Island".
1983
The October Show, Vancouver, "The Cheekeye Dunsmuir Line", audio sculpture.
Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, "Electra".
1982
Ars Electronica, "The World in 24 Hours", 12 cities, organized by Robert Adrian.
Science World, Vancouver, "Unclear Free Zone", with Kate Craig, "Six Windows", curated by Paul Wong.
1979
Moderne Art Galerie, Vienna, Austria, "Audio Scene '79", exhibition, conference and performance.


Festivals and Symposia
2011
Deep Wireless, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), Toronto, residency
2009
Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul, Korea, symposium paper, "multi-inter-trans"
2008
Art Matters - Point des arts, Banff Centre, co-chair, convened by the Governor General
2007
Visual Arts Summit, Ottawa, Canadian Museums Association
2005
Interakcje 7, Piotrkow-Trybunalski, Poland (with Sarah Turner) festival of performance art
2001
Space Traffic, Para/Site, Hong Kong, international conference of artists' initiatives
2000
Interferences, CICV, Belfort France, international media festival, jury member
1998
C'est Tous les Jours Robert, Périgueux, France, symposium on Robert Filliou
1996
Tokyo International Dance Festival, Distanz, telematic performance
Parallaxe, Québec, La Méduse, Distanz
10e Rencontres Vidéo Arts Plastiques, Centre d'art contemporain de la Basse-Normandie,
    Hérouville, France, Perform Distanz and present carte blanche video survey of Western Front.
1995
Tokyo Art Conference, "Passage of Death" linking Tokyo and Vancouver, telematic performance.
1994
Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia, Keynote Speaker, telematic performance.
LITTORAL, Salford College University, Manchester, England, New Zones for Artist-Initiated Activity.
1992
Free Idea Zone, San Francisco, independent conference of 60 artists.
1991
Images Video Festival, Toronto, premiere screening of "Duster".
Radio Week, Music Gallery, Toronto.
1986
Berlin Film Festival, premiere if INFERMENTAL VI, Vancouver edition.
1985
Holland Festival, Amsterdam, performance by Canada Shadows, "Corpus Colossus"
Talking Back to the Media, Amsterdam, solo performance.
1984
Kijkhuis Worldwide Video Festival, Den Haag, Netherlands, screening "Sax Island".
1983
OKanada, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, performance by Canada Shadows, "Aka Nada".
1978
International Festival of Performance Art, Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, shadow play, "Vis-á-Vis.


Performances, Broadcasts, Screenings, Events
2012
Reel Asian Film Festival, Toronto, "Autumn Colours after Zhao Mengfu"
2012
Dr. Sun Yat Set, Classical Chinese Gardens, Vancouver, "Autumn Colours after Zhao Mengfu",
    Canadian premiere
2011
Cinématháque Vancouver, "The Time Dilation Machine" remastered 8mm and 16mm films from
   the 1970s with live sound
2011
Kunstradio, Vienna, commission of new broadcast work, "Songs for Radio"
2011
Eternal Jam, live Internet Ustream performance with Erin Gee, Montreal, for Art's Birthday
2009
Radio Without Boundaries, Toronto, Keynote speaker
2001
Farming and the Web - Web radio project in response to UK farming crisis, commissioned by Littoral,
    Lancashire, UK
1999
24 Hours of Radio Art, live radio and Internet broadcast, CITR-FM, Vancouver.
1996
Hypernation, What is a Nation in Cyberspace, commissioned by Oboro, Montréal
1994
NTV Neighbourhood Television, Western Front, Vancouver, independent television
    transmissions, with Tetsuo Kogawa
1994
Telecommunications and the Democratization of Audio Visual Communications.
    Live link by videophone to artists at the Delhi conference.
1993
Live Midi Jam, musical concert between Innsbruck and Vancouver (initiated by Robert Adrian).
Interactive Tea Party, videophone, audio and fax between Vancouver, Banff and Paris.
1992
Inter/access Telecom Conference, organized by Jeff Mann.
1991
Telecom '91, a 3-week festival of communications events, producer and director, video document.
Art's Birthday & Protest ("Text Bombs and Videotape") against the war in Iraq, 25 cities,
    video document.
1990
Art's Birthday, slowscan between Vancouver and Nantes, trans-Canada fax net. Catalogue and videotape.
1988
Hyperspace Radio, RADIA Banff, CITR-FM Vancouver and Western Front Vancouver.
1983
La Plissure du Texte, participant, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
1983
WIENCOUVER IV, slowscan and telephone music between Vancouver and Vienna. Video document.
1980
Conference on the Artists' use of Telecommunication, organised Vancouver participation.
1978-80
GINA SHOW, Vancouver cable TV, regular contributor, produced by John Anderson.
1979
Vancouver Art Gallery, assisted Bill Bartlett and Direct Media in telecommunications exhibition.
Slowscan Video between Vancouver and Toronto as part of General Idea's High Profile.
1975-84
The HP Radio Show, weekly 90-minute radio art performance, CFRO-FM Vancouver Co-op Radio.
1974-76
IMAGES FROM INFINITY, contributor to artists' weekly television broadcast produced by Byron Black.


Video productions
2012
Autumn Colours, landscape shot in China, premiere at Wakayama Musuem, Tokyo
2011
Early Films, remastered 8mm 1971-76, premiere at Cinémathèque Vancouver
1997
Li Jiang, single monitor installation, original music by Steve Lacy, premier at Roundhouse, Vancouver
1996
Elena Pavlova, produced in Japan with Hironobu Oikawa and Sonoko Matsuoka.
1995
Passage of Death, performance document, Tokyo Art Conference.
1993
Technology and Nature, performance document, Japan tour.
1992
Free Media Mix, commissioned by Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna
1991
DUSTER, co-producer and director, with Rebecca Belmore, Warren Arcand,
    Cornelia Wyngaarden, Eric Metcalfe, premier at Images Festival, Toronto
Telecom '91, document of telecommunications events protesting the first Gulf War, January 1991
1987
MacBooties at Documenta, with Eric Metcalfe and Mao Kawaguchi
1986
Peep Show, with Eric Metcalfe
Cross-Cultural Television, with Antoni Muntadas, premier at Berlin Film Festival
1984
Sax Island, with Eric Metcalfe, collected by MOMA New York, Natioanl Gallery of Canada, etc
Come Fly with Sonny Day, with Fraser Finlayson.
Wiencouver IV, with David Rimmer and Robert Adrian.
1982
C'est la Vidéo
1979
Relican Wedding.
1978
Piraña Farms, with Eric Metcalfe and Jane Ellison.
1977
The HP Video Show, with Patrick Ready


Curating, Teaching, Consulting
2011-12
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Senior Fellow
1999-2010
Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, co-founder and executive director,
produce over 70 original exhibitions, plus performances, symposia, publications, etc.
2008 - 2009
Governor General's committee on arts and culture
2001 - 2008
Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Sectoral Committee for Arts and Culture
1998
Jiangnan, Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River, Vancouver, organizer
1997
Body Electric, Vancouver 3rd Annual Electronic Arts Festival, program director
1996
Shanghai Fax - Let's Talk About Money, international fax exhibition, Hua Shan College of Art, Shanghai
Santiago Bose, Vancouver residency by Filipino installation and performance artist, curator
Art in the Age of Digital Dissemination, Teaching seminar at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
1995
Robert Filliou: from Political to Poetical Economy, Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, co-curator
1993
Building with Water, international symposium at U.B.C., designer and producer
1992
Tetsuo Kogawa, radio artist, designer of 1-watt FM transmitter, organize tour to Vancouver and Banff
1992
Goji Hamada, Japanese performance artist, organize 10-city Canadian tour
1991
Tari Ito and Haruo Higuma, Japanese performance artists, organize 10 city Canadian tour
1988-89
William Burroughs, exhibitions in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, curator
1986
INFERMENTAL VI International Magazine on Videocassette; producer and director of Vancouver edition;
    58 contributions from 25 countries, 6 hours; launch at Berlin Film Festival; over 30 exhibitions worldwide
Strategies for Survival, international artists' conference, Vancouver, co-organizer
1981-91
Western Front, curator of various programs, including exhibitions, music, media arts, magazine


Formation & Professional Development
1999
Co-found Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
1998
Co-curate "Jiangnan, Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River", Vancouver
1988 - 98
Produce international artist exchange projects with Japan, China, Philippines, France, etc
1992
Research the creation of centre for art and ecology at Furry Creek, BC for Tanabe Corporation
1986
Found FRONT Magazine, Western Front, act a editor and publisher until 1990
1980 - 81
World tour with Kate Craig - Japan, Indonesia, India, Cameroun, Austria, Yugoslavia, France
1979
Begin explorations in electronic mail, slowscan video and telecommunications art
1975
Begin explorations in radio art and shadow play with Patrick Ready
1974
Begin performance collaborations with Eric Metcalfe and others, Hollywood DeccaDance
1973
Move to Vancouver, join Western Front, work with Robert Filliou, William S. Burroughs, Martin Bartlett,
    Glenn Lewis, Kate Craig, General Idea, Kathy Acker, Michael Morris, Al Neil et al.
1969 - 72
Attend New School of Art, Toronto, studies with Robert Markle, Nobuo Kubota, Dennis Burton et al.
1968-73
Hold various jobs in Toronto: musician, construction worker, bartender, railway, farm labourer
1967-68
Independent study in Europe: Madrid, Rome, Athens, Istanbul, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London.
1962
Decide firmly to become at artist
1949
Born, Calgary Alberta, Canada


Kunstradio Programs

18. 2. 1988: "The Last words of Gertrude Stein" (Radio-Kunst bei CFRO Vancouver)
14. 9. 1989: "The last words of Gertrude Stein" ("Radiokunstnacht", "Radioart night")
16. 4. 1992: "DRAVIDIA - Sounds from South-India"
19. 9. 1999: Schwittradio
25. 2. 2007: 100 Jahre Radio - Die Wiederkehr der drahtlosen Fantasie # 4
11. 3. 2007: 100 Jahre Radio - Die Wiederkehr der drahtlosen Fantasie # 6
27. 10. 2013: “Wiencouver X: Telepathic Music for Piano and Strings”
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