past events  :	september 27-29 :Digidome festival Ramada Golf Dome, Saskatoon SK. Digidome was a festival of contemporary sound, music, digital video, glitch_pop drama and spatial overload hosted by paved ART + NEW MEDIA. LiminaL was one of over 30 Canadian artists invited to present video and perform live over the course of the three day event. The performances that resulted from Digidome were a mix of ethereal ambient soundscapes, turntable experimentations and improvised electronic collaborations. The first nights events took place at the Odeon Nightclub with the venue shifting to the Ramada Golf Dome for the second evening of performances. Outfitted with multiple large-scale projection screens and becoming a surface for projections itself, the Dome was transformed completely for the event. The soundscapes generated in the Dome became otherworldly as they echoed and reverberated inside the giant air-locked space. LiminaL members Jackson and Tanya performed a piece that explored the affect of pop culture transmissions on the physical body.

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	july 12 : Artspace Gallery Opening reception 7-9 pm 129A Hunter Street West, Peterborough, ON For the Artspace Gallery LiminaL developed an environmental installation and performance utilizing a surround-sound speaker system, video, kinetic and wearable sculpture, and movement. The objective for the performance and month-long installation was to juxtapose hypothetic or imagined reality with concrete reality. An aural and spatial environment was constructed to magnify the differences and amplify the similarities between these two worlds: memory and the present experience. The viewer was invited to define for themselves the differences and similarities between these two modes of existence, and to join us in questioning how the two co-exist in any single moment and specifically in their experience of the created space. Motivated by these ideas, the performance included familiar fragments of found sound sampled from other times and locales. The samples drew on ideas of memory and were used in creating an improvised soundscape in real-time, supported as well as contrasted by live vocals representative of the here-and-now experience. Movement is contingent to the present moment and manifested itself through an improvised dance performance by Susanna Hood. Attached through a network of rope and pulleys to moveable sculptural columns, the entire installation responded to her body. Continuously renegotiated bodily positions in direct relation to the physical environment opened a visceral space of contemplation for our ideas. The remainder of the installation consisted of Susanna’s ‘costume’-a sectioned body casting of plaster and fabric- suspended in the space, still attached to the ropes and stabilized by the columns. A chalky circle of plaster left on the floor was a remnant of the bodily movement left from the performance. Video of the event was re-projected back into the space, as was the soundscape generated on the opening nights performance.

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	june 21-23 : Om Festival 2002 Killaloe, Ontario Om Festival is an annual, outdoor gathering to celebrate the Summer Solstice, nature, and community. LiminaL proudly returns to this 3 day explosion of electronic artistry from across the country and around the world. This year we were featured as 1 of the 17 live PA performances presented by SumKidz. More details soon to follow.

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	june 25 : Ambient Ping Club NIA / C'est What > 19 Church Street at Front Street,Toronto The Ambient Ping is Toronto's unique weekly live ambient, chillout and experimental music performance event. Together with Hypnotech 3, LiminaL performed a scaled down, intimate set in one of Toronto's classic live venues. Collective member, Tanya Doody's visuals were also featured throughout the whole evening.

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	april 28, 2002 : Expressions in Virtual Reality Open Space Gallery > 510 fort street, Victoria B.C. In April 2002 LiminaL projects worked on a collaborative project with Dr. Steve Gibson in Victoria B.C. Experiments were conducted at the University of Victoria’s Center for New Media Arts to explore new performance strategies with the integration of new virtual reality technologies. With Dr. Gibson, LiminaL created a new performance piece that was showcased at the Open Space Gallery in Victoria B.C. on Sunday April 28th 2002 . The project made use of the tracking capabilities of the Martin Lighting Director invented by Acoustic Positioning Research, wherein bodies and motion within a given space can be detected and decoded as virtual information by computer software. Throughout April, we were working to program this technology to interface with Susanna's improvised movement for use within a multi-media performance. Susanna’s ever-changing location in space was detected by the tracking system to effect transmutations of video loops created by Jackson and Tanya. In dialogue with an improvised aural soundscape, created live by Susanna and Tom, this evolving visual palette provided an abstract theatrical context for the hour and a half long performance. LiminaL would like to thank the University of Victoria for the use of their facilities for research purposes, Dr. Steve Gibson for his support and creative input, Daniel Joliffe and Darren Bennett for their assistance, and Open Space for the steps needed to bring us all together.

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	december 6, 2001: cd release + 1 year anniversary event area 51 > 577 king street w, Toronto This event celebrated the launch of our first full-length audio disk, recorded at Sonic Workshop in Toronto. The event featured the first full integration of sound and movement performance with our redesigned multi-piece video, sound, and sculpture installation from the past year. New visual work by the collective and invited guests was also melded together to transform the whole club into a spacious and delicate environment, pulsing with light and projected image. Our musical guests for the evening were: Machyderm Inc. (Chris Mcnamara from Windsor and Hamilton's Dermot Wilson) performing their video and sound performance "nomen culture" and "up there, down here"; Chris Twomey (New Powers Music) spinning abstract ambient and tribal rhythms; fwark (Victor Szabo) creating a live mixological soundscape on computer with voice; and dj's otaku and task from the wabi collective who rounded off the evening with diverse strains of electronica. The event was a huge success. A full warm house of new and old friends came together to join our celebration and send us into a new year of inspired creation. We'd like to send out a heartfelt thanks to all those who came out to support the release, our volunteers for the event: Alya Heeds & Catherine Thompson, our loyal friends who have supported us all year, and especially our musical guests and visual collaborators Dan Lavoie and Drej who generously donated their artistry and time to make it all possible. THANK YOU !

. . sept 28 : public transit recordings : 3rd year anniversary . . sept 16 : white out . . sept 16 : "... and then we take berlin" . . sept 02 : lab 002 . . august 05 : lab 001 . . july 20 : public transit recordings : devolution . . july 14 : Tribal Mechanics . . june 15-17 : Om Festival . . june 4-9 : Niagara Artists' Company