REVERB & REWIND is an Ontario Arts Council supported project featuring structured programming through workshops and drop-in studio access. This media club in the Sault Ste. Marie Museum's digital studio and archive space. encourages everyone, artist and non-artists, to come explore, create new things, and immerse themselves in our archive of captured moments of local history. All workshops and drop-in sessions are free and open to the public.
REVERB + REWIND EXHIBITION
PAST WORKSHOPS
FEB 24th - ROTOSCOPING 101
Sault Ste. Marie Museum
February 14th, 1- 2:30pm
90-minute workshop
- Using an iPad or tablet with Apple Pencil or other stylus, Isabelle Michaud will demonstrate how a rotoscope animation can be animated using the Procreate Application.
- Discussion of how old objects/Artefacts inform storytelling in digital creations.
Having an iPad or tablet with an Apple Pencil or stylus is not mandatory, but please bring your own equipment if you have one.
February 14th, 1- 2:30pm
90-minute workshop
- Using an iPad or tablet with Apple Pencil or other stylus, Isabelle Michaud will demonstrate how a rotoscope animation can be animated using the Procreate Application.
- Discussion of how old objects/Artefacts inform storytelling in digital creations.
Having an iPad or tablet with an Apple Pencil or stylus is not mandatory, but please bring your own equipment if you have one.
MArch 23rd - Analog video splicing & Mixing
March 23rd, 1pm
at the Sault Museum in our digitization studio and media lab
No supplies needed
Explore the museum’s media lab with a special focus on analog video, mixing, and splicing video recordings from our archives. Learn from our museum director about how to handle, cut, and connect video reels. Digitize your analog creations to share your projects with others!
at the Sault Museum in our digitization studio and media lab
No supplies needed
Explore the museum’s media lab with a special focus on analog video, mixing, and splicing video recordings from our archives. Learn from our museum director about how to handle, cut, and connect video reels. Digitize your analog creations to share your projects with others!
APRIL 20th - Experimental Video Editing
This intro to video editing invites participants to try remixing footage full of Sault Ste Marie & Algoma history. In this workshop we will have access to digitized audio and video content from the Sault Museum’s archives to explore and incorporate into new media artworks. The focus is on experimentation, play, and learning new editing techniques, taking inspiration from local history. 
MAY 4th - Museum Month - Scanning Slides
Use the museum’s vast archive of photographic slides or bring in your own from home! Our media club space has a high-quality scanner. Learn good media management practices while digitizing your treasured memories to share and enjoy for years to come!
MAY 18th - Museum Month - Documenting Artifacts
Museum Director and Chief Curator will lead this Museum-Month themed workshop instructing participants on how artifacts are professionally documented for collection purposes. These documentation tips can also be valuable for artists learning how to document their own 2-D and 3-D works! 
June 1st - Video Editing for iPad & iPhone
This workshop invites iPhone and iPad users to learn experimental video editing processes on their own devices, with the option of incorporating digitized archival footage from the museum’s collections. This beginner-friendly workshop will be led by emerging multi-media artist Rishi Sharma. Learn how to cut, trim, and arrange footage on your timeline. You can also try incorporating still images with video and animation.
June 29th - Remixing Archival Audio
Review, digitize, and remix archival analog audio files from the Sault Museum’s records. This workshop is for anyone with an interest in new media and sonic art. Consider how audio impacts the experience of space and time. Experiment with playback speed, tempo, pitch, and elements that can be manipulated to impact the listening experience. Create a sonic artwork that can be shared with the community in our final exhibition, or that you can submit to sonic art exhibitions elsewhere!
July 27th - Cyanotype Workshop
Printmaking with cyanotype (also known as sun prints) is an exciting, non-toxic alternative photographic printing process. In this workshop, we will explore printing cyanotypes on paper, however, the process can be adapted to fabric, eggshells, and just about any organic surface that will hold and absorb the chemical. Sometimes solar printing results are predictable, and sometimes they are not. We will work with the sun as our UV light source, and the sun and weather at the time will determine the intensity of the cyanotype prints we produce.
Printmaking experience is not required! Cyanotype is suitable for any age or skill level. The cyanotype process is an alternative photographic process adopted by artists. It was developed in 1842 originally for technical drawings and blueprints and later used to document botanical specimens, our approach in this workshop is much the same now as it was then.
Using archival material from the Sault Ste Marie Museum Archives, participants will learn to
print using digitally printed negatives. Making new artwork from archival materials can
contextualize the past in conversations of the present and future.
Printmaking experience is not required! Cyanotype is suitable for any age or skill level. The cyanotype process is an alternative photographic process adopted by artists. It was developed in 1842 originally for technical drawings and blueprints and later used to document botanical specimens, our approach in this workshop is much the same now as it was then.
Using archival material from the Sault Ste Marie Museum Archives, participants will learn to
print using digitally printed negatives. Making new artwork from archival materials can
contextualize the past in conversations of the present and future.
DROP INS
The drop-ins are open to learn new and old technology and try out what we have to offer, with optional guidance from the media club facilitators. We have an enormous archive of local audio and video tapes and reels, digitization hardware and software, and analog technology you can try out.
The drop-ins are open to learn new and old technology and try out what we have to offer, with optional guidance from the media club facilitators. We have an enormous archive of local audio and video tapes and reels, digitization hardware and software, and analog technology you can try out.
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