{{Short description|Canadian artist and poet}} {{Infobox writer | name = Clive Holden | image = CliveHolden.jpg | occupation = poet, visual artist | nationality = Canadian | period = 1990s–present | notableworks = ''Trains of Winnipeg'', ''Utopia Suite'' | spouse = Alissa York | website = {{URL|https://www.cliveholden.com/}} }}
'''Clive Holden''' is a Canadian new media<ref>{{Cite web |title=Afterimage Vol. 40, No. 6 {{!}} Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism |url=http://vsw.org/afterimage/issues/afterimage-vol-40-no-6/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906112110/http://vsw.org/afterimage/issues/afterimage-vol-40-no-6/ |archive-date=2013-09-06 |access-date=2026-03-17 |website=vsw.org |language=en-US}}</ref> artist, filmmaker<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adventures of Perception, Essays/Interviews : Scott MacDonald |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11304.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630153339/https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11304.php |archive-date=2009-06-30 |access-date=2026-03-17 |website=www.ucpress.edu}}</ref> and poet<ref>[http://poeticstoday.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/1 Poetics today]</ref> from Victoria, British Columbia, he is currently living in Stratford, Ontario with his wife, writer Alissa York.
==Background== Holden was born in 1959 on Vancouver Island, and has also lived in Montreal and Winnipeg before settling in Ontario.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trains of Winnipeg |url=http://www.signature-editions.com/index.php/books/single_title/trains_of_winnipeg |website=Signature Editions |access-date=2026-05-13}}</ref> His earlier publications include ''Fury — Fictions & Films'' (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 1998), a collection combining literary fiction, graphic poetry and flip-book animations made from film stills. For three years he served as the poetry columnist for CBC Radio's ''Definitely Not the Opera'', and he has produced seven spoken-word audio CDs featuring Canadian poets along with a poetry documentary broadcast on CBC Television.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trains of Winnipeg |url=http://www.signature-editions.com/index.php/books/single_title/trains_of_winnipeg |website=Signature Editions |access-date=2026-05-13}}</ref>
==New Media== In the inaugural exhibition in 2013 of ''UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clive Holden UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS - RIC - Exhibitions - Ryerson University |url=http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/exhibitions/Holden.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011203740/http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/exhibitions/Holden.html |archive-date=2014-10-11 |access-date=2026-03-17 |website=www.ryerson.ca |language=en}}</ref> at the Ryerson Image Centre, 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.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
''Media, Mediated''<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/3534056/Clive_Holden_Mediated_Algorithms Mediated Algorithms by Matthew Ryan Smith in Afterimage, the journal of media arts and cultural criticism, pages 20–21]</ref> (2013) is an ongoing series of new media works, net art 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.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
==Trains of Winnipeg== Holden's best-known and publicized project to date is the award-winning<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/trains-of-winnipeg-wins-in-denmark-1.563177 'Trains of Winnipeg' wins in Denmark, cbc.ca]</ref> "film poem" series ''Trains of Winnipeg'',<ref>[http://www.trainsofwinnipeg.com trains of winnipeg . clive holden . jason tait . christine fellows . john k. samson<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> a collection of 14 short films featuring Holden's poetry with musical accompaniment by Christine Fellows, John K. Samson, Jason Tait, Steve Bates and Emily Goodden. ''Trains of Winnipeg'' screened internationally, a.o. at the IFFR.<ref>[http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/myiffr/film.aspx?ID=8de20d04-3671-40db-9067-7d9213f8a37f IFFR screening in 2005]</ref> In it is included the haunting short, ''18000 Dead in Gordon Head'',<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370240/ 18,000 Dead in Gordon Head (2001)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> in which Holden recalls the shooting of a young girl in that part of Victoria.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} The 18,000 in the title refers to the average number of murders a television viewer has seen by the time they reach the age of sixteen years.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}
==Utopia Suite== Currently he is working on his project ''Utopia Suite'',<ref>[http://www.utopiasuite.com Utopia Suite]</ref> launched at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam (2006),<ref>[http://www.hollandfestival.nl/#nieuws/pagina/4212?jaar=2006 Holland Festival 2006]</ref> investigating into 21st-century views on utopianism. Utopia Suite has since been touring art-galleries through Canada.<ref>[https://www.ubishops.ca/foreman/english/exhibitions/touring.html Foreman Gallery showing the touring Utopia Suite]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Recent works, ''UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS'' and ''Media, Mediated'' are parts of the Utopia Suite project.
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==External links== * [https://www.cliveholden.com/ Clive Holden] * [http://www.trainsofwinnipeg.com/ ''Trains of Winnipeg'']
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