Barry Doupé

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Barry Doupé

Barry Doupé (b. 1982 Victoria, BC) is a Vancouver based artist primarily working with computer animation. He graduated from the Emily Carr University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Media Arts majoring in animation. His films use imagery and language derived from the subconscious; developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. He often creates settings within which a characters’ self-expression or action is challenged and thwarted, resulting in comic, violent and poetic spectacles. He is a member of The Lions collaborative drawing group. His films have been screened throughout Canada and Internationally including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, Pleasure Dome, MOCCA, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Tate Modern. His first feature-length film Ponytail premiered with Pleasure Dome in 2008. His previous titles include A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose (2004, 15:43), Distraught Mother Reunites with Her Children (2005, 24:30 min.), At the Heart of a Sparrow (2006, 29 min.), Thalé (2009, 5 min.), Whose Toes (2009, 33 min.), Ponytail (2008, 92 min.), Shikisou (with Yota Kobayashi, 2012, 11 min.) and Whaty (2012, 30 sec. loop)..

Education

Emily Carr University

Bachelor of Media Arts, Animation Major

September 2000 – May 2004

Video works

A Boy on a Dock Blowing His Nose, 2004, 16 Min, Classical Animation

The film features vaguely articulated, quasi-human doodles and Spirographs animated within a bizarre netherworld of its own humid imagination. In the Images Festival, 2005 catalogue, it writes, "I remember from the other room I could hear you violently buttering bread. I secretly hoped that I could be your next victim”

Distraught Mother Reunites with Her Children, 2005, 24:30 Min

A cast of computer-generated, quasi-human smears star in a Gothic Western about Oedipal anxiety — when they aren't careening through a hyper-modern metropolis and babbling in German.

At the Heart of a Sparrow, 2006, 29 Min, Computer Animation

The film is an episodic adventure highlighting the riff between mind and body. Images are stacked one on top of another through role reversals and associations.

Ponytail, 2008, 92:00 minutes, colour, German with English Subtitles

This feature-length video follows several inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve. Ponytail presents a unique society of characters that destroy the distinction between memory and invention.

Hello Amiga, 2012, 34:15 minutes, colour, English

The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) Trinity Square Video (TSV) and Vtape have introduced a special and unique animation project called Hello Amiga. The Toronto Animated Image Association purchased AMIGA equipment donated in early of the organization. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, this abandoned top-notch animation device was so popular in the industry that TAIS Studios used it to create animation studios with their children animation. This seminar is very popular through the easy-to-use and intuitive way of the AMIGA operating system . Advances in animation software and digital technology have made AMIGA fade and outdated. This particular project allows the Toronto Animated Image Association to go back to the roots of digital culture and take advantage of old aesthetics to create stimulating experimental animation projects that combine existing techniques and new intuitive manipulations and insert them into the gallery space.

commissioned works (Daniel Barrow, Barry Doupé, Amy Lockhart, Alex McLeod, Lorna Mills, Mark Pellegrino) and accompanying papers: Andrew James Paterson, Hello Amiga, Goodbye and Then Hello Again by Andrew James Paterson. The essay can be found on the website: helloamiga.ca

Whaty, Barry Doupé (0:30)

Lines can be transformed into emotions to express joy or hesitation. The softness or rigidity of the lines, the thickness or thinness can also translate the meaning brought by the lines, and they occupy a dominant position in the image. Whaty's change blends faces into color, deforms them, boils in elasticity and breaks down.

Shikisou (with visuals), 2012, 11 Min, Computer Animation

“Shikisou” is a Japanese word meaning a cyclical gradation of colors (“hue”) as well as “appearance” or “visible figure". The key concept within Shikisou is metamorphosis.

The four seasons in Japan provide organizational temporal force and symbolic connotations for the work Shikisou. The work multilayers the sound and rhythms of each season, inspiring the recalling of memories with emotional significance. The cyclic and acyclic rhythms of a year epitomize the infinite number of rhythms in the universe. Doupé in his work creates events of rhythms: while the initial rhythms were established and defined by events following the universe’s first pulse, ongoing events continue to create and define time, resulting in a continuous evolution of polyrhythmic and cyclical patterns that are the temporal foundation of the universal symphony. The conflict of these juxtaposed rhythms creates tensions in the piece, resulting in a desire for an orderly, controlling macrostructure.

Thalé, 2009, 5 Min, Computer Animation

Commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts, the film experiments with the phenomenology of light and colour through fiber-optic flower arrangements. Glowing in dark digital void, the rotating electronic floras resemble neon lights, sex toys and fireworks. Doupé got his inspiration from the Thale Cress plant, which is commonly used in biological mutation experiments.

Vhery, 2013, 15 Sec, Computer Animation

This work was commissioned by the Museum of Contmeporary Art, Los Angeles as part of its Aboveground Animation Project. The project features artists Kathleen Daniel, Barry Doupé, Erin Dunn,Casey Jane Ellison, Lauren Gregory and Jacolby Satterwhite.

The Colors that Combine to Make White are Important, 2012, 119 Min, Computer Animation

Doupe’s animated feature The Colors that Combine to Make White are Important applies a dual narrative structure to explore themes of hierarchy, gender identity and desire. Set in a Japanese glass factory, the characters in the film evolve over its three acts in manners that subvert familiar archetypes as one storyline follows a stolen piece of art while the other involves the scrutiny of an employee suspect. Throughout, the set hierarchical workplace structure is questioned and ultimately dismantled in his examination of language, expression and art.

Life and People, 2014, 22 Min, HD Video

This work marks Doupé's shift from computer animation to live action video. Life and People is a series of videos which assemble common life situations to inspire the consideration of different forms of communication, language and recitation. The work was completed during a one month Artist Residency at the Western Front.

Distracted Blueberry, 2019, 273:00 minutes, Colour, French with English subtitles

Distracted Blueberry tells a tale of violence and humor wherein a band of performance artists encounter a series of poetic, but anxiety inducing, terrorizing events. This piece is designed to question masculine tropes, especially the connection between sexuality and death drive.

Exhibition

Amiga Painting

Opening, THURS, JAN 5, 7-9 PM JAN 5 to FEB 4 Barry Doupé showcased a series of digital paintings created using the AMIGA console and Deluxe Paint. Explored various forms of portraiture, landscape painting and surrealism using digital technology.

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