Artist in Residency Award at the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Academy of the Arts, Inveresk at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Summer 2012 Installation and live performance at the Launceston & Western Railway company (LWR) Stone Building. Using the body as interface with the Xbox Kinect to modify the sound and video art installation in the museum the invited community performers and audience participants will be able to transform the video and sound installation with their movements throughout the installation.

Open Engagement Conference at Portland State University in Portland Oregon Workshop and Talk, Spring 2012:
The Art of Hacking Toys

Participants will be allowed to participate even if they do not have a personal media devices as there are elements of performance, traditional hand made media and group think that are important to the generative process of the workshop.
Examples of personal media devices that be brought (and some will be supplied) are: Laptops, smart phones, Tablets, cell phones, mp3 players, synthesizers, digital toys, sound making toys, board games, musical instruments, video game consoles, projectors, human voices and bodies.
With the rise of social movements around the globe using social media networks as tools of information dissemination using a tool in a new way has never been more reticent. The goal of this workshop is not only to create collaborations with others with similar ideas but gain a new perspective on your own personal interaction with portable media.

Live Performance at Three Performance Art Festivals in Korea Fall 2012

Current research by Winger-Bearskin in the field of Performance Art is focused on development of a theory of open-source performance art (OSPA) through the performance of a series of OSPA projects with children across the globe. In these projects, children individually deconstruct their everyday experiences in a series of performative gestures, and reconstruct, in a participatory manner, a new shared experience by recombining these gestures in a group activity.

Winger-Bearskin has been invited to exhibit a solo performance at the Gwangju-Korea International Media Performance Art Festival in Gwangju, South Korea, as well as the International Performance Art Festival in Daejeon, South Korea and the KEAF International Art Festival in Seoul, South Korea September 15th-20th in 2012.  

The performance will incorporate Winger-Bearskin as a live singer and musician whose live work will be manipulated, recorded, looped and remixed in real time using the gestures, movements and dancing of the live audience.