Hank Bull
Bio:
Hank Bull is an artist, curator, and administrator based in Vancouver, Canada. His practice exists at the intersection of painting, music, performance, writing, and video. Recognized as an innovator in radio and telecommunications, Bull was a regular contributor to the informal collective of artists who were experimenting with slow scan video, text transmission, and fax in the 1980s and ’90s. He played an active role in the development of artist-run culture in Canada.
Related People
- Canada Shadows (Member)
- Lux Radio Players (Member)
- The MacBooty Brothers (Member)
- The Young Adults (Member)
Related Events
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2024Archives Access: Pascal, One Night Only
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2023Art's Birthday
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2023Apparition Room
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201643rd Anniversary Gala and Art Auction
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2014Image Process
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201340th Anniversary Gala and Art Auction
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2012Pro-Am: Art and Culture on the Internet, Do You Believe in Users? Internet Art Histories and Digital Folklore
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201037th Anniversary Gala and Art Auction: The New Deal
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2008Delicate Issues: A Roundtable Conversation on the Practice of Kate Craig
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2008Art's Birthday
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2007Art's Birthday: Livestreams
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2003Western Front 30th Anniversary Bash - Cabaret Vulgare
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200330th Anniversary Gala and Art Auction
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2002Abe's Roast
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2002Kate Craig Memorial
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2002Art's Birthday
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2000Concert by V.I.E.W. Ensemble
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1999MerZmuseum
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1999Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Haunted Body
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1996EAWS 4 - Video Conferencing
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1996Dangerous Border Game
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1996Talk by Hank Bull
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1996Artists' Plan for False Creek Flats
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1996Robert Filliou: From Political to Poetical Economy
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1996Art's Birthday
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1994Al Neil: Dollarton Dada - A Living Tribute
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1994Cabaret Vulgare
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1994Talk and Demonstration by Tetsuo Kogawa
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1993Souvenir de la Chine
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1993The Holy Forest
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1993Midnight Special
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1993Body and Time: Allegory at Bee Honey Honeycomb
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1993Electronic Café Poetry Jam
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1992Free Media Mix
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1992Polymorphous Media
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1991Interviews with Yvonne Parent
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1991Art's Birthday
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1991International Festival of Telecommunication Art
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1990The Memory of the Epidermis and Gorin No Sho
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1990Duster Cabaret
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1990Duster
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1990Art's Birthday: Slowscan exchange with l'École de Beaux Arts in Nantes
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1989Hank's Industrial Cabaret
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1989Raven Mad
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1989Hyper Space Radio
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1988Slowscan Ludwig
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1988Reading by William S. Burroughs at the Ridge Theatre
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1988William S. Burroughs: Painting & Reading
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1988Tales of the Old West
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1988Inside / Out
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1988Radio Show by Hank Bull
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1987MacBooty Bros at Documenta 8
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1987Lacey Song
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1987Rites of Spring
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1987Infermental VI
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1986Room
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1986Concert by Jay Clayton Trio with Kenny Wheeler
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1986Planetary Network
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1986Concert by the String Trio of New York
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1986Peep Show
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1985Concert by Robert LePage and Rene Lussier
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1985Amnesty International Benefit Reading
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1985Corpus Colossus
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1985Western Front Piano Festival
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1984Concert by Alex Varty and Doug Schmidt
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1984Musicity 84
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1984The MacBooty Brothers
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1984Sax Island
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1984Infermental
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1983La Plissure du Texte
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1983Wiencouver IV
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1983Canada Shadows
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1983Western Front Archaeology
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1982Aka Nada
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1982C'est la Video
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1982Unabashed Heroics
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1982Potatoes
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1982Fear of Blue
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1981World Shadows
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1980Straight Jacket
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1980How We Lived: Hank Bull
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1980Sounds and Shadows
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1980Music From the New Wilderness
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1980Wiencouver
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1980Entertainment Tonight
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1979Saint Ayatollah After the End of the World
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1979Urban Skills #5: Secretarial
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1979Mondo Arte Cabaret
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1979Pacific Rim Slow Scan
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1979Three Musicians
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1979Delicate Issue
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1979Relican Wedding
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1979Skin Flick
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1978Individual Release
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1978Piranha Farms
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1978Beattitudes
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1978Cabaret Voltaire
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1978The HP Video Show
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1977We All Sing the Same Song
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1977Oscar Goldman and the Bi-Yonis
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1977Red Angel
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1977The Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll
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1976HP Radio Show Live from the Lux
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1976An Existential Definition of Religion at the Western Front
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1975The HP Shadow Play
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1975Western Front at A Space
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1975Nite Spots
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1975Images from Infinity: "Urbanefarious"
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1974A Clear Cut Case
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1974Flying Leopard
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1974Blocking
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1974The First BC Art Race
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1974Surfacing on the Subliminal
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1974Spaceshow
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1974Concert by Pascal
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1974Art's Birthday and the Hollywood Decca Dance
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