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Thomas Demand @ Matthew Marks NYC, May 5 - June 23, 2012 The...

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:25:56 -0400

Thomas Demand @ Matthew Marks NYC, May 5 - June 23, 2012

The centerpiece of the exhibition will be a new film, Pacific Sun (2012). Based on a video of a cruise ship caught in a storm between the Republic of Vanuatu and Auckland, New Zealand which the artist found on Youtube, Pacific Sun follows the full narrative arc of the ship’s violent encounter in the Tasman Sea. Seen from the point of view of a security camera in the boat’s café, the film begins with the subtle movement of small items and escalates to a full emergency.

Pacific Sun was filmed over fifteen months, and is the most ambitious undertaking of the artist’s career. The film was made on a full scale set and, like Demand’s models for his photographs, was completely constructed of paper and then destroyed. It comprises a total of 2,400 frames, filmed one at a time, as animators meticulously retraced the movements of each item in the room, shifting the paper models of plates, lemons, pendant lamps, chairs, an upright piano, and a refrigerator by several millimeters at a time.

—VF

Avec nous, dans la rue. You can follow live coverage of the...

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:06:48 -0400

Avec nous, dans la rue.

You can follow live coverage of the protests happening in Montreal, Canada - (at night time, EDT). http://cutvmontreal.ca/

Yesterday, May 22nd, was the 100th day of the student strike. More info (in English) can be found here: http://translatingtheprintempserable.tumblr.com/

Thanks for reading and caring.

Solange is a wonderful internet...

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:43:56 -0400

Solange is a wonderful internet sensation.

http://solangeteparle.com/

Lifting My Mother For As Long As I Can Who//Campbell Patterson:...

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:08:53 -0400

Lifting My Mother For As Long As I Can

Who//Campbell Patterson: Represented by Michael Lett: Auckland: NZ.

Where//Auckland Art Gallery: The Chartwell Show: Made Active

What//A series of single channel digital videos: The artist lifts his mother for as long as his arms will let him: Each is a different duration as a result.

What What//I like how succinct the work is.

RAH

FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS | Mon May 21 | 8:30 pm Jack H....

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:02:20 -0400

FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS | Mon May 21 | 8:30 pm
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
$10 [students $8, CalArts $5]

New Day at 40 A Community’s Celebration

REDCAT is proud to mark the 40^th anniversary of New Day Films by hosting a celebratory screening of work by two of its Los Angeles-based members, Anayansi Prado’s Niños en Tierra de Nadie (Children in No Man’s Land) and Adele Horne’s The Tailenders. The collective was created by filmmakers Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Amalie R. Rothschild and Liane Brandon when Klein and Reichert failed to secure distribution for Growing Up Female (1971), about the social constraints placed on women aged 4 to 35. In the early 1970s the act of hearing women’s voices was perceived as a “radical,” and New Day welcomed the work of filmmakers—both men and women—who were challenging the political status quo in terms of gender, social and racial inequality. Today, New Day Films counts about 120 members, whose films have won Academy Awards, Emmys, and premiered at major film festivals, and cover issues as diverse as immigration, human rights, LGBT, disability, addiction, criminal justice, youth and aging.

In person: New Day Members Adele Horne, Ann Kaneko, Meena Nanji, Anayansi Prado and Jonathan Skurnik

Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud in collaboration with New Day Films.

-JO

via John Hogan for Art21 blog. -SH

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:25:44 -0400

via John Hogan for Art21 blog.

-SH

LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images May 24 – 27 2012 The...

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:06:00 -0400

LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images May 24 – 27 2012

The inaugural LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images is a four-day celebration of contemporary artists’ moving image launched by LUX and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. It is the only biennial of its kind dedicated to artists’ moving image in the UK; consisting of screenings, unique expanded cinema events and performance commissions, and a series of talks and panel discussions encompassing a wide-ranging and diverse perspective on contemporary moving image practice.

The LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images features a series of guest-curated programmes that together offer a critical survey of current artist moving image work. Leading international curators and artists, including Rosa Barba,Thomas Beard & Ed Halter (Light Industry), Yann Chateigné Tytelman,Michelle Cotton, Elena Filipovic, Shanay Jhaveri, Martha Kirszenbaum, and Ben Rivers, as well as two curators selected from a curatorial open call,Carmen Billows and Shama Khanna, have each selected a programme of moving image works that offer their own unique perspectives on contemporary practice. The screening series includes a profile on American experimental filmmaker Luther Price, and features works by Kenneth Anger, Michel Auder, Neïl Beloufa, Spartacus Chetwynd, Tony & Beverly Conrad, Cyprien Gaillard,George Kuchar, Agnieszka Polska, Emily Roysdon, Josephine Meckseper,Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Shahryar Nashat,Paul Sharits, Leslie Thornton,Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter, and Jennifer West, among many others. Each screening will be followed by an in-depth Q&A with the screening curator.

A revival of Little Stabs at Happiness, the music and film club presented by Mark Webber at the ICA from 1997 to 2000 launches the biennial on Thursday 24 May, and includes a rare screening of Roberto Rossellini’s The Machine that Kills Bad People (La Macchina ammazzacattivi) followed by music from Little Stabs DJs.

The biennial hosts a high-profile series of chaired panel discussions, in association with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), exploring current issues in contemporary artists’ moving image practice, such as ‘Cinema as Art’ and ‘Artists’ Long-form Filmmaking’. Our panel chairs include Bridget Crone, Maeve Connolly, May Adadol Ingawanij, and Stuart Comer.

In addition to the talks programme, the students of the LUX/Central Saint-Martins MRes Art: Moving Image course will co-produce a two-day Student Symposium for UK-based MA and PhD students to present their research into ideas around ‘On Failure’ and ‘Contemporary Currents’ within artists’ moving image practice, with keynote lectures from Jan Verwoert and Maeve Connolly.

Three nights of live performance, co-produced by Bridget Crone / Plenty Projects in association with Picture This, Electra, and Tramway, will feature new expanded cinema events and performances by artists including Claire Hooper, Sophie Macpherson & Clare Stephenson, Shelly Nadashi, Gail Pickering, Jimmy Robert, Corin Sworn & Charlotte Prodger, and Cara Tolmie as well as a collaborative project by Ed Atkins, Gareth Bell-Jones, Gil Leung, and James Richards.

Running parallel to the biennial, a 5-day Artists’ School led by Ian White and a 2-day Curating Course led by George Clark will facilitate discussion and debate through a dynamic programme of seminars and discussions featuring curators and artists contributing to the biennial.

A Live Journal, edited by Isla Leaver-Yap, will feature commentary, analysis, and up-to-the-minute reportage on the biennial. The site will post previews and responses to screenings and performances, upload video interviews with participating filmmakers, offer live streams to talks and events, and generate live updates from the biennial as it unfolds. The Live Journal’s writers-in-residence, selected from an open call, are Amy Budd, Thomas Morgan Evans, and Jonathan P Watts.

The LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

With additional thanks to Central St Martins, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, The Edwin Fox Foundation, and UK Film Council.

-JO

THE WORLD IS DOWN | 10 Works by Eddo SternSpecial Preview:...

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:01:42 -0400

THE WORLD IS DOWN | 10 Works by Eddo Stern
Special Preview: Thursday May 17, 2012 (Abbreviated selection of works) 6 - 8:30 pm
Please Note: Official Opening: Friday June 8, 2012
Continues through July 27, 2012

In the Project Space: Vanishing Point
Reaching for the Infinite through the video works of Brandon Morse, Dorsey Dunn, Dreissens & Verstappen, Gil Kuno, AEAEAEAE, and a new flatscreen project by the late James Whitney
Opening: Thursday May 17, 2012 6 - 8:30pm
continues through July 27, 2012

YOUNGPROJECTS Gallery @Pacific Design Center #B230
8687 Melrose Ave. (San Vicente and Melrose Aves) West Hollywood, CA 90069
(Parking Avail @ West Hollywood Library)
323-377-1102
Made possible through the support of the PDC and the DLA program

Additional Information-

The World is Down: 10 Works by Eddo Stern marks a rare solo presentation of Stern’s work in Los Angeles featuring some of his most important projects from the past decade. Regarded as a legend within the digital arts, Stern creates hybrid forms that bridge a wide array of methodologies and influences—from video games to classical sculpture; appropriation to Asian shadow puppets; performance to animated painting.

At the heart of his practice is a concerted and sustained investigation into the themes and metaphors that are often associated with video gaming culture, and the ways in which electronic media has come to dominate our lives. The pathology of machismo, violence and magic & fantasy are just some of the areas that he returns to time and again, often combining such ideas with pointed political references and outright humor. The World is Down will feature three recently completed projects including the interactive game, “Goldstation (2012)”, a new sculptural version of “Portal, Wormhole, Flythrough” (2008-2012), and the 3D sensory deprivation game, “Darkgame (v3.0) (2012) (Please note: the full selection of works will be on display at the June 8th opening)

Born in Tel Aviv and based in LA, Stern is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s Design | Media Arts Department, and is the Director of the UCLA Game Lab. His work has shown at the Museo Reina Sofia, The Walker Art Center, The New Museum, The Hammer Museum, The Tate Gallery Liverpool, The Haifa Museum of Art, and many other institutions.

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Vanishing Point features a series of site-specific, multisensory installations from six different artists who share a common interest in the transcendent. The show introduces the first-ever flatscreen version of “Lapis” (1963-65) by James Whitney, one of the most important and seminal film artists from the Post War period. This 10 minute ‘mandalic’ film is a testament to the ways in which the depiction of manifest consciousness can be explored through the medium of celluloid and has been cited as “one of the true masterpieces of the 20th century” by Kerry Brougher, the chief curator at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC.

The Netherlands-based Driessens & Verstappen follow with “I’m a Traveler,” an interactive piece that can be guided by the viewer but never resolved. (As the viewer selects different areas via mouse movements, the piece only expands further and further to the point of infinitum.)

LA’s Dorsey Dunn uses three projectors and to take over the largest room with “Ecliptic,” a text-based work that blurs distinctions between narrative and abstraction; sculpture and cinema. The piece is created “live” by a software program, which produces a series of text phrases (and original sound), which ultimately conveys the “recessional quality of the mind’s present moment,” as Dunn describes, leading to a similar sense of the infinite.

Beyond that are two additional works that render solid mass into liquid forms. New York’s Brandon Morse uses projection mapping to transform various surfaces within the gallery into a buzzing array of atoms, while Berlin’s AEAEAEAE (Simen Musaeus who works closely with Olafur Eliasson), uses a ceiling projection to transform the gallery floor into a mercurial rotating plane. The show concludes with a highly immersive, four-channel projection piece, “Haze,” by the LA-based experimental sound and visual artist, Gil Kuno.

-JO

So dope. via Florencio Zavala -SH

Wed, 16 May 2012 16:30:17 -0400

So dope. via Florencio Zavala

-SH

http://www.frameart.eu/EN/exposicao-exhibition/

Sat, 05 May 2012 14:17:31 -0400

http://www.frameart.eu/EN/exposicao-exhibition/

More about Chris Lloyd Projects can be found here. JL

Wed, 02 May 2012 20:07:00 -0400

More about Chris Lloyd Projects can be found here.

Tacita Dean at the Getty 5/10

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:09:00 -0400

Thursday, May 10, 7:30 p.m. | *The Getty Center*

Artist Tacita Dean is known for her artistic use of film to capture fleeting moments of light and subtle shifts in movement. She talks about her installation at Tate Modern in London, and discusses her innovative use of analog filmmaking techniques.

Free; reservations required. Learn more and make reservations »<http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/lectures/dean_lecture.html?utm_source=egetty127&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=egetty127>

Another great new website by Beau Johnson: Snack Data

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:43:55 -0400

Another great new website by Beau Johnson: Snack Data

Experimental 1/2 Hour - Halloween Special Experimental 1/2 Hour...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:58:54 -0400

Experimental 1/2 Hour - Halloween Special

Experimental 1/2 Hour is a current Portland public access show with a shifting cast of moving image provocateurs. Half an hour is a long time to experiment but these folks aren’t stymied by the challenge!

-SSlappe

Oblivion by Grimes. Just wanted to post this because I’m...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:09:00 -0400

Oblivion by Grimes.

Just wanted to post this because I’m going to the Monster Truck next week end.

Xavier Dolan made a new film! I’m not sure when it’s...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:02:51 -0400

Xavier Dolan made a new film! I’m not sure when it’s coming out (perhaps soon)… but the trailer looks promising!

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVALIN OSNABRÜCK FOR 25 YEARS CELEBRATING...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:54:04 -0400

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
IN OSNABRÜCK FOR 25 YEARS

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EMAF: 18 - 22 APRIL 2012

EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, galleries and an audience of experts the festival has a great impact on the topics and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements from the pulsating area of “Media Art – Society”. The Festival sees itself as a place of experimentation and a laboratory where extraordinary works, experiments and ventures are created and presented.

Jennifer Krasinski vs. Michele O’Marah. Double enjoy! -SH

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:38:00 -0400

Jennifer Krasinski vs. Michele O’Marah. Double enjoy!

-SH

Wonder Flash, 2010. A video by Dominque Sirois JL

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:52:32 -0400

Wonder Flash, 2010. A video by Dominque Sirois

Hangman-Le jeu du pendu from 2010, a video by Lamathilde...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:51:00 -0400

Hangman-Le jeu du pendu from 2010, a video by Lamathilde (Mathilde Géromin).

I have seen this video many times and every time I see it I feel deeply moved.