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PERFORMANCE
Durational Aesthetics
Kristin Lucas, video/sound performance, 2012-13, 3-5min
Kristin Lucas performs sound effects to the image of a beheaded British era statue.
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Kristin Lucas is an multidisciplinary artist. Her work investigates the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and the physical and psychological effects of technologies on perception of time and space, behavior, and identity.
SCREENING
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Places with meaning
Scott Fitzpatrick, 16mm to digital, col, sound, 2012, 3min
In 1997 Microsoft created the truetype dingbats font, Webdings, the highly anticipated sequel to Wingdings. Controversy had circulated around the original font, so for the sequel, special attention was paid to the places the ‘bats depicted and how those places were represented (intentionally or unintentionally). Made on recycled 16mm film, in Microsoft Word.
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Scott Fitzpatrick is a visual artist (Libra) from YWG, whose film and video work has screened at underground festivals and marginalized venues worldwide. He studied film theory and production at the University of Manitoba, and began conducting lo-fi moving image experiments in 2010. Primarily a filmmaker; also invested in photography, re-photography and collage.
Spikes
Molly Bradbury, single-channel video, 2013, 32 sec
Spikes is a miniature tone-poem on color and form, derived from footage of a houseplant.
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Molly Bradbury is a video artist and musician working in Santa Fe, NM. Through manipulation of video and sound recordings, Bradbury transforms the ordinary into the phenomenal, creating a comfortable dissonance that allows the viewer to surrender to an experience of otherness.
Another Colour TV
The Youngrrr – Yovista, video, col, sound, 2013, 8min 38sec
Another Colour TV is a documentary film showing the interactions of a family in front of their television, a tool used mostly to escape reality. This film captures a real situation of economical and cultural condition in a suburban family of Indonesia.
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The Youngrrr is a video collaboration between artists Yovista Ahtajida and Dyantini Adeline. They are known mostly as stage videographers and they recently created the videozine “Rec A Gogo”. The Youngrrr are based in Indonesia.
Golden Eye
LJ Frezza, video, col, sound, 2013, 6 min
Propaganda is the dissemination of data and surveillance is the collection of data. The James Bond series of films is a collection of propaganda, glorifying the practice of espionage. This is an abridged history of surveillance in the 20th Century, every James Bond movie released before the War on Terror. It is an examination of the permanent State of Exception in which US Citizens find ourselves, where extralegal proceedings have become the standard operating procedure.
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LJ Frezza is a professional video editor and amateur video artist based in New York City. He creates non-narrative works of heavily edited found-footage and curates programs for the Basement Media Festival and the Spectacle Theater. His interests include détournement, structural filmmaking, and cooking.
Explosions Bring Us Closer Together
Jonathan Johnson, video, color & b/w, 2012, 1min 32sec
I am interested in new meanings and formal relationships that come to the surface when sound and image from various sources are re-contextualized. I consider internet, personal, found and archival images as latent records that reveal the comedy, geography and drama of our social lives. “Explosions Bring us Closer Together” montages found images and sound to create a reflection on the interconnectivity made possible through technology, however dark and absurd.
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Jonathan Johnson is an artist-educator who uses photography and video to explore ideas about place and nature. Johnson received his BA from the University of Alaska and MFA in Photography and Intermedia from the University of Iowa and has exhibited his films and photographic work in over 30 countries. In addition to working in academia, he has held positions in public affairs and in the music industry. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media at Otterbein University in Columbus, Ohio.
Oversoul Seven
Jason Robert Bell, video, col, sound, 2012, 10min
This is a musical score created from video footage this is a piece of music, an funereal march and death dance for the passing of my father.
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Jason Robert Bell is a Brooklyn-based experimental artist and mystic, who produces paintings, drawings, comics, sculpture, experimental films, outdoor installations, performances, and now text, that are the by-products of a mystical journey, conjuring a highly charged, alternative reality. His work has been exhibited at Postmasters Gallery, New York and Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago. Bell received a BFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute Chicago and an MFA from the Yale School of Art.
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Sandra Araujo, video, col, sound, 2013, 4min 12sec
Video games are emergent systems with their own particular internal relationships. This animation mashes up and deconstructs game spaces taking on a multitude of forms, from scrolling on one axis to several separate screens. The blocky 2D grids plasticity is emphasized through a reduced color palette in order to favor formal representation of early video games against the photorealistic, logically consistent 3D game spaces of recent years.
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Sandra Araújo aka s-ara (PT) is a visual artist that spend endless hours shooting at monsters and strolling through mazes. So, it only felt natural for her to evolve through an experimental and explorative process of the visual culture of video games and popular gif files in her animations. She still plays old school computer games.
Los Angeles II
Angela Ferraiolo, video, col, silent, 2013, 2min 24sec
A common area of investigation for generative artists is the effects of chaos on ordered systems. In Los Angeles II, small amounts of chaos or randomness are gradually introduced into the normal sort order of image pixels. The resulting video shows the struggle between order and chaos as the sorting rules of the video frame begin to fall apart.
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Angela Ferraiolo is a video maker working with noise, randomness, and generative processes. Her work has been screened nationally and internationally, including Microscope Gallery (Bushwick), New York Film Festival (New York), AWXFF (New York), Collectìf Jeune Cinema (Paris), and the Australian Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne), as well as the International Conference of Generative Art (Rome), the International Conference on Information Visualization (Montpellier), the International Conference of Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (Taiwan), and TechFest 2013 (Mumbai). New projects include further noise experiments and responsive video for mobile devices. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Brown University.
Spitly: a boy and his puppet
Video Club, video (shot on VHS), col, sound, 2013, 5min 30sec
A boy and his puppet is the true childhood recollection of a boy and his best friend that is a puppet. A reenactment of sorts, the film explores the hazy past of the ever ephemeral childhood memory through the glitches and pops of VHS. Original sound design by Gary Mentanko (aka Depatterning from Dublin, Ireland).
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Video Club Collective is comprised of multi-disciplinary artists Ian Campbell, Jason Cawood, Amber Christensen and Colby Richardson. They currently reside and work in Regina, Saskatchewan Canada.
Eat Some Cake
Zach Nader, video, col, sound, 2013, 1min
Eat. Some. Cake.
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Zach Nader is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY, and has recently exhibited and/or screened at Interstate Projects, Eyebeam, Jen Bekman Gallery, NURTUREart, SIGNAL, and Yaffo 23. He also helps run usefulpictur.es, a site highlighting the work of artists that actively seek to complicate current understandings of photographic images.
RACE
Matt Town, 16mm, b/w, silent, 2012, 3min 3sec
RACE is the case study of a dog track in Florida. Although I grew up right down the street from the establishment, I had never been inside. That is until I decided to explore the space with a camera. This enabled me to see more than dogs running around a track.
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Matt Town is a recent graduate from the Interdisciplinary Studies Program (Film & Media Studies) at the University of Florida living and working in New York.
PERFORMANCE
Affect Theory
Jeanne Liotta, double 16mm film performance, 2013, 10min
16mm double projection piece, positioned as planet and satellite, set to a soundtrack of Cole Porter variations.
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Jeanne Liotta was born and raised in NYC where she makes films and other ephemera – including photographs, works on paper and live projection performances. Her latest body of work takes place at a curious intersection of art, science, and natural philosophy. Her 16mm film Observando El Cielo received the Tiger Award for Short Film at the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival and her work has been represented in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, The New York Film Festival; KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne; The Wexner Center for the Arts; The Museum of Modern Art; and The Sundance Channel among others. She is currently on the Faculty of the Film Studies Department at the University of Colorado Bolder and at the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College.
