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Saturday February 17, 7:30pm<\/span>
\nJeanne Liotta: Celestial Bodies<\/strong><\/span>
\nScreening & Artist Talk \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nStill from “Observando el Cielo” by Jeanne Liotta (2007) – Image courtesy of the artist
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“We live on that planet and the sky’s there all the time, for anyone to investigate. Science is just one way of investigating the world and art is another way and you can do it \u2026” – Jeanne Liotta<\/em><\/span>
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\nMicroscope is very pleased to present a screening night of films and videos by Jeanne Liotta in connection with her current solo exhibition at the gallery “Break The Sky”, which has been extended through March 4th. The works in the program, spanning a period of two decades – from Liotta’s first film “Blue Moon” (1988), an “erratic, erotic, arrhythmic lunar trauma”,\u00a0to her 2009 “Sutro”, an animated glitch portrait of the 997 ft. Sutro TV and radio tower in San Francisco –\u00a0are centered around the artist’s\u00a0long-term interest in the observation of the sky, celestial events, and the technologies used to broaden our knowledge of the universe.<\/span>
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\nAmong the other six works in the program are the 16mm films \u201cEclipse\u201d (2005), which documents \u201cby eye and hand\u201d the 2003 lunar eclipse and\u00a0appeared in the Whitney Biennial 2006, and “Observando el Cielo\u201d (2007),\u00a0her multi-award winning film featuring time lapses of the night sky from footage she shot over a period of seven years from remote areas as well as observatories. <\/span><\/p>\n

The date of the screening has been chosen by Liotta to correspond to the anniversary of the death of Giordano Bruno, a renaissance philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and former Dominican friar, whose statue stands today in Rome\u2019s Campo de’ Fiori on the spot where he was burned at the stake on February 17th, 1600 for his heretical views. Among his most significant theories were that the sun is a star, that other similar solar systems exist, and that the universe is infinite.<\/span><\/p>\n

The full program is listed below. An artist talk, discussion and Q&A immediately follows the screening. <\/span>
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\nFurther information on her current exhibition “Break The Sky\u201d can be found\u00a0HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
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\nGeneral Admission $8\u2028<\/em><\/span>
\nStudents & Members $6<\/em><\/span>
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Jeanne Liotta works in film and other mediums with thematics often located at the intersection of art, science,\u00a0natural philosophy, and ephemerality. In 2013 Anthology Film Archives presented “The Real World At Last Becomes a Myth”,\u00a0a complete retrospective of her works in film and video, and in 2014 she received a commission to work with NOAA climate scientists in Boulder, CO to create 360-degree media for Science on a Sphere. Her “one-cut” collages\u00a0“The Tiffany One-Cuts”\u00a0culled from pages of the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0were incorporated into installations by artist Nancy Shavers at Derek Eller Gallery (2016) and La Biennale di Venezia (2017).<\/span><\/p>\n

Liotta’s works have also previously been exhibited at The Contemporary Austin \u2013 Jones Center, Austin, Texas; The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado; Inova Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin;\u00a0The Camera Club of NY, New York;\u00a0Songs for Presidents, Brooklyn, NY;\u00a0and the Halle\u00a0f\u00fcr\u00a0Kunst und Media, Graz, Austria among others. Her films have been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art (including the Whitney Biennial 2006); the New York Film Festival; Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Fran\u00e7aise, Paris, France; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; CCCB, Barcelona, Spain; The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA; and The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Awards include NYSCA, The Jerome Foundation, The Museum of Contemporary Cinema and The Orphans Film Symposium’s Helen Hill Award. Liotta has been a resident at the Experimental Television Center and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. She has also maintained ongoing research, programming and lecturing on The Joseph Cornell Film Collection at Anthology Film Archives, and has written a monograph on Cornell’s films published by The San Francisco Cinematheque for the traveling exhibition\u00a0“Navigating the Imagination”.<\/span>
\nShe is presently Associate Professor in Film Studies at The University of Colorado Boulder, and\u00a0Co-chair of\u00a0Film\/Video at the Bard MFA Program.\u00a0Jeanne Liotta lives and works between New York and Boulder, Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWhat We As Humans Trying Fallibly Forever<\/strong> <\/span>
\nDigital video, 2006, infinite duration <\/span>
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\nOne single dissolve extracted from the media haystack of the mid 20th century.<\/span>
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\nSutro<\/strong><\/span>
\nDigital video, 2009, 3 minutes<\/span>
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\nAnimated glitch portrait of the eponymous television tower on the hill, guardian of fog and electronic signals in that earthshaking city by the Bay…<\/span>
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\nGalileo’s Experiment on Falling Objects<\/strong> <\/span>
\nDigital video, 2006, 2 minutes<\/span>
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\nOne of the first experimentalists was Galileo, who supposedly dropped a feather and a hammer simultaneously from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in order to demonstrate that the two would hit the ground at the same time. Approx. 400 years later that trick still works, courtesy NASA (1971).<\/span>
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\nHephaestus of the Airshaft<\/strong><\/span>
\nDigital video, 2005, 3 minutes<\/span>
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\nThe god of metallurgy manifests in Manhattan, with the radio on.<\/span>
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\nWhat Makes Day and Night<\/strong> <\/span>
\n16mm film, 1998, 9 minutes<\/span>
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\nThis 1940\u2019s artifact is coupled with music by Nino Rota to expose the existential skeleton in the closet: our perilous journey on the planet Earth. A readymade film with the barest of interventions.<\/span>
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\nBlue Moon<\/strong> <\/span>
\nSuper 8mm film, 1988, 3 minutes<\/span>
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\nErratic, erotic, arrhythmic lunar trauma. Strong poetic textures of female psycho-sexual experience, altering the film\u2019s surface through selective bleaching and scratching, and uncanny percussive editing.<\/span>
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\nEclipse<\/strong><\/span>
\n16mm film, 2005, 3 minutes 30 seconds<\/span>
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\nThe lunar eclipse event of November 2003 is observed, documented, and translated via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film. In the 4th c BCE Aristotle founded The Lyceum, a school for the study of all natural phenomena pursued without the aid of mathematics, which was considered too perfect for application on this imperfect terrestrial sphere. By eye and hand then, in the spirit of.<\/span>
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\nObservando el Cielo<\/strong><\/span>
\n16mm film, 2007, 19 minutes<\/span>
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\nSeven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto 16mm film from various locations upon this turning tripod Earth. This work is neither a metaphor nor a symbol, but is feeling towards a fact in the midst of perception, which time flows through. Natural VLF radio recordings of the magnetosphere in action allow the universe to speak for itself.<\/span>
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\nMicroscope Gallery Event Series 2018 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).<\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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