| bootstwaps ( @ 2006-07-18 11:00:00 |
| Entry tags: | announcement, art, collaboration, video art |
One Day Fest of Electronic Music, Bands and New Media Art in Brooklyn
Hey New Yorkers or those in the area this weekend!! This Friday, July 22nd, the Bushwick Art Project is having a full on crazy fest like the subject heading says! It's called BAPLab and the day looks jam packed amazing. I wish I could be there.
Torsten and I have our video, I am Today's Lesson Plan in the mix. It's the one where we perform psychic surgery onto each other and the world is reduced to stacked taffy planes that spin round and round. The program is called Alternative Realities (The Infinite Sights of a Techno-Natural Landscape) curated by Ashley Bellouin, though on-line it is generically titled Video Program - B. Our program starts at 4pm and looks like a great line-up. Ashley is screening our work with one of my oldest favorite video art pieces and one of my newest. The late 80s tape Lilith by Steina is named after Adam's first wife and unfolds via the manipulated sounds and images of Doris Cross processed upon and within a wooded background. Both painterly and synthesized, it is uncertain whether the subject plants a curse or is telling a story that demands the attention that her knowing lines grant her. Takeshi Murata's Monster Movie with an amazing soundtrack by Plate Tectonics immerses his subject further into a technological gel. A giant hairy fanged long-armed monster arises, struts and spins his way through the decomposition and reconstruction of his own image. Monster Movie contains a contemporary twist on the psychedelic aesthetic which bears a humorous and uncanny resemblance to the decay of corrupt media files.
For further details see the link above.