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July 18th, 2006
11:00 am - 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.
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June 5th, 2006
June 4th, 2006
May 12th, 2006
03:45 pm - Free to Be Emergency!!!
Would you consider yourself to be a child in 1972? Do you vaguely remember Free to Be You and Me, the children’s record turned TV special? Do you like to sing or speak things sarcastically?
If you answered yes to the first questions and yes to either of the last two and live in the SF or Sacramento area would you mind being shot on video speaking/singing the words to Free to Be You and Me for a video I’m putting together for The Free to Be You and Me Invitational June 5th in Brooklyn? EEECKKSS!! That’s soon.
Looking for a variety of types. Please say YES and let’s chat about possible time and place!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) cheerful
Current Music: Free to Be You and Me
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May 8th, 2006
08:27 am - This one's for the west siders...
Anyone in San Francisco this Friday night looking for something to do, come see Tortured in Paradise at Studio 27, a new screening venue at 689 Bryant St. My collaborator, Torsten Z. Burns and I have a pagan hippie horror piece called Volcanica in the show AND it’s free!! ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bearbait and I will be there and raring to go out for fun thereafter.
Go to www.studio27.org for more details!
Current Music: The Safety Dance
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April 30th, 2006
11:27 pm - China Crumble – a video poem
Hey, the month’s not over and I thought I’d sneak in a poem of sorts. I’m not one for the wordy sort, so I’ll just do one with annoying sounds and oscillating images.
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April 3rd, 2006
01:11 pm - Get Over It Honey! by Flavio
Recently at the NY Underground Film Festival I came across a TWO DOLLAR DVD while browsing their front desk. Even though I didn’t know that artist’s work, the faggy cartoon figure on the back drew me in…and hey it was TWO DOLLARS!
What a steal…found the time to watch it this weekend and it’s a riot! The artist’s name is Flavio and you can find a copy of Get Over It Honey on his website Flophousemedia.com. The DVD I bought of his came with Crossover Baby too which I highly recommend. Relax is also fun. And he’s an SF based artist. Maybe some of you know him already?
*WORD OF WARNING: I don’t know if it was just my computer or what, but for some reason his site loaded super small on Firefox. So try Safari or Explorer if this happens to you.
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: some old Mouse on Mars haunt
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March 6th, 2006
08:27 am - The Abominable Freedom
Howdy NYers,
bearbait and I will be in town, March 10th-13th for The 13th NY Underground Film Festival. Torsten and I are premiering The Abominable Freedom as part of A-Bomb Nation: or A Bombin' Nations! on Friday, at 7:00pm at Anthology Film Archives. If you're thinking about coming...word of warning: Sometimes tickets sell out for weekend shows, but maybe it won't be as big of a deal since we will be in the larger theater. Unfortunately, Torsten is away in Korea teaching, so I'll be representing solo, but hopefully some of our players will be there.
the star of the show
For the curious, I put a simple set of stills up on my site that you can get to from here! And a small Qtime excerpt and a larger Qtime excerpt with song sung by the lovely Britt Eckland. Other celebrity cameos include a young Don Johnson and Andrea the Giant.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/sad.gif) abominable!
Current Music: Britt...singing her witchy song
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March 2nd, 2006
07:36 am - Screening Alert - Bay Area
I have a couple screenings coming up. One at Berkeley on Wednesday, March 8th at 7:30 pm at the Pacific Film Archive as part of the series Video: Recent and Strange curated by Steve Seid. The other is in NYC next weekend but I’ll post on that one later. For specific dates, times and locations go to my website.
In the meantime, I thought I’d post some stills. A couple of them are links to excerpts from the videos just in case you’re thinking about coming, but want to see what you’re getting yourself into.
my sometimes collaborator Torsten plug lickin’ in Currents
( More pics and links behind the cut )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/angry.gif) why does rushed look angry?
Current Music: some classical diddie
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January 30th, 2006
04:59 pm - Nam June Paik 1932-2006
I just found out that Nam June Paik, the inventor of video art died on Sunday night, January 29th at the age of 73. Though he has been not at full capacity for nearly a decade after having a serious stroke, the news comes over me like a tidal wave. I didn’t realize how much him and his work have affected my own artistic trajectory until this very moment.
( Read more... )
Current Mood: sad
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08:14 am - Anyone know anyone in Chicago or NYC interested in the pseudo-sciences?
Then pass it on…. Soft Science is coming to Chicago, Feb. 2nd and will be in NYC, March 1st. It’s a series of experimental videos about pseudo and actual sciences. For more info on exactly where and when go to darrinmartin.com.
Martin probes Burns in Learning Stalls
Besides Torsten’s and my little workshop scenario (Learning Stalls:Lesson Plans) based on our net art piece or visa versa, one will find plenty o’ other gems like Chicago’s own Jim Trainor’s The Bats. Yes, it’s a subject that usually makes me wet my drawers but Trainor’s use of childlike animation to imbue the flying mammals with adult longings makes it a hoot. Other highlights include a series of very short shorts called Cinema of Attraction, where the curator asked scientist friends for some R and D visual material and commissioned Joe Milutis to write musical scores to their unfolding. And of course there is Rachel Mayeri’s Stories from the Genome; An Animated History of Reproduction, a sci-fi experimental narrative about cloning which activates a few illustrations by my new favorite 19th century illustrator, Ernst Haeckel (though he's probably considered a scientist first, I'd take his illustrations over his science any day).
( More images behind the cut )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/tired.gif) groggy
Current Music: The Incredible String Band
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