Katja Novitskova
Innate Disposition
Digital print plastic cutout displays.
2012
Currently on view at the Center for Curatorial Studies: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 29 – May 27, 2012.
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Katja Novitskova and Timur Si-Qin
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Innate Disposition by Katja Novitskova, 2012
11 May, 2012 by Andrew RosinskiWalt Disney’s Taxi Driver (2011) by Bryan Boyce
9 May, 2012 by Andrew RosinskiWalt Disney’s Taxi Driver, Bryan Boyce, 2011, 4 min, color, sound
Clever appropriation and frame manipulation results in a droll amalgamation of disney motifs within the bounds of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), a short found-footage film that follows a “Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City.”
Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver played at the 50th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival and won the Prix DeVarti award for Funniest Film. The film will also play at the upcoming Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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Election Collectibles by Bryan Boyce
Support the 2012 Chicago Underground Film Festival Kickstarter Campaign
8 May, 2012 by Andrew RosinskiThere’s only three days left to help the Chicago Underground Film Festival reach it’s Kickstarter goal. Please consider donating to this worthy cause. The CUFF crew does some truly amazing things in Chicago — year-round — and the festival fosters a fecund environment for underground filmmakers, freaks, patrons, and curious movie watchers every year.
The CUFF just released its 2012 official lineup and it looks promising. View the 2012 lineup via Bad Lit.
Support the arts. Help CUFF.
The CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (CUFF), a showcase of defiant and offbeat cinema that confronts the tired, the market-driven, and the predictable. Through its eight-day program of adventurous, experimental works, CUFF celebrates the artistic, aesthetic, and just plain old fun side of independent filmmaking while challenging and transcending commercial and audience expectations.
Much more than a film festival, CUFF has gained a reputation as one of Chicago’s most anticipated cross-cultural summer events. Daily screenings at the Gene Siskel Film Center are followed by parties and live music events.
Exhibiting filmmakers receive travel stipends and lodging to attend the Festival, plus full accreditation that includes access to all public screenings, parties, concerts, and other events. With support from the Independent Feature Project (IFP)/Chicago, the Festival also provides filmmakers with prime exposure and networking opportunities with engaged programmers and producers. What’s more, CUFF presents hand-crafted trophies to the films that are deemed best or most interesting in a wide variety of categories, along with “Made in Chicago” and Audience Choice Awards.
Your contribution will help CUFF bring out-of-town artists to Chicago for this year’s festival, providing funds for travel and lodging. CUFF aims not simply to screen film and video, but also to provide a forum for discourse between filmmakers and audience members. As external funding sources for the arts continue to disappear, it has become increasingly difficult for festivals to provide travel stipends, or for artists to finance their own plane tickets and hotel rooms. Each artist that CUFF is able to bring to Chicago enriches the festival experience for both the audience and the other filmmakers, and your donation will have a direct effect in sustaining CUFF’s role as a dynamic, challenging, and fun part of Chicago’s cultural calendar and summer film festival circuit.
Check out our pledge levels…we want to thank you for your efforts…but feel free to pledge any amount you wish! No rules! — Bryan Wendorf, CUFF
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2012 CUFF Official Lineup via Bad Lit
1mage by Sarah Weis
2 May, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
1mage
by Sarah Weis
“Gif made from a screen recording of an online sex game called Ami and Her Worms.”
1mage is a DINCuratorial series wherein guest participants curate one image.
Hyper Geography (video, 2011) by Joe Hamilton
26 April, 2012 by Andrew RosinskiHyper Geography, Joe Hamilton, Australia, 2011, video, 1 min, color, sound
As we wend our way through Hyper Geography (2011), we see a floating iPhone o’er an icy landscape; a USB storage stick hovers in a valley; it’s an amalgamation of the digital experience, the material experience, and the natural experience — the daily experience — a certain ode to our inundation of technology and the speed at which things are moving.
At a one minute duration, the video seems a little too brief, but perhaps it serves as a snippet of a larger, shared experience, especially considering its abrupt start and end points. It’s a video component to Joe Hamilton’s “Hyper Geography” internet art project, a project hosted on the tumblr platform featuring “100 looping posts that link together horizontally and vertically.” See the result at http://hypergeography.com.
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Rhizome: Reframing Tumblr: Hyper Geography (interview)
Hollis Frampton on the Super Market
25 April, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski“One such artless place is the supermarket, an ocean of modularized substance where everything in sight is meant only to be consumed, destroyed, wasted, returned as quickly as possible to the domains of amorphy or thermodynamic affinity. Where everything goes down the drain, anything goes. A certain appetite of mind can, then, find more nourishment in the label on the can than in its contents, a poetic, if wayward, feast. That appetite began in photography, and grew with film. It has not found its limit. Rather, it seeks it, in a METAPRAXIS of observation, analysis, and production.”
— Hollis Frampton, ‘False Impressions’ series, 1979
Cross Section by Bea Fremderman, 2012
24 April, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
Cross Section
by Bea Fremderman
2012, 42″x28″
Ceiling tile, cork, commercial grade carpet, wood, masonite
“ ‘Cross Section’ can be understood as a register of information, composed of outmoded materials archetypal to American corporate office design. The recuperation of such standard materials subverts use value in a form of resistance. These fragments are culminated together, and much like the bureaucratic condition of office environments, the valid structural organization of things remains enigmatic and unknown. The reassmblage of artifacts constitutes a monumentalized ruin as materials sink into formal shapes and create a new sublime. ”
Trailer: LIMBO (2012) by Eliot Rausch
23 April, 2012 by Andrew RosinskiLIMBO / Trailer from Eliot Rausch + Phos Pictures on Vimeo.
After winning the 25k Grant from the Vimeo Awards, director Eliot Rausch partnered with Producer Mark Schwartz and the Dreamers of Los Angeles to create LIMBO. This 19 minute film exposes the lives of three undocumented students, living in the US without legal status. Never having touched a camera, the three students were gifted with a small handycam and trained for half a day by Lukas Korver and Matt B. Taylor. They were asked to film everyday for three months. Through their lens, this is their story.
Click here for three moments from the film.
Premiering at the 2012 VIMEO Festival + Awards.
CREDITS
camera one / undocumented
camera two / undocumented
camera three / undocumented
directed / Eliot Rausch
produced / Mark Schwartz
original score / Adam Taylor
intro and credit footage / Lukas Korver, Matt B. Taylor, David Carstens
edited / Mark Schwartz, Eliot Rausch
assistant editor / Edgar Andres
special thanks / dreamteamla.org, vimeo.com, ubercontent.com, the gargage board shop
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Acid Graphics by Travess Smalley, 2011
17 April, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
Acid Graphics
by Travess Smalley
“Acid Graphics is a running series of digital images/digital prints/transparent image-prints that have taken various physical forms — decals, posters, flyers, c-prints, and lasermono prints. For E-Vapor-8 at 319 Scholes, I will be showing two of the Acid Graphic images as a stretched vinyl print roughly 8 and half feet by 11 feet tall each.”
— Travess Smalley
319 Scholes presents E-Vapor-8 curated by Francesca Gavin • 5/5–5/18
16 April, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
Acid Graphic by Travess Smalley
“I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance.” — Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885
E-VAPOR-8
curated by Francesca Gavin
May 5 – 18, 2012
Opening: Saturday May 5, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Gallery hours: Thursday – Sunday, 2:00pm – 6:00pm and by appointment
319 Scholes Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206 (map)
319scholes.org
“E-Vapor-8″, titled after a 1992 track by the rave band Altern 8, explores the influence and relationship between contemporary art and rave and electronic music culture. Here everything can be taken from ‘the archive’ and reworked – the surface glare of squeaky voice, the speed of imagery and sound, infantalist fashion, smiley faces, pirate radio, fractal imagery, hyper color fluorescents, sample-style editing processes, found footage of dancing and parties, Spiral Tribe’s politicization, and kiddie-rave pop songs. There are more serious ideas behind the visual and aural melting pot. Ideas around community, technology, intellectual and physical freedom, rebellion and myth-making all play into this wave of contemporary work.
Rave is now positioned, aesthetically and aurally, as a proto universe for contemporary, technology-infused art. House and rave provided some of the first examples of defunct technologies being co-opted and reused by a younger generation for creative purposes. Computer-made graphics once used as rave visuals are now considered precursors to online experimentation. The processes of cut and paste, sampling and looping that were the basis of DIY electronic music are echoed in video editing techniques and online footage amalgams. Early house and rave culture provided a model of democratization of culture, just as contemporary visual artists consider their use of the internet now. The hedonistic drug references of the period are gone. The moment of mass cultural upheaval has passed. We are left with a sense of DIY utopia and the desire to create work that is immediate, sensorial, and at times simply fun.
EVapor8 poster by Christian Petersen
Participating artists include: Fatima Al Qadiri, Cory Arcangel and Frankie Martin, Rhys Coren, Petra Cortright, Jeremy Deller, Aleksandra Domanovic, Cecile B Evans, Jeffrey Gibson, Alexandra Gorczynski, Leslie Kulesh, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, Marisa Olson, Hannah Perry, Christian J. Petersen (Dumb Eyes), Travess Smalley, Lucy Stokton, and Daniel Swan.
Francesca Gavin is a writer, editor and curator based in London. She is the Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused, the art editor of Twin and a Contributing Editor at AnOther and Sleek Magazine. Her books ‘100 New Artists’, ‘Creative Space’, ‘Hell Bound: New Gothic Art’ and ‘Street Renegades’ are all published by Laurence King. She has curated international exhibitions including ‘Responsive Eyes’ (Jacob’s Island, London 2012) ‘The New Psychdelica’ (MU, Eindhoven 2011) and ‘Syncopation’ (Grimmuseum, Berlin 2010). She has written for publications including Vogue, Wallpaper*, It’s Nice That, Nylon, Bon, icon, Oyster, Blueprint, Art Review and Sunday Times Style and is the curator of the Soho House group.
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http://319scholes.org/exhibition/e-vapor-8
Top5: Andrew Norman Wilson
12 April, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
On this day, 25 years ago, the first weekend of spring break turned into a spring bust … but the adventure continues.
April means one thing: spring break, so put on your suits and ride to the the nearest party beach — and party — don’t stop. Scottie is back, he’s ready to shred, and you can find him hangin’ at CW Post. Girls, you can put on your swimsuits to dance, or your slingshot bikinis to dance.
Don’t worry, there will be live music, dancing, squirt guns, party boats, Jellyfish, Neighbours, events, AM/FM radio caps, kayaking vikings, home stage diving, people will be setting their asses on fire, people will be juggling rocks, you name it, spring break’s got Dragons.
Some of the PIONEERS OF VLOGGING will be there — you might find them on paradise beach — on a mission.
This is the seventh installment of top5: a DINCuratorial series featuring guest participants that curate five embeddable internet videos. There are no guidelines for their selections, other than participants are encouraged to reflect upon their choices in however many words they deem necessary.
This installment is DINCurated by Andrew Norman Wilson, a Chicago-based artist.
Below are his selections.
(1)
Jungle 2 Jungle
(2)
The Air Up There
(3)
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
(4)
Ernest Goes to Africa
(5)
Krippendorf’s Tribe
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Andrew Norman Wilson’s website
FlowSpot by Andrew Norman Wilson
