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a beach at the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media

Two sea a beach

Check out the Flickr photo album here.

Andrew Rosinski, The N Word,  2010, 1 min, video | The N Word from andrew rosinski on Vimeo.

a beach (2010) | click to enlarge

Hey ya’ll East-Siders: my two-part film, a beach (2010), will be wavin’ simultaneously on two monitors at the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, as part of Refresh, “an exhibition of video and animation work that explores an alternative aesthetic in digital media artwork.” … “Refresh features a group of artists that all ask the viewer to reevaluate our collective definition of digital beauty and the value we place on visual quality in contemporary culture.”

The opening reception is tomorrow, 23 July, 2010, and the exhibit will sit pretty 23 July – August 28th, 2010. Artists in the show include: Nick Briz (Chicago), Michelle Ceja (NY), Clint Ennis (Canada), Elna Frederick (the internet), Doug Goodwin and Rebecca Baron (Los Angeles), Duncan Malashock (NY), Rosa Menkman (a Dutch-visualist DINCA recently interviewed, the Netherlands), Andrew Rosinski (Chicago), and Nicolas Sassoon (Canada).

  This exhibition is curated by Yuri Stone.

REFRESH

23 July – 28 August, 2010

Opening Reception: Friday, July 23, 6-9pm

Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media is pleased to present Refresh, an exhibition of video and animation work that explores an alternative aesthetic in digital media artwork. Refresh features a group of artists that all ask the viewer to reevaluate our collective definition of digital beauty and the value we place on visual quality in contemporary culture.

Spanning from 8bit and ascii animations to manipulated digital video, this exhibition creates an aesthetic and conceptual dialogue that allows us to question conventions of digital media in our society as well as our relationship to new and past technology.  The artists included in this exhibition evoke notions of nostalgia, document unintended artifacts, and push the boundaries of the ↓field by experimenting with new technologies.  In doing so, these artists create a refreshingly alternative digital practice that functions outside of the mainstream aesthetic.

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Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media
Refresh Exhibit Page
Nick Briz
Michelle Ceja
Elna Frederick
Doug Goodwin and Rebecca Baron
Duncan Malashock
Rosa Menkman
Andrew Rosinski
Nicolas Sassoon

Please spread the word of this exhibit by clicking the “Share/Save” button below. Great thanks, and remember: this summer, take a break and beat the heat by visiting a beach.
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Filmmaker Chris Burden shoots himself with a live round of .22 ammo.

Rosa Menkman is a Dutch filmmaker and artist; Rosa is a trailblazer in the glitch video scene. Rosa experiments with video compression, feedback, glitches, and other forms of noise to create visuals unique to the realm of digital media.

Most discern visual glitches — i.e. buzzing lines on interlaced video, video lag, digital blocks, particles, and pixelation  — as a detriment to video aesthetics. Rosa, however, embraces these glitch-bits, and contrives them in her work, which is multivalent, and may be described as subversive fidelity, technicolor, synthetic yet organic, and at times, raucous.

Rosa has shown her work at Blip (Europe and US), Haip (Ljubljana 08), Cimatics (Brussels 08/09), Video Vortex (Amsterdam ’08 + Brussels ’09), Pasofest (Ankara 08), and collaborated on art projects together with Alexander Galloway, little-scale, Govcom.org, Goto80, and the internet art collective Jodi.org.

Rosa has written many words on glitch, including manifesto on glitch, which you can download in .pdf format here. In 2009, Rosa completed her master thesis on digital glitch under the supervision of Geert Lovink.

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Rafaël Rozendaal is a Netherlands-based artist who creates exceptional work; his art arouses that of computer art, cyberspace, and other forms that defy classification. His art is verily digital: Rozendaal also has created a number of concept-computer art websites. Part of Rozendaal’s work is computer-generated animations, and his animations are way good, and he has made many. I currently am running one of Rafaël’s screensavers — you should too — check them out here. Also of note, Rozendaal is currently selling signed prints of his “Dollar Poster” painting. Also of note: Rozendaal, inside of his mouth on the inner lip, has a tattoo that reads “internet.” He loves the internet (don’t we all?).

One of those websites is Rozendaal’s One Question Interview, a blog where Rozendaal interviews great artists, artists of all mediums, asking them just one question.

dinca.org decided to turn the table on Rafaël — do the olde tyme switcheroo — asking Rafaël just one question.

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2010, 21 sec, video

By Petra Cortright. Fullscreen it.

(Rosa Menkman, 2009, video, music by Extraboy)

This video, by Dutch visualist Rosa Menkman, is quite lovely, considering it’s glitch video art. This piece is most forceful when, one minute in, we begin to see RGB tiger-stripe-slashing and Extraboy’s music finds stride. I highly recommend reading of Rosa’s process (below) in making this video.

Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum.
— Haraway, Donna. “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” 1985.

Synopsis: The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image created by feedback (I turned a high-end camera on a screen that was showing, in real time, what I was filming, creating a feedback loop). Then I glitched the video by changing its format and subsequently exporting it into animated gifs. I (minimalistically) edited the video in Quicktime. Then I sent the file to Extraboy, who composed music for the video. The composing process started with a hand held world radio. Extraboy scanned through frequencies and experimented with holding the radio in different parts of the room while touching different objects.

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Ed Emshwiller and Alvy Ray Scott, 1979, 16mm, 3m

Born in Lansing, Michigan, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990) was a pioneer in the development of video technology. He was one of the first to experiment with synthesizers and computers in his quest to ‘sculpt with technology.’ Sunstone (1979) is film version of computer animation: it was made using a digital paint program at New York Institute of Technology — a collaboration between Emshwiller and Alvy Ray Smith. Sunstone exhibited at many places, including SIGGRAPH ’79 in Chicago, New York’s WNET television show video/film Review, 1979, and the Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, California, 1981. Originally released as a videotape.

Synopsis: Sunstone is a prime example of Emshwiller’s artful use of technology to create stunning images. A timeless face, carved from stone as a ‘third eye’, appears radiating color and forms that are computer generated.

Ed Emshwiller and Alvy Ray Smith work on Sunstone at NYIT in 1979

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WHERE IS CAIN?

Here we go — a classic video clip from Robocop 2 (1990) — granted Robocop 2 is inferior to Paul Verhoeven’s masterpiece Robocop (1987), 2 has novelty value, especially when Robocop/Officer Murphy (Peter Weller) is amid a manhunt for the film’s villain, Cain (Tom Noonan).  This hunt is filled with Robocop habitually yelling “CAIN.” My roommates and I absolutely love Weller’s distinct manner of yelling “CAIN.” Do you? Watch and decide.

For your enjoyment, here’s a fun scene from Robocop 2.

Harmony Korine’s latest film will premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

Synopsis: Harmony Korine returns to Gummo territory in this handheld video of a loser-gang cult-freak collective who do antisocial things in a nonnarrative way, except for the song-and-dance numbers. —tiff.net

From the TIFF Trash Humpers official page:

Tired vocabulary like “enfant terrible” and “provocation” is a constant threat when writing about Harmony Korine and his films. Trash Humpers is no exception: creepy masks, low-grade torture, frequent public urination, senseless vandalism and the title, acted out on defenseless garbage cans, all have a confrontational panache about them to be sure. But the film is also full of poetry, dance, song and moments of aching (more…)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F1ShRxGQE

by Alicia Nogueira (1985)

’80s video art featuring abstractions between goldfish, high heels, arm wrestling, and the female figure.

Video art from the early ’80s – an ocean of technicolored bits + shapes.  Plenty of rainbow gradients and tracer images.  A fun ride.

Video by G.G. Aries
Edited by: G.G. Aries & Mark Allen
Music by: Larry Gibbs from California Images

Brooklyn-based Cory Arcangel is a self-described personal computer lover and an internet lover. Best know for his video cartridge hackings, Cory’s work has shown at the Whitney Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Space1026, Philadelphia; the Migros Museum, Zurich; Team Gallery, New York; and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris.  Below are three more Cory Arcangel videos:

Super Mario Movie Part II
Adult Contemporary | T Pain
Arnold Schoenberg, Op. 11 – II

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CSPAN starlet Greta Brawner hasn’t hosted Washington Journal in quite some time.  America is starting to worry.

Lately I’ve  noticed that individuals are finding my site using search terms such as “Does Greta Brawner still host CSPAN Washington Journal?” and “Did Greta Wodele-Brawner quit Washington Journal?”.

To my knowledge, Greta is still one of Washington Journal’s ten known hosts.  There are rumors that she may pregnant, but who knows, maybe she’s just writing, or deep sea fishing.

In the meantime, Robb Harleston & Steve Scully will be holding it down.

Quite the vision.

Let’s follow up with a wacky Black Dice video that’s heavy on the color-keying.

Kokomo by Black Dice