Captcha, Gabrielle de Vietri, 2010, video, 5 min, color, sound
Using captcha vocables as poetic fodder, and guided by Vietri’s acerbic wit, Captcha recounts the meta-mythical tale of ‘Desmodowe’ and the ‘redlemutes.’
More:
Gabrielle de Vietri website
Gabrielle de Vietri on vimeo
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GLI.TC/H 20111 DIGITAL BUMPER from James Connolly on Vimeo.
GLI.TC/H photoshopped bumper by Anthony Antonellis
C(racked)RT TV Transmission GLI.TC/H 20111 BUMPER from Kyle Evans on Vimeo.
C(racked)RT VGA/TRS-80 GLI.TC/H 20111 BUMPER from James Connolly on Vimeo.
GLI_t_c__h from a bill miller on Vimeo.
GLITCH 2011 from theodore darst on Vimeo.
GLI.TC/H 2011 Bumper from clint enns on Vimeo.
QTzrk_loop, 2011, jonsatrom, video, 3 min, color, sound
Distinguished GLI.TC/H from Chicago-based artist and SAIC educator, Jon Satrom.
This video loop was for the Filtering Failure gallery show at: PLANETART in Amsterdam.
You can download the QTlets at: http://jonsatrom.com/—/qtzrk
Blogged: https://jonsatrom.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/qtzrk-in-filtering-failure/
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Filtering Failure investigates (the connections between) the procedural terms ‘filtering’ and ‘failure’ and how in (lo-fi) digital arts these terms are being re-invented and re-used. The exhibition asks how Filtering and Failure co-exist; and how these processes influence each other.
The exhibition includes new and older works from the avant-garde of glitch artists. These works show the filtering of failure as a generative process, but also to unfold a genre that includes many the different envelopes of personal ways of dealing with failure.
More:
Jon Satrom Website
Jon Satrom Blog
Jon Satrom on Vimeo
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Mystic Kids, 2011
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In A Saturnian World (site)
September 25 — December 18, 2011
Admission: FREE
Opening reception: Sunday, Sep 25, 2011, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
(map)
The Renaissance Society
at the University of Chicago
5811 South Ellis Avenue, Room 418
Chicago, IL 60637
www.renaissancesociety.org
The Renaissance Society opens their 2011-2012 season with a Belgian-based multimedia artist, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. This will be Van Kerckhoven’s first US solo museum exhibition.
[Born 1951,] Van Kerckhoven’s artistic output includes a diverse array of mediums including painting, drawing, collage, computer animation, installation, and zines. Van Kerkhoven synthesizes disparate visual and textual elements in her work. Her illustrational technique favors hard-edged flat planes in a neon RGB palette, with her most common imagery being drawn from pre-sexual revolution soft pornography. She appropriates text from a range of discourses, including philosophy, science, poetry, theology. Her work addresses metaphysical reflections on mind, body, universe, and perception.
The Renaissance Society will present four new bodies of work, including numerous new works on paper; an interactive computer animation; and a related series of computer generated prints. The new work will be supplemented with selections of work from throughout her career.
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Floors May Be Stained New, 2011
More:
(image gallery) Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven: In A Saturnian World
www.renaissancesociety.org
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven on Wikipedia
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven Google search results
CINEAPOLIS
by Alex Hubbard
click here to watch.
USA, 2007, 2 min, video, color, sound
Cineapolis (2007), by Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker, Alex Hubbard, is a ruinous slapstick video painting in two minutes, a performance impelled by the cathartic concept of if it feels good, do it.
A static one-shot, filmed from above, captures rummager Hubbard’s madcap actions of cutting, pouring, balloon burning, and paint feathering. A tactile, prop-driven film that hits the bill down, smacks up the viewer, and slakes the cinematic thirst. If you’re looking for the ne plus ultra of ’00s video art and performance, take a big gulp from this plastic container.
More: Alex Hubbard on Ubu.
Playfully destructive and rigorously formal, Alex Hubbard’s tabletop videos — shot from above in a single take – blur together painting, performance, sculpture and video into humorous and disorienting narratives.
Born in Oregon in 1975, Hubbard received his B.F.A. from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1999 and graduated from the Whitney Independent Study Program. He is represented by Maccarone gallery, and Standard Oslo. — U B U W E B
Nicolas Sassoon is an eminent computer-visualist who mostly works with animated .gifs, but recently has forayed into video animation. He’s an adept at working with color, raffish pseudo-retro pattern, and line.
The above video is a delightful recap of Sassoon’s projections in a nice wide open space at the W2 Media Cafe during Piknic Electronik, June 24, 2011, Vancouver. The last shot in this video is tasty tasty.
Hey Sassoon, visit Chicago.
More: Nicolas Sassoon Website.
Sara Ludy, USA, 2011, video, 2 min, color, sound
Transom (2011), by L.A.-based artist and musician, Sara Ludy, is a well-wrought spatial study of architecture, shape, and transient eye trace.
Backed by an Angelo Badalamenti-esque soundtrack, which is composed by Ludy, the short video essentially tilts down for its two minutes as still imagery of buildings are matted, masked, and wiped, to animate a chain of abstracted imagery, peppered with line-pattern experimentation and deconstruction of window and frame.
My favorite aspect of Transom is that it exudes deep-seated Ludyian qualities, viz., a personal and artistic edifice, a sense of place, or home, or lodging. It brushes those special moments during childhood when you did a tripod or a handstand, upside-down looking at the ceiling, pretending the ceiling was the floor; or when losing sight and grounding while spacing-out at a peculiar view inside your house, a hallway and doorway framing to other framings, a ‘where am I, what is this?’ sort of exercise.
Transom is the process of building and living and looking; a framework of building a home; the paradox of moving forward to settle down; a transient sense of place and going where new experiences await, exploring the will to create along the merry way of a patient wait.
How do you build a home with art? First, you must gather your materials (inspiration, experience, life). Next, you must blueprint (volition, cause-and-effect, intention, imagination, action). After that is the building (creating) process, where the builder must carry forth and build with positive purpose and with artistic involution. Sara Ludy is building her home (oeuvre) and Transom is a significant efflorescent step forward in augmenting her video work.
Half of motion picture is sound, and Sara Ludy, a musician of the band Tremblexy, composes her animation with a portentous bed of undulating noise, and Ludy’s scrupulous care with sound vis-a-vis picture builds a mysteriously-mobile home in just two minutes, a window to the sawtooth subset of video art in the year 2011.
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MERCURIAL MADNESS by Kerry Laitala
Below is the schedule for 2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival, which is this week, with opening night on Thursday, June 2. The 18th annual CUFF runs June 2–June 9 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
The festival will screen new work from Deborah Stratman, Ben Russell, Jesse McLean, Ben Rivers, Kerry Laitala, Leighton Pierce, Michael Robinson, Jodie Mack, and many more.
Click here for the robust schedule with stills and synopses. Click here for ticket information. More information at the CUFF website.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2nd
8:00PM
OPENING NIGHT
SOME GIRLS NEVER LEARN
2011, Jerzy Rose, USA, 80 min.
Interdimensional premiere!
with:
MONICA PANZARINO SINGS THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
2011, Monica Panzarino, USA, 3 min.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3rd
6:00 PM
SHORTS PROGRAM: MY HEAD IS MY ONLY HOUSE UNLESS IT RAINS
2009-2010, Various directors, Various nations, 89 min.
TAMALPAIS Chris Kennedy, 14 min., 16mm, 2009, Canada
ANNE TRUITT, WORKING Jem Cohen, 13 min, 16mm on Video, 2009, USA
PERIPETEI’EM Andrew Mauset-Mooney, 3 min, 16mm on Video, 2009, USA
SECOND LAW: SOUTH LEH ST. Mike Gibisser, 14 min., 16mm, 2011, USA
RETROGRADE PREMONITION Leighton Pierce, 5 min,. Video, 2010, USA
PROJECTIONS Kendra Ryan, 3 min, Video, 2009, USA
ZEITRISS Quimu Casalprim i Suárez, 11 min,, Video, 2009, Germany
HOME MOVIE John Price, 27 min, 35mm, 2010, Canda
8:00PM
(Repeats Thursday, June 9th, 8:00PM)
THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
Marie Losier, 75 min.,16mm on Video, 2010, USA
with:
IRMA Charles Fairbanks, 12 min., 16mm on Video, 2010, USA
LÁZSLO LASSÚ Ben Popp, 3 min., Video, 2010, USA
10:00 PM
(Repeats Wednesday, June 8th, 8:00PM)
PROFANE
2011, Usama Alshaibi, USA, 78 min.
with:
TEARS CANNOT RESTORE HER: THEREFORE, I WEEP 2011, Jennifer Reeder, USA 10 min.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4th
1:00 PM
AND AGAIN
2010, Adele Horne, USA, 56 min.
with:
DEVIL’S GATE 2011, Laura Kraning, USA, 20 min.
THE VOICE OF GOD 2010, Bernd Lützeler, India/Germany, 10 min.
2:00 PM
SHORTS PROGRAM: THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE BLUES (OR THE BIG DIG)
2009-2011, Various directors, USA, 90 min.
CURRENT (REPRISE) Brian Doyle, 7 min., super 8 on Video, 2010, USA
HISTORY MINOR Ryan Garrett, 19 min., 16mm on Video, 2010, USA
ARSENIC Robert Todd, 11 min, 16mm, 2011, USA
BROAD CHANNEL Sarah Christman, 14 min., 16mm, 2010, USA
THE SOUL OF THINGS Dominic Angerame, 15 min., 16mm, 2010, USA
MEASURES KINDLING JB Mabe, 30 sec., 16mm, 2010, USA
TO ANOTHER JB Mabe, 57 sec., 16mm, 2010, USA
YOUNG BIRD SEASON Nellie Kluz, 19 min., Video, 2011, USA
4:00 PM
SHORTS PROGRAM: POMPADOUR SWAMP
2009-2011, Various directors, Various nations, 90 min.
HOW TO HAVE A SEIZURE Michael Wawzenek, 3 min., 16mm, 2011, USA
BLOOD & CINNAMON Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke, 6 min., Video, 2010, USA
UNCONTROLLABLE JOY FOR LIFE Kari Corbett and Crispin Rosenkranz, 7 min., Video, 2010, USA
CHAINSAW FOUND JESUS Spencer Parsons, 22 min., Video, 2010, USA
UNICORNHOLE Lucas Dimick and Dax Norman, 5 min., Video, 2011, USA
DARE DOUBLE James, N Kienitz Wilkins, Eugene Wasserman and Dan Fridman, 29 min., Video, 2010, USA
UNSUBSCRIBE #3: GLITCH ENVY Jodie Mack, 6 min., 16mm, 2010, USA
SECOND FIRING Kelly Oliver and Keary Rosen, 3 min., Video, 2010, USA
ZOLTAN: THE HUNGARIAN GANGSTER OF LOVE Justin Reardon, 14 min., 16mm on Video, 2010, USA
5:15 PM
(Repeats Tuesday June 7th, 6:00PM)
SHORTS PROGRAM: I’M GONNA BOOGLARIZE YOU BABY
2009-2011, Various directors, Various nations, 87 min.
SPACEBOY Mike Olenick Video, 2009, USA
MERCURIAL MADNESS Kerry Lataila, 7 min., Video, 2010, USA
THESE HAMMERS DON’T HURT US Michael Robinson, 13 min., Video, 2010, USA
AGAINST CINEMA Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 9 min., Video, 2010, Spain
THE PROGNOSTICATOR (OR WE ARE ALL PYTHAGOREANS NOW) Brent Coughenour, 26 min., Video, 2011, USA
CEIBAS EPILOGUE – THE WELL OF REPRESENTATION Evan Meaney, 7 min., Video, 2011, USA
THE BLOCKBUSTER TAPES Daniel Martinico, 6 min., Video, 2009, USA
LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH Nicolas Provost, 14 min., Video, 2009, Belgium
6:00 PM
THE COLOR WHEEL
2011, Alex Ross Perry, USA, 83 min.
8:00 PM
(Repeats Wednesday, June 8th, 6:00PM)
BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN
2011, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, USA, 93 min.
10:00 PM
(Repeats Tuesday, June 7th, 8:00PM)
SNOW ON THA BLUFF
2010, Damon Russell, USA, 79min.
with:
WE’RE LEAVING 2010, Zachary Treitz, USA, 12min.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5th
1:00 PM
(Repeats Thursday, June 9th, at 6:00 PM)
SHORTS PROGRAM: A CARROT IS AS CLOSE AS A RABBIT GETS TO A DIAMOND
2008-2011, Various directors, Various nations, 87 min.
THE MAN WHO WENT OUTSIDE Jennet Thomas, 10 min., Video 2008, UK
NEGATING THE INCREASING POWERLESSNESS OF THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED THING IN AMERICA Olivia Ciummo, 5 min., Video, 2010, USA
POSTFACE Frédéric Moffet, 8 min., Video, 2011, USA
LIKE Luis Arnias, 3 min., 16mm, 2010, USA
ACCEPTING THE IMAGE Karel De Cock, 19 min., Video, 2010, Belgium
BATHING IN MILK Jenna Feldman, 18 min., Video, 2010, USA
SLIPSTREAM D. Rickman, 4 min., Video, 2010, USA
MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS Jesse McLean, 21 min., Video, 2010, USA
1:45 PM
TOTAL BADASS
2010, Bob Ray, USA, 91 min.
with:
THE FOREST 2010, Steven Summers, USA, 16 min
4:00 PM
THE OBSERVERS
2010, Jacqueline Goss, USA, 69 min.
with:
TRYPPS # 7 (BADLANDS) 2010, Ben Russell, USA, 10 min.
IMUM COELI (BOTTOM OF THE SKY) 2011, Mirka Morales, USA, 6 min.
EVERYTHING IS EVERYDAY 2011, Patrick Tarrant, UK, 10 min.
6:00 PM
(theater 1)
SHORTS PROGRAM: FLASH GORDON’S APE
2010-2011, Various directors, Various nations, 97 min.
THESE BLAZEING STARRS! Deborah Stratman, 14 min. 16mm, 2011, USA
BEADS Andrew Rosinski, 8 min., 35mm on Video, 2010, USA
A TIME SHARED UNLIMITED Zachary Epcar, 10 min., 16mm on Video, 2010, USA
ALTER HUMAN Lars Stiltberg, 20 min., Video, 2010, Sweden
SLOW ACTION Ben Rivers, 45 min., 16mm, 2010, UK
8:00 pm
(theater 2)
SHORTS PROGRAM: CARDBOARD CUTOUT SUNDOWN
2010, Various Directors, USA, 89 min.
THE GARDEN Ann Steuernagel, 10 min., Video, 2010, USA
DARLING Kate McCabe, 4 min., 16mm on Video, 2010, USA
HOPPER REPAIR Ross Nugent, 5 min., 16mm, 2010, USA
ILLNESS MAGNIFIED Julia Fuller, 17 min., Video, 2010, Video, USA
SHOALS Melika Bass, 52 min., 16mm on Video, 2011, USA
8:00 PM
(theater 1)
CLOSING NIGHT FILM!
HEAVY METAL PICNIC
2010, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, USA, 66 min.
with:
HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT 1986, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn, USA, 17 min.
MOBY DICK 2010, Tony Balko, USA, 8 min.
MONDAY, JUNE 6th
6:00 PM
HALFLIFERS AND FRIENDS: REACTIONS IN REACTION
1991-2007, Various directors, Various nations, 75 min.
Curated by HalfLifers
8:00 PM
HORI SMOKU SAILOR JERRY: THE LIFE OF NORMAN K. COLLINS
2008, Erich Weiss, USA, 77 min.
More information at the CUFF website.
Breaking news: President Obama and Ben Bernanke have officially announced the launch of a new website for the Chicago-based Video Data Bank. Thank god their new video excerpts are larger than the previous *tiny* little quicktime clips.
Check out their new expansive website — vdb.org — an invaluable resource for all.
Arcanebolt, 14:48, live set, video from James Connolly
The full performance by Arcanebolt at Enemy, Chicago, for Strange Electronics 2 on 5 May, 2011.
Arcanebolt is: Mark Beasley, Tamas Kemenzcy, and Alex Inglizian.
Video via James Connolly.
Arcane Bolt (photo by Theodore Darst)
Strange Electronics 2
Friday 5/7/2011
9:00pm–12:00am
Enemy
1550 north milwaukee ave 3rd floor
Chicago, IL (map)
Above is a photograph of me (bottom-right) watching Arcane Bolt, and you, too, can watch Arcane Bolt — along with Cracked Ray Tube, Battleship, Monica Panzarino, and Vaudeo Signal — Friday May 7, 2011, at Enemy. The show is tomorrow and starts at 9pm. Chequeit.
Strange Elections is “a collection of Chicago based new media, sound, and noise artists exploring realtime audio and video through disciplines of homemade instrument creation, hardware hacking, and the disruption/corruption of analog and digital systems.”
CRACKED RAY TUBE
// Kyle Evans + James Connolly
http://crackedraytube.com/
BATTLESHIP
// Zachary Mark + Jeff Milam
http://battleship.bandcamp.com/
ARCANEBOLT
// Mark Beasley + Tamas Kemenzcy + Alex Inglizian
http://arcanebolt.net/
MONICA PANZARINO
// Performing with Becky Grajeda + Emilie Crewe
http://www.monicapanzarino.com/
VAUDEO SIGNAL
// Ben Baker-Smith + Evan Kühl
http://bitsynthesis.com/vaudeosignal/
