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Captcha (2010) by Gabrielle de Vietri

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:01:21 +0000

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

GLI.TC/H 20111 Video Bumpers (38 videos)

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:00:58 +0000

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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.

GLI.TC/H 2011 BUMPER from pixel noizz on Vimeo.

Untitled from glitch-irion on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H from glitch-irion on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H (Bumper) from Miyö Van Stenis on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 2011 bumper from Minuek on Vimeo.

Extranormal from GLI.TC/H on Vimeo.

gli.tc/h from Alfredo Salazar-Caro on Vimeo.

A Better Ghost [interview w/ Evan Meaney] from Nick Briz on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 2011 Bumper from J.Robinson on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H BUMPER from Bill Richards on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 2011 Bumper from VHSDF on Vimeo.

gli.tc/h/2011_bumper from brandon jarratt on Vimeo.

gli.tc/h 2011 trailer from ffd8 on Vimeo.

glitch the http://gli.tc/h/ web | GLI.TC/H 20111 from antirender on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 2011 – This website does not supply identity information from Antonio Roberts on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 2011 BUMPER from Alex Halbert on Vimeo.

Glitch 2011 from Glitchard Nixon on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 20ll from Cliché Culture on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 2011 – BUMPER by EBMGO from EBMGO on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 2011 – BUMPER 02 by EBMGO from EBMGO on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 20111 Bumper from ucnv on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H 2011 – Bumper from Joseph Chiocchi on Vimeo.

Gli.tc/h Bumper from vade on Vimeo.

untitled5 from G3 on Vimeo.

[Chicago, US] NOV 3 – 6
[Amsterdam, NL] NOV 11 – 12
[Birmingham, UK] NOV 19

visit http://gli.tc/h for schedule + details + more!
or dir.URL:http://gli.tc/h/schedule.html [ for full schedule + maps ]

QTzrk_loop (2011) by Jon Satrom

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:38:02 +0000

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.

Jon Satrom Website
Jon Satrom Blog
Jon Satrom on Vimeo

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven: In A Saturnian World: September 25 – December 18, 2011, at The Renaissance Society

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:33:03 +0000

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

(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

Review: Cineapolis (2007) by Alex Hubbard

Andrew Rosinski — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:43:30 +0000

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 Projections at Piknic Electronik, June 24, 2011, Vancouver

Andrew Rosinski — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:36:37 +0000

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.

Review: Transom (2011) by Sara Ludy

Andrew Rosinski — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:31:52 +0000

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.

— AR

More:

Sara Ludy’s portfolio

Sara Ludy’s YouTube channel

Tremblexy

Sara Ludy.Computer’s Club

2011 Chicago Underground Film Festival Schedule, June 2–June 9

Andrew Rosinski — Mon, 30 May 2011 07:17:54 +0000

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.

New Website for the Video Data Bank

Andrew Rosinski — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:05:55 +0000

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.

vdb.org

Video: Arcanebolt at Enemy, Chicago

Andrew Rosinski — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:09:25 +0000

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.

arcanebolt.com

Strange Electronics 2: Friday 5/7/2011 at Enemy

Andrew Rosinski — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:07:50 +0000

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/

An Extra Special VERSION Edition of TLVSN, 27 April 2011

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:35:34 +0000

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
8PM
an extra special, VERSION edition of TLVSN.
curated by Theodore Darst
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan (map)
Chicago, IL, 60608

videos by:
bea fremderman-lauren elder
camilla padgitt coles
clint enns
nicholas o’brien
jon satrom
joshua dull
lenox-lenox
thad kellerstadt
zahid jiwa

performance by:
CRACKED RAY TUBE

Tonight: Theodore Darst and Louis Doulas on Curating New Media at Upgrade! Chicago, The Nightingale, April 12, 2011

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:26:57 +0000

Theodore Darst and Louis Doulas on Curating New Media
Upgrade! Chicago
2011.04.12
The Nightingale (map)
7PM
FREE
1084 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60642

Theodore Darst curates TLVSN, “a monthly series of video and new media screenings/performances.” TLVSN has recently featured the work of Chelsey Hoff, Bit_Synthesis (Ben Baker-Smith), CRACKED RAY TUBE (James Connolly and Kyle Evans), Arcane Bolt (Mark Beasley, Alex Inglizian, Tamas Kemenczy), Jon Satrom, and many more.

Darst will discuss organizing and curating these events and issues related to New Media Art events IRL (in real life).

Louis Doulas curated and ran the online exhibition space, The Gallery Space (TGS). Doulas exhibited various international artists in solo and group shows in/on TGS including Ryan Barone, Colin Schappi, tanner america, Petra Cortright, Arend deGruyter-Helfer, Dain Oh, and many more. Incorporating models from offline galleries, while also focusing on the particularities of online platforms, TGS dealt with issues such as, “our dependency on digital documentation as a way of experiencing artwork.” Doulas will discuss contemporary online curatorial practices — tracing these practices across blogs such as VVORK and Rhizome, to spaces such as Jst Chillin’ and Chrystal Gallery — while looking at how online spaces and AFK (away from keyboard) spaces, such as the BYOB series, can cooperate and propose new directions.

Nick Briz will facilitate a discussion following their presentations.

Nick Briz, an organizer of GLI.TC/H and curator of various Glitch Art programs, will moderate the discussion following the presentations by the artists/organizers/curators.

Upgrade! Chicago is the local Chicago-based node of the international Upgrade! network, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. Upgrade! Chicago presents new media projects, engages in informal critique, and fosters dialogue and collaboration between individual artists. Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year.

Upgrade! Chicago meets @ The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642

The Nightingale is a rough and ready microcinema dedicated to screening emerging work across film, video, and new media genres and aims to support Chicago vibrant cinema community.

TLVSN #3, 11 April, 2011, at Maria’s

Andrew Rosinski — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:10:55 +0000

TLVSN #3
APRIL 11, 2011
9-11pm
Maria’s Packed Goods and Community Bar
960 West 31st Street (<–m a p), Chicago, Illinois
in Bridgeport, ‘community of the future’

TLVSN is a monthly screening and performance series curated by Theodore Darst and hosted by the good people Maria’s in Bridgeport.

Work by:
*Andrew Benson
*Camilla Padgitt-Coles
*Clint Enns
*David Vaipan
*Fletcher Pratt
*Haunted Internet
*Lenox-Lenox

Performance:
*arcane bolt (Mark Beasley, Tamas Kemenczy, and Alex Inglizian)

Bird Lady by Geoffrey Pugen

Andrew Rosinski — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:07:06 +0000

Bird Lady from Geoffrey Pugen, Canada, 2010, 8 min, HD video loop

Here is an eerily-mystical Bird Lady portrait by Geoffrey Pugen. Hey bird watchers, here is one rare bird that you don’t see every day.

Geoffrey Pugen‘s work will visit Chicago as part of the For Your Eyes Only exhibit at the Kunsthalle New gallery, opening this Friday, April 1, 2011 (more information TBP soon).

A micro-video of BYOB Chicago.

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:29:35 +0000

BYOB Chicago from Andrew Rosinski on Vimeo.

A micro-doc of BYOB Chicago; it was a few blocks from my house, so I road my bike there.

26 March of 2011; curated by Nicholas O’Brien and Brian Khek; hosted by Bea Fremderman at Kunsthalle New, 1344 W. 18th Place, Chicago, Illinois.

http://kunsthallenew.com/
http://www.byobworldwide.com/

BYOB Chicago, March 26, 2011, the Archer Ballroom

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:07:14 +0000

by Rachel Milton

by Theodore Darst

BYOB CHICAGO
Saturday, March 26t, 2011
at the Archer Ballroom
2537-2599 S Paulina St, Chicago, IL, 60608
(map)
7 to 10pm.

“BYOB Chicago (organized by Nicholas O’Brien and Brian Khek) has invited more than 30 Chicago-based and international artists to create a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance. The dynamic structure will no-doubt be enhanced by a series of ad hoc installations, performances and special projects, creating an immersive environment of DIY spontaneity and experimentation.

The Chicago iteration of this international project will occur on March 26th at the Archer Ballroom from 7 to 10pm.

Participating Artists include:

Daniel G. Baird, Mark Beasley, Jon Cates, Chris Collins, Theodore Darst, Louis Doulas, Arend deGruyter-Helfer, Lauren Elder, Daniel Everett, Eric Fleischauer, Bea Fremderman, Joe Grimm, Nate Hitchcock, Chelsey Hoff, André and Evan Lenox, Patrick Lichty, Rachael Milton + Ramsey Alderson, Judd Morrissey, Orlando Orellano Jr + Nick Pannozzo, Micah Schippa, Brad Troemel, Sarah Weis, Andrew Norman Wilson, Samuel D York, and many more.

•”

More: BYOB

I am Back: Recent Work by Nicholas O’Brien, March 23, 2011, The Nightingale, Chicago

Andrew Rosinski — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:24:15 +0000

I am Back: Recent Work by Nicholas O’Brien
TONIGHT
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011, 8PM–11pm
The Nightingale
1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642
(map)

“During the course of the evening, Nicholas O’Brien will weave a conversation and lecture around his recent screen-based works. These routes will range from a reading of an online conversation about mediated spatial awareness, screening samples from an ongoing video blog, presenting a pecha-kucha style lecture on the show Breaking Bad, as well as showing a VHS love letter sent to a distant, yet familial, stranger. The evening will enfold over the course of interlinking monologues discussing loss/return, finding sincerity in transient formats, discovering self through cultural history, excavating digital landscapes, and employing wit to both disarm and embrace.

Nicholas O’Brien is a writer, curator, and artist currently living and working in Boulder and online. He received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently getting his MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he also teaches Digital Art production and theory. His work has appeared both nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Xth Biennial in Lyon, The Interferenze Festival in Bisaccia, Italy, and USC’s Ed and Gayle Roski MFA Gallery.”

More: http://doubleunderscore.net/

a/v: Oh Yes by Max Hattler + Noriko Okaku

Andrew Rosinski — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:48:43 +0000

a/v: ‘Oh Yes’ (by Max Hattler + Noriko Okaku) from Max Hattler on Vimeo.

Synopsis: “Abandon Normal Devices Festival-commissioned found-footage a/v performance feat. a soundtrack by dubmarronics. Premiered at Moves09, Manchester, UK, 25 Apr 2009.”

“Audiovisual experimentalists Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku present a playful performance with Oh Yes, a YouTube infused set offering a witty 2.0 take on bodies, movement and pop culture.” (Abandon Normal Devices).”

Birds of Prey (2005) by Semâ Bekirovic

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:47:06 +0000

Birds of Prey – Semâ Bekirovic, 2 min, video

Chairmen of the bird.

A video piece by Dutch artist Semâ Bekirovic.

Men Seeking Women (2007) by Penny Lane

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:11:58 +0000

Men Seeking Women, Penny Lane, 2007, 4 min, video
Watch Men Seeking Women on Vimeo.

Men seeking women … we know what that means … it means men seeking women.

This four-minute short film by Penny Lane, a New York state-based filmmaker, is an amalgamation of animated found still images and the transcriptions of Craiglist personals, which are verbalized by the machine-driven voicing of a text-to-speech CPU microprocessor unit.

Now of course there is Mr. Macintosh, the voice that appears with a simple ⌘ key swipe, with customizable dictions — which range from Princess to Pipe Organ — but the voicing entities in Penny Lane’s piece are somewhat more advanced — they have a face, a body, and they move, and they have freakish eyes. Moreover, a vast array of dialects, programmed by a master dialectician. I think the first dialect is Scottish, but I’m not quite sure.

Craig’s List is always a hoot. It’s a dichotomy: some personals are utterly sincere, some personals are utterly uncouth, but the multitude of personals is creeps seeking debauchery.

I enjoy the personal in this video that mentions payment for people to watch movies at his house — but, ‘‘don’t touch me, just watch the movie.’’

Made in America. I love America.


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Trailer: OUR NIXON (2011) by Penny Lane and Brian Frye

BRIEF THOUGHTS ON B-17: A MINI EPIC (2006), BY SARAH WEIS AND ARTURO CUBACUB

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:59:19 +0000

“The wacky adventures of a 17-year-old sex slave.”

B-17: A Mini Epic (The Wacky Adventures of a 17-Year-Old Sex Slave!) *Official Trailer* from i^3 hypermedia on Vimeo.

SARAH WEIS AND ARTURO CUBACUB, 2006, VIDEO, 36 minutes

B-17: A Mini Epic (2006) is the candy-coated collaboration from Chicago-based i3Hypermedia duo of Sarah Weis and Arturo Cubacub, a filmic adaptation based on a performance piece by Sarah Weis. B-17 has screened at the 2007 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, the 2007 Boston Underground Film Festival, and has stirred some controversy on the internet. Perhaps this is related to premise of the film: “Sarah and Yumi are top-secret sex-slaves for a high-ranking government official.”

Here is a jocular and kooky film carried by the delightful performance of Sarah Weis; her bubbly alacrity and keen improvisation breezes fresh air through an otherwise cramped cabin fever dialogue between the protagonist, Sarah (Sarah Weis), and her cellmate, Yumi, a talking Japanese doll.

Surprisingly, this 35-minute short film adheres to a coherent three-act story structure and to the universal archetypal theme of Love Wins, climaxing with a fairy-tale magical kiss between Sarah and Yumi, transforming the talking Yumi doll into a lovely girl. The long kiss continues and so does the story.

B-17: A Mini Epic is a feverish maelstrom of sex, kinky politics and toys, a thoughtful performance piece that subverts the “war on terror,” and confronts the arguably unconstitutional issues of homeland surveillance by way of the Patriot Act. This is an artful protest that slaps silly and casts away the fear mongers, by means of a film about sex toys, valor, and love. An underground film delight, with a somewhat kitsch Disney Land ending, a lovely tale of escapism and emancipation. Love Wins, open up your pores and let it in.

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Purchase a dvd or watch the film online via i3hypermedia.com