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Support the 2012 Chicago Underground Film Festival Kickstarter Campaign

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:27:41 +0000

There’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

2012 CUFF kickstarter page

CUFF website

2012 CUFF Official Lineup via Bad Lit

Ann Arbor Film Festival Animated .gifs Part 3 (Threshold of Peripheral Induction by Leighton Pierce)

Andrew Rosinski — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:36:58 +0000

Threshold of Peripheral Induction
Leighton Pierce
2012 | 4 Channel Video, 8 Channel Audio
UM Slusser Gallery (map)
March 26 – April 2

Here is some short-form documentation of Leighton’s Pierce’s four channel video installation Threshold of Peripheral Induction, which is on view at the University of Michigan’s Slusser Gallery until Monday, April 2, 2012. The installation features four channels of visceral imagery projected onto a ‘U’ shaped object, which embodies an exterior/interior function for the images.

The forth .gif features Leighton Pierce during his artist talk wherein he discussed his creative process, his instinctive shooting process, and the implications of physically installing the four channels, architecture, sound, and projectors.

If you’re in the area, check this out today.

AAFF: Threshold of Peripheral Induction

Leighton Pierce’s website

Leighton Pierce on Vimeo

50th AAFF Schedule

(animated .gifs compiled by Theodore Darst.)

Ann Arbor Film Festival Animated .gifs Part 1

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:32:23 +0000

“Exquisite Motion Corpse” by Martin Thoburn & Chris Sandon at the Michigan Theater

clear leader through an ipad moviescope at the Michigan Theater

“Ann Arbor Stripped Bare by Her Film Festival, Even' ” by Gary Schwartz at Silvio's Organic Pizza

“your cadence” by Collin McRae at the Work Gallery

A collection of animated .gifs capturing moments in or around the 50th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival.

View the schedule of the AAFF here.

(animated .gifs compiled by Theodore Darst.)

Six Question Interview with Sara Ludy, Vancouver-based Artist

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:57:10 +0000

Sara Ludy is an artist and animator whose work runs the gamut of digital art. Her work includes video, the computer art tile, the animated gif, the self portrait, the VJ set, still photography, animation, the digital image, and the computer art painting. Sara graduated from SAIC in 2003 with a BFA in New Media Art, and after living in LA for some time, she now resides in Vancouver.

Her work is very much concerned with architecture, a sense of home, and a warm domestic sense of place. Recently, her work has explored digitally replicating specific decor elements of the domestic interior — carpet, rugs, paintings, wallpaper, elements of interior decoration — some of those digital image instances are featured below, and it’s also worth noting that Sara Ludy and Nicolas Sassoon projected animated .gif tiles as wallpaper at their WALLPAPERS installation at 319 Scholes back in 2011.

Sara also makes music: she is a member of the experimental electronic band Tremblexy. “Tremblexy is an experimental audio/video collaborative between Sara Ludy and Austin Meredith that creates immersive sensory experiences through the use of sound collage, electronic manipulation, repetition, projections, and improvisation.” Sara is also a member of Computers Club, an online art collective.

Apart from being an august figure in the ambit of internet art, Ludy has exhibited work at the Gene Siskel Film Center for CATE; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum; 319 Scholes, Brooklyn; Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paulo; Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis; Hex Gallery, Kansas City; Fe Arts Gallery, Santa Fe; the Armory Show, NYC; bubblebyte.org, internet; and at many other notable places.

Below is a six question interview with Sara Ludy.

Some Pattern, 2012

(1) What inspires you?

Carpet tiles, virtual worlds and many many other things.

Rooms, 2012, video, 4 min, color, sound

(2) Work work and artwork: how do you strike a balance?

I don’t.

some other different rug, 2012

(3) You have visualed for Mr. Oizo, AC Slater, and Moby, among others — what introduced you to VJing — and what is your approach to the live visual set?

I was randomly asked to VJ at a club in LA. I had one week to learn modul8 and make video loops. I worked there for 3 years until I moved. I keep it simple. Whatever feels right, I project and mix.

Thuja, 2012, video, 3 min, color, sound

(4) How do you cure artistic torpidity?

Two giant mugs of lapsang souchong.

some other carpet, 2012

(5) What is your ideal atmosphere for creativity & creative production?

Working next to the fish tank.

Body Wave, 2010, video, 3 min, color, sound

(6) Why is making work important to you?

It’s the most natural way for me to understand my interests.

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Sara Ludy

Sara Ludy on Computers Club

Sara Ludy on YouTube

Tremblexy

Sara Ludy: A Space In-Between, Chicago 3.15.12

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:07:43 +0000

Tonight, 15 March 2012
presented by Conversations At The Edge
Gene Siskel Film Center, 6pm
2010–12, USA, Various formats, ca 75 minutes + discussion.

The work of SAIC alumna Sara Ludy (BFA 2003) spans a wide variety of formats including photography, video, animated gifs, live performance, and large-scale installations. She explores the representation of domestic interiors, suburban architecture, and landscape design in virtual and real environments. This evening Ludy presents a selection of work, including videos from her ongoing Space Portraits (2010) series; clips from her Projection Monitor (2010–ongoing) project; and exhibition footage from Wallpapers (2011–ongoing).

SARA LUDY (b. 1980, Santa Ana, CA) holds a BFA in New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a member of the online art collective Computers Club and the band TREMBLEXY. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Internationally at São Paulo Cinemateca Brasileira, 319 Scholes, Berkeley Art Museum, Luminary Center for the Arts, Hex Gallery, Armory Show, Artisphere, Ghost Gallery, Fe Arts Gallery,bubblebyte.org, Fabrien Fryns Fine Art, Heaven Gallery, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. — CATE

Sara Ludy

Sara Ludy: A Space In-Between

The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive Presents: Cyber Psyche Out! Friday, March 9, 2012

Andrew Rosinski — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:59:01 +0000

The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive Presents:
CYBER PSYCHE OUT !
An evening of cyberpsychedelic sounds and visions.
Friday, March 9th, 2012 @ Ball Hall. 8pm.
Chicago, IL

Cyber Psyche Out will feature selected screenings of realtime analog computer and video art magic from the Phil Morton Archive. Founded by jonCates in 2007, the Phil Morton Archive freely and openly releases materials under Morton’s own COPY-IT-RIGHT license, a proto open source alternative to copyright. COPY-IT-RIGHT encourages making, sharing, remixing, and distributing of experimental media art.

Sonically, the night will feature ambient synthesizer sets by Daniel Smith, White Prism (Ben Billington & Josh Burke), and Jacob Kart & Danny Van Duerm.

numbers.fm will broadcast the event.

9 pm: Screenings
10 pm: Q + A w/ jonCates (Founder and Director of the Archive) and Chelsey Hoff (Assistant Director)

10:30 pm: Jacob Kart + Danny Van Duerm (a Phil Morton inspired set.)

11 pm: White Prism

11:30 pm: Daniel Smith

$5 suggested donation

Audio for video flyer by Ben Billington.

Phil Morton on VBD

2 Hour Moment of Silence by Eric Fleischauer

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:37:55 +0000

2 Hour Moment of Silence
by Eric Fleischauer
videotape, artificial flowers, 2008

A magnetic and enigmatic loop of ersatz flowers and video tape. A blooming ribbon of woven memory and beauty.

(Photo taken at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn.)

Gibraltar Point (2012) by Geoffrey Pugen

Andrew Rosinski — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:28 +0000

Geoffrey Pugen & Alex McLeod, 2012, video, 50 sec, color, sound

Intimations of dolphin mysticism and the auspices of nature intersect at the icy node of Gibraltar Point.

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)