New Document
by Jaakko Pallasvuo
Berlin, Germany & Finland | 2011 | 1 min | video | sound
A bucolic video poem featuring white sheets flapping in the wind.
vision quest 2012
New Document (2011) by Jaakko Pallasvuo
30 December, 2012 by Andrew RosinskiArtSlant — DINCA Vision Quest 2012: A Physical Manifestation of DINCA.org
24 August, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
Joel Kuennen wrote a gracious article about DINCA Vision Quest 2012 and the state of new media art, published by Art Slant. The article provides an overview of the 2012 Vision Quest and highlights the work of Sabrina Ratte, Shana Moulton, Neil Ira Needleman, and Bobby Abate, plus more.
Read the article here.
Tonight: Closing Night of Vision Quest 2012
18 August, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
Thursday, August 16–Saturday, August 18, 2012
1807 S. Allport St., Chicago, IL (map)
Free. 8pm e’ery night.
Tonight! Last night! Don’t miss out. Doors at 8pm. Screening starts at 8:30. After the screening, we have two amazing performances; Jesse Malmed performs first and Jon Cates & Jake Elliott close the festivities.
Click here for DINCA VISION QUEST 2012 program notes w/ film synopses.
Vision Quest 2012 screen-printed posters by Will Thomas
17 August, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
9”x24”
$10
We’re selling screen-printed posters to recoup some of our overhead costs. 9”x24”. Metallic yellow & pink ink (which makes a sun gold orange color when crossed) on white paper. Only $10. I took this photo using my laptop camera, so this photo doesn’t do the posters justice … they sparkle in person, especially in sunlight!
We’ll be selling these tonight and tomorrow. These make great gifts, or they are something nice to hang on your wall, or frame and hang on your wall. Do what thou wilt.
Purchasing a poster will help us continue to do to do events like this in the future viz. will help us parlay the proceeds into a designated fund for a potential Vision Quest 2013.
Click here for more information on Vision Quest 2012.
Posters designed and printed by Will Thomas.
Opening Tonight: DINCA VISION QUEST 2012
16 August, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
R U ready 2 quest?
Vision Quest opens tonight (Thursday, 8/16/12) at 8pm. For more information, click here.
Thursday, August 16–Saturday, August 18, 2012
1807 S. Allport St., Chicago, IL (map)
Free. 8pm e’ery night. (Seating is limited; first-come, first served, or RSVP here.)
Click here for DINCA VISION QUEST 2012 program notes w/ film synopses.
A Lax Riddle Unit (2011) by Laida Lertxundi
16 August, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
A Lax Riddle Unit
Laida Lertxundi
Los Angels, CA | 2011 | 5 min | 16mm | sound
Laidalertxundi.com
In a Los Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved one. A film of the feminine structuring body. (LL)
A LAX RIDDLE UNIT will play at DINCA VISION QUEST 2012, on Saturday, August 18, as part of the An Open Door series. Click here for DINCA VISION QUEST 2012 program notes.
PONCE DE LEÓN (2012) by Ben Russell & Jim Drain
15 August, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
Ponce De León
by Ben Russell & Jim Drain
Paris, France / Miami, FL | 2012 | 26 min | HD | 5.1 sound
“I could do wonders if I didn’t have a body. But the body grabs me, it slows me, it enslaves me.” — Ponce de Léon
Our PONCE DE LEÓN discovered the fountain of youth and drank of immortality in the waning moments of his life. In an instant, he became old forever – an 80-year old Spaniard who would continue to walk the earth for century after century after century, watching as coral foundations gave way to mangrove swamps, as swamps were drained and buildings were erected, as buildings decayed and swamps returned. Our PONCE DE LEÓN is an im- mortal for whom time poses the greatest dilemma – it is a constant, a given, and his personal battle lies in trying to either arrest time entirely or to make the hands on his clock move ever faster. For PONCE DE LEÓN, time is a problem of body, and only by escaping his container can he escape time itself. (BR)
PONCE DE LEÓN will play at DINCA VISION QUEST 2012, on Friday, August 17, as part of the Scintillating Trips series. Click here for DINCA VISION QUEST 2012 program notes.
At The Shore (2011) by Stephanie Barber
13 August, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
At The Shore
by Stephanie Barber
Baltimore, MA | 2011 | 2 min | video | sound
A digital paintbrush manipulates an idyllic photo of flowers by a waterside setting.
Part of the Jhana and the Rats of James Olds or 31 days/31 videos (2011) series by Stephanie Barber. At The Shore will play at DINCA VISION QUEST 2012, on Thursday, August 16, as part of the Computer Blood series. Click here for DINCA VISION QUEST 2012 program notes.
Announcing DINCA VISION QUEST 2012
1 August, 2012 by Andrew Rosinski
Thursday, August 16–Saturday, August 18, 2012
1807 S. Allport St., Chicago, IL (map)
Free. 8pm e’ery night. (Seating is limited; first-come, first served, or RSVP here.)
Seating is limited; RSVP recommended. Please call 978-590-2900 if you have any questions.
Official program notes –> Click here for DINCA VISION QUEST 2012 program notes w/ film synopses.
Vision Quest website –> click here.
DINCA VISION QUEST 2012 will host three nights of vision quest festivities in Chicago, including a handful of screenings with live audio/video performances. VISION QUEST’s credo is to translate the dinca.org blog experience into an amalgamated IRL (in real life) experience, to further expand the ambit of experimental film & video, new media art, internet art, and to share the subterranean magic of great artists & filmmakers in a physical and social setting. In addition to screening work from around the world, it’s our mission to bolster the Chicago arts community by featuring the works of many Chicago filmmakers & artists in a setting that’s free of charge.
The screenings will take place in Thalia Hall (1807 S. Allport St.), a grand old Czech theatre built in 1892 in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Thalia Hall remained in use until the mid 1960s. Since then, the theatre has largely been abandoned, seeing raves and metal shows in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and most recently, a Space Program multiple-date screening series organized by artist and filmmaker, Ben Russell, during the spring of 2011. Since then, the theatre has been inactive, and with VISION QUEST 2012, we wish to revive the building with free screenings of contemporary recherché film and video, with subsequent real-time a/v performances. (More information on Thalia Hall.)
Much more information will be released soon; here is the lineup.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
COMPUTER BLOOD.
Featuring work by:
Bea Fremderman
Chris Naka
Eijane Janet Lin
Emilio Gomariz
Eric Fleischauer
Gabrielle de Vietri
Geoffrey Pugen
Jesse McLean
Jennifer Chan
Joe Hamilton
Miyo Van Stenis
Nicholas O’Brien
Nicolas Sassoon & Sara Ludy
Sarah Weis & Emilie Gervais
Stephanie Barber
Telcosystems presented by Bonobostudio
w/ presentations by:
• Jon Satrom (real-time a/v desktop hacking performance)
Friday, August 17, 2012
SCINTILLATING TRIPS.
Featuring work by:
Andrew Norman Wilson
Ben Russell
Bobby Abate presented by the VDB
Brenna Murphy
Frank Pollard
Jaakko Pallasvuo
Jesse Malmed
Jodie Mack
Joshua Solandz
Kent Lambert
Kerry Laitala
Max Hattler
Neil Ira Needleman
Robert Todd
Sabrina Ratte
Shana Moulton
Stephanie Barber
Theodore Darst
Tony Balko
w/ presentations by:
• Arcane Bolt (arcanebolt is a crew [Tamas Kemenczy, Mark Beasley, & Alex Inglizian] of dweomerkrafters building up & breaking naive circuits and bygone hardware)
Saturday, August 18, 2012
AN OPEN DOOR.
Featuring work by:
Ben Russell
Chris Kennedy
Clint Enns
Deborah Stratman
Fern Silva
Jacob Bricca
Jaakko Pallasvuo
Jesse McLean
Kent Lambert
Laida Lertxundi
Lori Felker
Mary Helena Clark
Michael Robinson
Robert Todd
Sara Ludy
Stephanie Barber
w/ presentations by:
• Jesse Malmed (video L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics + abstractedelia and participatory performance w/ conversational karaoke)
• Jon Cates & Jake Elliott (dirty new media multiple projector performance)
Much more information and materials to be released soon, so keep checking back.
Any questions? Comment here.
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