Magic Acts — Angie Eng, Okkyung Lee and Satoshi Takeishi :: May 28, 2009; 8:00 - 9:00 pm :: Issue Project Room (Old American Can Factory), 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, South Brooklyn, NY

Live video artist, Angie Eng, revives cinepoetry with miniature cameras, object manipulation and a light table with cellist Okkyung Lee and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. A garden of digital improvisational delights, a cross between music for silent film, a surrealist appetizer and a magic act.

“The fundamental difference between cinema and video lies in their respective treatment of time. Video is real time. The video artist can relate more to happenings, chance operations, action theatre which made efforts to demolish boundaries between art forms and practices. Continue reading

Ear Cinema is a collaborative multi-disciplinary installation/ performance piece incorporating animation and film footage, sound diffusion techniques (namely ambisonics) and live performance. We align the project with the ‘Expanded Cinema’ movement, a film and video practice which activates the live context of watching, transforming cinema’s historical and cultural ‘architectures of reception’ into sites of immersive experience that are heterogeneous, performative and non-determined. We have brought some of these concepts up-to-date and include cutting edge technology to combine with contemporary practices within sound art and live-performance to deliver a story in an entirely new way. Continue reading

The Khronos Projector — by Alvaro Cassinelli — is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames.

The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie. Continue reading

Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception :: April 17 - 19, 2009 :: Tate Modern.

Featuring lectures, discussions, performances, projections and installations, this major international conference presents a critical appraisal of an expanding field of film and video art from multi-screen, immersive, performance- based live-projections through to interactive, digital and virtual reality multi-media events.

Coined in the mid-1960s by Stan VanDerBeek, but with its origins in the experiments of early twentieth century avant-garde filmmaking, media-technologies and performance art, the term Expanded Cinema identifies a film and video practice which activates the live context of watching, transforming cinema’s historical and cultural ‘architectures of reception’ into sites of cinematic experience that are heterogeneous, performative and non-determined. Continue reading

IV MOBILEFEST 2009 - International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity :: September 17-28, 2009 :: Sao Paulo, Brazil :: Call for Papers, Projects, Prototypes and Products — Deadline: June 15, 2009.

THEME: How can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture, art, ecology, peace, education, health and the third-sector?

KEY WORDS: 3g, mobile applications, interactive architecture, electronic art, mobile activism, bluetooth, cyberculture, live cinema, mociology, culture, democracy, inclusion design, ecology, education, d-i-y, gprs, gps, LBS, innovation, mobile and wireless games, lbs, locative, geotagging, Continue reading

Flußgeist by Gregory Chatonsky :: until March 21, 2009 :: Artist Talk: February 28; 2:00 pm :: OBORO, 4001, rue Berri, local 301, Montreal, Canada.

Flußgeist is a series of works inspired by the concept of Zeitgeist. Strangely, industries have quite intuitively appropriated this notion to refer to pages giving access to flux suspension, i.e., for Google, words with the most searches during a year. Flußgeist is based on the principle that what is called Web 2.0 is not simply a marketing discourse, but the first industry that feeds on the existence of each and every individual, through sites such as flikr, facebook and youtube. Continue reading

The Fifth Day — by Carlo Zanni — is a sequence of ten pictures showing a taxi ride, edited as a slide show on music by Kazimir Boyle. These photos, taken in Alexandria, are ever changing networked stills because linked to critical data describing the political and cultural status of Egypt. Here, Egypt works as a metaphor to investigate topical subjects for the so called “Middle East” aiming for a comparison with the audience’s birth/living country.

Data, retrieved from the Internet and transforming the aesthetics of the photos, can be: the Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament (photo #2), the Corruption Perceptions (CPI) (photo #4), the Literacy rates in adult female and male (ages 15 and above) (photo #7), just to name a few. Continue reading

V2_Lab: Better than Reality with CREW (Eric Joris and Vincent Jacobs), Joachim Rotteveel, Marnix de Nijs, Boris Debackere, and Jonas Hielscher :: December 11, 2008; 8:00 - midnight :: V2_Lab, Eendrachtsstraat 10, off Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam :: and streamed live online.

Ever wonder what happened to the future of Virtual Reality (VR)? VR’s past has seen many visionaries who, often with goggles and joysticks in hand, claimed that the technology’s future would hold completely new realities for everyone. Continue reading

Automata and The Velaslavasay Panorama present: All That Passes Before You, Already in Ruins by Jordan Biren and Denial Clinic by Perry Hoberman :: December 13, 2008; 8:00 - 11:00 pm :: The Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street, Los Angeles, CA.

Jordan Biren changes course for his new work, All That Passes Before You, Already in Ruins, adding a live film performance to his spectral narrative of transient landscapes, characters and time, melodramatically moving in the shadows of glistening cinematic moments.

Perry Hoberman continues his ill-advised foray as a singer/songwriter, presenting Denial Clinic, a live performance with 3D projection, drawings and songs, chronicling various tales of frustration, loss and self-deception. Continue reading

Video Vortex Split: Online Video and the Arts :: May 22-23, 2008 :: Department of Film and Video, Academy of Arts University, Zagreb, Croatia :: Call for Contributions — Deadline: February 5, 2009.

The fourth edition of Video Vortex is organized by Platforma 9.81 with Institute of Network Cultures from Amsterdam. After previous events on online video and responses to YouTube in Brussels, Amsterdam and Ankara, this event will focus on the moving image on the Web. During Video Vortex: Split we will present five cinema events: 1) upload cinema; 2) mobile phone cinema; 3) social cinema; 4) cinematic data base; 5) performative cinema. We invite contributions for the following themes: Continue reading