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Maura Jasper is a conceptual multimedia artist
whose work investigates how pop cultures and histories shape and
inform identity. She has exhibited and screened work widely in
the United States and overseas, including at Artist’s Space,
Threadwaxing Space, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston,
and the Centre for Contemporary Images in Geneva. She is probably
best known for her work as a co-founder of Punk Rock Aerobics,
the DIY workout. Currently she is a resident in the Artist in
Research Program at the Berwick Research Institute and a graduate
student at Massachusetts College of Art's Studio for Interrelated
Media.
Video Sharing: screening of Upgrade!
Scotland and Upgrade! Vancouver reels
The goal of Upgrade! International's Video Sharing in
Physical Space project is to create low-tech video-sharing
communities in physical spaces. Videos are circulated between
cities so that programs can be screened locally and internationally,
preferably in the built environment. Flyers with individual contact
information for the artists whose work is shown are handed out
to encourage people who are seeing the work in each of the cities
to develop individual connections and relationships. This is essentially
a "social software" aspect that picks up on digital
social networking strategies--such as YouTube, MySpace, Facebook,
Friendster, etc.--and attempts to extend them into new spaces
in order to reach new communities.
Participating nodes are Amsterdam, Belgrade, Boston, Chicago,
Istanbul, Montreal, Paris, Scotland, Seattle, Skopje
and Vancouver.
Upgrade! Scotland's B-Sides Programme: B-SIDES
is a short programme of artists’ film and video works that
highlights one-liners, by-products of larger creative outputs,
outtakes, and radical experiments. Artists all produce works which
allow them to test out new techniques and ideas, and digital video
is the sketch pad for many contemporary new media artists. However,
these artefacts do not often make it to a public exhibition. New
Media Scotland is celebrating the rough beauty in these video
remnants by presenting this programme. We had an open call inviting
practitioners based in Scotland (and elsewhere in the UK), to
create or submit shorts which represent the “B-side”
of their practice. We received a wide range of submissions, and
our favourites are presented in this programme. The ideal format
for a light-hearted programme like B-SIDES is an outdoor screening,
inspired by the Drive-in cinema model, strictly BYOP (Bring Your
Own Popcorn), of course! Alternatively the programme can also
be screened in a gallery setting.
Upgrade! Vancouver Outdoor P2P: Among other things,
Vancouver is interested in short experiments, radical outtakes,
and fabulous standalone detritus of creative practice that may
not fit other places. "We like the short and the very short.
Give us small beauty, provocative fragments, and contemporary
ideas."
WANT TO PARTICIPATE? See Upgrade!
Boston's Call for Work
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