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Radical Light: That Little Red Dot

Artists' Television Access presents:
Radical Light: That Little Red Dot
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 7:30 pm
Curated and presented by Dale Hoyt
presented by SF Cinematheque in collaboration with Pacific Film Archive


During its 30+ years of existence, the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres (formerly Performance/Video) department has produced innumerable high-caliber artists and has influenced performance and conceptual art on a global scale. Simultaneously, the department’s commitment to maintaining state-of-the-art production facilities has contributed to an equally impressive output from myriad film- and video makers. Tonight’s program presents a survey of this important work. While as aggressive and sophisticated as their performance counterpart, the work of these artists displays an equally ingenious and ground-breaking visual language and deals with such varied issues as formalism, feminism, abstract narrative, transgressive sexuality, personal biography and body politics. And, drawn from three decades of activity, the program comprises an historical microcosm of video technology, beginning with industrial and broadcast cameras and behemoth Portapaks through the Hi-8 video revolution, “cuts-only” editing, the Amiga Toaster and Avid systems, up to DV’s utopian technological plateau. Join us for an evening of the early works and rarities of some of the field’s major artists, including Jordan Biren, Nao Bustamante, Monet Clark, Torsten Zenas Burns, Cecilia Dougherty, Didi Dunphy, Dale Hoyt, Andrew Huestis, Tony Labat, Jennifer Locke, Anne McGuire, Guy Overfelt and Emjay Wilson. (Dale Hoyt)

Artists' Television Access
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Radical L@TE:Super-Gigantic HalfLifers DVD Mega-Release Party

Radical L@TE: 

Super-Gigantic HalfLifers DVD Mega-Release Party

February 18, 2011; 7:30 p.m.; Gallery B - (Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)

Programmed by Steve Seid and Kathy Geritz

Join us for a launch party for the compilation DVD, HalfLifers: The Complete History, the definitive pixel packet of legendary activation artists Torsten Zenas Burns and Anthony Discenza. For one night only, the HalfLifers will repurpose Thomas Faulders’s BAMscapeas an omnidirectional, construction-colored exploration vehicle, navigating a 360-degree journey into the interior reaches of HalfLifers’s “videonic” backlog of afterlife relationships, rescue rituals, and psychic manifestations. This spatio-temporal hub will sync up with other portable pictographic projections by longtime friends and collaborators of the HalfLifers, including Anne McGuire, Darrin Martin, Jordan Biren, Ursula Brookbank, Christian Burns, and Animal Charm. The celebration will be consummated with an anthro-engineered dough object—by which we mean a sugar-frosted biomemory conduit activated by physical ingestion.
Special thanks to: Julie Chang (Zombie cake-maker)

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE (MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES #2) "CRYSTALINE"

MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES #2: 

CRYSTALINE

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29TH 6-10PM / 2011 / FREE
SPECIAL THANKS TO: KARI GATZKE, ALEXIS FEDORJACZENKO, CHRIS NELSON AND DENIS LUZURIAGA 
PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT (CRYSTALINE),
NUMBER 2 IN OUR VARIABLE MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES. 
AN ANNUAL WINTERIZED EVENT FEATURING ESTABLISHED LOCAL AND NATIONAL ARTISTS EXPERIMENTING WITH MANY DIVERSE GENRES INCLUDING: FOOD RESEARCH, SONIC HYBRIDS, VIDEO ART AND LIVE PERFORMANCE ACTIVATIONS. FUELED BY GLOGG AND FUSED WITH INTERACTIVE DISPLAYS OF SCULPTURAL ICE SHAPES THE ARTISTS AND PUBLIC WILL INTERACT AND SHARE EXPERIENCES IN A DIGITALLY FROZEN PROJECT SPACE.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
ALEXIS FEDORJACZENKO 
THE PAPER QUEEN (DEAR HOLYOKE) / PERFORMANCE / 2010 
DAVID HOLUB
TALKERS AND NON-TALKERS: A DISCUSSION / PERFORMANCE / 2010 
GX JUPITTER-LARSEN + MITCH GOODMAN
FREQUENCY / VIDEO LOOP / 1992 
DAVID SLATIS
INSIDE THE DRILL / VIDEO LOOP / 2010 
ANTHONY DISCENZA
THE THINGS / VIDEO LOOP / 2010 
VIROCODE
EVOLVING MOISTURE / VIDEO LOOP / 2010 
ABORTUS FEVER(CHRIS BLAIR) 
HANGING GUITARS / INTERACTIVE NOISE PERFORMANCE / 2010 
SYNTHHUMPERS (JIM SUPANICK + JOSHUA SOLONDZ)
DIGITAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE / VIDEO PROJECTION / 2010

Post-Conceptual Performance: Video, 1977 to 1997 @ LACE (LOS ANGELES, CA) & PFA (BERKELEY,CA)

Radical Light: 

Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area

Post-Conceptual Performance: Video, 1977 to 1997

(PFA - Berkeley, CA)

Sunday, January 23, 2011- 5:30 p.m - Total running time: c. 80 mins

Jordan Biren, Tony Labat, Anne McGuire and HalfLifers in Person


(LACE - Los Angeles, CA)
Thursday, January 20, 2011- 9:00 p.m - Total running time: c. 80 mins


By the mid-seventies, the concept of the artist’s body as medium had evolved from arid performance to effusive provocation. Tony Labat emerged in 1977 with the remarkable series Solo Flight in which the artist’s identity is given sudden form through subtle ethnic gestures. With pithy performances like Laurie Sings Iggy and the Madonna Series, Leslie Singer took on the celebrity industry with an economy of parodic impersonation and food flinging. In These Are the Rules, Doug Hall enacted an authoritarian pose to deflate the power vested in political symbols. Where Cecilia Dougherty dismisses the patrimony of past mentors with her remake of Howard Fried’s Fuck You, Purdue, Jordan Biren reinstates The Body as a nervous engine of desire. Finally, Anne McGuire’s tortured evocation of psychic disarray, I Am Crazy and You’re Not Wrong, gives way to the frantic activation of domestic space in the HalfLifers’s highly caloric Actions in Action.
Solo Flight (Tony Labat, 1977, excerpts, 20 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). Laurie Sings Iggy (Leslie Singer, 1987, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). Fuck You, Purdue (Cecilia Dougherty, 1987, 12 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). These Are the Rules (Doug Hall, 1983, 4:39 mins, Color, Video, From EAI). My Life as a Godard Film by Whitney Houston (Leslie Singer, 1988, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). The Body (Jordan Biren, 1990, 15 mins, B&W, Video, PFA Collection). The Madonna Series: 1-5 (Leslie Singer, 1987, 4 mins, Color, Video, PFA Collection). I Am Crazy and You’re Not Wrong (Anne McGuire, 1997, 11 mins, B&W, Video, From the artist). Actions in Action (HalfLifers, 1997, 10 mins, Color, Video, From the artist).—Steve Seid

COLLABORATIVE VIDEO SHOW (JANUARY 2011)

THE NICHE IN THE FINE ARTS LIBRARY
A NEW MEDIA PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

LOOPED SCREENING: JANUARY 2011 - Curated by Lydia Moyer

ANIMATRONLOVE 3:30 / 2010 / HDV  

TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS AND DARRIN MARTIN
AnimatronLove revisits variations on the choreography performed by 
WHAT-IF? characters’ virtual avatars contextualized into a series of 
alternate worlds.

The Niche is a new media project of the Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia. It consists of a Mac Pro and a sixty-inch HD capable flat screen monitor mounted on a wall in a highly trafficked area of the library. There are a couple comfortable chairs to encourage viewers to sit and take their time as well as several pairs of wireless headphones.

GROUP VIDEO SHOW @ ATA / SAN FRANCISCO,CA

“ALTERED STATEHOOD”
   Sunday, December 19, 2010, 8:00 pm, $6
Programmed by NYC curator/publisher Billy Miller

CYBERNETIC INDIANS • X-RATED CLOWNS • JUSTIN BIEBER • ERUPTING VESSELS •PLUSHIES •JENNA JAMESON • DEATH-DEFYING FEATS • PRISON TRADE • SUPERHEROES • ESTATIC STATES • UNDERWATER DRUMMING • REVENGE THERAPY • PENTECOSTAL SNAKE HANDLERS               

Colby Bird’s - “Books” (2009)

Darrin Martin & Torsten Zenas Burns - “Wundergore Spa” (2010)

Wayne Coe’s - “Manhattan Sand Project” (2010)

Michael Economy’s - “You Are My Sunshine” (2004)

Peter Eide’s - “Broken Can” (2003)

Tony Feyer’s - “Homecoming” (1992)

Michael Greenblatt’s - “You’re the Top” (2007)

Rose Kallal’s - “History of Magic” (2004)

Lewis Klahr’s - “Pony Glass” (1998)

Kristian Kozul’s - “Benediction of Desire” (2008)

Steve LaFreniere’s - “LOVE” (1994)

Rachel Mason’s - “Wall” (2007)

Ashleigh Nankivell’s - “Justin Bieber Home Invasion” (2010)

Peter Rand’s - “Untitled  (Double Rainbow/Judd)” (2010)

SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny)’s - “Plushie” (2006)

ALTERNATIVE FUN FOR THE HOLE FAMILY!

http://www.atasite.org/2010/11/s-o-l-u-t-i-o-n/

http://a-poor-wayfaring-stranger.blogspot.com/

Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA

THE JELLIFICATION

Parsons Hall Project Space 
LAST VIEWING OF THE GROUP SHOW WILL 
BE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND 6-8PM 
(THE JELLIFICATION CLOSING RECEPTION) 
GYNOIDS, JELLIFICATION CAKE, DOPPELGANGERS, WINE, 
CHIMERAS, BUTTER COOKIES AND SIMULATIONS. (FREE)

THE JELLIFICATION (VIDEO SCREENING EVENT#1)

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE 
PRESENTS: (THE JELLIFICATION SCREENING EVENT#1) 
DONUTS, ANDROIDS, COFFEE, PRIMATES, PASTRY, DOUBLES 
TEA, AND EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 
SATURDAY MORNING - NOVEMBER 6TH - 10-11:30AM - FREE
(Morning screening projection)

THE UNCANNY MEADOW CELL
DDUPLICATIONN & YOU / 20:00 / VIDEO / 2010
BJORN MELHUS / AUTO CENTER DRIVE / 28:00 / 16MM / 2003
DESIREE HOLMAN / TROGLODYTE / 7:00 / VIDEO / 2005

VIDEO SCREENING ((((ANIMATRONLOVE))))

THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL BUSAN VIDEO FESTIVAL 
ART SPACE BANDEE
Date : Oct.24 - Nov.5 
Time : am.11:00 - pm.6:00 
Work : Competition(Korean Artists) 
           Selection(International Artists)  
           Speciality(Taiwan Video Artists) 
Opening Projection 
Venue : Community Media Center, in Busan 
             Subway No.2 line, Centum City Station Exit 4 
Date : Oct. 23(sat) pm 4:00-6:00 
Work : Competition (Korean Artists)  / Selection(International Artists)   

국내경쟁작 / Competition-Korean Artists

강혁 Kang, Hyuk / 자화상 Self Portrait / 9min. 59sec. / 2010 

변재규 Byun, Jae-kyu / Symmetrial Train / 5min. 3sec. / 2010 

서평주 Seo, Pyoung-joo / 최후의 만찬 Last Supper / 3min. 30sec. / 2010

임철민 Lim, Chul-min / 시크릿 가든 Secret Garden / 6min. 22sec. / 2010

정혜정 Jung, Hae-jung / 섬 Island / 4min. 12sec. / 2009 

피어스 미경 Mikyoung Jun Pearce / 깃발 Flags / 9min. 21sec. / 2010 

하원식 Ha, Won-sik / 음모 Intrigue / 2min. 29sec. / 2009 

허희규 Heo, Hee-gyu / 식물 A=A≠A : Pflanze / 2min. 49sec. / 2010 

박상은 Park, Sang-eun / Dermatographism / 5min. 34sec. / 2010  (우수상 수상작) 

손여울 Son, Yeo-ul / 기계의 해탈 Nirvana of machine / 2010  (우수상 수상작) 

해외추천, 선정작
Recommendation, Selection-International Artists

Axel Roessler 

악셀 로슬러 / It's a small world / 2min. 2sec. / 2009 / U.S.A
Ben Russell
벤 러셀 / TRYPPS#6 / 11min. 30sec. / 2009 / U.S.A
Boonchai Apintanaphong [Giam eee]
분차이 아핀타나퐁 / WAY / 4min. 49sec. / 2008 / Thailand
Doug Fishbone
더그 피쉬본 / Hypno Project / 2009 / U.S.A/UK 
Duke &Battersby
듀크배터스비 / Beauty plus pity / 14min. / 2009 / U.S.A 

Emanuele Kabu
엠마뉴엘 카부 / Zyrkus / 3min. 2sec. / 2007 / Italy

Gerhard Funk
게르하르트 펑크 / 2,5mgo / 4min. 18sec. / 2009 / Germany 

Hakima El Djoudi
하키마 엘 쥬디 / le sirop de la rue / 2min. / 2010 / France 

Jennifer Locke
제니퍼 로크 / Black White (Glue) / 5min. 45sec. / 2009 / U.S.A

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
주디 린-키-츄 / First Strike, Last Dance / 6min. 57sec. / 2009 / U.S.A 

Max hattler
맥스 하틀러 / 1925 aka Hell / 2min. / 2010 / Germany 

Michel Mazzoni
미쉘 마쪼니 / Le jour, la nuit(Day and night…) / 2min. 59sec. /  2008 / France

Monica Panzarino & Nadine Sobel
모니카 판자리노 & 나딘 소벨  / Loose Control / 5min. / 2008 / U.S.A 

Michael Marczewski
마이클 마크제스키 / 14.7Metre Psycho / 4min. 45sec. / 2009 

Noah Stout
노아 스토우 / Mantis & Auto / 5min. / 2008 / U.S.A 

Pathompon Tesprateep
파솜폰 테스프라팀 / 4 Fed. 2006 Live at BangKok Code / 8min. / 2007 / Thailand 

ritesh ajmeri
리테쉬 아즈메리 / Changing skin / 19min.(both) / 2010 / India

Silvio Giordano
실비오 지오다노 / Packaging's Life / 2min. 10sec. / 2009 / Italy 

Simon Mullan
시몬 뮬란 / Teaser02# / 1min. / 2009 / Germany 

Surabhi Saraf
수라비 사라프 / Fold / 7min. 33sec. / 2010 / Indian 

Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin
토스천 번즈 & 다린 마틴 / ANIMATRONLOVE / 3min. / 2010 / U.S.A 

GROUP SHOW IN ABU DHABI (UAE)

No Customs

November 4-27, 2010
opening reception: Thursday Nov 4, 7-9 pm
curated by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

http://www.mccoyspace.com/nocustoms

an exhibition of transmissible ideas with:

Vito Acconci
Jason Robert Bell / Marni Kotak
Torsten Zenas Burns
Jennifer Dalton / Susan Hamburger
Anthony Discenza
Melissa Dubbin / Aaron Davidson
Bill Durgin
Tara Fracalossi
David Grubbs
Sara Hubbs
Thomas Lail
Michael Mandiberg
MTAA
Marisa Olson
Jonathan Schipper
Mark Tribe
Karen Yasinsky

A common art-making strategy when one enters into new territory is to listen, to ask, and to wait. As newcomers to Abu Dhabi, we considered this strategy, but then rejected it. Instead of waiting to receive information, we begin our sojourn in the Emirates by making an offer. In curating this show, No Customs, held in our remarkably gallery like living space, we offer the work of artists connected to us from our home community of New York City. When they asked what life is like here, we answered we didn’t yet know. We told them to send what they could send via email, via instructions, via concept. We told them to send it fast. So then, what we have is a show called No Customs. This title is a double entendre. Practically, since no objects have been mailed, we were not slowed by the expense of shipping and the delays of customs. Metaphorically, the show is not about tradition or interpretation, but rather about mapping and transcription. How does form map onto landscape? How does it transform landscape? How do you demarcate space for contemplation, for understanding, for revolution? What happens to the body when its image occupies this demarcated space?

Landscape
First, the approach to a problem. This is what we hear when listening to Vito Acconci’s audio piece, Research Station, Antarctica, For Your Ears Only (2004-2010). How does an artist (here architect) turn a landscape into a series of constraints to be addressed, to create a form? In the photographs of Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson, the long time collaborators use smoke bombs to test the landscape. They create form with weather, wind, light, and clouds. In a site specific project by Thomas Lail, a series of Buckminister Fuller domes are superimposed over the city view of Abu Dhabi, creating another take on the domes of the city and adding to the enormous architectural speculation already here. In another project, a memory sequence of images by Tara Fracalossi offers a counterpoint to the desert with images of most verdant spring and bleakest winter. These images purport to be memory, but their repetition on the wall creates matrices of classifications that map new space. In the end they are more like letters in an alphabet than like stories of particular landscapes. 

Demarcated space
In answering a call to show work in Abu Dhabi, many artists considered the question of mapping, both graphically and metaphorically. In the work of Michael Mandiberg, the artist asked us to find an Arabic map of the USA in which we recreate the laser cuttings of print media that he is known for. In this work the message and the map collide. The artist duo MTAA and the sculptor Sara Hubbs sent ideas for works that, though they are generated very differently, come up with surprisingly congruent projects. MTAA asked us to find “the most colorful place” in Abu Dhabi. Then they provided software that translated this image into an abstract digital image (referred to as “the aesthetic object”). We could then display this any way we saw fit. In Sara Hubb’s project, an abstract form also results from a behind the scenes process. She photographed decaying areas of New York City and asked us to reproduce the patterns they create in plaster, building up a surface to form decoration from blight.
The projects of Jonathan Schipper and the collaborative team of Jennifer Dalton and Susan Hamburger ask us the audience to participate in the creation of the artwork by zeroing in on our patterns of behavior.  In the ambitious project by Schipper, entitled A Million Dollar Walk, attendees of the opening reception will be given the opportunity to carry a briefcase full of money on a prescribed path through the building.  Dalton and Hamburger ask participants questions about their behavior in Abu Dhabi, creating a changing sculptural bar graph that measures their assumptions about life in the capitol against actual practice.
Four artists in the exhibition deal with space by creating voids some for the viewer to inhabit speculatively others by creating spaces for lost objects. In her video mixtape project, Marisa Olson casts herself as an outsourced worker and creates a mash-up of Arab covers of American karaoke classics. The singers of course, are us by implication. In The New Revolution (2010), Mark Tribe creates an installation that invites spectators to consider their own ideas about revolution. David Grubbs, a noted musician, sent us instructions to render a beautiful wall drawing whose omissions create open spaces for meaning to drift. In an animation by Karen Yasinsky, You’d Better Be Careful, omitted objects and spaces set interpretation even farther adrift.

Bodies
Several of the artists in the show responded with work implying performative space. In the video Double Face Fantasy by Jason Robert Bell and Marni Kotak this space is a virtual one in that a portrait transforms through a technical gesture. Anthony Discenza’s video, The Future has Already Been Written creates a tour de force collage of science fiction, and we follow the body of Charlton Heston through alternate visions of the future. In the work of Torsten Zenas Burns, Resurrectables (Yellow-Mobilers), the artist asked us to curate a selection of performance stills from a huge array of images of costumes, props, and locations. We selected images of vehicles, conveying transmission, speed, and the framing of the body as it moves through space. Finally, the work of photographer Bill Durgin presents work that brings it all together. The body becomes a landscape of skin, finally an abstracted “aesthetic object”.

No Customs is located at Sama Tower, Suite 3708, Abu Dhabi. Sama Tower is at the corner of Airport Rd and Electra Rd., near the NMC (New Medical Center). The exhibition will be open Saturdays from 1-5 through Nov. 27 and by appointment. Please contact Jennifer or Kevin McCoy with questions and image requests: info@mccoyspace.com

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's multimedia artworks examine the genres and conventions of filmmaking, memory and language. They are known for constructing subjective databases of existing material and making fragmentary miniature film sets with lights, video cameras, and moving sculptural elements to create live cinematic events. They have relocated to Abu Dhabi in affiliation with New York University Abu Dhabi and are presently teaching and working on a commission for the downtown campus.