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Performance KINO-GLAZ / KINO PRAVDA - DJ Spooky

2009-11-12T08:50:23+01:00

Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky
New York, USA. 2009

25th of November, 6.00 PM
at Hermitage Theater, Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA

With his remix of “Kino-Glaz/Kino-Pravda” of Dziga Vertov, DJ Spooky wants to engage the 21st century fascination with realism and synthesis from archival resources and make a connection with some of the historical concepts that Vertov pioneered. DJ has re-scored and re-mixed the Vertov’s films with a contemporary soundtrack based on a combination of contemporary art’s dialectical relationship with video-montage and his work as a composer, artist, and writer. This project is just a first step along the path to understanding how cinema of the 20th century set the tone for the info-aesthetics of the 21st century.

Here is a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRLewvfJxOs

DJ Spooky - one of the most vivid figures of New-York underground in nineties, author of five full length albums, numerous quantity of culturological works and one of the significant specialists in multimedia art, Spooky worked with Sonic Youth, Arto Lindsay and Scanner. He got his pseudonym from William Burroughs: “I always loved his literature games with cutting and mixing of various fragments. It is very close to the work of a dj, who prepares his mixes, using scratch and different songs.”

Dziga Vertov – “Kino-Glaz” (1924): Film portrays an everyday life of a young soviet republic in various ways: work in the slaughterhouse, mill, field; making of first pioneer units and work of pioneers (for cooperatives and against tuberculosis); electrification of villages, jumps from the tower, Tverskaya street, Sukharevka and a rabble there: cocaine users, black market persons; work of Sklifosovskiy institute (saving of a suffocating guard); Kinoglaz even visited Kanatchikov’s cottage and depicted stories of insane people there. Read more on the DJ Spooky's site: http://www.djspooky.com/articles/vertov.php

3rd CYBERFEST is opening in Russia

2009-11-12T08:41:34+01:00

3rd CYBERFEST is opening at November in Hermitage, Saint-Petersburg. CYBERFEST – is the only International festival of cybernetic art in Russia (i.e. art, that combines living, biological and somatic substance with technical and computer devices). CYBERFEST is carried by CYLAND media laboratory, organized by National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg Branch and non-commercial organization Saint Petersburg Arts Project, New York. CYBERFEST is an annual festival held in Saint Petersburg.

The 2009 Winter Group Show

2009-11-11T16:52:04+01:00

3rd Ward is on the search for the best painting, drawing, print-making and works on paper! Our last Group Show open call culminated in an opening reception for The Best Emerging Photographers which drew over 300 art revelers. Now we're at it again and even more people will win!

The 2009 Winter Group Show
A search for the best painting, drawing, print-making and works on paper.

http://www.3rdward.com/groupshowcurrent

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
- Keith Haring

25 Artists will be selected as the best. 1 will receive the grand prize of $500, 4 runners up will receive $150 and all 25 artists will receive:

A group show in 3rd Ward's gallery
A feature in 3rd Ward's quarterly magazine
1-month Basic Membership to 3rd Ward
NYC wide exposure - post cards, flyers, press!

For this call we are joined by Judges: David Elshout, Antistrot mastermind, Rachel Hinde,Founding Director of Re-Title, and Kate McNamarra, Curator at P.S.1.

Submit Now!

http://www.3rdward.com/groupshowcurrent

Accepting entries through December 3, 11:59 p EST.

3rd Ward is on the search for the best painting, drawing, print-making and works on paper! Our last Group Show open call culminated in an opening reception for The Best Emerging Photographers which drew over 300 art revelers. Now we're at it again and even more people will win!

The 2009 Winter Group Show
A search for the best painting, drawing, print-making and works on paper.

http://www.3rdward.com/groupshowcurrent

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
- Keith Haring

25 Artists will be selected as the best. 1 will receive the grand prize of $500, 4 runners up will receive $150 and all 25 artists will receive:

A group show in 3rd Ward's gallery
A feature in 3rd Ward's quarterly magazine
1-month Basic Membership to 3rd Ward
NYC wide exposure - post cards, flyers, press!

For this call we are joined by Judges: David Elshout, Antistrot mastermind, Rachel Hinde,Founding Director of Re-Title, and Kate McNamarra, Curator at P.S.1.

Submit Now!

http://www.3rdward.com/groupshowcurrent

Accepting entries through December 3, 11:59 p EST.

/mode +v noise workshop

2009-11-11T12:18:21+01:00

Mon 30 Nov, Tue 1, Wed 2 Dec
Free
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
http://www.craftivism.net
http://slashmodeplusvnoise.goto10.org

/mode +v noise is an intense 3 day workshop for up to 10 participants, looking at how to build an Internet chat based music platform.
The workshop will give you the opportunity to create your own software sound synthesiser and different chat bots that will be used to manipulate and turn your chat into a music score. To achieve this, we will use free software such as Python, Supercollider, Puredyne, Emacs and more!

The workshop is aimed at participants with basic experience in programming, scripting, or markup languages, even if it’s just (X)HTML/CSS. You do not have to be an experienced programmer, but if you are, that’s good too. As long as you are not afraid to work in a terminal, you’ll be fine! In general, we are looking for people who have already experienced the “culture shock” of using plain text to
describe a process and want to take this further or discover creative programming using free software. The workshop will be adapted to the participants’ experience and profiles, but do not hesitate to contact us for extra details or if you are not sure you will fit. You will go home with the software and code you wrote during the workshop, and encouraged to share it and develop it further!

Email frances.bossom@arnolfini.org.uk with your applications. Places will be allocated on the basis of the strength of the case you make to take part.

DEADLINE: 16 November.
Notification of outcome: 21 November.

At the end of the workshop, everything will be left on site in the gallery and available online as part of the Craftivism exhibition at Arnolfini (12 December 2009 – 14 February 2010).

The Second Death of Caspar Helendale by Jessica Curry and Dan Pinchbeck

2009-11-11T11:34:59+01:00

The Second Death of Caspar Helendale by Jessica Curry and Dan Pinchbeck has been selected by The Royal Opera House and will be performed live at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House as part of the Firsts 09 season, "showcasing some of the most talented and genre-defying artists in the UK today."

The Second Life avatar Caspar Helendale invites you to attend his death; a funeral service held simultaneously in the real and virtual worlds. He has been exploring mortality since he was first created, and in his last twenty minutes of existence he will share his thoughts with collected mourners. He will be accompanied by his widow-to-be, Trixiebelle Landar, whose requiem will be performed live and streamed back into the virtual world over the course of the service. Via live onstage musicians and a giant projection screen, the theatre audience will join Second Life residents to reflect and mourn, as the real and virtual worlds collide at the point where Caspar’s light is forever extinguished…

The performances will be taking place simultaneously at the ROH and in Second Life. If you cannot attend in first life then we would be delighted if you and your avatar would join us in Second Life for the duration of the performance.

Teleport to 208.240.22 at 9 p.m. GMT (1 p.m. PST) and join the mourners in Caspar's specially built mausoleum.

Please email jessica@jessicacurry.co.uk for further instructions if you would like to attend in Second Life and feel free to distribute this email to any individuals/communities that may be interested.

27th and 28th November 11, 2009

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 7 Bow St London, WC2E

www.roh.org.uk

Versions

2009-11-11T10:24:49+01:00

Versions
Opening Friday, 27 November, 5:00 p.m.
From 28-11-2009 until 06-02-2010

Harm van den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, F.A.T.Lab, Martijn Hendriks, JoDi, Oliver Laric, NastyNets, Theodore Watson

During the opening Constant Dullaart will be spinning his collection of 50 cent 'In Da Club' remixes.

The exhibition 'Versions' deals with the ‘comment culture’: commentary as a medium. With the popularity of social networks and blog sites on the internet, such as Flickr, Facebook, Hyves, YouTube, Blogger, etc., commenting on each other has taken on a new dimension. In his publication Zero Comments (2007) the Dutch network theoretician Geert Lovink describes this phenomenon as a nihilistic impulse and an erosion of mainstream media. 'Versions' shows artists' practices and an aesthetic related to this comment culture.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute invited a number of artists for whom reacting to one another influences their own work process. For these artists the internet is the place par excellence to quickly launch ideas, react to one another, or adapt existing work and reuse it. Through this process photos, animations or videos rapidly grow into more complex and aesthetic artworks. Sharing and commenting on each other's work leads to questions about the position and perception of the work in the context of the internet and beyond it. To what extent can one speak of uniqueness and originality of the works? Who determines what can or can not be done, and what happens to individual identity within the group process? How does this process translate into the physical, static space of a gallery? Questions about the significance of appropriation, authenticity and agency in the era of 'comment culture' run like a thread through the exhibition.

A number of the works in the exhibition are a direct reflection of this online comment culture. In an extremely short time, through simple means an elementary concept or image is adapted by different people, constantly creating new versions of the same idea, as in the work of Oliver Laric. A number of artists did new works for the exhibition, which make a translation from the transient internet to the static space of the gallery (Constant Dullaart, JoDi, Martijn Hendriks, Harm van den Dorpel and Theodore Watson).

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizergracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

http://www.nimk.nl
http://www.facebook.com/NetherlandsMediaArtInstitute
http://twitter.com/NIMk_nl
http://www.mediaartplatform.nl/

Opening hours:
Tue t/m Fri from 11.00 - 18.00 hrs Sat and each first
Sunday of the month Sunday 1300 – 1800 hrs.

Entrance 4,50 (2,50 with discount). Museumkaart free

Thanks to: Powered by BeamSystems

Anderson Ranch Arts Center

2009-11-10T23:03:14+01:00

The Anderson Ranch Artists' Residency Program is designed to foster creative, intellectual and personal growth for emerging and established visual artists. There are no specific educational qualifications for entry into the program. Awards will be made to those, who in the exclusive opinion of the jury, have submitted the best work by the application deadline.
Finalists are chosen on the basis of artistic merit by an independent jury of established working artists and will live and work at Anderson Ranch for approximately a ten week residency period. While in residence, all artists will share in an established community of interaction, conceptual development and intense production of work. Given the staffing and facilities available at the Ranch, its artist residency program will become one of the most robust programs of its type in the United States.
Applications for both residency terms must be submitted via our online application by February 1 each year.
To apply for the Fall 2010 (Approximate dates: October 12- December 20) and Spring 2011 (Approximate dates: February 1 - April 13) residency terms, applications must be submitted online by February 1, 2010.
APPLY ONLINE  http://andersonranch.slideroom.com

Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

2009-11-10T22:35:59+01:00

The second annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition presented by the Georgia Tech center for Music Technology will award $10,000 to the best novel musical instruments as judged by a panel of experts. There will be a $5,000 grand prize — all participants eligible — given by Sharon Perry Galloway in honor of her husband, Dr. Thomas D. Galloway, Dean of the College of Architecture, 1992-2007.

Submissions will be accepted until November 15 and can be made through our online subsmission system.

For more information and to submit your entry, please visit:

http://gtcmt.coa.gatech.edu/?p=662

Instruments

Any new musical instrument is eligible for the competition. Instruments may generate sound acoustically or electronically, they may exist in physical or virtual manifestations, and they may be played by humans, robots, or computers. They may modify, improve, or extend existing instruments — including the human voice — or they may offer entirely new design paradigms.
New instruments which cross over these categories or which defy any such categorization are also welcome.

Demonstration

Prior to the performance (described below) contestants will be asked to briefly describe and demonstrate their instrument and its key qualities (1-2 minutes).

Performance

Entrants must perform a musical work with their new instrument to demonstrate its musicality, design, and engineering features. Performances may include traditional acoustic and/or electronic instruments alongside the new instrument. They may also include multimedia elements such as video, animation, graphics, text, kinesthetics, hydraulics, dance, or acting. The performed work may be composed by anyone, including the entrant, or it may be an arrangement of an existing work. It may be in any musical style. The duration should be 2-4 minutes. Entrants must be prepared to perform with their instrument at Georgia Tech on February 27th-28th, 2009. In most cases, performances will be public and open to all Guthman competition attendees. Following the performance there may be a brief question and answer session with the judges.

Judging Criteria

A panel of three judges will evaluate each instrument with respect to its musicality, design, and engineering. Judges will give each category equal weight in their decisions. They may consider a variety of factors in making their decisions, such as range of musical expression, playing technique, usability, and physical construction. Innovation is a central theme of the competition. Judges will look for instruments that are novel or extend previous work in meaningful ways. It is important to note that judges will use the performance to better evaluate the musical instrument. In the end, the competition is not primarily about the virtuosity of the performer. However, the more that the performance demonstrates and highlights the unique features of the instrument the more persuasive it is likely to be.

Dates
Submissions due: December 4, 2009
Admission notification: December 14, 2009

Questions?
Contact Leslie Bennett
leslie.bennett AT music.gatech.edu

Double Blind (Love)

2009-11-10T22:08:55+01:00

"One day (what will have happened?), a far-seer will abandon his or her segment and start walking across a narrow overpass above the dark abyss, will break his or her telescope and depart on a line of flight to meet a blind Double approaching from the other side."
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

"By repetition you can increase the chance that your choice will sound as far as the borders of the network, but you also risk toppling over the landscape (previously filled with surprises) into a monotonous desert."
Annie Abrahams, http://bram.org/info/presentation/texte.htm

Double Blind (Love)
Telepresence performance
Annie Abrahams. Living Room'>, Montpellier, France. Sunday November 29, from 6PM until the end of the performance (Living Room will remain open until 23:30PM).
Curt Cloninger. Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center'>, Asheville, North Carolina, US. Sunday November 29, from noon until the end of the performance.

Annie Abrahams and Curt Cloninger will present a telepresence performance, Sunday, November 29. Annie Abrahams (from the Living Room in Montpellier, France) and Curt Cloninger (from Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina, US) will repeatedly sing "love, love, love" (a short excerpt from a pop song*) as a kind of duet, in real time/space and online.

In order to isolate them from their surroundings and make them more attentive to the other, they will both be blindfolded. While singing they hope to evolve, mutating the original song excerpt, collaborating and communicating in a space/time of alterity. The artists have never met each other in the flesh.

There is no set duration. They will sing until the first one of them decides to stop. In both places a space will be reserved for the live performance and another for the video and audio projection. A camera will be fixed on each of their faces singing to each other. This live video of both faces will be projected both in the Living Room space and in the Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center space. The performance will also be visible on the web at http://selfworld.net .

* U2’s Until the End of the World. http://lab404.com/misc/untiltheendoftheworld.mp3

Full Press Release: http://livingroomart.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/doubleblindlove_dossierpressebr2.pdf

unCraftivism: call for participation

2009-11-10T20:56:42+01:00

unCraftivism is an open event where you can present your own work and organise your own event. unCraftivism is uncurated: your work will not be judged, or restricted by a theme, neither it has to be finalised. unCraftivism is self-organised: you organise and promote your own event, whether a performance, a talk, a workshop, a meal, a song, a party or other as-yet-undefined events.

How to participate in 3 steps:

1. Add your event to the programme ().
2. Subscribe to the mailinglist and stay tuned to the latest news.
3. Invite your friends and show up in person or avatar from 12th to 13th of December.

Saturday 12th + Sunday 13th of December
Arnolfini (contemporary arts centre)
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
UK

Call for Appplications: CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program

2009-11-10T16:31:38+01:00

SURROUND YOURSELF WITH NEW WAYS OF THINKING
Think your ideas are farfetched? Think again. There’s no limit to what you can create at the CFC Media Lab. In just five months, you will learn from some of the best in the interactive business and engage in a collaborative process that will allow you to come up with new and exciting ideas for the real world.

ACCELERATE YOUR FUTURE
The CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program (IAEP) is Canada's first post-graduate training and production program based on a philosophy that compelling content is created though a collaborative process harnessing a wide range of creative skills

Team-based, self-directed and project-driven, the TELUS IAEP merges collaborative exploration with the fundamentals of new media, with a particular emphasis on narrative theory and storytelling. Residents learn from a variety of perspectives including academic, industrial, artistic, technological, and practical.

More than 92% of CFC alumni are currently working in the film, TV and new media industries. Award winning Alumni companies include Stitch Media, stitchmedia.ca; Smiley Guy Studio, smileyguy.com and Trapeze Media, trapeze.com to name a few.

APPLY NOW
Applications for the Spring 2010 session are due by December 15, 2009.
Download your application package now at

WIN FREE TUITION
Flex your creative muscle and you could win free tuition with our online contest. Apply now at

TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program Info-session

2009-11-10T16:28:50+01:00

Review of Horse Bazaar's Digital Fringe, Melbourne 2009.

2009-11-10T15:33:08+01:00

Review of Horse Bazaar's Digital Fringe, Melbourne 2009.

By Angela Ferraiolo.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=365

"Every year as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 23rd - October 11th), a group of Australian media artists known as Horse Bazaar produces Digital Fringe. This is a nonstop digital playlist of short form video, sound, and images, some of it made by artists, some of it not, uploaded to the Digital Fringe website from around the world. Once individual entries are catalogued, the work is assembled into feeds and DVDs, and then streamed or delivered to a network of public and private locations. As expected, the festival's general stream is sent to museums and galleries but, in an effort to commandeer every available space, Horse Bazaar also sends Digital Fringe to bars, cafes, public squares, libraries, restaurants, and pretty much any other location that will allow them in."

Angela Ferraiolo is an interactive writer and filmmaker experimenting with text, video, and animation for the web, installation, and mobile applications. She is currently working on a new interactive movie titled "The Loop". Her digital story "Map of a Future War" was published in the Fall 2008 issue of the New River Journal. Her plays have been produced at La Mama Galleria and Expanded Arts in New York City and at the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia, USA. She is also the author of the RPG Aidyn Chronicles and the MMORPG Earth and Beyond. Angela teaches game programming and theories of game design in the Film and Media Department of Hunter College in New York.

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Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org

VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html

Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org

NEW: MA in Cultural Production: Presentation online and at the Univ. of Salzburg, Austria

2009-11-10T15:13:56+01:00

NEW: MA in Cultural Production
International and transdisciplinary Master programme for developing sustainable cultural projects
Start in March 2010
Introduction to the programme at the University of Salzburg, Dept. of Communication and online: November 24, 2009 // 17.00 - 19.00

Focussing on the interconnections between art, culture and media, and political, economic and social processes, this new university programme at the University of Salzburg balances innovative cultural theory with practice-oriented methods. As a postgraduate programme over 2,5 years (blocked sessions) the MA comprises five semesters.

The transdisciplinary curriculum is laid out at the intersections of art practice, cultural and communication studies, and a social science approach to economy. Cluster topics in relation to Space & Location, Vision & Change and Networks & Decentralisation allow for specialisation in one of the central fields of cultural production. Drawing on participants own professional interests, individual projects are constantly developed further and implemented in their contextual complexity. The programme includes a 3-week internship, individual coaching and a Master thesis.

We cordially invite you to attend a presentation of the MA in Cultural Production either in person (at the Dept. of Communication, University of Salzburg, Room 383) or online on November 24, 2009 from 17.00 - 19.00 (see www.uni-salzburg.at/wk/ma-cp).

The programme is coordinated by the Centre for Interuniversity Cooperation in the Arts and Humanities at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg and Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria.

More information and details: www.uni-salzburg.at/wk/ma-cp or via Email ma-cp@sbg.ac.at or call 0043 (0)664 8525475 (Siglinde Lang/University Salzburg)

Now Showing: Ben Callaway 4th - 24th November 2009

2009-11-10T14:56:52+01:00

Now Showing: Ben Callaway

Ben Callaway’s technique results in work that is as visually rich as it is intriguing. Narrative and image break down as the artist transfers and attacks the material of video in order to create uneasy structures and a complex juxtaposition of form and content.

Visit the online exhibition free at www.tank.tv  

www.tank.tv at Tate Modern

During 2009 www.tank.tv has had the pleasure of exhibiting the work of eighteen artists in a series of eighteen online solo shows. To celebrate the range and quality of work shown tank.tv have invited nine of the artists included in 2009’s programme to screen a previously unseen work in the Starr Auditorium at Tate Modern. 

The resulting programme will premiere several new productions from emerging and world renowned artists working with the moving image today, including: Alice Anderson, John Bock, Sebastian Buerkner, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jean-Charles Hue, Lisa Oppenheim, Steve Reinke, Michael Robinson and Mark Aerial Waller. 

2009’s Solo Show Programme on tank.tv was an attempt to survey the range of strategies and styles that have and are being used by artists working with the moving image.  All eighteen solo exhibitions are available to view via the tank.tv online collection at www.tank.tv. 

Programme duration 70mins // Tickets £5 (£4 concessions), available through the Tate box ofﬁce.

MEMORY/IDENTITY

2009-11-10T10:00:38+01:00

MICROWAVE FESTIVAL
International Videoart Festival
14th November - 24th November 2009
Hong Kong

In Collaboration with VideoChannel - an online and physical space platform focused on film & video. Chief curator, founder and director of VideoChannel, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne has invited curator Giorgio Fedeli to select this programme of works.

MEMORY/IDENTITY
A project by Visualcontainer Italian Videoart Distributor and Promotion
Italian selection:
PATRIZIA MONZANI - Stadt Fish 2006
CHRISTIAN NICCOLI - Escalating perception/the gaze 2004
MATTEO PASIN - Disapperar 2006
CRISTINA PAVESI - Ore 13 2006
SABRINA SABATO - Il dondolo 2002
ENZO UMBACA - Soffri 2002
ALESSANDRA ARNO’ - Play 2008
ELENA ARZUFFI - Domestic parkour 2007
BARBARA BRUGOLA - Zone Lost 2008
PASCAL CAPARROS - Corpus 2008
IGINIO DE LUCA - Autofocus 2006
PIETRO MELE - Ottana 2008

A selection by Visual Container/Milan;
Curated by Giorgio Fedeli
Chief curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.

VISUALCONTAINER
Italian Videoart Distributor
www.visualcontainer.org
for info: info@visualcontainer.org

VIDEOCHANNEL
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/

Artificial Scarcity

2009-11-10T02:15:18+01:00

With the advent of digital cameras and associated mainstream online forums such as flickr and youtube, the modernist impulse to create art for art’s sake has given way to a sort of user-generated white noise, where one’s ability to stream content without restraint merges with another’s unrestrained need to stream content, leaving little room for individual distinction. Like names in a phone book that point to an ocean of individuals who have little relevancy in one’s day to day life, streaming art for an online public tends to exist with little context and as result, flounders in a kind of atomized digital anonymity.

Artificial Scarcity is Ripple’s attempt to rescue three years worth of art photography from the digital abyss by pulling a publicity stunt of sorts, highlighting the role that the audience/institution/collector plays in determining the worth of artistic output.

Ripple will exhibit an installation that includes a documentary video of a process-oriented work where he distributes 5×7 prints of all the images from his flickr stream throughout Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York and moves all the digital copies of the photos onto disc, puts the discs into a padded mailer, deletes the image files from his flickr account and his hard drive, tosses the padded envelope from the window of a moving car and sets back out to find the padded envelope that contains the discs the last weekend in November.

If the discs are found, you better believe they’re for sale. If they’re not found, the 5×7 prints and a few blog site copies of the images will be all that remain of the work.

Artist’s Reception(s):

Friday, December 4th, 2009 7:00-9:00 PM @ Stella Haus'> – San Antonio

Saturday, December 12th, 2009 6:00-8:00 PM @ Apama Mackey'> – Houston

Sunday, December 13th, 2009 6:00 PM-8:00 PM @ Co-Lab'> – Austin

Screening — Bunny Lake Is Missing

2009-11-10T00:46:25+01:00

7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1965). A quietly cracked Carol Lynley is the mother of a missing daughter who may or may not exist; Laurence Olivier investigates. Loaded with suspicion and suspense, this late Preminger is “an underrated masterpiece.”—Senses of Cinema (107 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Screening — Bonjour Tristesse

2009-11-10T00:45:28+01:00

5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1958). Pampered teen Jean Seberg looks back at a summer of Technicolor heartbreak on the French Riviera in this gorgeous adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s novel. “Arguably, this is Preminger’s masterpiece.”—Chicago Reader (94 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.

Screening — Skidoo

2009-11-10T00:44:38+01:00

8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Otto Preminger (U.S., 1968). Set in San Francisco, Preminger’s acid-fueled generational jest pits the hippies against the Mob, as embodied by Jackie Gleason. With Groucho Marx as God. (98 mins)
Part of PFA Series Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Movie.