December 12, 2008

8:00 pm

December 13, 2008

2:00 pm

8:00 pm

vBrooklyn: A video festival about Brooklyn as a place and video as an art form

Friday & Saturday, December 12 & 13, 2008
Polytechnic University
Wunsch Hall – 6 Metrotech Plaza, Brooklyn
$5 admission each day

Presented in cooperation with the Integrated Digital Media Institute, Forward Motion Theater and Harvestworks

visit the official vBrooklyn website

The vBrooklyn video-festival documents Brooklyn, NY’s, evolving cityscape, culture and people with contemporary video-art. The festival presents innovative and entertaining video-artists through live video-performances and screenings.

Brooklyn’s urban development and population have hit critical-mass — vBrooklyn asks video-artists to tape the borough as it permanently transforms, building a visual historic record through personal interpretation and documentation.

Event Schedule:

Friday December 12 — 8:00 pm

The evening includes performances and screenings focusing on the complexity and detail that make Brooklyn a unique city within a city, including pieces written specifically for IDMI’s 9 channel video system.

(Artists listed in alphabetical order)

Video Screenings:
Elle Burchill – ‘In Black & White’
Richard Garet – ‘Brooklyn Panorama, Light Compositions 1 – 9′
Rikayo Horimizu, Inhye Lee and Ganesh Ramanathan – ‘Grand Street’
VJ Miixxy, Blake Scott – ‘Street Moves’
Sarah Nelson Wright – ‘Fillmore Place’
Marina Zamalin (with musician Sasha Karmanskiy) – ‘Brooklyn Canals (excerpt)’

Video Performances:
Richard Garet (with musician WvS) – ‘Brooklyn Interpretations’
Caspar Stracke – ‘Clermont’
VisualHornHonkinG (with musician DJ ActivePhaze) – ‘Derbanat’

Installations:
IDMI presents ongoing interactive installations featuring its custom 9 channel video system.
Bilge Demirtas, Laura Lou and Lenin Paulino – ‘Real-time Editing’
Caroline Bouchat, Angeline Su-Ching Chang and Catalin Stefanovici – ‘Club Hello’

Saturday December 13 — Afternoon Events

The evening includes performances and screenings focusing on the complexity and detail that make Brooklyn a unique city within a city, including pieces written specifically for IDMI’s 9 channel video system.

2:00 pm — Video Screenings:
Piama Habibullah, James Charles Daher – ‘broken land: NOW’
Jared Lamenzo – ‘Brooklyn Bridge’
Kimberly Simpson, Brian Colby – ‘Saint Agnieska, Patroness of the Waterfront’
vydavy sindikat – ‘a voyage to Laputa’
David Watson – ‘Wasted’
Tamara Yadao – ‘Red Hook Sugar’

2:30 pm — IDMI’s Featured Screening and Discussion of the 9 Channel Video System:
IDMI presents a screening by its graduate students followed by a demonstration and discussion of the technology behind their custom 9 channel video system.
Gary Acers, Richard Lewis and Lan Xu – ‘Global Flittr’

3:00 pm — Video Performances:
Chika (with musician WvS) – ’110408′
Bruce Tovsky – ‘Elegy’

4:00 pm — Video Performances:
Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer – ‘Coney Island Moves’
Karl Mendonca – ‘A Tiny Patch of Sky.’

Installations:
IDMI presents ongoing interactive installations featuring its custom 9 channel video system.
Bilge Demirtas, Laura Lou and Lenin Paulino – ‘Real-time Editing’
Caroline Bouchat, Angeline Su-Ching Chang and Catalin Stefanovici – ‘Club Hello’

Saturday December 13 — 8:00 pm

The evening includes performances and screenings; artist discussions; and a performance by Harvestworks artist Sean Hagerty.

Video Screenings:
Adam Kendall – ‘Negative City’
David Last – ‘Coney II (for SEQ3 and SEIN)’
Sarah Nelson Wright, Francisca Caporali, Kym Chapman, Pilar Ortiz, Uni Park – ‘Havemeyer Street’

Harvestworks Artist and Discussion:
vBrooklyn is pleased to work with artistic partner Harvestworks. Harvestworks resident Sean Hagerty presents a live multi-video-channel/multi-audio-channel performance, followed by a discussion with Hagerty and Harvestworks Director Carol Parkinson. They’ll discuss Hagerty’s piece and Harvestworks’ role in New York City’s artistic community.
Sean Hagerty, Siddartha Mehta – ‘Place Panes’

Video Performances:
Naval Cassidy – ‘Brooklyn Compendium’
Jennifer Stock – ‘City Scar’

Installations:
IDMI presents ongoing interactive installations featuring its custom 9 channel video system.
Bilge Demirtas, Laura Lou and Lenin Paulino – ‘Real-time Editing’
Caroline Bouchat, Angeline Su-Ching Chang and Catalin Stefanovici – ‘Club Hello’