| 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’
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