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’

a refreshing burst of Live Mix Video and A/V
DVD NTSC Region-Free
$20.00 US

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EyeWash *Mechanix*

TBD

Due to a scheduling error at Monkeytown, EyeWash has been postponed rather than compromise with our presentation. We regret this insult to our artists, and will reschedule as soon as possible.

featured video artists include:
Ben Neill + Bill Jones
David Linton
Katherine Liberovskaya+ Al Margolis and Michael Delia
Peter Shapiro + The Glass Bees

Music by DJ ActivePhaze

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Explore the latest trends in museum studies in the context of the new museum at the second biennial Savannah College of Art and Design Art History Symposium in Savannah, Ga. The three-day symposium includes a series of sessions and events centered on exhibition, education, technology and cultural heritage.

Art History Symposium 2008
Savannah College of Art and Design
Friday, April 4th
Session IV
River Club, 2:15–3:45 p.m

Forward Motion Theater are participating via teleconference.

Architecture of Participation
Session chair: Christoph Klütsch, Ph.D.

The cultural landscape surrounding museums continues to go through dramatic changes. One of the most challenging tasks today is the integration of the audience—a core element of the cultural landscape—into the museum institution museum. The rise of specialized museums is evidence of a competitive cultural industry, which forces contemporary museology to investigate the multiple relations between artist, object, visitor, participant, curator, economy and technology. A central notion has appeared in recent years: participation. Investigate the way relationship between participating elements could be re-interpreted to meet the cultural needs of the global society through the lens of pilot projects in the European Union, which will be compared and contrasted with experiences of global artistic collaboration to stimulate a discussion about the “Architectures of Participation.”

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EyeWash *Anaglyph*

The EyeWash 2008 Spring Season begins on March 7th. This month marks our 5th anniversary and to celebrate EyeWash is going 3D! Don’t miss this special event where veteran video artists move their material right off the screen and take you into the next dimension. 3D glasses will be provided, and Monkeytown’s menu is superb!

Friday, March 7th
at Monkeytown 58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Seatings at 7:30pm and 10pm. $5
Space is limited, reservations recommended.
Call 718.384.1369
or email monkeytownhq@aol.com for reservations.

featured video artists include:
Holly Daggers -view a clip
Seej + The Goistron Sentry -view a clip
MOSTRA -view a clip
VisualHornHonking -view a clip

Music by DJ ActivePhaze

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