vBrooklyn: A video-festival about Brooklyn as a place and video as an artform

November 30 to December 2, 2007Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
in cooperation with the Integrated Digital Media Institute and Forward Motion Theater.

vBrooklyn documents the evolving state of Brooklyn, NY, through contemporary video-art. The festival showcases video-artists as they build an historical record of the borough through innovative, entertaining and personal interpretation and documentation.

Friday, November 30 at 8pm
Saturday, December 1 at 8pm
Sunday, December 2 from 1pm to 6pm

Polytechnic University – Wunsch Hall
6 Metrotech Plaza, Brooklyn
$5 admission each day

A,C,F to Jay St. / 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall / M,R to Lawrence St. / Q,B to Dekalb Ave. Complete schedule, additional information, and links to more detailed directions at www.vBrooklyn.org

The festival features IDMI’s 9-channel video system. Over 25 artists will present live and composed multichannel video-performances and screenings focusing on the immense complexity and detail that make Brooklyn a unique city within a city.

Multimedia artist, educator, and software developer R. Luke DuBois will present a piece written specially for the 9 channel system as well as an updated multichannel encore of his 2006 vBrooklyn presentation.

There will be demonstrations and discussions of the intersection of urban history and video technology, including a screening of Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione’s “The City of Greater New York: The Story of the Consolidation”, a documentary featuring New York City’s absorption of independent Brooklyn.

PERFORMANCES: CHiKA w/Sawako, dual-blur, R. Luke DuBois w/Todd Reynolds &Satoshi Takeishi, Naval Cassidy, Adam Kendall w/Richard Garet, Lady Firefly w/Zemi17, David Linton: The Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System,VisualHornHonkinG w/DJ ActivePhaze

SCREENINGS: Jeanne Angel, Elle Burchill, Richard Garet, Al Griffin, GilesHendrix, Chris Jordan w/Ezekiel Honig, Julyo, Labtest, Nadia Lesy & KevinFreeman & Victoria Lundell & Aszure Barton, Monkeyfish, mpld & Criterion,rev.99, Jeremy Slater, vydavy sindikat, Tamara Yadao.

PRESENTATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS: Insook Choi, Bettina Johae, Ardis Kadiu,Anton Marini, Michael Miscione, Carl Skelton.

vBrooklyn is supported by:Polytechnic UniversityOne Eleven Interactive, Inc., Forward Motion Theater, One Eleven Interactive, Inc, Independence Community Foundation, The Experimental Television Center, and this event is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

FULL SCHEDULE:
Friday November 30 — 8:00 pmVideo Screenings:
eyescratch – ‘| Bridges | Verrazano | Williamsburg | Brooklyn | Manhattan’Richard Garet – ‘Brooklyn Panorama — Light Composition 1 to 9′Giles Hendrix – ‘Kilobyte Noir’Julyo – ‘SoBro 2007′Labtest – ‘Obscure Object part 2′rev.99 – ‘A VJ Grows in Brooklyn, bub’Monkeyfish – ‘Life Goes On’
Video Performances:
Naval Cassidy – ‘The Complete Destruction of a Partial Atlantis’VisualHornHonkinG (with musician DJ ActivePhaze) – ‘Brooknolinin’

Video Installations
Bettina Johae – ‘bedford avenue – brooklyn – ny’

Saturday December 1 — 8:00 pm
Video Screenings:
Elle Burchill – ‘Wonder Lust’Chris Jordan (with musician Ezekiel Honig) – ‘Peach Dither Alias’Nadia Lesy & Kevin Freeman, Esther Bell – ‘Blue Sky and Mad Hipster Baseball Dance’mpld & Criterion – ‘B’way (excerpt from La Ciudad)’Jeremy Slater – ‘WILLIAMSBURG < > D.U.M.B.O.’vydavy sindikat – ‘Commuter’s Dreams’
Video Performances:
dual-blur – ‘b-blur’
David Linton: The Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System – ‘Bad Vibes in Brooklyn: The French Connection 4X RGB Bicameral Remix
‘Video Installations
Bettina Johae – ‘bedford avenue – brooklyn – ny’

Sunday December 2 — 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm
1:00 pm — Video Screenings:
Jeanne Angel – ‘i [heart] brooklyn’Al Griffin – ‘South 2nd Street’Tamara Yadao – ‘Miss Brooklyn’
1:30 pm — Michael Miscione – ‘The City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation’The history of Brooklyn’s end as an independent city.
2:30 pm — Presentations, Demonstrations, and Talks:
Insook Choi & Carl Skelton – ‘BrookLynX’Ardis Kadiu – ‘pan – A Multi-Screen Media Player Demo’Anton Marini and Eric Redlinger – ‘Research at Polytechnic – GPU Shaders and Mobile Devices as Controllers – v001 and Mrmr’Panel Discussion and Q/A with Insook Choi, R. Luke DuBois, Ardis Kadiu, Anton Marini, Michael Miscione and Carl Skelton (moderated by vBrooklyn’s Adam Kendall)
4:00 pm — R. Luke DuBois with Todd Reynolds and Satoshi Takeishi – ‘Imaginary Elevateds’A special performance by multimedia artist, educator and software programmer R. Luke DuBois, presenting a piece specially written for IDMI’s 9 channel video system.
4:30 pm — Video Performances:
CHiKA (with musician Sawako) – ‘chronos v’Adam Kendall (with musician Richard Garet) – ‘Verrazano-Narrows’Lady Firefly (with musician Zemi17) – ‘Under the Urban Blanket’
Video Installations:
Bettina Johae – ‘bedford avenue – brooklyn – ny’

Organizational and Technical Support for vBrooklyn:Holly Daggers and Eric Dunlap of Forward Motion Theater