vBrooklyn: A Video-Festival about Brooklyn as a Place and Video as an Artform

December 3, 2006
7pm-11pm
6:30pm pre-show installations
Admission $5

at Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Contact:
Adam Kendall, vBrooklyn Curator
vBrooklyn@hellbender.org
http://www.vBrooklyn.org

The vBrooklyn video-festival documents Brooklyn’s evolving cityscape through contemporary video-art. 20 of NYC’s underground and established artists will present live video-performances and screenings.

Brooklyn is transforming as development hits critical mass. vBrooklyn asked video-artists to tape the borough’s skyline and architecture before they permanently change, helping to build a dynamic historic record through personal interpretation and literal documentation.

Some of NYC’s most innovative and entertaining video-artists will manipulate video in real-time or screen pieces, ranging from ambient, abstract studies to dynamic, figurative examinations. Subjects include the Gowanus Canal, the downfall of Greenpoint buildings, Brooklyn’s waterfront, Floyd Bennett Field, landmark bridges, and other elements defining Brooklyn as a place.

Participating Video-Artists:
Benton-C Bainbridge
Elle Burchill
Naval Cassidy
Karl Channell
Christopher Curtin
Luke DuBois
Madeleine Gallagher
Andy Graydon
Giles Hendrix
Janene Higgins
Chika Iijima
Bettina Johae
Chris Jordan
Adam Kendall
Leif Krinkle
David Last
Zach Layton
Anton Marini
Elizabeth Smolarz
Bruce Tovsky

Participating Musicians:
Evidence (Stephan Moore & Scott Smallwood)
Elliot Sharp

vBrooklyn is sponsored by Forward Motion Theater and the Experimental
Television Center’s Presentation Funds program, which is supported by the
New York State Council on the Arts, the Independene Community Foundation, and mediaThe Foundation.