121308 vBrooklyn at Polytechnic University

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

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

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.

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.

$5 admission for the entire afternoon

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’

Wunsch Hall at Polytechnic University
Six MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718 260-3600

A,C,F to Jay Street/Borough Hall
2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall
M,R to Lawrence Street
Q,B to Dekalb Avenue

051105 EYEWASH *Art Is…*

Remote Lounge: 327 Bowery (at 2nd Street)
9pm – 1am **FREE**

DOCTOR T (EMILE TOBENFELD)’s artistic sensibility is strongly influenced by his education (Ph.D in Physics), and his fascination with improvisation in all forms. His sonic and visual experiments apply a scientist’s and photographer’s eye for texture, geometry, form, and the interaction of light and surface, a strong sense of collage, and an abiding curiosity about technology’s use in creating music and visual art. Dr.T is joined by CLAIRE BARRATT of Cilla_Vee Movement Projects. Claire specialized in Motion Sculpture, a unique art form in which the artist becomes a living sculpture piece. Gradually melting and morphing through transitions of shifting forms, constantly reinventing itself. Special audio by DEKNOW.

With BRAD SWINDELL no video stream from any source is safe from being yanked out of the air and dropped into his laptop. Once there, clips are mixed, scratched, and looped to music, creating a whole new context for the images. Next thing you know, Celebrity Boxing is playing with Radiohead, and Bollywood clips are jumping to Basement Jaxx beats.

CHARLES ATLAS is a filmmaker and video artist who has created numerous works for stage, screen, museum, and television. Atlas is a pioneer in the development of media-dance, a genre in which original performance work is created directly for the camera. Atlas worked as filmmaker-in-residence with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for ten years, and many of the Atlas’ works have been collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and performers, including Yvonne Rainer, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Diamanda Galas, John Kelly, and Leigh Bowery. Atlas is the recipient of three Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Awards. His feature-length film “Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance” won the Best Documentary Award at Dance Screen 2000 in Monaco. His work has been shown at international institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Geoerges Pompidou, Paris; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

CHIKA IIJIMA is a visual artist from Japan who has been living and working in New York City since the early 90’s. She combines video with graphic imagery to traverse an emotional range by processing them through real-time programs such as Modul8. She integrates music to further explore how physical and rhythmic modulations affect human emotions and vice-versa.

Music by resident DJs Duane Reade and Krou

113007-120207 vBrooklyn

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

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

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, screenings and installations.

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

Sunday December 2 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The day includes technical demonstrations of IDMI’s 9 channel video system; a performance by R. Luke DuBois specially written for the system; panel discussions; and a screening of Michael Miscione’s “The City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation”, a chronicle of Brooklyn’s end as an independent city.

$5 admission for the day (Artists listed in alphabetical order)

1:00 pm Video Screenings

(+) Jeanne Angel - ‘i [heart] brooklyn’
(+) Al Griffin – ‘South 2nd Street’
(+) Tamara Yadao – ‘Miss Brooklyn’


1:30 pm The City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation

(+) Michael Miscione – ‘The City of Greater New York: The Story of Consolidation’

2:30 pm Presentations, Demonstrations, and Talks

(+) Insook Choi & Carl Skelton – ‘BrookLynX’
(+) Ardis Kadiu
(+) Anton Marini
(+) Panel Discussion and Q/A with R. Luke DuBois, Carl Skelton, Ardis Kadiu and Anton Marini

4:00 pm R. Luke DuBois and Todd Reynolds with Satoshi Takeishi

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.

(+) R. Luke DuBois (with musician Todd Reynolds & Satoshi Takeishi)

4:30 pm Video Performances

(+) CHiKA (with musician Sawako) – ‘chronos v’
(+) Adam Kendall (with musician Richard Garet)
(+) Lady Firefly (with musician Zemi17) – ‘Under the Urban Blanket’

Video Installations

(+) Bettina Johae – ‘bedford avenue – brooklyn – ny’

For more info to go vBrooklyn video-festival

120306 VBROOKLYN

GALAPAGOS ART SPACE :: 70 North 6th Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn :: $5

Brooklyn – A video-festival about Brooklyn as a place and Video as an artform. As Brooklyn’s development hits critical-mass, the vBrooklyn video-festival documents the borough’s evolving cityscape through contemporary video-art. Video-artists will present live video-performances and screenings, helping to build a dynamic historic record of Brooklyn through personal interpretation and literal documentation.

6:30pm – Doors Open

7:00pm – Video Screenings

(+) Benton-C Bainbridge & Evidence – ‘(a)Bridge’
(+) Elle Burchill – ‘Demolition (Brooklyn Style)’
(+) Christopher Curtin – ‘Giving Up the Ghost’
(+) Andy Graydon – ‘Conductant’
(+) Giles Hendrix – ‘Transit’
(+) Janene Higgins – ‘Tunnel Vision’
(+) Chris Jordan - ’step b’
(+) Leif Krinkle & Karl Channell – ‘B61 Scan: Redhook to Greenpoint’
(+) David Last – ‘Coney II (for SEQ3 and SEIN)’
(+) Zach Layton – ‘Greenpoint Warehouse Fire’
(+) Elizabeth Smolarz – ‘Lucie / Jan’

8:15pm – Live Video Performances

(+) Naval Cassidy – ‘Twice a Rat’
(+) Madeleine Gallagher – ‘FBF RFG/MMG’
(+) Adam Kendall with Brian Moran – ‘Negative City’

9:30pm – Live Video Performances

(+) Luke DuBois – (title TBD)
(+) Chika Iijima with Zach Layton – ‘Chronos IV’
(+) Bruce Tovsky – ‘Underpass | Section One’

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