Michelle Handelman: DORIAN (four channel video installation)
Featuring: Quin Charity, K8 Hardy, Armen Ra, Sequinette, and a special appearance by Flawless Sabrina.
Original music by: Vincent Baker, Lustmord, Armen Ra, Nadia Sirota, Stefan Tcherepnin.
Cinematography by: Ed David.
Still photography by: Laure Leber and Ves Pitts.
Artwork by: Amelie Chabannes, drawings for animation and Daniella Dooling, wall sculptures.
Powered by open-PLAYER.
www.participantinc.org
More pictures here.
UPDATE: Another screening + Live Performance by Flawless Sabrina at monkey town.
160 Columbus Avenue – Collaboration With Smartspaces
We are pleased to announce collaboration with smartspaces and the opening of the video installation in the window of 160 Columbus Avenue in New York. The installation features VoS artists Francisca Caporali and Mary Jeys, Christy Gast, Hadassa Goldvicht, Triny Prada and Ana Prvacki together with emerging artists Jessica Mein and Trine Nedreaas.
SMS messages sent to +1-646-492-9738 will appear in real-time in the window and on our Twitter page
open-PLAYER multichannel installation "The Empire Trilogy" by Heather Bennett
The Empire Trilogy, by Heather Bennett, at Luxe Gallery, 53 Stanton St, New York
Opening Reception Friday November 14th 2008 7-9pm
Exhibition dates: November 14th – December 23rd
Powered by open-PLAYER software, ” The Empire Trilogy” multichannel installation constitutes Heather Bennett’s latest body of work in time based media. Known for her cinematic large-scale photographs, this trilogy of videos centers around a lone woman, all of whom almost slyly encompass a panoply of reflecting fictions. The amalgamated ‘characters’ take substance from childhood fairytales, contemporary fashion, female genre roles and a healthy dose of nostalgia and somehow coalesce into a peaceful, almost quieting image. These are portraits of control, of mastery. “Holly Holy” is a collision of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and a bit of Eve, bathed in red velvet and monastically reading Faulkner. “Locks and Hocks” conflates Goldilocks and a restrained 50′s housewife, entombed in a sun-drenched, yellow kitchen listlessly stirring a pot of beans and hammocks. And “Babe” collapses male and female with a school girl, Paul Bunyan combo of metamorphosed blue plaid where our heroine dully wields a two-sides axe, knocking dirt from her boots, while swathed in one of the most sexualized articles of clothing in recent history…
AWGTHTGTWTA by Tony Oursler (Are We Going to Have to Go Through with This Again?)
Video projection currently on display until November 2, 2008
Location: The Fulton Houses Playground, 17th Street between 9th & 10th Aves
open-PLAYER software has implemented the realtime scrolling SMS text message display for the outdoors public art installation / video AWGTHTGTWTA by Tony Oursler currently on display in The Fulton Houses Playground.
AWGTHTGTWTA is inspired by the gaming habits of contemporary kids. The artist worked with teens from Liberty High School and Clinton Middle School. The installation focuses on linking the public space of the playground with the children’s ideal fantasy worlds, compulsive online gaming, improvisational singing on youtube, and chanting of a youth chorus. The audience is asked to connect with the installation by sending text messages that become part of the work as subtitles. The artist has also written text to be performed by the chorus that is edited with other found footage from youtube. The final element of the installation is footage of students performing readings from a creative writing project that describes their images of the future and ideal worlds. This installation explores the link between the coding of games and the simultaneously productive and destructive use of creative energy.
For more information please visit http://www.moreart.org/
Video-on-Stick – Triny Prada: Delicatesse (Delicacy)
The paradox of nature : the strong and rough hand of a man who works the fields, the flowers in his hands shows us that strength and sweetness go together and gives a real vision of beauty as a true mirror of the world.About the artist: Painter and performance artist, Triny Prada likens the act of painting to video. Video provides the spatial and formal conditions for Triny to express the movement and sound that are present in her painting.
Video on USB sticks, with open-PLAYER software. Edition of 20, $280 each.
Video-on-Stick – Ana Prvacki: Wild Goose-Step (and then she said)
Ananatural Productions, 2007
Edition 50 USB sticks with specially designed sticker
This video is the fruit of Prvacki’s reflections upon how to go about a show dealing with the artist/ curator relationship . Upon the suggestion of Singapore based curator and friend June Yap to put on “a pretty dress and chase your goose around the garden”, the artist followed these instructions thereby demonstrating trust and a certain level of surrender to the curator. The goose only bit her twice.
Credits for filming: Vijay Singh and Milenko Prvacki; for editing : Brian
Gothong Tan ; Sound track “Balkan Rumba” : Ognjen.
Artist’s website
and special appearance by Moby at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptj27LZHUdo
open-PLAYER at Goethe Institut, New York
Show/Tell 07: Passages – Hommage à Walter Benjamin
Conversation + Exhibition
Opening 04/24/08
7pm
04/25/08-06/14/08
Gallery Hours:
Mon, Wed, Fri: 10am-5pm
Tues, Thurs: 10am-7pm
Sat: 12-5pm
Goethe-Institut New York
1014 Fifth Avenue @ 83rd Street
New York, NY 10028
212-439-8700
The Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to present a discussion and exhibition of video art inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (Passagenwerk), his intricate and haunting life’s work contemplating the arcades of Paris. Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and Stephan Wackwitz, Program Department Director at the Goethe-Institut New York discuss Benjamin’s masterpiece which continues to captivate artists and thinkers today.
For the exhibition Passages-passagen-pasáže eighteen international video artists pay tribute to Walter Benjamin’s work. The exhibition, curated by Nadine Gandy and designed by Michael Berk and Daniel Vatsky, is co-organized by the Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, Institut Français, and the Goethe-Instituts Bratislava and New York.
The interactive video installation is presented with open-PLAYER, a video management, software application which ensures online video transmission in broadcast quality. Special thanks to Nathalie Angles, Drazen Pantic, “Passages” technical consultant, and open-PLAYER.
open-PLAYER at CIGE art fair, Beijing, April 24-28 2008
For exhibitor Luxe Gallery (New York), open-PLAYER is facilitating the presentation of videos by Cliff Evans with its synchronizing software.
For further information please visit this page.
open-PLAYER at NEXT art fair, Chicago, April 25-28 2008
Booth 7 – 2030 A SHOW OFF – VIDEO BEST VENUES -VBV 07
During the Show Off Art Fair in Paris in October 2007, a jury of art professionals was invited to select the 10 most popular videos. The program VIDEO BEST VENUES-VBV 07 is currently made available to the public at Next art fair with the following artists:
-Ultralab, “Diorama” , courtesy Galerie Magda Danysz
-Nicolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, “My Cat and I” , courtesy Galerie Vanessa Quang
-zinkinstallatie Virginie Bailly , “Zink”, courtesy Transit Gallery
-Boris Eldagsen, “The show must go on” , courtesy Galerie Herrmann & Wagner
-Bruno Muzzolini, “One step forward two steps back”, courtesy Galerie Fabio
-Caroline Molusson, “A peu pres”, courtesy Galerie Ilka Bree
-Jemima Burrill, “At home”, courtesy Galerie Olivier Houg
Martin Sastre, “Freaky Birthday (When Robbie became Martin), Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Location :
Next / Venue:
Merchandise Mart, 7th floor
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza
Chicago, IL 60654
Video-on-Stick – Christy Gast: Mounted Horse Men
Christy Gast‘s new video edition Mounted Horse Men contains forty short clips of men imposing order on the natural world. The order of the clips is reconfigured by open-PLAYER software each time the stick is inserted into a USB drive, revealing new meta-narratives.
Edition of 20 USB stick embedded into a broken aspen branch.
