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.
open-PLAYER and PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon
open-PLAYER is encoding and archiving video works from the collection of the Foundation. The videos shall be played-back on plasma screens at the Head-Quarters of PLMJ, Law Firm in Lisbon. Instituted by the partners of the law firm PLMJ – A.M. Pereira, Sáragga Leal, Oliveira Martins, Júdice e Associados, PLMJ Foundation has developed an important art collection, a significant portion of which is dedicated to contemporary video art by emerging Portuguese artists.
To view the collection please visit: PLMJ site
Video-on-Stick (VoS)
open-PLAYER is pleased to announce the VOS initiative, commissioning and distributing artists’ videos for small editions to be released on USB sticks utilizing our new compression and playback software. Each edition includes a video project and a USB enclosure designed or handmade by the artist. open-PLAYER playback software enables videos to play automatically upon insertion into a USB port. Editions will be signed and numbered, and include a certificate of authenticity.
open-PLAYER will also distribute an unlimited iPhone edition of videos in the series. Depending on the agreement with the artist, we will release iPhone edition either at the same time as the USB version or only when the main edition is sold out.
VoS may be purchased online; artists are compensated immediately on the sale of an edition.
UPDATE: ZDNet published a story yesterday, about a startup, Portomedia, who plans to start video rentals on USB video sticks.
open-PLAYER @ JEU DE PAUME
open-PLAYER facilitated the Passages video program screened at the “Petit Cafe” of the JEU DE PAUME from February 2 – 15, 2008.
Cette initiative est rendue possible par Open-Player, (www.open-Player.com), une technologie innovatrice qui permet de transmettre, par voie digitale, les videos en qualite optimale (haute d finition comprise).
Art Video / TV & Internet: Ovation TV to pair MOCA
Very interesting article in LA Times:
A co-production by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Ovation TV will be the first in a series of collaborations between cultural institutions and the cable arts network to create programming intended to raise the profiles of both partners.As part of a long-term initiative to be announced today, the network and MOCA have produced a 10-minute video about MOCA’s upcoming exhibition “Collecting Collections,” opening Feb. 10. The video includes interviews with art collectors, donors and artists and will be part of the exhibition as well as air on Ovation.
The MOCA video will be shown not only during the “Collecting Collections” exhibition in MOCA’s Reading Room but also on the museum’s website. Concurrently with the exhibition, Ovation will make the piece available on the TV network, its website and VOD (video on demand). Ovation TV serves 25 million subscribers nationwide, with satellite carriage on DirecTV (Channel 274) and Dish Network in the Los Angeles area.
open-PLAYER has built-in syndication feature, what could enable galleries and artists to submit their videos (in form of an RSS feed) for potential air over TV networks, in full broadcast quality, but protecting version and copy right integrity.
open-PLAYER and Passages Passagen Pasáze -Hommage to Walter Benjamin
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December 7 2007-January 4 2008
Video works by 16 international artists exhibited on Panenská street in Bratislava and transfered digitally by open-PLAYER video distribution platform to the Jeu de Paume in Paris, Goethe Institut in New York and g-mk Center in Zagreb. Featured Artists: Lida Abdul (AF), Zbybek Baladran (CZ,Sandor Bodo (HU), Pavlina Fichta Cierna (Sk), Danika Dakic (BA), David Dempewolf (US), Yang Fudong (CN), Jean Charles Hue (FR), Caporali & Marta Jourdan (BR), Leopold Kessler (DE), Miro Kohut (SK), Melik Ohanian (FR), Renata Poljak (HR), Sergio Prego (ES), Katarzyna Skupny (PL), Song Tao (CN), Adam Vackar 9CZ), Akram Zaatari (LB). A project curated by Gandy Gallery in Bratislava, with support from Goethe Institut and French Cultural Institute. |
open-PLAYER @ Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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open-PLAYER provides its unique technology for High Definition playback and synchronization of a 5 multichannel video installation by Cliff Evans’ for his new work “Empyrean”. The show opens at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on November 8, 2007. From the press release:
“Empyrean” functions as five channel synchronized video — each channel being 720p High Definition video stream. For such a demanding task, we will build a highly optimized open-PLAYER system, with carefully chosen hardware components and our software for encoding and playback of multichannel video streams. All software is Open Source … Installation view and link:  |
