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
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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:  |
Portugal: 7 Wonders
open-PLAYER is lending its support to the Portuguese artist Miguel Palma and his involvment in the 7 wonders project
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open-PLAYER will initiate three high-quality live Internet streams from Jerónimos Monastery, Obidos and Palacio de Pena, from which Miguel Palma will create an installation at Palacio de Pena at Sintra. More soon …
Great Comment …
In his comment to the article The market limits of JPGs? Jonathan T. D. Neil from Boyd Level wrote:
I’d say I have to agree with Steven Kaplan’s assessment of the JPG as a simple tool of utility. But the JPG isn’t really the issue: What’s at issue is the buying behavior of collectors when transactions become increasingly mediated by technology. One can foresee a day when higher-resolution flatscreens, which are no longer back-lit, as well as high compression technologies which make it easier to send larger image and video packets over the internet, will offer a very attractive way of looking at and making decisions about buying art. Now will this replace the brick-and-mortar gallery? Probably not. But it does extend, as the JPG has already done, a gallery’s reach into markets that were once closed due to geographical distance. Just as it will extend a collector’s reach into galleries in cities other than their own: operations like vernissage.tv and the forthcoming newarttv.com are good examples of ways that habitual gallery-goers and collectors can ‘keep up’ with shows in other places; in the end, their success will depend on the quality of their content and production. What the Saatchi example points up is the fact that the use (and abuse) of technology for collecting must bear with it a metric that measures the price of the work, the price of shipping and insurance of that work, the potential for a sale to a given collector and the impact that that sale will have on future sales. For some galleries, for some works of art, and for some collectors, it’s simply not going to make sense, economically speaking, for the work itself to travel. In those situations, the JPG and its progeny will rule. Now, why works of digital video art have not found a viable online distribution network is a mystery to me…
That’s before he found out about open-PLAYER …
