ARTLURKER: Christy Gast’s Mounted Horse Men via open-PLAYER
Very nice write up in ArtLurker about Christy Gast’s Mounted Horse project:
Her most recent project, Mounted Horse Men, can be expressed as part sculpture, part accessory, part documentary; a primitive tool that, once removed from its sheath and inserted into a USB drive, launches a national video study of men imposing order upon landscape.
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:  |
open-PLAYER participates in Show Off 07
From october 16 – 22 2007, open-PLAYER has been invited by the cutting edge art fair Show Off 07 to organise the presentation of Video Best Venues’ (VBV) video programming at the Espace Cardin theater (650 seats). VBV consists of videos submitted by the participating galleries, from which a jury of curators and collectors shall select 10 works. In January 2008, these prize winning videos will be featured in a special exhibition at LE CUBE, the first contemporary art center in France to be entirely devoted to digital art. For more information on open – PLAYER and Show off 07, please follow this link.
Flashart article about open-PLAYER
open-PLAYER – TECHNOLOGY
While artists’ DVDs are illegally copied into infinite personal libraries and podcasts become the next new medium for artmaking, the usability of these portable media has yet to be well-tapped for the safe marketing and dissemination of video works by artists and their galleries. Open- PLAYER has taken the initiative to create the technology allowing protected ownership or temporary possession of video works through high-quality trasmissions to their subscribers. In cooperation with galleries and archives, this service will open up new avenues in the classroom or on the salesfloor.
open-PLAYER @ Venice Videoart Fair
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We are happy to announce that the video work “Marie” by artist Pascal Lièvre and “One Step Forward Two Steps Back” by Bruno Muzzolini (presented by Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris) received the first prize at the Venice Video Art Fair 2007. The curator of this fair was Raffaele Gavarro. Mario Gorni director of C/ Care de Milan and collectors Giorgio Fasol and Armando Porcari composed the jury. |
