Cliff Evans @ The Haggerty Museum of Art
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| Another multi-channel open-PLAYER installation: Cliff Evans w/Terrorfarmer with their 15 Reasons to Go to War 3-Channel video will participate in the group exhibition Jump Cut Pop. The exhibition features works by Evans + Fukui + Hammond + Paolozzi + Rosler + Yokoo inspired by the Pop Art movement. |
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Video-on-Stick - Nebojša Šeric Shoba : Liberte Tojours (Freedom Forever)
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Tobacco, alcohol and gun companies continue to distribute their products worldwide despite the harm that they cause to the health of their consumers and people still buy these goods despite the risks to their wellbeing that they inevitably expose themselves to. Many of the companies negotiate selling harmful products to the public by printing warning labels on the packaging. These warnings take on the role of educating the consumers and moralizing to them about their choices, thus becoming some kind of limbo between product and consumer. By doing so, companies are trying to create smokescreens for easier access to the market, and by re-branding their products they hope that their products will seem less harmful than they actually are. Of course, nothing is changed within the products themselves. Cigarette companies have begun?seemingly?aggressively cautioning their consumers by creating large, bold warning signs on each cigarette box. Although the messages that can be found on the boxes seem harsh, they are not disturbing enough to ward people off from smoking. Most smokers never notice the signage on the boxes. Why not use that space to convey a message people would notice?
Video on USB sticks, with open-PLAYER software. Edition of 20, $200 each.
Luisa Rabbia: open-PLAYER Video Installation in Torino
The video Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008 was conceived during the artist’s residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and was presented as a solo show in 2008, (also powered by open-PLAYER). Video excerpt:
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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.
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www.participantinc.org
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160 Columbus Avenue - Collaboration With Smartspaces
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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.
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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
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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.
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