Bart Rutten of the Stedelijk invited me to come up with a short film introduction and live visual mix for this upcoming conference on museum as content creator. Thinking of Zabriskie point slow-motion explosions of the Guggenheim, youtube tourist videos from outside the represented museums, postcards and snapshots, classicism and iconography. Free entry, reserve via [...]
“From pretty to ugly and back again; mysterious ways of beauty in photography” http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/2009/video-hans-aarsman-on-the-mysterious-ways-of-beauty-in-photography/
Mock up on Mu dir. Craig Baldwin (USA, 2009, 110 min) Première: 3 December, 22:00 hrs Smart Project Space A new movie by Craig Baldwin, straight out of the Other Cinema compound in San Francisco. The latest in his canon that includes Tribulation 99, Sonic Outlaws and Spectres of the Spectrum, all intoxicating feature-length films [...]
This festival opens this weekend in Osaka. Jona is showing a number of my videos in the screening program. Check it out if you’re in the neighborhood. http://www.feavs.org
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=95349500794 Wednesday night in Amsterdam, a selection of videos that inspire. Including Biggie Small’s funeral procession, Corey Delaney’s A Current Affair interview, Aum Shinrikyo Anime and John Kilduff’s Let’s Paint TV. Coming Wednesday (the 27th) it’s time for the second Beam club hosted by De Verdieping. This time Special guest Ben Cerveny (one of the [...]
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/video-vortex-split/program
Documentation of the live video and orchestra performance, March 21 at World Music and Dance Center in Rotterdam. http://www.wmdc.nl/engels/program/content/Archive/2009/1809.php
A late upload following recent activity, travel and shows. I found some time to go through a pile of unlabelled documentation dv tape from recent trips. Two performances included here, Marclay’s ‘Screenplay’ videoscore and Mengbo’s performative quake mod ‘Q2008′, recorded on hot, humid nights during last year’s E-Arts festival in Shanghai. These were highly enjoyable [...]
It was 1998 and our film night HIPNOTISMO was just kicking off. Held in the old Theatreworks hall in St Kilda, we were nineteen and full of beans. Amiel, Dorian and I were excited to show Conner’s MONGOLOID, a found-footage music video before music video. We had the reel of 16mm film from the state [...]