Sunday August 12th
new media showcase
7:30pm – 9:30pm
FREE
Vertices
“Vertices” is a summer selection of linear new media projects by artists associated with vertexList: an artist-run space in Williamsburg Brooklyn, founded in 2003 with a mission of supporting emerging media artists. vertexList seeks artwork conceptually involved in exposing the codes of post-capitalist culture, both via new and traditional media.
 While bitmap tries to mimic a photo by displaying a mosaic of pixels (bit-mapping), a vector image is purely synthetic. Historically employed for commercial design, corporate logos, simple, low-memory graphics and typography, vector imaging is based on the use of ingenious mathematical vectors called Bezier curves and various fills and gradients. Pierre Bezier was a French engineer working for Renault. His invention was only used to design car curves until 1972, when he released the concept to the free market. Each Bezier curve is composed of vertices (points) plus two moveable handles per vertex, the position of which define the curvature of a given segment of the curve. The property holding full mathematical description of a vector image is referred to as vertexlist.
-Marcin Ramocki, “vertexList: An Attempt at Disclosure”, Taipei Museum Journal
Pictured: Aron Namenwirth, “Untitled"
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ARTISTS
Lee Arnold
“S-Bahn”, 2006
Lee Arnold creates a dialogue between moving images and sound. He has exhibited in NYC at vertexList, Parker's Box, the DUMBO Arts Center, Gallery 128,Golaith Visual Space, and at Fleisher Ollman in Philadelphia, DCCA in Wilmington, the Bridge Art Fair in Miami, LiveBox in Chicago, SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles and the Berlinisch Galerie in Berlin.
http://leearnold.net/
Roddy Bogawa
TBA
New York filmmaker Roddy Bogawa’s work is known for its investigation of history and culture via lyrical low-fi means and innovative narrative structures. He has made three feature films, I WAS BORN, BUT… (2004), JUNK (1999), and SOME DIVINE WIND (1991) and numerous shorts including IF ANDY WARHOL’S SUPER-8 CAMERA COULD TALK (1993), A SMALL ROOM IN THE BIG HOUSE (1988), THE IMAGINED, THE LONGED-FOR, THE CONQUERED, AND THE SUBLIME (1996), and I’M SIMPLY OVERWHELMED, I JUST DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY – THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. GOOD NIGHT (2002). His more recent short films have been featured in the New York Film Festival, Oberhausen Festival Internationale, the Black Maria Film and Video Festival (Director’s Choice Prize), and the 1995 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the Cinematexas Short Film Festival.
http://www.roddybogawa.com/
Zachary Biberstine
“Flag”
This 2006 video performance begins with the unfurling of the American flag and ends with the gasping for breath. This attempted embodiment, although painful and enduring, was an effort to understand and progress. The performance attempts to not only share this experience, but also evoke the experiences of others; create a connection on a visual, audible, and memory level.
Currently working in personal, time based performance; the work of Zachary Biberstine takes many shapes. Interested in experience and embodiment, his recent work lives in and through performative acts, sometimes shown as artifacts or documentation. His work deals with ideas of experience, embodiment, displacement, expansion, and collapse.
http://www.biberstine.com
Charles Eladio Beronio
“Untitled (Pretty Vacant)”
Vinyl banner with applied vinyl lettering and grommets, 4' x 15', 2006
Artist Statement:
Untitled (Pretty Vacant), 2006 is part of an ongoing series of vinyl banners initiated during a residency and exhibition at Gallery Lui Velazquez, Tijuana in 2005. The banners are designed by the artist and fabricated by a commercial sign-maker. The banners utilize commercial and advertising vernacular commonly found in retail shopping spaces and commercial zones.
Beronio recently curated Material World at the Alliance Francaise de San Francisco and he has a forthcoming book with Printed Matter Inc. He has also published several design articles in CMYK magazine.
Kara Hearn
“Reincarnated scenes”
“These scenes are my effort to degrade and venerate the heroics of Hollywood movies. By utilizing the techniques of cinema in the simplest possible ways I hope to recreate narratives that are stripped of everything but the pathos inherent in the medium.”
Kara Hearn is an interdisciplinary video artist. She works with the stuff of popular entertainment to map the complexities of various emotional states, such as fear, melancholy, courage, and obsession. She studies these conditions and builds intimate and absurd narratives to understand them by. Her work has shown at White Columns, Pacific Film Archive, New Langton Arts, the Walker Art Center, Dallas Video Festival, and the Festival Tous Courts International Festival of Cinema. She recently received an MFA in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. You can see examples of her work at http://karahearn.com/
ETEAM
“Artificial Traffic Jam”
ETEAM :Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger live & work in NY, Geraberg, Mannheim.
In 2004 eteam bought 10 Acres of land in Nevada on ebay. Due to miscalculations of land surveyors a public road went right through the middle of the lot. An artificial traffic jam presented a solution for that problem.
http://www.meineigenheim.org/
Matt Freedman
“Dog Spiral Jetty”
Matt Freedman is an artist, curator, and writer living in Queens, New York. He has performed his Lightning Sketches, a live vaudevillian animation act at the Brooklyn Museum, PS 1., Five Myles and The Kitchen, among other venues. He has been an N.E.A. and N.Y.F.A. fellow in sculpture and fiction writing.
http://www.biteditions.com/freedman.html/
Scot Kaplan
30 Cakes, video
In the video 30 Cakes artist Scot Kaplan has asked thirty women of varying ages and ethnicities to select a cake, present it to him, and hit him with it. The piece, as it is displayed here, is a time lapsed document of the complete event which was exclusive to the 30 women who participated in it. The comedic and aggressive, nurturing and degrading, explosive and exhaustive event, explored gender roles and social structures, selfless and selfish giving and taking as well as the enhancement or diminishment of ones power through time.
Kristin Lucas
“Lo-Fi Green Sigh”
Kristin Lucas is recognized as one of the most exciting of a new generation of young artists working in video, installation, performance and interactive Web projects. Lucas uses her camera as a diaristic device, into which she unloads her anecdotal, performative mini-dramas. Her work resonates with a sense of social isolation and alienation from the computer/television/electronic media that she posits as a surrogate for personal interaction. The backdrop to Lucas' work is the empty world of day-time television, cable shopping channels and shopping malls.
Lucas' work has been exhibited in the 1997 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and in group exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, Artists Space, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; steirischer herbst 9, Graz, Austria; the 7e Semaine Internationale de Video, Geneva, Switzerland; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Dunedin Public Gallery, New Zealand, among others, and at festivals in Mexico City, Montreal, New York and San Francisco. She has had solo exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery, New York; Windows, Brussels, Belgium; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; O.K Center for Contemporary Arts, Linz, Austria; and FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool, England. Lucas lives in New York.
http://www169.pair.com/klucas/archive/
Jilliam Mcdonald
“Horror Makeup”
Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist, transplanted in New York. Originally from Winnipeg, she dreams of the snow-covered prairie.
Recent solo shows and projects include San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery in New York, ArtMoving Projects in Brooklyn, vertexList in Brooklyn, TPW (presented at The Drake Hotel) and YYZ in Toronto, Video Pool in Winnipeg, and Edge Media in Newfoundland. Her work was also shown recently at The Whitney Museum's Artport, Sixty Seven Gallery in New York, Year Zero One in Toronto, Manifestation d'Art Internationale de Québec, 404 International Festival of Electronic Art in Argentina, BananaRAM in Italy, The Sundance Online Film Festival in Utah, The Cleveland International Performance Art Festival, La Biennale de Montréal, ISEA 2004 in Estonia, and the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie in France. She teaches art at Pace University, where she also curates and co-direct the Pace Digital Gallery.
http://www.jillianmcdonald.net
Lalo Molina
“Loteria”
Lalo Molina is a Mexican-American video artist and filmmaker, currently living and working in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
http://www.lalomolina.com/
Joe McKay
“Robots NoFollow”
Joe McKay is an artist who makes work with and about digital culture.
M McKay grew up in Ontario, Canada. He went to school at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, and more recently graduated with an MFA from UC Berkeley. In 2001 McKay participated of the Whitney Independent Study Program and had a two-person collaborative exhibition with Kristin Lucas titled "The Electric Donut". In 2004 Joe had his first solo show at VertexList in Williamsburg, New York. He has shown his work in the Berkshire museum, the National Gallery of Canada, the ICA in San Jose, the Pacific Film Archive, and the New Museum.
http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/index.html
Aron Namenwirth
“Untitled”
Aron Namenwirth is a painter, media arist and a curator. He works and lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Aron’s work is involved in contemporary American politics, war and consumerist culture. He recently showed his work at Momenta, One Minute Video Festival, Pierogi, vertexList and Artmoving Projects and White Columns.
http://aronnamenwirth.blogspot.com
Marcin Ramocki
TBA
Marcin Ramocki is a new media artist and independent curator based in Williamsburg Brooklyn. His works have been exhibited at MoMa, Hirshhorn Museum, Pacific Film Archives, White Box, Anthology Film Archives, Artmoving Projects and many more.
Hie directed the feature documentary 8 BIT www.8bitmovie.com.
Marcin teaches New Media at Jersey City University, he is also the founder and of vertexList space in Brooklyn. (http://www.ramocki.net)
Paul Slocum
“Time Lapse Homepage”
Paul Slocum is a computer (nerd) artist and musician, the hacker behind Tree Wave, a two member electronic band that doesn’t sound like any other 8-bit band you’ve ever heard. Equipped with an Atari 2600, a Commodore 64, a 286 PC and a dot matrix printer, he’s used the gear of Reagan era youth and his own custom software to coax out sounds and video sequences far beyond anything that Activision ever concocted. He is also a co-owner and director of And/Or Gallery in Dallas.
http://www.qotile.net
Carlo Zanni
“The Possible Ties Between Illness and Success”
Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, 1975) is an Italian born artist living between Milan and New York. His work is focused on the intersection of computation and representation using and fusing old and new media (Drawing, Painting, Internet) to shape landscapes and portraits often confronting themes such as real time/real life; fiction/information; social economy/special effects. Ideally Carlo Zanni's practice finds its roots in Sol Lewitt's work and above all in the sentence: "The Idea Becomes A Machine That Makes The Art" updated to a more contemporary "The idea becomes the code that renders the art". The artist creates his own real time digital worlds, lets the "sacred fire" (Internet feedback) lead through them, then, often using traditional techniques, he paints the above environments and even stores archived digital versions of them (week, month, year of their online life) in portable personal devices like the IPod. In the past years his work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); Chelsea Museum, New York (2004); CCA Glasgow (2003); Analix Forever Gallery, Geneve (2003); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001). ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art in London held h is first retrospective in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In October 2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist Marcin Ramocki featuring an interview with Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
http://www.zanni.org/
MUSIC
Bit Shifter
Bit Shifter explores high-energy, low-bit music composed and performed on a Nintendo Game Boy, making use of home-brew sound applications Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ to transform the familiar gaming console into a full-featured hand-held music workstation and synthesizer. Based in New York, Bit Shifter has released music on 555 Recordings, 8bitpeoples, Mirex, and Astralwerks, and has performed over a hundred shows worldwide.
http://bit.shifter.net/
Jamie Allen
Jamie Allen makes interactive art and sound makers with his head and hands. circuitMusic is a platform for improvisational audio circuit building with raw op amp components.
http://heavyside.net
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