“video_dumbo” Exhibition
Eyebeam Art & Technology Center
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video_dumbo presents its eighth annual festival and exhibition of contemporary moving image art, curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy.
video_dumbo includes fourteen video screening programs, alongside eight installation works under the title Re-Return to Sender.
video_dumbo will present 106 artists from 30 different countries, that include several US premieres and new video works by: Christian Jankowski, Eija-Liisa Ahtilla, Nicolas Provost, Matthias Mueller/Christoph Girardet, Bjørn Melhus, Johan Grimonprez, Mike Hoolboom, and Mark Lewis.
See program schedule at: http://www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html
Re-Return to Sender speculates about the imagined consciousness of digital and electromagnetic moving image displays and projection apparatus. With the emergence of video art —its novelty of closed circuit TV and feedback loops— in the early 70s, video began by looking at itself; early on, Rosalind Krauss detected the narcissistic qualities within it.
Forty years later, moving image technology has multiplied, oversaturated and accelerated to such an extent that we are forced to take a step back to consider its omnipresence. Now, radically stripped of its hallucinatory aura and spectacle, we come full circle to ask fundamental questions regarding the state of contemporary moving image media, including its reflection and narcissism, in an age of increasingly intelligent machines. Re-Return to Sender is an exhibition comprised of apparatus that recognize, investigate and celebrate themselves. Their relationship and interactions with humans— both passive and active—becomes less significant as all signal emissions, events, and occurrences are projected back onto its originator— a historical Re-Returning to Sender.
One artist, UK-based Chris Shen, muses on televisual hardware metamorphoses in his installation Infra, in which hundreds of old, discarded TV remotes join together, transforming and uniting into an enormous electronic image screen. Similarly, RE: by Bram Snijders and Carolien Teunisse displays a mid-size video projector that projects upon itself, covering its entire surface with a single video image. This is echoed by Daniel Canogar’s installation Spin, in which the copied contents of 100 discarded DVDs are projected back onto their surface. Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza’s piece projects the exact representation of vertical columns upon itself until the participant crosses the space between projector and image, causing a destabilization that results in swirling moiré patterns. Christoph Meier assembles a Mondrian-like rectangular puzzle out of various projectors with different aspect ratios and light temperatures. Steina and Woody Vasulka’s experiments at the origin of the video medium’s signal-as-protagonist theme, deconstructs the digital image into simultaneous two-and three-dimensional properties. Bühne by Daniel Kötter mirrors the cinema space, (and literally starts a revolution) and The Society of the Spectacle – Now in 3D by Pascual Sisto is exactly that.
Other highlights include: A video installation by Kurt Ralske at Dumbo Arts Center (May 2 - 31), a book presentation by Cooper and Battersby, and Mike Hoolboom and a Special Program of New Finnish Video Art, co-presented by AV-arkki, Finland.
Eyebeam additionally presents On Disappearance, an interactive video installation by Finnish artist Lauri Astala, which will be on view throughout video_dumbo.
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Schedule
from May 16, 2013 to May 25, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-05-16 from 18:00 to 21:00