Tag Archives: Film & Video

On the Demuxing Post

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 27, 2009

On the Demuxing Post

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 27, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPfLZ1B1POU] [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNspJIWeio] In one of my previous posts, I mentioned the life of certain obsolete terms taking on new meaning. As the clock runs out on my brief stint as …

Sikander Trifecta (incl. talk tonight at Cooper-Hewitt)

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 25, 2009

Sikander Trifecta (incl. talk tonight at Cooper-Hewitt)

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 25, 2009

In New York City? Don’t miss Season 1 artist Shahzia Sikander‘s related activities around town, including an artist’s talk tonight. Her curatorial exhibition, Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent …

Emulsion To Emulsion

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 20, 2009

Emulsion To Emulsion

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 20, 2009

The term “emulsion to emulsion” has somehow stuck in my head from my undergraduate days, taking courses in photography.  It is the phrase meant to remind you of the placement …

Flash Points

Election 2008: Seizing the moment in the classroom

by Dillon Paul | Mar 12, 2009

Flash Points

Election 2008: Seizing the moment in the classroom

by Dillon Paul | Mar 12, 2009

One of the things I love most about teaching 12th grade is the sense that I am meeting students on the border between their child and adult selves. They are …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 1)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 11, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 1)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 11, 2009

I’m also teaching a course at the École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes called, “Workshop: I am curious… (The Artist as Ethnographer).” Each Friday morning, my students and I have …

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | “Projection for Chicago”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 9, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | “Projection for Chicago”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 9, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Jenny Holzer discusses the process behind her series of Xenon Projections as part of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Museum of Contemporary …

Flash Points

Share and Share Alike

by Sharon Butler | Feb 25, 2009

Flash Points

Share and Share Alike

by Sharon Butler | Feb 25, 2009

Artists who garner the most attention in any given time period are those whose work, explicitly or implicitly, reflects the deeper political sensibilities of the era. Right now, contemporary artists …

Art21 Extended Play

Oliver Herring | Legacy

by Wesley Miller | Feb 20, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Oliver Herring | Legacy

by Wesley Miller | Feb 20, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Oliver Herring discusses what he perceives as generational shifts in our relationship to the camera, mortality, and legacy, accompanied by scenes …

I Have Decided to Love Contemporary Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 20, 2009

I Have Decided to Love Contemporary Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 20, 2009

Days have passed since St. Valentine’s Day and the flowers are giving off a sweet waft of imminent mortality, which may make them a dubious token of love. But I …

Momenting: Our City Dreams

by Mary Cook | Feb 12, 2009

Momenting: Our City Dreams

by Mary Cook | Feb 12, 2009

Chiara Clemente’s documentary Our City Dreams, currently on view at NYC’s Film Forum, gives us a glimpse into the lives of five women artists living in New York City: Swoon, …

Rome on a Roman Holiday

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 10, 2009

Rome on a Roman Holiday

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 10, 2009

In the depths of a seemingly endless New York winter, my mind is already thinking toward late spring days on the Adriatic and the 53rd International Art Exhibition at la …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Altermodern Love

by Ben Street | Feb 9, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Altermodern Love

by Ben Street | Feb 9, 2009

I have to confess to a fear that strikes me whenever I go into a gallery of contemporary art and see the entrance to a video installation. Does anyone else …

Mmmm…Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 30, 2009

Mmmm…Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 30, 2009

Chez Bushwick, an organization based in Brooklyn, has launched a new art and performance series called CAKE. The weekly program offers “carte blanche” to an individual artist to present new work and ideas of his or her choosing. The …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Rolling Up Our Sleeves

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 21, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Rolling Up Our Sleeves

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 21, 2009

Since this column gets posted on Wednesdays (and believe me, I didn’t arrange it this way), it’s been my pleasure to contribute posts directly after the November 4th election (see …

Our City Dreams

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 21, 2009

Our City Dreams

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 21, 2009

Our City Dreams, a new documentary by Chiara Clemente (daughter of artist Francesco Clemente), will debut at Film Forum, Feb. 4-17, 2009. Filmed over the course of two years, this “love letter” to …

@ EMST in Athens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 18, 2009

@ EMST in Athens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 18, 2009

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) is currently presenting Bia Davou’s A Retrospective and Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries‘ solo exhibition entitled Close your Eyes. Starting with Davou, she was …

Touring Prospect.1, Talking to Curator Dan Cameron (Part 1)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 12, 2009

Touring Prospect.1, Talking to Curator Dan Cameron (Part 1)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 12, 2009

I arrived in New Orleans in December on an auspicious occasion—it was the first snow fall since 2004 and one of only a few that has touched down in this …

Rare Charles Atlas screening this Saturday in NYC

by Hrag Vartanian | Dec 18, 2008

Rare Charles Atlas screening this Saturday in NYC

by Hrag Vartanian | Dec 18, 2008

In the late 1990s, Art21 artist Charles Atlas created a series of video collages for Martha@Mother at the infamous and now defunct downtown New York nightclub Mother. The non-advertised but …

MoMA’s Womb

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 3, 2008

MoMA’s Womb

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 3, 2008

The ‘wow factor’ in Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist’s buzz-generating new video installation in the Museum of Modern Art’s atrium is huge. Featuring fields of flowers, Pour Your Body Out (7534 …

Psychedelic at SECCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 24, 2008

Psychedelic at SECCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 24, 2008

There is a very interesting film and video exhibition currently up at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pyschedelic presents animations that are less about products …

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

Living in the afterglow or wake (depending on your political leanings) of the 2008 presidential election, we are left to wonder where this talk of hope and change might lead …

Letter from London

Letter from London: God Save McQueen!

by Ben Street | Nov 10, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: God Save McQueen!

by Ben Street | Nov 10, 2008

British artist Steve McQueen’s current feature film, Hunger, has received pretty much universally positive reviews. Tracing the last six weeks of the life of Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker imprisoned in …

Kara Walker at Irish Museum of Modern Art

by Seth Curcio | Nov 10, 2008

Kara Walker at Irish Museum of Modern Art

by Seth Curcio | Nov 10, 2008

The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, Ireland is currently exhibiting In Praise of Shadows, on view from November 5 – January 4, 2009. The exhibition, which is …

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent paintings from his ongoing Samurai Tree series, including the works Fugaz, Tuttifruti and Red Roots (all 2008), and the computer animation Dandelion Animation (2008), shown …

Spiders and Steel at the MFA, Boston

by Monika Navarro | Nov 6, 2008

Spiders and Steel at the MFA, Boston

by Monika Navarro | Nov 6, 2008

Currently showing as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Art on Film series – Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, and The Tangerine, by Amei Wallach and Marion Cajoli, …

Charles Atlas at Vilma Gold

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 5, 2008

Charles Atlas at Vilma Gold

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 5, 2008

Tornado Warning, an exhibition of new works by Charles Atlas opens next week at Vilma Gold Gallery in London. The Art21 artist’s videos often take dance and performance as their …

Global Video Part 3

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 2, 2008

Global Video Part 3

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 2, 2008

“Part of your preparation is to have as many strings in your hand, just not to knot them,” said Cate Blanchett, explaining her approach to acting.  “You don’t want to sort …

Global Video Part 2

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 1, 2008

Global Video Part 2

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 1, 2008

Regina José Galindo dips her feet into a white basin of human blood, takes a string of steps, then dips her feet again. She is walking through Guatemala City, her red footprints …

Reframing Global Video

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 31, 2008

Reframing Global Video

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 31, 2008

I am always dubious when the word “global” begins an exhibition title. Trying to gauge some sort of global cultural pulse seems absurdly ambitious. But yesterday, when I went to see Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video …

The Uncanny at Kontainer Gallery

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 24, 2008

The Uncanny at Kontainer Gallery

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 24, 2008

Few things make me happier than a lyrical, perpetually unresolved video exhibition. Not Figments of a Madman’s Imagination: The Uncanny in Contemporary Romanian Video Art, currently on view at Kontainer Gallery in …

New Lydia Fong Video

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 10, 2008

New Lydia Fong Video

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 10, 2008

The fine folks at San Francisco’s KQED just released a brand-new film and interview with Art21 artist Lydia Fong, on the occasion of her current show at Ratio 3 Gallery. …

Hubbard & Birchler at Liverpool Biennial

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 8, 2008

Hubbard & Birchler at Liverpool Biennial

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 8, 2008

The Liverpool Biennial is under way. Organized by the Tate Liverpool, this year’s Made Up theme includes nine special new commissions under the subcategory Between the Real. Encompassing painting, sculpture, …

Letter from London

Letter From London: Bacon Movies

by Ben Street | Oct 7, 2008

Letter from London

Letter From London: Bacon Movies

by Ben Street | Oct 7, 2008

  The current (brilliant) retrospective of Francis Bacon at Tate Britain ends with a montage of filmed interviews the artist gave, largely with David Sylvester as part of his extended sequence of …

Matthew Ritchie Venice Video

by Wesley Miller | Oct 2, 2008

Matthew Ritchie Venice Video

by Wesley Miller | Oct 2, 2008

On Matthew Ritchie’s The Evening Line project at the Bienniale Architecture in Venice, via MINI Space blog: It’s not just about architecture here in Venice. Matthew Ritchie is an artist …

Farnsworth House Flooded

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 1, 2008

Farnsworth House Flooded

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 1, 2008

Record rains on September 14th flooded Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. 18 inches of water filled the modern masterpiece, damaging fixed wood panels and an armoire, …

Freeway Balconies Extended!

by Mary Cook | Sep 8, 2008

Freeway Balconies Extended!

by Mary Cook | Sep 8, 2008

Plan to be in Berlin anytime soon? If so, you are in luck – the exhibition Freeway Balconies, at the Deutsche Guggenheim has been extended and will not close until …