HCON2008 @ Current Gallery Saturday Night

HCON2008: The Human Conduct Musical Spectrum
Saturday November 8
at Current Gallery
30 S. Calvert
Event begins promptly at 7pm
$5

featuring:

The Convocation
The New Flesh
Microkingdom
Wax & Wane
The Ruined Frame
Small Sur
Fun Dogs & Hot Guts (Philly)
Gaybomb
Jim Swill
Beans
Gene Gregorits
Andy Abelow
plus
-viewing of short film "Mall Crawlers" filmed by N.O. Smith scored by Human Host
-sound installation of terrifying cut-ups by Krista Faist
-local label table feat. MT6, Terra Firma, Firecracker Firecracker, Spleen Coffin, Defective Bat, Isle of Man, Media False Death Fun, Megaphone, Ehse, more
-live remote performances in New Brunswick, NJ from Be Blank Consort (performance poetry group) & the Post Neo-Absurdist Anti-Collective
+more

Into The Light / Into The Dark Opens @ School 33

Into The Light/Into The Dark, the current exhibition downstairs (and in the stairwell and small/dark room upstairs) at School 33, is an extensive look at media art, in an old-fashioned way. Having a reminiscent feel of "technology" as the term was used in the seventies and eighties, the gallery is dimly lit with the constant blue and green glow of projected imagery.
Video shorts from the mid-70s to early 90s are paired appropriately with nearly-obsolete artifacts: wall sculptures made from vhs tapes, and collages made from old photos and film stills, presented in a photo-copy format. The overall aesthetic is very UMBC (0ld/new media presented in a clean, professional way), which makes sense, as the artists are all affiliated-although, oddly enough, I discovered this after having made the declaration.

School 33 did an amazingly professional job at meeting the needs of the unique show, building a wall to separate video projections and adhering to the precarious light situations for each piece.
Don't miss Into the Light/Into the Dark, featuring the work of Christian Valiente, John Sturgeon, Phil Davis and Bonnie Crawford Kutola, on view at School 33 through December 13, 2008.

Hanna Barbera Festival Video Snacks

Snagglepuss



Director: Evan Moritz
Starring: Andy Abelow, Brenza, Kevin Blackistone, Elizabeth Hollon
Scenographers: Rick Gerrietts & Evan Moritz
Scenic Painter: Andy Abelow
Snagglepuss Costume: Lindsay Rowinski & Amy Waller
Music & Effects: Snacks
Camera: Sheena Calage

Land of The Lost



A video by Mark Brown featuring a collage of various Hanna-Barbera cartoon intros.

Featuring music by Black Pus

Space Ghost



Music & Effects: Snacks
Conceived by: Kaitlin Murphy & Grace Bedwell
Construction: Christen Ripley, Maggie Burke, Ellen Nielson, Walter, Rusty Burke, Tim Paggi, Sarah Matson, Sheena Callage, Owen
Brightman, Evan Moritz, Michael Farley, Tara Megos, Gwenn Vinson, Kaitlin Murphy, Grace Bedwell, and more!
Puppeteers: Kaitlin Murphy, Grace Bedwell, Christen Ripley, Tim Paggi, Owen Brightman, Ellen Nielson, Owen Gardner, Sheena Callage

see the rest of the performances @ Kevin Blackistone's YouTube Channel

Free Screening of 'Trouble the Water' @ MICA Oct 28th

MICA Hosts Free Screening of 'Trouble the Water' Oct. 28 in Falvey Hall BALTIMORE--The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)/Maryland Fall Film Series presents a free screening of Trouble the Water (2008) at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28 in Falvey Hall of Brown Center, 1301 Mount Royal Ave.

Documentarians Tia Lessin and Carl Deal collaborated with native New Orleans filmmaker and musician Kimberly Rivers Roberts to create a powerful survival story that reflects the lives of many of those who were directly affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Rivers Roberts' footage of her hometown before, during, and after the storm provides an account that essentially rewrites most of the media coverage of the disaster. The levee protecting Rivers Roberts' humanity against the hurricane's devastation includes her deep-rooted love for New Orleans, her family, her art, and her enduring faith in her fellow human beings.

Trouble the Water, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is the signature presentation of the MICA/Maryland Film Festival Fall Film Series. Lessin and Deal will appear at the Oct. 28 screening.

October film festival screenings are free to all as part of Free Fall Baltimore. Seats will be available first-come, first-served.

Cliff Evans' Empyrean Opens @ The Library

Cliff Evans, a Brooklyn-based video artist, presents his newest pop-culture-video-collage at The Library in Federal Hill. In his 5-channel HD projection of mural proportions, Evans presents a collection of contemporary images against stark, desert backgrounds. The result of his animations is a continuously changing, Rivera-like impression of modern media-saturation. He pulls equally from high and low-brow sources, from the Associated Press to Perez Hilton.

Probably my favorite imagery in the video

The exhibition will be up at the Library (1401 Light Street) through November 22, and is definitely not to be missed.

Laura Burns' Poetry of Everyday Time

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Local artist and Goucher professor, Laura Burns, has invited you to experience images of Juarez, Mexico in real time.

Looping in 15 minute segments, Burns' videos focus on mounds of earth with the city alive in the periphery. The subtlety of the sound and motion as the secondary experience of these videos helps to reinforce the still and the slow, the artist described her show as "the antithesis of pop culture."
Take a second to stop by and experience this show-or take at least 15 minutes- on display in the Corrin Art Gallery in the Meyerhoff building on the Goucher College campus.
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204

Deadline Extension!

baltimore vs. the world
Deadline(Extended): October 24th (postmarked)

Current Gallery invites video artists and enthusiasts to submit videos of all genres (experimental, animation, music video, documentary, short, home video, outtakes, unfinished films, scientific studies, etc). Works selected from this call will be featured in baltimore vs. the world DVD publication due out 2009.

baltimore vs. the world will incorporate two separate DVD compilations. One DVD will feature selected works from around the world and the other DVD will focus on selected works from Baltimore, Maryland. Accompanying the DVDs will be a booklet with interviews and support materials.

Please visit www.currentspace.com for an application. We have also attached the pdf for your convenience.

Please feel free to forward this along to friends and colleagues.

Current Gallery Call for Entry

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baltimore vs. the world
deadline: August 15 (postmark)

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Current Gallery invites video artists and enthusiasts to submit videos of all genres (experimental, animation, music video, documentary, short, home video, outtakes, unfinished films, scientific studies, etc). Works selected from this call will be featured in baltimore vs. the world DVD publication due out this winter.

baltimore vs. the world will incorporate two separate DVD compilations. One DVD will feature selected works from around the world and the other DVD will focus on selected works from Baltimore, Maryland. Accompanying the DVDs will be a booklet with interviews and support materials.

Download Application: PDF

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Current Gallery
30 South Calvert Street
Baltimore Md 21202

www.currentspace.com
currentspace@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/currentspace

Mailing Address
P.O. box 23821
Baltimore, Md 21203-5821

cinematic culture vulture

Blast from the immediate past, current fave film of '92: BARAKA

This one:


Not this one:


Shot in 152 locations in 42 different countries, "Baraka" attempts to search for a universal cultural perspective on spirituality, war, industry and community. This experimental film contains no dialogue, leaving it up to the instrumental soundtrack (provided by Andean drummers and ambient musicians "Dead can Dance), time lapse photography and long winded yet stunning landscape shots to evoke emotion and cite parallels between cultures. Ron Fricke, the director and cinematographer of "Baraka", is also linked to Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy, a set of films described as "visual tone poems" featuring a minimalist score by Philip Glass (of course).


"Balinese Monkey Chant"



Continue to "Part 6 of 10" if you'd like to see the meet-your-meat conclusion but go ahead and rent the film in order to finish it. "Baraka" was shot in Todd-AO format which is a ludicrously high-format, widescreen film that basically makes everything look like super-saturated iMAX hard candy.

Videopolis @ The Metro Gallery

From the Videopolis Myspace: In an effort to further the appreciation and understanding of film in Baltimore and the surrounding areas the Metro Gallery presents VIDEOPOLIS, showing chosen works for free across the street from the Charles Theater during the Maryland Film Festival. To encourage creative interaction amongst as many people as possible the entire process will be without fees. This is not a competitive event. VIDEOPOLIS hopes to juxtapose various forms of film and video, along with other mediums that comment upon or investigate the moving image, together in a relaxed environment for the enjoyment of artists, festival-goers and random passers-by. With people on all sides of the lens exploring where the limits of the moving image may be pushed interesting, new and entertaining results are expected.

BUT WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN: Among the many exciting and worthy video pieces in Videopolis is a piece by Emily Slaughter that features the worst sunburn in the history of time: MINE! Check it out May 2nd - 4th!

Dance mixxx for the edge of the apocalypse

Here is Beck's video for his new song "Timebomb":

Sounds pretty good; got a B52's, Talking Heads/"Love for Sale" kinda groove. Wouldn't hurt if he sounded as animated as his "Mellowgold" days though...
Anyway, the photos are from artist Chris Jordan, a photographer documenting the "Intolerable Beauty" of our "slow-motion apocalypse in progress" (see his "Portraits of American Mass Consumption" here).


Chris Jordan getting the Colbert Bump
Personally, I think the photo-mosaics are a little kitschy, but I suppose sometimes it takes a gimmick to get mass attention.
However, his Katrina series has some absolutely beautiful images...

"Photos on a refrigerator New Orleans East" an image from Jordan's book "In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss From an Unnatural Disaster"

Random Ephemera: GROWLER!

Inflatable street art by Joshua Allen Harris:
"Air Zoo" in New York
I like that blue wavey guy best...
See more (including an Air Bear) at the Wooster Collective website

The Animated Bandwagon Stops in Baltimore

From http://cartunexprez.hooliganship.com/ :Cartune Xprez is a travelling roadshow of animated videos and multimedia performances. So far we have birthed a couple epic tours, many scattered screenings, and one DVD publication with a slew of inspiring artists.

Hooliganship, from OR were the obvious crowd pleaser with their interactive movie/music/3D performance. Yes, thats right, I said 3D. They passed out glasses to the crowd before rocking out to, with and in front of their animated video-selves, and narrating their trippy adventure.

Grace and Jeb looking lovely in 3rd dimension gear

Johnny Rogers of New Jedi Order's performance

New Jedi Order Installation

Lucky Dragons in the middle of some sort of touchy-feely lovefest

Yes, Yes, 3D interactive band/performance art---The Future.

We here at Ten Tigers are fans of the future and, that being said, it comes up a lot in conversation--Shaun Flynn on the subject of the future having arrived: "I love to hear songs like Google me baby, is google a sex verb now?"



Look Hooliganship up on YouTube, these guys are not to be missed

Not Your Average Home Movie

1236 W.
PRATT

THURSDAY NIGHT

CARTUNE XPREZ one night only performances & screenings feat works by

TAKESHI MURATA
BRUCE BICKFORD
SHANA MOULTON
& 3D WORK BY HOOLIGANSHIP

+ SPECIAL GUESTS LUCKY DRAGONS
(LUKE FISCHBECK & SARA RARA)

And videos/performance by Bmore Friends:

Kari Altmann (Blackmoth)
Mark Brown
Kevin O'Meara (Cmnd R)
Ken Seeno
Jonny Rogers (NEW JEDI ORDER)
Molly Siegel
Jeff Donaldson (Notendo)
Meredith Moore
Ilia Ovechkin
Hayley Silverman