Tuesday 24 April 2012

Spontaneous Symmetry Violation .01



Spontaneous Symmetry Violation .01 (2003) :: Recursion VideoLab :: Boomin' Side

More madness from the VHS vaults of the VideoLab

Music: BOOMIN' SIDE / TRIPPER SIDE (Derek, mixed tape 1992, 0:00 - 42:00)
Music: Digital Division | Live @ Treewood (Derek & Eric, 1993, 42:00 - end)

[and for all you Digital Division fans, check out the part when they turn on the mics in the Treewood garage just after midnight on New Year's Eve (1:02:41) voices = Lovlin, Rowena, Jason, Eric, Derek, Adam, Ivy, et al]

Saturday 21 April 2012

AFC: Work from the Experimental TV Center Archive/Television Delivers People

I know it's a bit late now, I misse this but it's here for posterity :) also check out the ICAs current exhibition Remote Control that surveys the enormous impact that television has had upon contemporary culture and there other related live events Television Delivers People



















Photo: James Richards


Next Thursday (13 April 2012), Artists’ Film Club presents a selection of ground-breaking works from the archive of New York’s Experimental TV Center. An insight into the recent history of artists using, exploiting and subverting new electronic media technologies.
In the early 1970′s, artists were moving outside existing organisational structures in attempts to create more utopian systems, in critique of television and mainstream media. However, until the 1990′s artists struggled to access these new media tools for their own uses. Founded in 1969 in Owego, New York state, the Experimental TV Center has been a hub for video engineering and experimentation ever since.

Created by artists for other artists the center has developed its own unique bank of radical editing and image processing equipment, worked with by such diverse artists such as Gary Hill, Ikue Mori, Nam June Paik and Abigail Child.

The Artists’ Film Club presents a programme of works from the ETC’s archive and is selected by artist James Richards, and Associate Curator of Artists’ Moving Image, Steven Cairns.

Find out more about the unique and peculiar resources hosted at the ETC.

Monday 16 April 2012

Tapescape Catford

Thanks to my friend and co worker Owen for pointing this one out right under my nose
Tapescape Catford! can't believe I missed this one, even if my laptops heat sink is bust. Definatly heading down tomorrow. Not sure about the Video Amnesty, ill be haning on to my VHS videos and players ect :)



"About
Politics surrounding the videocassette
Description
We are taking over the now empty Blockbuster Video Store in Catford, South East London to explore the politics surrounding the videocassette.


Using art installations, soundscapes, spoken word, discussions, talks, screenings, dance, games and more, the intervention questions the impact video has made on all our lives, how it affected our behaviour and the huge environmental cost of our short lived innovations.



We will be holding a 'Video Amnesty' allowing Lewisham residents to bring in old video cassettes[1] and players to be returned to the shelves for one last time before heading off to be completely recycled and re-emerge as something new



FIRST VIEW OF THE LINE UP! 

TUESDAY 17TH, 7.30PM
CASSETTIQUETTE
VH-ESSAY DIRECTED BY KAI CLEAR
EXT-1 INTERACTIVE AUDIO VISUAL INSTALLATIONS BY NATHAN HARMER
I LOVE VIDEOTAPE BY JONATHAN PIGRAM
MORE FILMS, AUDIO EXHIBITS AND BAR
TUNES BY DJ NOVA

THURSDAY 19TH, 7.30PM
PROVOCATION: HOW TECHNOLOGY MAKES OUR BODY ITS BUSINESS: JANE FONDA, LEISURE, AND THE EMBODIMENT OF THE GOOD CITIZEN BY ROANNA MITCHELL
HTTP://WWW.PLATFORM-7.COM/APPS/BLOG/SEARCH?Q=ROANNA
VISUAL ART RESPONSE BY DARREN SPERRING
HTTP://WWW.PLATFORM-7.COM/GALLERY#!__GALLERY/2011-EXHIBITIONS/VSTC27=DARREN-SPERRING
DANCE RESPONSE BY MELANIE SIMPSON
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=UD4WRFWQLGU

FRIDAY 20TH (TBC) 8PM
RIOT ACT 2012 (TBC)
PERFORMANCE BY
TOM BRESOLIN & ALEXIS MILNE (TBC)
PIE N MASH FILMS – IF IT IS SAFE TO SHOW (TBC)
HTTP://WWW.PIENMASHFILMS.COM/
PRINCESS BRITANNIA - SHE KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON (TBC)
HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/
PROFILE.PHP?ID=100001488826532
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY SCULPTURE
HTTP://TAPEBOX.CO.UK/

SATURDAY 21ST, 7.30PM
EXPLODING CINEMA
VHS EXPLOSION
HTTP://
WWW.EXPLODINGCINEMA.ORG/

SUNDAY 22ND
THE MARATHON MAN FILM QUIZ, 3-6PM
HOSTED BY DAN CALLADINE
HTTP://
DIGITAL-EXAMPLES.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK/2012/01/RETURN-OF-FERRIS-BUELLER.HTML
VJ LEPKE, 8.30PM (TBC)
AN ORIGINAL VHS VJ
HTTP://SOUNDCLOUD.COM/LEPKE-B


THE OLD BLOCKBUSTERS VIDEO STORE

95 Rushey Green, Catford , SE6 4AF [map]
www.platform-7.com

This event has been enabled due to the kind support of the London Borough of Lewisham and its Valuer Team for the building and the Waste Management Team and Environmental Recycling Services for supporting our Video Amnesty"

Saturday 7 April 2012

Peter Chamberlain: Works



1983 Peter Chamberlain
thanks to 

FALSE AWAKENINGS Celeste Byers





VIDEO BY CELESTE BYERS

MUSIC BY DISAPPEARING PEOPLE
SCOTT JOHNSTON & LANDON BATES

FILMING ASSISTANCE BY

MIKO REVEREZA & DREW FEHLMAN

Video created using live action time-lapse photographs. I animated and edited in AfterEffects, then filmed the digital file on VHS