Feb 16, 7PM - NMC Showcase
Read MoreFirst Sneak Peek at Utopia 1.0 for Gear VR at San Diego Underground Film Festival!
Thanks to dynamic duo Ryan Betschart and Rachel Nakawatase for bringing me to this year's San Diego Underground Film Festival. Films, tacos, old friends and new, and ... as if the rooftop views of sunny SD weren't enough, we had VR headsets to transport us to Utopia 1.0.
Utopia 3.0: Samsung Gear VR version is here!
Thanks to Wave Farm, for their generous support, and to the NYU VR Lab - especially, the talented Mahe Dewan, pictured here - Utopia 1.0 can now be experienced on the Samsung Gear VR headset. Now, we just need to figure out how to publish to the Google Play store - luckily there's Hardware HackLab next week.
Utopia 1.0 remix Berlin-based collective THALAMUS on Cashmere Radio
This is so cool - another creative collaboration with someone I've never met. Lou Omat saw my film Utopia 1.0: Post-Neo-Futurist-Capitalism in 3D! at Impakt in The Netherlands, and recently asked to include it their radio program on 'Speculative Future Realities.' You can have a listen here [Utopia 1.0 comes in at 5:10 - 5:50 and 33:30 - 34:00]. I love seeing ideas and projects continue to transform and it reminds me of how every piece I make is collaborative, and part of an already existing conversation. Thanks for sharing, Lou Omat.
Utopia 1.0 Screens KFFK's New Aesthetic, Nov 19th, Cologne, Germany
On the web we reinvent ourselves and our avatars overcome barriers of gender, race and age. We can accept other forms of life and move our virtual body within fractions of a second from one place to another. How much we can the images that we create from us, change and fragmentation, eyelet Divide us in them, or how they are usual stereotypes and ideals of beauty subject?
In the physical world, however, the boundaries between biology and technology. To keep up with the development, are our bodies technologically upgraded, changed, improved.The dream of immortality is to spy on the horizon and the need for physical self-optimization omnipresent. In a time when the first cyborgs walk among us, in the vision of the future of human-machine has come true, has the answer to the question of what it means to be human, be always renegotiated.
Text: Johannes Duncker
UTOPIA 1.0: POST-NEO-FUTURIST-CAPITALISM IN 3D!
Invitation: Preview & Reception from UnionDocs Edit Retreat, Sunday, Aug 28th at 7:30PM
Come celebrate with us and see previews of the work we did on The Faithful this Sunday at UnionDocs! 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
THE FAITHFUL Awarded a Two-Week Edit Retreat at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Putting the final touches on The Faithful, thanks to the generous support of UnionDocs and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund!
Utopia 1.0 - Official Selction of the San Diego Underground Film Festival, Nov 11-13,
California friends, please save the date!
Utopia 1.0 Invited to Screen at the 20th annual Rhode Island Intl Film Festival
Save the date! Sunday, August 14th, 2PM at the RISD screening room - Rhode Island Premiere of Utopia 1.0!
Flaherty Seminar 2016
It was a gift to attend this year's Flaherty Seminar programmed by David Pendleton as a fellow among other filmmakers, artists, programmers, and scholars. Thank you to all who made this possible!
Utopia 1.0 screens Films of Note, The Sugar Club, Dublin
Thanks to Nicky Gogan for inviting Utopia 1.0: Post-Neo-Futurist-Capitalism in 3D! to screen at Films of Note at The Sugar Club! Thanks also to my fellow Flaherty Seminar fellow Alice Butler for attending, and to all of those who packed the house!
UTOPIA 1.0 comes to Vermont's STREAM CHAPTER 3
UTOPIA 1.0: Post-Neo-Futurist-Capitalism in 3D! will be coming to South Windham, Vermont, August 6 and 7th as part of STREAM Chapter 3 exhibit curated by Two Chairs. STREAM Chapter 3 is "A site-specific art exhibition intended to focus attention on the environment, global warming and the changing landscape of Vermont."
Excited to be part of this incredible group of artists at this inspired site.
STREET VIEWS to screen PVDFEST 2016, Friday, June 3rd
Friday, June 3rd, Sundown. STREET VIEWS screens PVDFest 2016, as part of the "Ephemeral Gestures" Video Program curated by Judith Tolnick Champa and Leora Maltz-Leca. 100,000 visitors are expected to attend the second annual arts festival of live music, dance, food, and visual art installations transform the city in a four-day, multi-arts take-over of public spaces, parks, and outdoor stages in the heart of Providence, Rhode Island.
Utopia 1.0: Educational DVD Release!
Now shipping DVDs to Educational Institutions and Libraries!
Read MoreUtopia 1.0 screens Melbourne, Australia →
Interval presents Mining the Cloud, a series of films and performances by local and international artists at Schoolhouse Studios.
Lettres du Voyant by Louis Henderson
Utopia 1.0 by Annie Berman
All That is Solid by Louis Henderson
exercises on nervousness by Jane Frances Dunlop
A performance by Emile Zile
Interval presents Mining the Cloud: a series of desktop documentaries by local and international artists. Charting the multitude of the Internet through the desktop interface, these films and performances traverse landscapes that fall outside our visual circuits. From abandoned virtual realities to electronic dumping grounds of Ghana, this is the detritus of late capitalism in a time of rapid technological change.
Using desktop browsers as both lens and edit suite, these artists record the virtual as real, transgressing the disciplines of ethnography, archaeology and art practice into new cosmologies of meaning.
Excavating artifacts under the "cloud", these films and performances respond to the human impulse to navigate, archive, interpret and ultimately control the world around us.
Lettres du Voyant by Louis Henderson (UK)
Lettres du Voyant is a documentary-fiction about spiritism and technology in contemporary Ghana that attempts to uncover some truths about a mysterious practice called "Sakawa" - internet scams mixed with voodoo magic. Tracing back the scammers' stories to the times of Ghanaian independence, the film proposes Sakawa as a form of anti-neocolonial resistance.
All that is Solid by Louis Henderson (UK)
A technographic study of e-recycling and neo-colonial mining filmed in the Agbogbloshie electronic waste ground in Accra and illegal gold mines of Ghana. The video constructs a mise-en-abyme as critique in order to dispel the capitalist myth of the immateriality of new technology - thus revealing the mineral weight with which the Cloud is grounded to its earthly origins.
Utopia 1.0: Post Neo Futurist Capitalism in 3D! by Annie Berman (US)
A first-person expedition to Second Life, the once thriving virtual 3D online world, in search of what remains. Given the invitation to come build anything imaginable, what is it that we chose to create?
exercises on nervousness by Jane Frances Dunlop (UK)
'exercises on nervousness' is a series of short performances constructed for live and online sites. This work plays with the syncopations in internet mediated communication and the cultural politics of our emotional interactions.
A performance by Emile Zile (AU)
Building on a recent body of work Desktops, Emile Zile’s performance creates narratives from computer screen captures, search term collages and algorithmic portraiture to explore human mediated communication and the circulation of digital images.
Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/mining-the-cloud-tickets-25337113990
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Artist in Resident at Signal Culture
Greetings from Owego, NY, where I've been gifted a week's artist residency to try my hand at mixing video signals and diving deeper into my work while retreated from the city.
Flaherty Seminar Fellowship Recipient
Honored to join this year's Flaherty Seminar fellows to this legendary weeklong summer seminar that brings together over 160 filmmakers, artists, curators, scholars, students, and film enthusiasts to celebrate the moving image.
EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA Festival in New Mexico Brings Utopia 1.0 April 8th →
Each year Experiments in Cinema brings the international community of cinematic un-dependents to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA for a film festival that is designed to inspire a new generation of homegrown media activists to participate in shaping future trends of cultural representation.
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UTOPIA 1.0: Post-Neo-Capitalism in 3D! screens April 8th, in EXPERIMENT 16, 8:45-9:45PM
UTOPIA 1.0 in VR Awarded Wave Farm Distribution Grant →
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - DATE: March 11, 2016 CONTACT: Galen Joseph-Hunter, Executive Director, galen@wavefarm.org (518-622-2598) Wave Farm Announces Individual Artist Grantees for the 2016 Media Arts Assistance Fund Acra, NY— Wave Farm announced today eight recipients of the 2016 Media Arts Assistance Fund for artists: Annie Berman, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Eli Keszler, Joseph McKay, John Morton, Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, Margo Pelletier, and Sue C Perlgut.
Read MoreSTREET VIEWS Published in The Journal of Short Film, Volume 36 →
From animation to live action, narrative to augmented-reality essay, The Journal of Short Film, Volume 36 brings together nine films which explore the simultaneously creative and destructive aspects of relationships, at a time when our relationship with the screen—liberated from the theater and the living room and appearing in our palms, cars, and glasses—seems increasingly primary.
Available for purchase here
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