Presenting Utopia 1.0 at Codes and Modes Symposium, March 16-18, NYC

Looking forward to participating in this symposium with Utopia 1.0 and to taking part in the much needed conversations about VR's long-term socio-cultural and neurological impacts this March (16-18) at Hunter College.

UTOPIA 1.0 IN VR JUST RELEASED FOR GEAR VR - FREE DOWNLOAD!

At long last! The free download of Utopia 1.0 in VR is available to all on the GearVR platform.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE!     [How to install GearVR apps]

For the past year, we've been working to translate Utopia 1.0 the film into the VR experience. What began as a summer challenge during NY Art-A-Hack with collaborators Lee Tusman and Dave Tennent, evolved into what it now is today thanks to improvements in technology; a generous grant from Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; administered by Wave Farm; and the talented team of the NYU VR Lab, Mahe Dewan, Javier Molina, and Todd Bryant, who worked their magic. While we wanted to present the entire 20 minute film in the VR headset, our tests indicated 8 minutes would be more comfortable in this environment. The VR edition is a condensed version of the original, presented in a virtual cinema, and followed by a Q&A with my avatar. Thanks also to ConstructVR who made sharing this piece surprisingly easy.

First 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

ABC

IN BETWEEN IDENTITIES

THE WAVES

HEART SWING

PARAMETRIC EXPRESSION

UTOPIA 1.0: POST-NEO-FUTURIST-CAPITALISM IN 3D!

THE INSTITUTE OF ISOLATION

HEARING COLORS

THE 3D ADDITIVIST MANIFESTO

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: Post-Neo-Futurist-Capitalism in 3D! screened with Dig! July 27th, 2016. The Sugar Club, Dublin, Ireland

The beautiful venue - a music hall. Wish I could have been there in person.

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.  

Providence Fest 2016, Providence, Rhode Island

Utopia 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

Interval is a new platform for documentary art
www.inter-val.org

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.  

Elvis on the Wobbulator - 1970s device by Nam June Paik and video engineer Shuya Abe, recreated by Signal Culture's own Jason Bernagozzi. Here's Elvis saying "The image is one thing, the human being is another. . . it's hard to live up to an image." Yes. It. Is. Thank. You. Very. Much. 

“Signal Culture was founded in 2012 by Jason Bernagozzi, Debora Bernagozzi & Hank Rudolph with the idea to create an environment where innovative artists, toolmakers, curators, critics, and art historians who are contributing to the field of media art will have time and space to make new work and to interact with one another. In addition to the residency program, we wanted to organize public exhibitions and produce resources for researchers and practitioners in the field of experimental media art as a way to expand support beyond the residency.”

— www.signalculture.org

Selfie from Signal Culture Residency with toolmaker Darcy Neal. Time does in fact fly when you're having fun. 

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.