These two very different films (Cold Shutdown: Fukushima One Year After and Beyond Recognition), both look at the current state of the encounter between people and technology and ask how our lives are dictated (even dominated) by complex technologies, technologies that prioritize our lives while masking the games of profit and desire that they involve us while hiding the way that they force us to employ our own humanity in the service of dubious and ultimately sterile goals.

Martin Lucas is an artist and media activist whose work explores the links of the technological with languages of control and forms of resistance.  His career includes many works looking at urban crisis and the militarization of American culture seen at venues including The New York Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and PBS.  As a member of the Paper Tiger Television Collective, Martin was one of the producers of The Gulf Crisis Television Project in 1991.  Other works include Cold War in 24 Frames (Durable Reinforcement Art, Utrecht, 2001) and Subway Outside with Jeanne van Heeswijk. (Artist’s Space, NYC, 2000).  More recently Martin has worked with Story Workshop in Malawi, Southern Africa, developing productions around gender violence, food security, and AIDS awareness, including the full-length feature Okoma Atani: Who Cares? (2011).  His experimental short Treatment Plan, a meditation on depression and beauty, aired at the 2011 Videoart.net Festival in New York.  Martin has a BFA in Film Production from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Sunday, April 29 at 11 pm and Wednesday, May 2 at 2 pm
One hour of short video art on public access tv. By the people, for the people.

on Channel 2 of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network

Still from The Baddest Chixxx by Katie Hickman

With work by…

// Michael Chernoff

// Benjamin Fox

// Joshua Graver

// Katie Hickman

// Stephanie (Sticky) Hough

// Jonathon Keats

// Ben Neufeld

// Edward Ramsay-Morin

// Jean-Michel Rolland

// SR Shearer

// Lauryn Siegel

// Brittany Stanley

Curated by…

// Abbey Ozanich

Still from Finds a Face by Joshua Graver

Catch the program live on television in Manhattan on the MNN Lifestyle Channel (Channel 56 on Time Warner, Channel 83 on RCN, or Channel 34 on FiOS) or live online anywhere by visiting http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel. The episode—as well as descriptions of the featured work, artist bios, and more—will also be available on our website following the premiere.

For more information visit us at www.midastouchprojects.com, or like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/midasprojects.

Still from Wounds by Benjamin Fox

Still from That Perfect High by Brittany Stanley

Still from The Titan by Edward Ramsay-Morin

Talented video artists and filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit to this groundbreaking festival!

Hosted by Videoart.net, the international network for underground video artists and experimental filmmakers, this Festival will continue to introduce New York audiences to the most arresting, provocative, and conceptual pieces born of our era. The Festival welcomes any and all artists and filmmakers with films/videos that possess an experimental edge to join us for another year of exceptional screenings.

The Festival is currently open for submissions and the Final Deadline is August 1, 2012.

The 2nd Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (Dec. 2011) was a huge success! Here is just a taste of the amazing contemporary video art and experimental film featured in the Festival:

Please visit festival.videoart.net for more information.

Lowry Burgess to send art to the moon

A controversial figure in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon, Lowry Burgess often seems to have his head in the clouds. His ideas are about to transcend even deeper into outer space as he has teams up with CMUs Robotics Institute to send the very first piece of artwork to the moon. Filmmakers Jonathan Minard and Michael Pisano will chronicle the endeavor in a documentary.

Lowry Burgess, a pioneer space artist, has over 30 years of experience collaborating with NASA and creating visionary artworks in a cosmic context. In 2013, a robotic mission from Carnegie Mellon (the first commercially funded lunar expedition) will send his art to the Moon.

The Moon Arts Group envisions creative ways of establishing a link between the Earth and Moon, advances the presence of human culture in space, and facilitates never before realized opportunities for art and exploration.
To see more, visit moonarts.org and studioforcreativeinquiry.org/

Looking into the light, watching the dust settle, a shift in focus. What is seen and unseen and what has fallen into the space between. Like the Ouroboros the cycle perpetuates itself. The Real Conquests redirects the gaze to the peripheral, putting the viewer behind the lens or in the shadows. The overlooked object is turned into the subject and portrayed with a simplistic ambiguity, creating new myths, understandings, and a nostalgia for what is lost even while being in it’s presence. What lies undiscovered in our everyday? The unused hand, the path never taken, the color in time’s passage, perhaps the greatest discoveries lie waiting for us sleeping beneath our steps as we walk blindly towards our futures.

Through ontological investigations of objects both in sculptural form and image based works each artist deals with reestablishing new relationships between the subject and the viewer. Works shown by Andres Laracuente are created from a discarded motorcycle seat and a stone found on the street. He works to strip down or cover each form, a skinning or re-skinning of sorts, giving a second life to his materials. Julie Grosche uses photography similarly as a way of removing the object from its original context in the real and mystifying it by placing it between the sun and the viewer, elevating the everyday object in use to an ambiguous or perceived position of power. Milano Chow’s drawings delicately capture the space between, evoking the quietude existing along side us. A wilted flower silhouetted in a window, a weed growing towards the light unnoticed, disregarded like the detritus beside it. Van Hanos is exhibiting two paintings made together of unused forms; a painting of his left hand twice, and an abstract work, a “rag”, created through cleaning his brushes while painting the hands. The image of, the other, and the material.

Milano Chow (b.1987, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been included in exhibitions at 179 Canal Street, NY, 86 Forsyth, NY, 304 Days, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Back Yard Projects, NY. She ran publishing project Medium Rare, 2008-2011, and currently runs Oso Press. Chow is also a 2011 receiptiant of the Printed Matter Award for Artists. She received her BA from Barnard College in 2009.

Julie Grosche (b.1986, Burgundy, France) lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Richmond, VA. Grosche is the co-founder of PMgalerie in Berlin and of Bcc, an itinerant curatorial project. Her work and curatorial endeavors have appeared internationally at Pauline’s, NY, Reference Gallery, Richmond, VA, Domestica, Barcelona, Spain, PROGRAM, Berlin, as well as taking part in Based in Berlin in 2011.

Andres Laracuente (b.1982, Indiana) lives and works in New York, NY. He has presented works at White Box, Light Industry, and P.S.1 MoMa in New York. Additional exhibitions include Yale Sculpture Gallery in New Haven, Autocenter in Berlin, the National Gallery of Arts in Albania, and Brown Gallery in London, as well as Paris, Brussels, Tokyo and Taipei. He was featured as panelist at the MIT 5 international conference moderated by Bill Arning, and a visiting artist at Yale School of Art and Cornell College of Art. Laracuente is the recipient of the Kimmel Harding Nelson 2012 Residency award.

Van Hanos (b. 1979, Edison, NJ) lives and works in New York, NY. He received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001, and a MFA from Columbia Univeristy in 2010. His debut solo show at West Street Gallery opened in 2011. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Pianissimo, Milan, Italy, New Jersey’s Museum of Contemporary Art, NJ, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, P.P.O.W., NY, and Gavin Brown Enterprise, NY.

Favorite Goods is located at 936 1/2 Chung King Road in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. The space is dedicated to being a platform for ideas, artists, curators, and creativity. Through exhibitions, performances, and collaborations we seek to be a conduit for critical dialogue as well as a social space connecting artists and audiences from a local to international level.

Favorite Goods
936 1/2 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.favoritegoodslosangeles.com

Announcing: A SCREENING & READING of works from the book and DVD:
Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities

Sunday, March 11 at 8:30pm

Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10003

Still from Love Puddles by Michael Mallis and Mikey McParlane

Readings by:
Anselm Berrigan and Christine Kelly

Videos by:
Peggy Ahwesh
Scott Andrew
Jacob Ciocci
Hilary Harp/Suzie Silver
Hooliganship
Jen Inman/Tom McConnell
Amy Johnson
Michael Mallis/Mikey McParlane
Darrin Martin/Torsten Zenas Burns
Shana Moulton
Larry Shea
Joshua Thorson/Mike Harringer

Your hosts (and curators of Strange Attractors):
Christopher Kardambikis, Jasdeep Khaira and Suzie Silver

Inspired by Kepler’s quest for earth-like planets, Strange Attractors is a nearly 300 page, full color book and DVD containing art, writing, and film that envisions the sexualities of beings that may some day be encountered – if not in outer space than at least in our dreams! A joint publication by Encyclopedia Destructica and The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality, this project presents the work of 70 artists, writers and filmmakers who have created an amazing range of expressions expanding our conception of the possibilities of alien life forms and the nature of sexual desire.

A brief compilation of short excerpts from some of the videos included on a DVD with the Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexuality book. For more information: kck.st/​juazes and http://extraterrestrialsexuality.org

Still from Sing, Sing, Song by Amy Johnson

Still from YSBRYD by Julie Murray

To mark the final day of Aloe Vera & Butter, S1 Artspace is pleased to announce that Jennifer West will be in conversation with artist and independent curator Gregory Kurcewicz on Saturday 10th March. Together they will discuss West’s experimental film practice and present a number of West’s additional works not included in the exhibition. 
West’s largely camera-less work is deeply rooted in performance, popular culture, action painting, the history of experimental – and more specifically – materialist and structuralist film. The conversation with Kurcewicz, will discuss West’s work within these contexts and the larger history of artists’ film. West and Kurcewicz will draw upon seminal works by experimental filmmakers who have been major influences such as Carolee Schneemann, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage and Mike Kelley.

Jennifer West (born Topanga, California, lives and works in LA) has exhibited widely internationally with solo exhibitions in 2011 at Vilma Gold, London, and Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis. She has also presented solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Western Bridge, Seattle and Kunstverein Nürnberg (all 2010). In the UK, West has exhibited with George Ziffo at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2008, and was featured in the 2007 exhibition, If Everybody had an Ocean, at Tate St Ives. In 2009 she was commissioned to produce special project, Skate the Sky, for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, and in 2011 she was Artist in Residence at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge Massachusetts. Upcoming projects include an exhibition at the new Highline Channel and a performance based work for Highline Art, New York. West is represented by Vilma Gold, London and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles.

Greg Kurcewicz is a painter, filmmaker and independent curator. He was co-curator of the influential internationally touring Lux programme series Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! (The London Filmmakers’ Coop 1966-76) which re-introduced critical discussion of structural, materialist, expanded, and performative film-forms back into the discourse of contemporary art during this period. Amongst other projects he was also co-curator of the ground breaking experimental and underground screening series Little Stabs at Happiness which ran monthly at the ICA from 1997-2000. Kurcewicz has exhibited at venues internationally Including Tate Modern, London.

This event is free however places are limited.
To reserve a place please email chloe@s1artspace.org

S1 Artspace | 120 Trafalgar Street | Sheffield | S1 4JT | UK
+44 (0)114 2133 780 | www.s1artspace.org | info@s1artspace.org

Created and Directed by CJ Follini, Art/Trek NYC takes viewers on a journey through the five New York City boroughs with the mission to find an artist to showcase with a solo exhibit of their individual work for the first time to the public. Traveling with the ArtV, a graffittied, mobile art gallery ( formerly a recreational vehicle), the Hosts which include such cultural luminaries as: video and performance artist, Kalup Linzy (Le Petit Versailles, All My Churen) and Curator Wayne Northcross (The Bronx Biennial, The Project Gallery) and legendary guitarist Vernon Reid, guide the emerging artists in the selection of their artwork to install in the ArtV. alternative art space.
Then the mobile art gallery takes the work “to into the street” for an impromptu, raw critique by their neighbors and peers. All episodes contain music from MTA Arts for Transit “Music Under New York” program performers.
Art/Trek NYC will air six half-hour, unscripted episodes offering viewers a documentary-style expedition into New York City’s art scene where the sixth and final episode presents the winner and the unveiling of their first public art show. The show airs every week and premieres Monday, January 9, 2012 at 9 p.m. on NYC Media Channel 25.

About Welcome to COMPANY:

Welcome to COMPANY is an online/offline social network connecting collectors of contemporary art that provides compelling content, an on-line art exchange and original art works from emerging artists for sale commissioned by COMPANY. With the debut of its off-line networking salon – The Collector Series – and its cable TV show – Art/Trek NYC – COMPANY offers advertisers a multi-platform advertising opportunity to a highly sought-after targeted demographic. Welcome to COMPANY.