Screening Room Program

Video Art and New Media Lounge

at 2007 Around the Coyote
Fall Arts Festival:

location: 1275 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

Media Lounge Dates and Hours
Friday, October 12th 6pm-10Pm
Saturday, October 13th 11am-10PM
Sunday, October 14th from 11am-6PM

Friday

6:00 Kaleidoscope Part 1

Game Shop, Yuri Shapochka, Ukraine/USA, 4:20, DVD, B&W. A suicidal salesman of a video game store is lost in between the imaginary world of video games and reality.

High Expectations, Yuri Shapochka, Ukraine/USA, 15:00, DVD. A wickedly dark, comic chance to see the U.S. Judicial System through a maze of reversed protocols and backwards logic.

Man from Below TV, Charlie Tweed , United Kingdom, 8:00, DVD. A series of videos and performances where Tweed’s alter ego attempts to create a safer life 'below the surface' of the Thames Gateway.

Top of the World, Celeste Fichter, Brooklyn, 5:03, DVD. A quirky smart look at the state of the polar ice cap.

7:00 Featured Artist Carole Kim

Old Faithful [5:04] 2000
“Did you ever light a firecracker and have it go fizzle instead of go BANG!?” Natural phenomenon as public spectacle. Bus loads arrive loaded with expectation: When was it going to erupt next? Do we have time to wait? Why doesn’t it abide by the clock? Wouldn’t it be better if it was lit by color lights?… Is it truly ‘faithful’? Even though 4000-8000 gallons of water are expelled during an eruption, most returned to their buses well before the show was over. Been there, done that. Check it off the list.This short video was shown as a looping projection behind a stand doling out bottles of OLD FAITHFUL Sparkling Water.

SINK [6:37] 2001
Meditation on dirty dishes and soapy water,
The pool of light through my kitchen window.
Cleaning with sunlight.

What makes a picture a picture… [7:23] 2002
This video is an excerpt from the collaborative project CONFORMED_BITS commissioned by Eyebeam Atelier, NY & the Center for Integrated Media @ CalArts for the online forum, "The (Re)Structured Screen: Conversations on the New Moving Image", an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the language, narrative, unique environments, and politics of the new moving image given the current technological terrain. Archival material of the history of television and original footage documenting the permeation of the moving image from private to public spaces were streamed through a continuous feedback loop, a dynamic mis-use of streaming technology. Fueled by their previous experience with the performance FLOOD (mounted at MOCA-LA as part of the American Film Institute's 2001 conference, "The Arts and Streaming Media"), sound designer JESSE GILBERT and artist CAROLE KIM were inspired to further explore the streaming feedback loop as a generative tool, probing the dynamic behavior of media moving continuously between the analog and digital world.

SCEND [4:10] 2002
3. the lift of a wave
4. the upward movement of a pitching ship
Collaboration with musician/composer YORGOS ADAMIS on the occasion of the 2002 Greek Argonautika Festival examining the tale of Jason and the Argonauts.

Chasing the Pools [8:30] 2005
is a single-channel video based on an immersive performance/installation exploring live cameras on dancers seamlessly integrated into the landscape of live-mix video projection. Their lit bodies became one moving image, dematerializing or re-materializing the body, while the background remained another. These channels were projected onto numerous scrims in a large tree grove. The video combines the composite live-feed image with the original source material.

I.V. [11:33] 2007
For this performance, I set up an IV drip into a dark pan with a monitor of a live video mix suspended above. As the water filled a reflective surface formed allowing for an image to emerge. The drip as lifeline, heartbeat, disturbance conjures the fragility and instability of the membrane by which the image. is formed.TOSHI NAKAMURA, no-input mixing board, LEWIS KELLER, electronics, CAROLE KIM, live-feed video
Center for Experiments, Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) Festival 2007 @ REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA

8:00 Night of Animation

Selection from the Directors Lounge Berlin Festival 2007, curated by Kim Collmer

Animate Locate - It is all about location: locations, which give us comfort or discomfort, allow us to imagine, laugh, squirm; locations that transport us or bring us quickly, and sometimes harshly, back to reality. This selection of animations from around the globe all touch somehow on the animator's place within the world. Program includes:

The Tale of Little Puppetboy, Johannes Nyholm, Sweden, 4:20, stop motion, 2005. Puppetboy is a little guy who tries to cope with everyday cares - it could be a malfunctioning VCR, or more serious concerns like relations to the opposite sex.

Fridgedaire, Virgilio Villoresi and Vivì Ponti, Italy, 5:41, cutout, 2005. A tale about the birth, transformation, death and resurrection of a young girl.

Anxiety Invention, Meredith Root, USA, 3:00, ink on paper, 2006. An orchestra of crickets moves us through a shaky landscape of shifting perspectives and unstoppable metamorphoses.

USA, Army of Me, Norma V Toraya, 4:08, mixed media, 2004. A vacant dry ill-libido desert wasteland of female bounty hunters and rock-formed males.

Imaginary Lines, Anita Allyn, USA, 2:20, 2D digital, 2005. Collage from imagery taken from American Road movies.
Whereto I Go, J Tobias Anderson, Sweden, 4:46, digital animation, 2005. A man's confrontation with his own self. A meeting that is not always as rewarding as one might have hoped.

Today I'm Here, Thessia Machado, Brazil/USA, 00:45, pixilation, 2006. A compressed account of the impermanence of memories.

Copenhagen Cycles, Eric Dyer, USA, 6:35, zoetrope, 2005. A bicyclist travels through a fantastical, collaged reconstruction of Denmark's capital city.

Berlin Skin, Kim Collmer, Germany/USA, 2:00, mixed media, 2007. Painted photographs come to life through animation techniques: paint on glass, drawing, and digital techniques.

Making Pancakes, Cecilia Lundqvist, Sweden, 4:58, hand-drawn, 2005. A woman and a man in a totally unbalanced relationship.

Board, Hei Cheng and Mike Chan, UK, 1:00, Rostrum camera, 2005. Surprising and playful travel on the board. Escaping from reality and bringing surreal imagination to real life.

Woman Without a Past, Lisa Barcy, USA, Mini DV, 5:00, stop-motion/collage, 2004. Originally conceived as an artist-book, the piece is ultimately about privacy and the desire to not share information and how that in itself is revealing.

9:00 HI/LO Film Festival Part 1

Originally organized in 1997 by the San Francisco production company and comedy collective Killing My Lobster the hi/lo film festival has evolved into a major West Coast showcase for independent low-budget filmmakers. Now in its tenth year, the hi/lo film festival continues to prove that big imaginations are more important than fat wallets.

Pretty Things – ‘Straight for a Minute, Michael Lucid, CA, 3:00, DV. An instructional music video for Gay guys who occasionally need to go undercover.

Backseat Bingo, Liz Blazer, CA, 6:00, animation. Documentary, which throws the spotlight on aging.
Bartholomew’s Song, Allison Welch, Lowell Frank & Design Creation, CA, 11:00, Super 16. One automaton sings his own song to heartbreaking effect.

Honeycut: Tough Kid, Arno Salters, CA, 2:00, DV. Cardboard cityscapes and really dizzy rockers go for a spin.
A Bad Hair Day, Meeso Lee, WA, 7:00, miniDV. A filmmaker visits his parents for one week and fights a perennial battle pitting his scruffy-doo against his father’s perm.

Lift Off, Terri Timely, CA, 0:50, 16mm. An interstellar flipbook adventure.

Afloat, Erin Hudson, CA, 6:00, 16mm. Documentary – geriatrics and the swimming pools they love.

Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot, David Chai, CA, 7:00, animation. Crash course in how to make lemonade out of lemons.

10:00 Close

Saturday

11:00 Procedure 2

Jennifer Wilkey, Chicago, 4:00 loop, installation, 2007. Repetitive acts and seemingly long durations allude to the experience of the hospital stay and serve as a distraction from illness. The action is subtle with static shots that allow for focus on a single movement or act. The world created exists between that of reality and the surreal.

11:30 Standing on The Beach in Rimini

Chelsea Tonelli Knight, Chicago, 8:00 min (repeated), 2006. Gorgeously shot video with narration about an episode recalled and never far from consciousness.

12:00 Disco Ball in the Woods

Adam Ekberg, Chicago, 4:30 min loop, DVD, 2006. A magical scenario comprised of an out-of-place disco ball on a snowy mountaintop in Maine reflecting an artificial light source at dusk. Its illogical presence is hardly questionable given the sheer beauty of the sparkling light dancing on the snow.

1:00 Kaleidoscope Part 2

Videos in Kaleidoscope 2, fold imagery into breathtaking arrays of color and texture. Where Kaleidoscope 1 was gritty and quick, Kaleidoscope 2 charms and enchants our senses. Each invokes the viewer to spend time with the piece, to join with it.

The Pond to the Ocean, Scott Wolniak, Chicago, 6:40, animation, 2006. The Pond to the Ocean is an animation created by 5000 drawings created with watercolor, ash, melted snow and pond water.

The Fold, Kim Collmer, USA/Germany, 4:11, animation and underwater video, 2006. Shot underwater in the Adriatic and a giant wooden water bucket, the Fold explores water as a reflective surface, creating mirrored images and abstract cellular animations.

S-Bahn, Lee Arnold, London/Brooklyn, 5:05, animation, 2006. S-Bahn is a trip through a real and imagined Berlin. A formerly divided city that also serves as the border between eastern and Western Europe.

Intransit, Lee Arnold, Brooklyn, 7:11, animation 7:11, 2006. In-Transit represents the experience of traveling but never arriving.

Spacial Planning and Organization, Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went, Poland, 9:10, DVD. Karska and Went collaborate to create films which transform real places into hallucinary narratives.

2:00 Video Feedback

Shawn Towne, USA, 9:45 loop, collection of animation shorts. This body of work is an enhanced version of straight video feedback, as it incorporates editing, pixel manipulation, and the addition of sound. (selection form Kaleidoscope 3)

3:00 Future Memories

Scott Kildall, Chicago, video loop, 2006. Video montages consisting of the “in-between” shots from iconic Hollywood films: a flock of birds flying in the twilight, a hand picking up a glass of whiskey, rain falling against garbage cans in an alley, trees whizzing by as seen from a moving car and so on. Cinematic memory flows from shot to shot, spanning across space and time. Kildall’s intentions are to displace the viewer into a familiar yet unfamiliar psychological arena. Scott received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently residing In the Bay area.

4:00 BABA YAGA Chronicles

Tony Gammidge, United Kingdom, 20:00, puppetry and video. Filmed in the UK, Florida, Maine, Finland and Estonia. The film is a personal and autobiographical response to the Russian fairy story rather than an illustration of it and is more poetic than literal.

4:30 Featured Artist Carole Kim

Old Faithful [5:04] 2000

SINK [6:37] 2001

What makes a picture a picture… [7:23] 2002

SCEND [4:10] 2002

Chasing the Pools [8:30] 2005

I.V. [11:33] 2007

5:30 When I look up I fall down

Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey, 2006, (1:06 looped), DVD video/sound installation. This short loop was inspired by footage gathered from an old-growth Oregon forest during an artist residency. Seen from a disorienting spin, the lush tree canopy no longer offers a sense of shelter, but creates a vortex suggestive of a larger ecological and personal conundrum.

7:00 Kaleidoscope Part 1

Game Shop, Yuri Shapochka, Ukraine/USA, 4:20, DVD, B&W. A suicidal salesman of a video game store is lost in between the imaginary world of video games and reality.

High Expectations, Yuri Shapochka, Ukraine/USA, 15:00, DVD. A wickedly dark, comic chance to see the U.S. Judicial System through a maze of reversed protocols and backwards logic.

Man from Below TV, Charlie Tweed , United Kingdom, 8:00, DVD. A series of videos and performances where Tweed’s alter ego attempts to create a safer life 'below the surface' of the Thames Gateway.

Top of the World, Celeste Fichter, Brooklyn, 5:03, DVD. A quirky smart look at the state of the polar ice cap.

7:45 Kaleidoscope Part 2

Videos in Kaleidoscope 2, fold imagery into breathtaking arrays of color and texture. Where Kaleidoscope 1 was gritty and quick, Kaleidoscope 2 charms and enchants our senses. Each invokes the viewer to spend time with the piece, to join with it.

The Pond to the Ocean, Scott Wolniak, Chicago, 6:40, animation, 2006. The Pond to the Ocean is an animation created by 5000 drawings created with watercolor, ash, melted snow and pond water.

The Fold, Kim Collmer, USA/Germany, 4:11, animation and underwater video, 2006. Shot underwater in the Adriatic and a giant wooden water bucket, the Fold explores water as a reflective surface, creating mirrored images and abstract cellular animations.

S-Bahn, Lee Arnold, London/Brooklyn, 5:05, animation, 2006. S-Bahn is a trip through a real and imagined Berlin. A formerly divided city that also serves as the border between eastern and Western Europe.

Intransit, Lee Arnold, Brooklyn, 7:11, animation 7:11, 2006. In-Transit represents the experience of traveling but never arriving.

Spacial Planning and Organization, Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went, Poland, 9:10, DVD. Karska and Went collaborate to create films which transform real places into hallucinary narratives.

8:30 Kaleidoscope Part 3 - Black & White

A collection of animation abstractions. The compositions in this program depict an interest in light, pattern making, and transformation.

Blow, Joon Sung, Korean/USA, 3:28, animation. Blow is somehow meditative, spiritual, tedious, monotonous and emotionally accessible all in one.

Scwaezwald, Lee Arnold, London/Brooklyn, 7:49, animation. Schwarzwald is inspired by the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm.

Still Phantom, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Japan, 2:58, animation. In this piece a moving shadow seems to dance to music while its source comes from a stationary object.

Video Feedback, Shawn Towne, USA, 9:45, collection of animation shorts. This body of work is an enhanced version of straight video feedback, as it incorporates editing, pixel manipulation, and the addition of sound.

9:00 HI/LO Film Festival Part 2

Let’s Start Again, Charlie Tweed, London UK, 7:00, miniDV. Animals of the forest beware. Surreal look at wilderness and technology.

Sprout and the Bean, Terri Timely, CA, 3:00, 35mm, music video. Infectious and mercurial sounds made entirely from Joanna Newsom’s voice, mixed with stunning imaginary imagery.

Tales of mere existence, Lev, CA, 7:00, animation. Chronicle of the socially awkward, the perpetually uncoordinated and the sympathetically perplexed.
Hello Thanks, Andrew Blubaugh, OR, 8:00, Super 16. One man and his camera give a shot at portraiture and personal ads.

Snakeman, John Inglis, Australia, 7:00, miniDV. A grizzly Australian snake-owner and the sissiest cameraman square off.

Under the Roller Coaster, Lila Place, CA, 16:00, 8mm, miniDV. Documentary about a brassy compelling character who spent her life in a house under a Coney island rollercoaster.

The V Party, Michelle Dean, CA, 5:00, DV. Political consultants pitch to get apathetic voters pumped and ready for the party.

10:00 Close

Sunday

11:00 When I look up I fall down

Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey, 2006, (1:06 looped), DVD video/sound
This short loop was inspired by footage gathered from an old-growth Oregon forest during an artist residency. Seen from a disorienting spin, the lush tree canopy no longer offers a sense of shelter, but creates a vortex suggestive of a larger ecological and personal conundrum.

12:00 Marwen Academy

Marwen educates and inspires under-served young people through the visual arts. On the Verge is a youth video festival developed by students at Marwen and features work from youth programs from around the country including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Say Si in San Antonio Texas, Marwen in Chicago, Street Level Youth Media in Chicago among others.

The festival presents work shot in bedrooms, classrooms, and neighborhoods; sampled from popular media and found content; and filmed in imagined landscapes. Using video to express their stories, create their visions, and document their experiences, these projects illustrate the diversity in youth created time-based media. This year's goal for On the Verge: Youth Video Festival was to create a guide or instruction set on How to Execute a DIY Video Festival and encourages future participation from organizations and individuals.

1:00 Columbia College Department of Interdisciplinary Arts

The Columbia College Chicago Interdisciplinary Arts Department's unabashed trans-disciplinary philosophy and highly structured curricular format represent the distillation of three decades of constant refinement. Students from various artistic backgrounds are immersed in a program of study exploring contemporary forms and practices, with an emphasis on content, critical thinking, invention, and technique. Students produce artwork that requires them to be conversant in historical and theoretical perspectives as well as multiple media. Within the three-degree programs (MA in Interdisciplinary Arts; MFA in Book and Paper; MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media) students create a coherent body of work ranging from media-rich performance to installation, artist books to sculpture, fictional documentary video to interactive genes.

2:00 Columbia College Film and Documentary

The Columbia College Chicago Film & Video Department is the largest film school in the USA. Columbia College has over 2300 students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs within a liberal arts context that are designed to fully integrate the practical and intellectual aspects of the moving image arts. The school’s students have something to say to the world and do so through narrative, documentary, animated and experimental films that are both entertaining and provocative. Exhibting artists: Joseph Merideth, Annamarie Christofanelli, Maria Abraham, Curt Rabinak, David Kovacs, Bernadette Demisay, Christopher Padgett, Maria Gigante, Christopher O'Brien.

3:00 SAIC Film Video and New Media

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Film, Video, and New Media was created from two previously separate departments, film and video. For over three decades, the two departments have remained centers of formal experimentation and critical investigation in film and video. These distinguished histories are the foundations on which the Department of Film, Video, and New Media was built as an interdisciplinary media production and studies program.

4:00 SAIC Art and Technology Studies

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Art and Technology Studies department is an interdisciplinary program in which students explore the application of both standard and emerging technologies to art making in the widest possible context. Learning to work with the important ideas behind art and technology opens up a wide range of professional opportunities, preparing students for future technological changes and intellectual challenges. Areas of study encompass interactive multimedia, imaging, immersive VR, computer animation, kinetics, electronics, robotics, machine control, precision metalworking, responsive objects, neon, holography, digital sound and video (including multi-channel sound and multi-screen projection), electronic media-based installation, biotech, telecommunication, and internet-based art.

5:00 Northwestern Univ. Dept. of Art Theory and Practice

Northwestern’s Department of Art Theory and Practice is committed to the pursuit of the visual arts as a theoretical discipline pushing the boundaries of aesthetic and cultural experience. The School strives to create an atmosphere that will foster intellectual and artistic development. Graduatestudents work within a variety of media and approaches including traditional and experimental practices. This selection of video works was completed and compiled by current Master of Fine Arts candidates. Exhibiting artists:Aaron Hughes, Curt Bozif, Tim Mazurek, Cole Pierce, Julie Rudder.

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