Photographs by Mary Campbell and Jeph Gurecka.
May 5th through May 20th.
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays-Sundays, 11:00am-7:00pm

"walking-around videos" of some recent anti-global capitalism protests in Seattle and Quebec and other street scenes,
INCLUDING:
At 8 p.m.:
"One-4-One", a documentary directed by Robert Carrithers and Turmunkh Dorjkhandyn ("State of the Dogs"). "One-4-One" views an annual block party on East First Street in the East Village of New York City, focusing on bands and residents of the street. Although primarily a musical event, the block party is an old East Village tradition, usually marking the end of summer and a chance for many of the neighborhood's diverse ethnicities, ages, and social strata to interact on the street. "One-4-One" shows a street and a neighborhood in economic and social transition, presenting in microcosm changes to New York under the Giuliani administration.
Producer: Michael Carter; Executive Producer: Saul Braun. Featuring music and performances by PAK, Mannix, Rachelle Garniez and the Fortunate Few, Hungry March Band, and Moisturizer; with Julius Klein, Jon Gerstad, Tyrus Coursey and others; 24 min., 2001

produced by Norman Douglas
featuring live readings by:
Taylor Mead
John Farris
Michael Carter
Norman Douglas
a violin solo by Billy Bang
and videotapes by:
Julius Klein and
Franck Goldberg

The miraculous, explosive procession that occurred this April 13th in the Lower East Side, featuring the Madagascar Institute, the Hungry March Band and the Unbearables Arts Festival, was caught live on tape by Survivor Theatre. Additional clips by Survivor Theatre this night feature last year's Coney Island Mermaid Parade and a stirring performance by Circus Amok.
Don't miss this core-value cornucopia of free creative expression!

Suggested Donation for this event: $3.00

More than a decade of experimental video
by Mexican artist Alberto Roblest

From his origins in the Mexico City underground art scene to exhibitions in fine art museums and galleries in Mexico, Europe and the United States, Roblest has authored more than 50 single channel art pieces, videopoems and mulitmedia installations. He made his first experimental work in 1984, while working under Pola Weiss, Mexico's videoart pioneer, who first brought the genre to Mexico in the mid-1970s.

Since his first experimentations, Roblest's work has explored a wide range of creative possibilities - from minimalist camera effects to high-tech digitally edited productions. He is also a poet with five volumes of published work. His next book, entitled Ortografia para Piromaniacos (Grammar Rules for Pyromaniacs) will be published in 2001 by AsaltoalCielo Editores of Cambridge, Massachusetts. His poems often form the basis for his videoart. Roblest currently lives in Boston, where he is a member of VideoSpace, an artist collective.

Suggested Donation: $3.00

Experimental fiction and digital art videos
by Lenara Verle, Cibele Vieira and Gaudêncio Fidelis,
three digital artists from Brazil

LENARA VERLE:
GridCosm 000-005 (5 min, animation)
HyGlide (3 min, animation)

Synergy:Grid (4.30 min, documentary)
Images from Sito Electronic Arts (www.sito.org) collaborative projects: a never-ending tunnel of imagery and a journey through a hyperdimensional universe.

CIBELE VIEIRA:
Unknown Words (5 min, fiction)
New technology brings to the modern days an old South American short story written by Eduardo Galeano.

Ezueled (7 min, experimental)
Literally the inverse of Deleuze (the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze), Ezueled represents the artist's attempt to absorb Deleuze's thoughts and theories about cinema. It explores our perceptions of the relationship between time and image.

GAUDÊNCIO FIDELIS:
Sounds of a Wedding (4.30 min, experimental)

Lux, 1998 (2.10 min, experimental)
A recontextualization of the viewer's experience of the moving image by a conceptual; disjunction between sound and image, scale and environment, movemement and stillness.

Suggested Donation: $3.00

Featuring:
Selections from the MWF Video Collection

Live Improvisational Sax by Patrick Brennan (www.Brickhaus.com/DeepDish)

Readings by Michael Carter

and t.b.a. Special Guests

Suggested Donation: $3.00

rockets has blasted off from this plane but the redglare's still visible...

MWF Video's tribute to the late funnyman,
featuring East Village classics:

Rachel Amodeo's WHAT ABOUT ME

Nick Zedd's POLICE STATE

Tommy Turner & David Wojnarowicz' WHERE EVIL DWELLS

and candid clips of ROCKETS live and in performance by Max Jones and others t.b.a.

Suggested Donation: $3.00

An evening of interactive digital video devices invented by artists/engineers who like to play with the signal. Video by these and other artists will also be screened this evening.

"VIDEO BLENDER", By Steve Feuerborn

"Dip your finger inside a digital soup of image and sound... The Quicktime Blender allows you to mix and match overlapping pairs of movies with the touch sensitive screen."

"VIDEO WAH-WAH PEDAL", By Terry Mohre
Distort and contort a live video signal (on this evening, the performers) in real time.

"CLAIRVOYANCE", By Pam Payne
An interactive motion painting. Observers select images by touching them on the screen and by doing so launch digital video "clairvoyant visions".
www.brickhaus.com/clairvoyance

"HYPERAESTHESIA AND POST-HYPERAESTHESIA"
By Phil Sanders
Hyper-3D paintings in QuickTime VR. Also, a pre-SIGGRAPH preview of a real (not virtual) wearable 3D panorama.
Artist's Statement
Wunderkammer: RYO

AND PERFORMANCES BY:
Patrick Brennan, Live Improvisational Sax www.brickhaus.com/DeepDish

Michael Carter, Selected Readings

Stefan Eins, the cutting edge creator performs "MAKING COINCIDENCES"

Alan Moore, Selected Readings
and others

Suggested Donation: $3.00

Featuring:
Crank Sturgeon & ensemble (or is that school), and
Due Process: Ron Lessard and Walter Wright

CRANK STURGEON according to David Dodson, UMass-Lowell disc jockey:
"By the time his performances are over, he'll be wearing very little... but everything he is wearing is an instrument."

DUE PROCESS is a collaborative performance by Ron Lessard ("noise") and Walter Wright ("video").
RON LESSARD, a leader in the "noise" genre of music, creates what he calls "America's Greatest Noise". In his own words "It's a very aggressive sound... by abusing electronic equipment, by pushing it to the absolute extreme." Ron is also "one of the most significant figures working in the international noise scene with his RRRecords label" and vinyl store of the same name in Lowell, Mass. (portions taken from Kurt Hubert, Interface Magazine.)
WALTER WRIGHT, a video artist, animator and software engineer, was one of the first video animators when he worked at Computer Image Corp. in the early '70s. His tapes were shown regularly at the Kitchen, where he was assistant director. As artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, NY 1973-76, he pioneered video performance and toured public access centers, colleges and galleries with the Paik/Abe video synthesizer.

VideoJAM at 911 Gallery

Suggested Donation: $3.00