Scott Pfaffman Gallery
  35 East 1st Street
  between 1st & 2nd Aves

 
MWF Presents

Fossil Lounge

... an intimate situation for screenings and discussion,
describing figures of speech and electric light.
Join in the process of envisioning the
future of artists' video.

 

 

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Friday, June 23    
6:00 - 9:00    
  Henry Jones and James Karpowicz
"Warm and Wet"
a performative concoction of film, video, voice & sound with Jones, Karpowicz, Claire Coleman, Diane Sintich, Tristan Bechet and Matthew Aramis

 

Friday, June 30    
6:00 - 9:00    
  The MWF Video Hit Parade
We're opening the treasure chest of MWF's video collection!

See David Wojnarowicz, Joseph Beuys, Glenn O'Brien's "TV Party" with Blondie & Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nick Zedd, Eric Mitchell & Squat Theater, ABC No Rio, the Jickets, Mike Bidlo as Andy Warhol, Joseph Nechvatal, Kembra Pfahler, Peter Fend, Cave Girls, Cookie Mueller, John Cage, N. Bergery, Graffiti & Post-Graffiti, Laurie Anderson, y mucho mas.
But wait - there's more!
"Dark Futures": readings of texts by Nietzsche and Ruskin by Michael Carter and Alan Moore
- and -
Live performance by Howie Solo

 

Friday, July 7th    
6:00 - 9:00    
  "Current Society and Forever Sex"
programmed by Franz Vila
featuring Franz Vila's:
"Movieyeur" - a feature-length montage of movie clips with the common denominator of voyeurism, which is in turn being watched voyeuristically by the artist himself
"FaXion" - a parody homage to Balthus with cutaways to female bodybuilders
"Xex" - a montage of genital imagery and autoeroticism Plus: a selection of works on video by other artists dealing with sexuality.
Warning: This show includes sexually explicit material. Franz Vila is an artist using digital processes who works in print, video, slides and a variety of other media.
The issue of sex - from being hidden and un-glamorous to being anti-social, criminal, and subversive - is the target of our exploration this evening.
The artist states that "These pieces are relevant today because of a rebirth of neo-conservatism in our society and a sort of sexually obscurantist renascence characterizing this post-modern period of art."

 

Friday, July 14th    
6:00 - 9:00    
  The MWF Rock'n'roll Video Jam
Rarely seen classic New York punk/new wave performance tapes. Including: "Death Valley 69" starring Sonic Youth "11th & B" with Suicide and the False Profits Amos Poe's "Blank Generation" featuring Patti Smith and Richard Hell & the Voidoids "Lydia Lunch" starring Lydia Lunch "Space Party" with Anne Magnuson & Kenny Scharf

 

Friday, July 21st    
6:00 - 9:00    
  East Village Documentary Night
MWF Video Club will show its collection of videotapes documenting the artists, events, and works of the East Village during the 1980s. Includes: Miguel Pinero, Bimbo Rivas, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Cookie Mueller, David Wojnarowicz, scenes from Tompkins Square Park, the squating movement, ABC No Rio, the Rivington School, the Neither/Nor club, and the East Village Eye Mudd Club tapes. Also featuring new interviews by Jim Cornwell, and interviews with Naked Eye Cinema artists produced by Jack Waters & Peter Cramer.

 

Friday, July 28th    
6:00 - 9:00    
  Performance and Live Painting Video by Stefan Eins
The seminal New York artist Stefan Eins will speak, perform and screen a video of one of his paintings as he makes it. Stefan Eins has been living in New York City since the late 1960s. As well as making paintings and installations, he has produced television, curated group shows, and created and run artists' spaces, including the legendary Fashion Moda, a community-involving, multidisciplinary venue in the South Bronx. His installations have often appeared in New York, in nightclubs and parks as well as galleries and museums.
Statement by the artist:
"The human body is understood as an extremely sophisticated splash of water - after all, over 90% of the human body is water. "Many artists have worked with liquids since prehistoric times; it is my special understanding of liquids and the radically novel use of liquids that will dramatically and forever alter the art of painting and the way man thinks and perceives himself."

 

Friday, August 4th    
7:00 - 10:00    
  Walter Wright and Brian Moran Video Jam

Walter Wright and Brian Moran will collaborate on a live performance of "scratch" video and synthesized music. Wright, a video engineer turned software developer, has created tools that allow him to jam with video tracks (mix, blend, wipe, layer, etc.), while Moran composes and improvises electronic music using a synthesizer.
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.
Wright performs by using computers to manipulate video to produce a visual instrument. Just as an electronic keyboard allows the musician to play prerecorded sounds and samples, Wright processes prerecorded video images in real time.
BRIAN MORAN is a dancer and sound artist who has been working in New York since 1981. Recent projects include "+/-" an ongoing series of DJ/dancer improvisations, "Special Input," a notorious live avant garde/electronic music series at Bar XVI in New York, "Operating System Bug," an electronic analog music solo performance project and "Coffin nor Shelf," a movement duet with Molly Kittle. Moran also creates improvised sound for the live video group "NNeng."
Video Jam at 911 Gallery

$2 donation.

 

Friday, August 11th    
7:00 - 10:00    
  Digital Video Toys
programmed by Pam Payne
Our Last Screening!
Video Toys are interactive computer devices invented by artist/engineers to manipulate video images just for fun.
"HYPERAESTHESIA AND POST-HYPERAESTHESIA" Hyper-3D Paintings in QuickTime VR (Fresh from the Siggraph 2000 Art Gallery)
By Phil Sanders
Phil Sanders has had a radically maverick and elusive history as the inventor of numerous digital video toys. Sanders, the founder of the RYO art space in the East Village, studied and created video art for the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, and currently teaches at the College of New Jersey and NYU. You can visit his Web site at www.thing.net/~ps
"LAZY BOY INTERACTIVITY" Custom record and playback software slices and dices live video input - just aim the camera and presto - it's interactivity without even having to do anything.
By Pam Payne and Curious Terry.
Pam Payne is a digital video artist returning to the medium after a "straight job hiatus." While studying at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, Payne founded the school's Interactive Gallery and managed its computer-generated cable TV show. Payne is currently a producer at Brickhaus, the multimedia design and production house.
"QUICKTIME BLENDER" Use the touch screen to mix and match the images and sounds of video pairs, one video playing on top of the other. By "Steve and The Other Steve."

$2 donation.

 

 
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