Oneohtrix Point Never at MoMA
Oneohtrix at MoMA Oneohtrix Point Never played MOMA last night, as part of a multimedia performance with SF visual artist Nate Boyce. Russian Mind (scored by Oneohtrix Point Never) Nate Boyce is represented by Altman Siegel in SF. Photos by Erez Avissar. [ Read More → ]
2 Different Ways
I realize that these two videos have absolutely nothing to do with each other; BUT they represent the cream that has risen to the top of my mush-brain for the day, and that’s reason enough to post. [ Read More → ]
Cable Access XMAS Video Mix
When I saw Miss Velma’s Christmas in America a coupla years ago at Light Industry, I was elated. Miss Velma preached “The Miracle of God’s Youth”. She was a messenger of life, hope, faith, and miracles– for old people. Her later telecasts provided live testimonies of people who have allegedly had the aging process reversed... [ Read More → ]
Chris and Cosey at the Diogenes Club, Holland 1988
Creative Technology Institute (now called Institute for Creative Technology) Diogenes Club Diogenes Club, Arnham Holland Set list: Sleeping Stephen Arcade Vengeance Beatnik Club Workout Confession Obsession Dancing On Your Grave Beatbeatbeat More Chris and Cosey posts by Straight to Video: Here Here and TG Reissues Here [ Read More → ]
A New EVR
What follows is a doctored press release, much of which I either disagree with, question, have criticisms about, and opinions to add. My reactions follow the press release in red. Via e-Flux: After seven years as a traveling project, e-flux video rental (EVR) has found a permanent home at Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana. Donated to... [ Read More → ]
DanceR(equired)
Pina Bausch, founder of Tanztheater was not interested in how people moved, but rather, what moved them. Like Bausch, Friedman’s new 16mm film Dancer manifests dancers’ internal monologues through self-scripted movement. Dancer is the most recent film from a new body of work that focuses primarily on performance and public space. But there’s so... [ Read More → ]
Videobytes
Videobytes at Russ & Daughters: 179 East Houston Street With work that spans a fifty-year period, Videobytes features pieces by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers Robert Breer and Harry Smith, conceptual artists John Baldessari and Gordon Matta-Clark, and a younger generation of video and performance artists including Kate Gilmore, Hiraki Sawa and Susana Mendes Silva. The common... [ Read More → ]
Kuchar and MoMA
Tonight: MoMA presents A Celebration of George Kuchar: Rambunctious Rarities, Moody Masterpieces to coincide with the exhibition Pagan Rhapsodies, opening this weekend at PS1 Planned prior to the artist’s recent death, this past September, George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies includes many of the artist’s most important works, including films, videos, and works on paper. A presentation of Kuchar’s films... [ Read More → ]
Public Video: The High Line Channel
The High Line park recently announced they will host a daily program of outdoor video art this winter. Called the “High Line Channel,” a curated series of art films, videos, recorded historic works, and new video pieces will be screened from dusk to 10pm on various buildings just east of the High Line at West... [ Read More → ]
Nunvember NYC
So, I recently re-formatted this site, and for whatever reason– I lost a significant amount of content. One of the missing posts listed the details about the Flying Nun 30th Events in NYC.So I will re-post the latest below. Here’s the latest: 11/8: Open Deck DJ Night at Daddy’s Bar, BK. Bring yr favorite... [ Read More → ]
Show and Tell with Steina
October 16, 2011 7:30p Anthology Film Archives October 17, 2011, 6:00p Clocktower Gallery Anthology welcomes video pioneer Steina for a special presentation and screening. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1940, Steina studied violin and music theory, and in 1959 attended the Czechoslovak State Music Conservatory, where she met her husband Woody Vasulka. Together they moved... [ Read More → ]
Badd Energy on Flying Nun
It was partially revealed today that psyche-stone-riff-rappers Badd Energy will be releasing a new single and a music video tomorrow through Flying Nun. Badd Energy are Sam Moore, Coco Solid, Trixie Darko and J.Suave. They formed in 2009, and released their energetic debut ‘Tropic of Scorpio’ that year; the quartet seems to have now been... [ Read More → ]
Anthology this week
Abigail Child in Millennium Film Journal, No. 22 (Winter/Spring 1989/90) There’s tons of great stuff happening at Anthology this week: Tuesday, Oct 11: FixC presents “Fixation” (programs 1&2) FixC is an independent artist cooperative based in Helsinki, which was launched to generate, distribute, and promote video art, media art, and experimental cinema, and to... [ Read More → ]
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Sanja Iveković. Personal Cuts. 1982. Video (black and white and color, sound), 3:40 min. Courtesy the artist. © 2011 Sanja Iveković MoMA announced the first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Sanja Iveković (b. 1949, Zagreb), which will cover four decades of the artist’s remarkable career. A feminist, activist, and video... [ Read More → ]
Hero’s dead
“I work on my tan in isolation” George Kuchar http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/george-kuchar-1942-2011 [ Read More → ]
Industrial Records Announces it’s Official Re-activation, Re-releases Catalog Sept. 26th
I was pretty confused when I found a brand new copy of The Second Annual Report recently at the Philadelphia Record Exchange with an Industrial Records insignia printed on the back cover. Went to TG’s website and found that the band’s label is currently being reactivated: Industrial Records hereby announces it’s official re-activation. IR is... [ Read More → ]
Kuchars Rooftop Screening
Wednesday, August 31 · 8:30pm – 11:00pm Silvershed’s [GORGEOUS] Roof 119 West 25th Street New York, NY GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR Lovers of Eternity, 1964 Lust for Ecstasy, 1964 GEORGE KUCHAR Hold Me While I’m Naked, 1966 …MARIE LOSIER Electrocute Your Stars, 2004 (starring George Kuchar) Program approx. 95mins. Since the age of 12,... [ Read More → ]
Portal: Perspectives on Video Performance
An Xiao, The Artist is Kinda Present, 2010. Portal is a cross-platform project inviting artists, writers and audiences interested in time-based art – video, new media, sound and performance – to engage in a series of exhibitions, performances and symposia, surveying the changing nature of art in the digital world. In recent years, we have... [ Read More → ]
Light Industry presents a McLuhan screening at the New Museum
Light Industry at the New Museum: This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7pmThis Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage Ernest Pintoff, 16mm, 1967, 54 mins Introduced by Alex KitnickThis Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage premiered in 1967 as one of the... [ Read More → ]
Lights In Motion: Rarities from the Howard Wise Gallery at EAI
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Noon – 7 pm Program repeats hourly. On the 40th anniversary of EAI’s incorporation on August 17, 1971, EAI pays tribute to founder Howard Wise and the Howard Wise Gallery with a special screening of rare and never-before-screened archival materials, including films of kinetic art works, interviews, and documentation of the... [ Read More → ]
Per-son-age: Video exhibition at Famous Accountants
Per-son-age 6:00pm – 10:00pm Famous Accountants Gallery 1673 Gates Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385 Curated by Rico Gatson per-son-age/ persenij (noun) A person (often used to express their significance, importance, or elevated status) Per-son-age is an exhibition of videos in which the artist is the primary performer. Historically artists such as Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper,... [ Read More → ]
Straight to Video 1
I’ve been organizing an exhibition of music videos from Columbus, OH. The main impetus for the exhibition is to digitize previously un-transferred material that is at risk of entropy and/or deterioration. The digitized footage will then be gifted to a few archives after the exhibition for access and posterity. Some of the artists that I... [ Read More → ]
McLuhan’s Centennial
Today marks the centennial of one of the most charismatic, controversial and original thinkers of our time. Marshall McLuhan is universally regarded as the father of communications and media studies and prophet of the information age. His remarkable perception propelled him onto the international stage, during the 1960s, and there hasn’t been a more influential... [ Read More → ]
![Ron Slate on Where Art Belongs, essays by Chris Kraus (semiotext[e] intervention series)](http://straighttovideo.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/KrausTable-150x150.jpg "Ron Slate on Where Art Belongs, essays by Chris Kraus (semiotext[e] intervention series)")
Ron Slate on Where Art Belongs, essays by Chris Kraus (semiotext[e] intervention series)
A few months ago, I read the new Chris Krauss book, (oddly) titled, “Where Art Belongs.” Not having the time to critique the book myself, I thought I would post Ron Slate’s recent review: July 18th, 2011 In September, 2009, an art collective called Bernadette Corporation exhibited “The Complete Poem” at Greene Naftali, a commercial... [ Read More → ]
Experimental Television Center 1971-2011
Anthology Film Archives screened a bitter-sweet program of videos as a tribute and farewell to the Experimental Television Center (ETC) Friday evening. Since 1971, ETC has maintained its presence as a unique video art production studio in Owego, NY; providing artists with access to the tools of video art production through residencies and grants. The... [ Read More → ]
E.S.P. TV at Silvershed
Sat. July 9, 8pm-12am SILVER SHED 119 West 25th Street, PH New York , NY 10001 Tel: 1-646-322-332 E.S.P. TV is coming to Silvershed this Saturday with a rooftop screening of highlights and outtakes from Episodes 1-4 and a sneak preview of Episode #5. If you’ve never seen the show this is a great chance... [ Read More → ]