Simon Grigg Shines Light on AK79

Simon Grigg Shines Light on AK79

Designed by Terence Hogan using an image of The Terrorways’ Dean Martelli, the front cover of AK79 has become one of the best known images of New Zealand rock and roll over the years The defining release of the thriving Auckland punk scene of the late 70s, AK79, compiled by Auckland...
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Nocturnal Digressions: Musings on Peter Laughner

Nocturnal Digressions: Musings on Peter Laughner

Been on a pretty serious Peter Laughner kick in the store lately. After a bootleg CD emerged at the store recently called Nocturnal Digressions, that no one seemed to know where it came from, I have not been able to stop listening to it over and over again. Each listen...
Xway Vision

Xway Vision

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Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store's Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012

Jennifer Herrema Participating in New Museum Store’s Artist Residency December 5-7, 2012

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New NZ Comp Bulletholes 4: Exploring the Unknown

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Auckland’s Powertool Records, the same label to thank for releasing new works by Sandra Bell, The Puddle, Robert Scott, Bill Direen, ( I could go on)  and generally speaking– the label that actively releases a diverse range of ex-Corpus Hermeticum, Xpressway, and Flying Nun artist’s material;  has a new compilation...
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HOLY BALM…(holy shit!)

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Times New Old Friendship Video

Times New Old Friendship Video

New Video for an old song, with re-purposed footage
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Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces

Dirty Looks: On Location is a month-long series of queer interventions in New York City spaces. Over the course of July, Dirty Looks, a roaming series– which typically hosts screenings on the last Wednesday of the month–will install film and video work in queer social spaces and former sites of...
US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7" Pre-Order + Interview

US Premiere of 2 New Street Chant Vids, 7″ Pre-Order + Interview

I can’t say enough how great Street Chant are– as a band, as people, as artists. I, for one have been waiting for these two songs to be released since hearing them live months ago. And now these two videos (comprising a double A-side 7″ available via Arch Hill soon)...
Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus

Straight to Video: Ohio Music Video Comp #1: Columbus 4/18/2012 @ Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn 8PM A screening program of live performance footage, music videos, and cable access appearances with bands from the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. Featuring bands/artists such as: V̶-̶3̶, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, True Believers, Mike...
ESAD Production's History of Bloomington Music

ESAD Production’s History of Bloomington Music

    Somewhere between video diary and music nerd tribute jerked on video–like Bill Nye, but cool– this gem of a CATV special maps out and documents the somewhat subjective, vastly complicated network of musicians and bands in the Bloomington Music Scene from 1977 through 1993.  ESAD Production’s History of...
Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

Netherlands Media Art Institute ceasing activities due to lack of funding, announces future plans+ projects

Netherlands Media Art Institute will cease activities due to lack of funding at the end of 2012. A result of the Ministry of Culture’s decision to terminate funding, an announcement was made yesterday that the Institute will receive no further financial support, and will vacate its present premises on the...
Moron Movies and Len Cella

Moron Movies and Len Cella

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Bruce Russell on 'Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86'

Bruce Russell on ‘Time To Go-The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86’

Really can’t say how stoked I was to stumble 15 minutes late into work today, coffee spilt, phone forgot in bed, and log onto the interwebs to find that Bruce Russell contributed the following piece to Volcanic Tongue on the genesis of the NZ Underground on the occasion of the...
Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

Cash from Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows

Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith Team gallery 83 Grand Street March 29th – April 28th 2012 Reception on Thursday March 29th at 6:00PM Team presents a collaborative installation by New York-based artists Alex Bag and Patterson Beckwith, featuring their rarely shown public access show which ran between 1994 and 1997....
Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present at bitforms

bitforms gallery presents an exhibition on video artist Beryl Korot. Featuring her landmark video installation “Text and Commentary” (1977), the show also includes two of Korot’s more recent investigations into the medium,“Florence” (2008) and “Yellow Water Taxi” (2003). Recognized since the early 1970s as a pioneer of video art and...
Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

Jud Yalkut 26’1.1499” For A String Player TONIGHT @ ANTHOLOGY

Jud Yalkut is  easily one of my  favorite video pioneers. In conjunction with many other events around NYC celebrating John Cage’s centennial, Anthology will screen Yalkut’s 1973 video 26’1.1499” FOR A STRING PLAYER; a recorded video manipulation of Cage’s composition of the same title.  Performed in 1973, the video features...
Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

Throwing Up: Big Love Tour

Beloved Brits Throwing Up are coming back to the States to play some shows. In NYC, it is a rare treat to see the London-based three piece rip it up live, but I can say that I was blown away after seeing them play at Bruar Falls with Blood Orange...
Screaming Urge in the New Age

Screaming Urge in the New Age

On the occasion of Sing-Sing Records’ reissue of Screaming Urge’s 1980 “Homework” single earlier this year, I touched base with Myke Rock and Michael Ravage about the Screaming Urge days and the beginnings of Columbus Punk. Since I spent a decent chunk of my 20’s in the Columbus music scene,...
TV Party Documentary

TV Party Documentary

In true democratic spirit of cable access TV and DIY ethics so associated with the revolutionary NYC show TV Party, some excellent person has shared the recent documentary of the show on Youtube. Much has been written on the now iconic show, so we’ll leave that at bay for now–but...
Purple Pilgrims Video and Spring Tour Info

Purple Pilgrims Video and Spring Tour Info

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Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984

Ministry at EXIT in Chicago,1984

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Dispatch from Aoteara #1

Dispatch from Aoteara #1

  Joe Stumble ran my favorite blog, Last Days of Man on Earth for five years, before moving to NZ from the [American] Midwest in 2010 to pursue his Masters degree at Auckland University. He will be writing regularly for Straight To Video about life in New Zealand, primarily with...
Graham Lambkin's new improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic

Graham Lambkin’s new improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic

For nearly two decades, Graham Lambkin has been redefining our concept of domestic disturbance. From his time in The Shadow Ring to his solo ventures (2003’s Poem for Voice and Tape and Salomon Run, from 2007) to his collaboration with Jason Lescalleet (2008’s The Breadwinner), he has continually transformed everyday...
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Bring to Light NYC brings Nuit Blanche to Greenpoint, Calls for Artists

Early this spring, New Yorkers were treated to a unique and unprecedented  spectacle, with “Let Us Eat Cake,” a program where projected images filled the facade of the New Museum on the Bowery. Following along this trajectory, the same collective will present a one night festival of ephemeral, site-specific, public projections and performances in Greenpoint... [ Read More → ]

B. Wurtz at Metro Pictures, Curated by Matthew Higgs

B. Wurtz: Works 1970 – 2011 Curated by Matthew Higgs Opening reception: June 22, 5 – 7 pm Metro Pictures presents the first New York survey of the work of B. Wurtz. Spanning some 40 years, the show is a collaboration between B. Wurtz; White Columns director Mathew Higgs, the exhibition’s curator; Metro Pictures; and... [ Read More → ]
Dara Birnbaum at Marian Goodman Gallery

Dara Birnbaum at Marian Goodman Gallery

Arabesque June 28 – August 26, 2011 New York Opening reception, Tuesday, June 28th , 6-8 pm Marian Goodman Gallery presents one of the first solo exhibitions of Dara Birnbaum’s work in New York since 2001, following her large European retrospective Dara Birnbaum: The Dark Matter of Media Light at S.M.A.K./Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst,... [ Read More → ]

Woodstock Digital Media Festival

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Guy Maddin to adapt Sparks' tribute to Ingmar Bergman

Guy Maddin to adapt Sparks’ tribute to Ingmar Bergman

  Josiah Hughes reports: Back in 2009, legendary pop outsiders Sparks followed up their 21st studio album, Exotic Creatures of the Deep, with The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, an album that doubled as a musical, following a fictionalized version of the filmmaker’s life story. Now, the album will be expanded into a film by Canadian... [ Read More → ]
For the Kids at Salon 94 Freemans

For the Kids at Salon 94 Freemans

From the Press Release: Salon 94 is pleased to present For the Kids, an exhibition of sports lithographs from the archives of John and Tock Costacos. Opening on Thursday, June 23rd 2011 at Salon 94 Freemans and curated by Fabienne Stephan and Adam Shopkorn, the show serves as a mini-retrospective of early Costacos posters from... [ Read More → ]

Wian Treetin

  In anticipation of the opening of his exhibition Any Ever at PS1, this Saturday June 18th at PS1; Ryan Trecartin has leaked 4 of the 7 part non-sequential epic film to four different websites. Loyally, the artist debuted the first segment Ready (Re’Search Wait’s) on Rhizome.org, then The Re’Search at Dis Magazine, Temp Stop... [ Read More → ]
ICI presents Project 35: 35 Video Works Selected by 35 International Curators Commemorating their 35th Year

ICI presents Project 35: 35 Video Works Selected by 35 International Curators Commemorating their 35th Year

“Berkeley’s Island” by Guy Ben-Ner (Israel) as selected by Mai Abu ElDahab (Egypt/Belgium) Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present “Project 35,” an exhibition of video works selected by 35 international curators in commemoration of exhibition producer Independent Curators International’s (ICI) 35th year from June 17 through July 30, 2011. Each of the curators was invited to... [ Read More → ]

Ur-0 Remix and Pop Recontextualization according to Arcangel

Ever since reading Cory Arcangel’s op-ed piece for the summer issue of Artforum, I have been thinking about his analysis of quoting and appropriation in pop music. Hasn’t this always been the case in both music and art? It is interesting and curious that various strains of trance musics have entered the vernacular of American... [ Read More → ]

Fassbinder’s World on a Wire

  Janus Films will be distributing new digitally restored 35mm prints of Fassbinder’s epic 1973 film ‘World on a Wire.’ Appearing at MoMA twice in the last 2 years, it was somewhat expected that Janus would restore the work. If the film generates enough profit and attention during national circulation, it is also probable that... [ Read More → ]

Getty acquires Harold Szeemann archives

Marcia Reed and Glenn Phillips for the Getty Blog reporting:   Preserving the Legacy of Harold Szeemann   Harald Szeemann. Photo: Ingeborg Lüscher The Harald Szeemann Archive and Library, one of the most important private research collections for modern and contemporary art in the world, is coming to the Getty Research Institute—and we couldn’t be... [ Read More → ]

DIS Presents Herbalife™ Wednesday June 15, 7pm

DIS Magazine presents + Tweens + Herbalife + Choreagraphy at Gresham’s Ghost 7:00pm, Wednesday June 15th Gresham’s Ghost 401 Broadway, room 201 DIS invites you to Herbalife™ for a re-contextualization of the official Herbalife dance performed by tweens and choreographed by Richard Kennedy. This event, presented in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI), is part... [ Read More → ]

Moving Image: An Art Fair of Contemporary Video Art to Coincide with Frieze Art Fair in October 2011

Last March during The Armory Show, the Moving Image, an Art fair comprised entirely of Contemporary Video Art was launched in New York. Moving Image Staff announced today that the  video art fair will make its London debut to coincide with Frieze Art Fair this fall (13-16 October). Have a look and know the difference:... [ Read More → ]
Light Industry signs 5 year lease in Greenpoint, and announces Free Anthony McCall event in Dia Chelsea

Light Industry signs 5 year lease in Greenpoint, and announces Free Anthony McCall event in Dia Chelsea

Light Industry announced today that they’ve  just signed a 5-year lease on a new, ground-floor space at 155 Freeman Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which they will share with Triple Canopy and The Public School. While the venue is being renovated over the summer, Light Industry will continue presenting a regular series of events at like-minded... [ Read More → ]

Lisa Oppenheim at iCI’s new event space

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Artists Space launches new venue: Artists Space: Books & Talks’ on Grand St. and West Broadway

May 10, 2011, 7 – 9 pm at Artists Space 38 Greene St, 3rd Floor Artists Space: Books & Talks is an additional 2,500 square foot storefront venue on Grand Street and West Broadway. This space will in future host a bookshop – with 1,000 titles exclusively selected by 100 artists, writers and critics, each... [ Read More → ]

Video Data Bank launches new website

Video Data Bank has launched a new website. Hiring web developers Fuse IQ for the re-design, the new site is now much more user friendly and has a variety of fun and functional new features. It’s exciting that the nearly 40 year old ‘institution/collection’ will now be more accessible and transparent to the public. Video... [ Read More → ]

Ken Jacobs Interview in TimeOut Chicago

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Mark Fisher to lecture at Cooper Union

THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE AND NYU’S ASIAN/ PACIFIC/ AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM present 2 talks by Mark Fisher: On Hauntology/ Capitalist Realism From Fisher’s website: What are grey vampires and how do they retard the insurrectionary potential of digital discourse? How does Derrida’s notion of hauntology contribute to an understanding of dubstep artist Burial? Is... [ Read More → ]

Rudy Wurlitzer retrospective at Anthology

  I Went to Anthology on Saturday for the Wurlitzer retrospective, where the film Glen and Randa was followed by a Q&A between long-time friends and contemporaries, Robert Downy Sr. and the honored screenwriter himself, Rudy Wurlitzer. The Q&A started with Downey thanking Anthology for finally doing an interesting retrospective, one that he would actually... [ Read More → ]

Churner and Churner gallery screens a Kuchar Brother pairing

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Barbie Video Girl

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La Brune et Moi

  Filmed in 1979, screened once in 1980 to a small crowd on the Left Bank, and lost until 2005, I’m sad to say that my 2011 tastes were underwhelmed with this one. French director Philippe Puicouyoul lifted the story line (Business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of... [ Read More → ]

Aluminum Music at the Kitchen’s 40th

In celebration of their 40th Anniversary, The Kitchen is hosting a party that will be based on a memorable bday-bash-cum-fundraiser in June of 1981 at a Times Square Megaclub. “Dubbed Aluminum Nights, the marathon event saw a capacity audience of many hundreds — including, all seem to recall, Mick Jagger backstage — enjoy a diversified... [ Read More → ]

EAI in Times Square! MTV 44 1/2 , EAI, and The Times Square Alliance Partners to Celebrate Video

This is so exciting! Instead of pontificating as usual, I think it’s best to simply re-post the info from EAI’s website. Video documentation to follow! Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) celebrates its 40th anniversary with a special project for Times Square. In partnership with the Times Square Alliance and MTV, EAI brings artists’ visions to the... [ Read More → ]