Public Programs
Past Public Programs
CLEAN CUT
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:30 pm
The re-edit and the remix have become increasingly important strategies for artists working with appropriated moving images. In the era of YouTube and affordable, user-friendly video editing software, a minimalist approach to reworking appropriated material has emerged. What is the most economical way to make something new from something old?
Eschewing collage, the artists in this program choose to make works by refashioning a single piece of found video or film, such as a Hollywood action movie, a '70s sitcom, or a low-resolution video clip. Though recalling Internet fan edits and exercises encountered in film school editing classes, these remixes and re-edits by artists are driven by conceptual or formal investigations. Employing an economy of means, these artists create new forms of cultural critique and media intervention.
CINEMA ON AIR
Socrates Sculpture Park
Broadway at Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11103
June 21, 2008, sunset.
"Cinema On Air" features an evening of projected silent video works, selected from the EAI Collection, accompanied by two simultaneous sound performances heard through radio headphones.
Take a seat in the park, tune-in to either of the two live soundtracks, watch the works in silence, or sample all three experiences. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own radios and headphones. A limited number of radios with headphones will be available on site.
This event is co-presented by Electronic Arts Intermix, free103point9, and Socrates Sculpture Park.
"Cinema On Air" is the concluding event of Socrates' "Summer Solstice" programs which begin at 5 pm.
MICHAEL SMITH
BABY IKKI BIRTHDAY PARTY
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 6:30 pm
For the first time in more than a decade, Michael Smith will stage a birthday party for his legendary character, Baby Ikki, in New York City at EAI. Conceived as a mute, ambiguous character fixed neither by age nor gender, Baby Ikki is an archetype with an unclear mission, onto which spectators project their own interpretations.
Guests attending the birthday party are encouraged to bring appropriate gifts for Baby Ikki.
MICHAEL SMITH + JOSHUA WHITE
Artist Talk and Screening
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 6:30 pm
EAI presents a special evening with Michael Smith and Joshua White. Smith and White will screen works that they have produced together and speak about their long collaboration.
Over the last 11 years, Michael Smith and Joshua White have collaborated on a series of increasingly sophisticated videos and installations that incorporate Smith's deadpan and wide-eyed alter-ego, "Mike." Gullible and ever-hopeful, Smith's eponymous character is an Everyman living in a media-saturated hyper-ordinary world that he does not really understand.
LESLIE THORNTON: PHOTOGRAPHY IS EASY
Artist Talk + Screening
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 6:30 pm
Leslie Thornton joined EAI for an evening exploring the role of photography in her moving image work. Thornton's rigorously experimental film and video work is an investigation into the production of meaning through media. For Thornton, form and content are equal and inseparable.
At EAI, Thornton screened rarely-seen film and video works in which she has investigated the porous boundaries between the still and the moving image. She spoke about the impact and influence of photographic concepts and techniques on her media practice. In addition, Thornton's presentation included a special performance in which the artist reduced a sheet of stills from Adynata into individual photographs that were given to the audience.
HIGH RESOLUTION: Artist's Projects at the Armory
ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX VIDEO PROGRAMS
Curated by Students of The Center for Curatorial Studies
Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City
February 21 - 25, 2008
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presented a series of video programs at The Park Avenue Armory during the 20th annual Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). EAI invited the first year graduate students in the CCS program to curate video programs out of the EAI collection. Four separate programs were produced by the students, which were exhibited on monitors in the Armory's main Hallway between February 21-25, 2008.
MICHAEL BELL-SMITH
ARTIST TALK + SCREENING
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 6:30 pm
In his first artist talk in New York City, Michael Bell-Smith spoke at EAI about his innovative media works and digital art practice. Bell-Smith talked about how he uses digital forms to explore contemporary visual culture and how it is mediated through popular technologies. Directly referencing art historical and painting traditions as well as the visual vocabulary of the Internet, Bell-Smith's rigorously constructed, highly conceptual works suggest new directions and possibilities in digital art. New and recent works works by the artist were also screened.
EAI & Y-3 PRESENT ART IN MOTION
Public Video Art Screenings in Miami's Design District
Y-3 Miami
150 NE 40th Street, Design District, Miami, Florida
December 5 - 8, 2007. Closing Reception: Saturday, December 8, 8 - 10 pm
EAI partnered with Y-3 to present a program of video works from the EAI collection on the exterior of Y-3's newly opened location in Miami's Design District. Inside the Y-3 store, in its second level event space, an indoor video program featuring the influential and provocative video works of Dara Birnbaum was on view.
REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
NEW & RESTORED FILMS & VIDEOS OF
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 6:30 pm
EAI celebrated the extraordinary work of Carolee Schneemann with a screening of newly-restored, seminal films from the 1960s, as well as recent videos. Schneemann spoke about her works and engaged in a conversation with the audience.
PERFORMANCE ON DEMAND
EAI Viewing Room at EFA Gallery
EFA Gallery
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor, New York City
November 2 - November 17, 2007
During the PERFORMA07 performance biennial, EFA Gallery was transformed into a video lounge to host Electronic Arts Intermix's Viewing Room, a program that provides free public access to one of the foremost collections of video art in the world. Visitors to EFA Gallery were able to choose from a curated selection of major performance-based video works by over 30 artists from the EAI Collection. Viewers were able to watch these seminal performances and contemporary classics at their own pace in a comfortable viewing environment. During the opening reception on Friday, November 2nd, programs featuring selected works were installed throughout the gallery.
COPYRIGHT AND CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 6:00 pm
The rise of media culture and personal computers has enabled individuals to borrow, sample, appropriate and remix to an unprecedented degree. These strategies have become integral to contemporary art making. EAI presented a panel discussion about copyright law and contemporary creative practice. The panel was led by a group of four legal experts with a range of experience in major arts institutions, universities and private practice.
IMAP ELECTRONIC MEDIA PRESERVATION SYMPOSIUM
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference
George Eastman House
Rochester, New York
Saturday, September 29, 2007, 8:30 am - 9 pm
Organized by Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP), Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), and the AMIA Independent Media Interest Group, the IMAP Electronic Media Preservation Symposium was a day-long event comprised of an introductory lecture, three panel discussions, and an evening screening of preserved single-channel videotapes. The symposium drew on the expertise of a network of professionals involved in the electronic media, archival, and art conservation fields and focused on the collection, documentation, preservation, and exhibition of single-channel, installation, and computer-based art.
IN MEMORIAM: THIERRY KUNTZEL (1948 - 2007)
The Museum of Modern Art
Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
11 West 53 Street, New York City
September 24 - October 13, 2007
Thierry Kuntzel was an acclaimed artist, an influential figure in film theory, and a cherished friend. EAI is honored to represent his video works. In memory of Kuntzel, MoMA presented a series of screenings celebrating his art and his theoretical texts about film.
CHARLES ATLAS: SCREENING AND ARTIST TALK
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 6:30 pm
EAI presented a screening of the work of acclaimed video artist Charles Atlas, followed by an in-depth artist talk. The recently restored Hail the New Puritan (1985-86, 85 min.), Atlas' groundbreaking collaboration with choreographer Michael Clark, was screened, along with excerpts from his recent Instant Fame installation series and his live collaborations with Fennesz and Antony and the Johnsons. Atlas also discussed his work with EAI's John Thomson and took questions from the audience.
SHANA MOULTON: BODY ÷ MIND + 7 = SPIRIT
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 6:30 pm
EAI presented a one night, site-specific performance by Shana Moulton. Moulton played her character, Cynthia, the fictional protagonist in her Whispering Pines series of videos. At EAI, Moulton brought Cynthia and her strange world to life through an innovative combination of live performance, projected video, costumes, and props. Moulton described her performance as presenting "a series of home-made and found orthopedic devices, cosmetics and belief systems."
PRESERVING THE FUTURE: Innovative Strategies for Saving New Media
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 6:30 pm
IMAP and EAI presented a panel discussion that offered an overview of the current state of the media preservation field. Four panelists with expertise in archives, museums, art conservation and technology shared recent developments and best practices in the care and conservation of single-channel, video installation and new media art.
ALL CIRCUITS ON. Program #1: Video 101: Touch Your Television
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, New York City
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 8:00 pm
This was the first program in ALL CIRCUITS ON, a series produced in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives. Exploring both institutions' archives, the series presents rarely-screened works from the early days of video art. The first program looked at early artists' experiments with television. Works in the program examined at how television and video work, presented new ways of critiquing the medium, and proposed new uses for the technology. Viewers learned how video can be used as a tool, for the freeing of information and the creation of a healthy media ecology.
JOAN JONAS
I WANT TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY (AND OTHER ROMANCES)
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 6:30 pm
EAI and Afterall presented a special evening with Joan Jonas, celebrating the launch of a new Afterall Book by Susan Morgan: Joan Jonas, I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances). Morgan's book is based on Joan Jonas's 1976 video work, I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances), which was screened. Jonas was present to introduce and talk about this haunting nonlinear video narrative which explores loss, displacement, time, and memory. Following the screening Susan Morgan lead a Q & A with Joan Jonas. The evening concluded with a reception during which Morgan's new book was available for purchase.
DAN GRAHAM
VIDEO - TELEVISION - ARCHITECTURE
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 6:30 pm
Dan Graham spoke about his live video pieces from the 1970s. The video produced in these installations was, by design, a real-time element and was deliberately not recorded. Graham guided the audience through his own documentation of this fascinating period in his work, sharing rarely-seen plans, photographs, and video of these pieces in action. In addition, the artist discussed a number of unrealized works. Following the talk, there was a Q&A with Graham.
RYAN TRECARTIN
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Saturday, February 24, 2007, 11 am - 6 pm
EAI launched its representation of the video works of Ryan Trecartin with this daylong screening. One of the most innovative young artists working with video today, Trecartin merges sophisticated digital manipulations, uncanny performances, and footage drawn from the Internet and other media to craft startling, often surreal visions. This program included his astonishing narrative A Family Finds Entertainment (2005) and his rarely-seen short video pieces.
MARTHA ROSLER
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Friday, February 23, 2007, 11 am - 6 pm
This daylong screening presented a selection of video works by Martha Rosler, one of contemporary art's most important and incisive cultural critics. In her videos, Rosler investigates how social realities and political ideologies dominate ordinary life. The works presented, ranged from her seminal pieces of the 1970s to her complex and provocative works from the 1980s and '90s. A new work, Prototype: God Bless America! (2006), was also shown.
EAI in Poland
Kino.Lab, CSW (Center for Contemporary Art), Warsaw
February 10 - 11, 2007
Bunkier Sztuki (The Art Bunker), Kraków
February 13 - 14, 2007
Laznia Culture Center, Gdansk
February 15 - 16, 2007
Stary Browar, Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan
February 17 - 18, 2007
EAI traveled to four cities in Poland with three programs surveying the the nearly 40 years of video and media art represented in EAI's collection. EAI's Rebecca Cleman introduced each of the screenings with a discussion of the important role EAI has played in the history of American video and media art.