Public Programs
Past Public Programs
EAI VIDEO PROJECT SPACE at X
SUMMER 2009
EAI Video Project Space
X Initiative
548 West 22nd Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10011
June 23, 2009 through September 2009
For the summer of 2009, EAI is pleased to announce a collaboration with X, the not-for-profit, temporary exhibition space located in Manhattan's West Chelsea neighborhood. This summer EAI will present at X a video project space featuring a changing program of artists' video from EAI's major collection of media artworks. Highlighting a multi-generational, multi-disciplinary range of artists and practices, the video project space will bring new works by emerging artists into dialogue with rarely seen historical treasures from the EAI archives.
Located on the ground floor of X, the EAI video project space and summer exhibition program present a new opportunity for EAI to bring works from the EAI collection to the public.
CHARACTER WITNESS
EAI Video Project Space
X Initiative
548 West 22nd Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - Friday, July 3, 2009
On June 23rd, EAI's project space will launch with Character Witness, a program of videos by artists who take on the role of actor in their own narratives. Featuring a cross-generational group of artists, including Kalup Linzy, Alex Bag, Michael Smith, MICA-TV, William Wegman, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, and Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, these works also share a focus that resonates in the current economic and cultural climate: The irreverent investigation of the artist in relation to the art world and the art market.
In casting themselves in their own stories, the artists pursue a range of strategies, from playing or voicing a suite of multiple characters to performing alongside an ensemble cast or assuming fictionalized versions of themselves. Blurring the lines between narrative, performance and documentary, the artists take on these roles to critique, question, and satirize the systems around the marketing of the artist and the selling of their art.
ELEANOR ANTIN
Artist Talk + Screening
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 6:30 pm
Eleanor Antin has worked in film, video, photography, installation and performance for four decades. In the 1970s, Antin produced a series of feature-length narrative videos starring hand-painted paper dolls. Performing with a cast of two-dimensional characters, Antin tackled major issues of the day, while lampooning contemporary gender roles and cultural stereotypes. Antin spoke about this series and screened excerpts from works including The Adventures of a Nurse (1976), The Nurse and the Hijackers (1977) and The Angel of Mercy (1981). A Q&A with the artist followed.
ALEX BAG + DAVID RIMANELLI
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 6:30 pm
EAI presented an evening of conversation and screening with artist Alex Bag and writer and curator David Rimanelli.
In Bag's performance-driven conceptual parodies, she questions how we define ourselves in relation to a media-fueled consumer culture. Focusing her lens on high and low culture, the mainstream and the underground, Bag creates her own unique simulations of TV. Together, Bag and Rimanelli screened and discussed video works that span the artist's entire career.
TAKESHI MURATA
Conversation + Screening
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 6:30 pm
In his first artist talk in New York City, Takeshi Murata screened and spoke about his recent and rarely seen video works, including works in progress. Joining in a conversation with Josh Kline of EAI, Murata shared insights into his innovative practice and continually evolving process, which ranges from intricate computer-aided, hand-drawn animations to exacting manipulations of the flaws, defects and broken code in digital video technology.
KALUP LINZY
Artist Talk + Screening
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 6:30 pm
EAI presented a screening and talk with artist Kalup Linzy. The evening included the New York premier of Linzy's new video, Keys To Our Heart, which was created for Prospect.1 New Orleans in 2008. Linzy also screened two recent works, Melody Set Me Free (2007) and SweetBerry Sonnet (Remixed) (2008). The artist was present to introduce and speak about these works, as well as his practice in video, performance and music.
EXPANDED VIDEO
A Day of Panels + Discussion
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Saturday, November 22, 2008
EAI held a day of panels and discussion that explored the changing landscape for exhibiting, collecting, distributing and preserving media art. Leading curators, artists, gallerists, distributors and critics examined new paradigms for media art practice and activated dialogue on how moving image artworks are being exhibited, collected and circulated today, from YouTube to the gallery and the museum -- and everywhere in between. Two panels discussed this shifting landscape in relation to media art?s remarkable history, its multi-faceted present and the unforeseeable future.
KEN JACOBS
ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom With Puffy Cheeks)
Artist Talk + Premiere of New Work
EAI
535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 6:30 pm
EAI presented the premiere screening of a new feature-length, 3-D video by legendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, titled ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom With Puffy Cheeks). In addition to ANAGLYPH TOM, three of Jacobs' newest digital shorts, His Favorite Wife Improved (2008), Nymph (2007), and Capitalism: Slavery (2006) were screened.
Jacobs, one of the pioneers of the American avant-garde cinema, has in recent years turned his attention to the possibilities that video and digital technology offer for investigating human perception and the act of viewing. Whether undertaking archaeological journeys to the birth of cinema, or scrutinizing the interstices of new digital technologies, Jacobs' work investigates, provokes, and draws power from the mysteries of human vision. Jacobs was present to introduce and discuss his work.
OUT OF PRINT
EAI Video Program at the NY Art Book Fair
The NY Art Book Fair
Phillips de Pury & Company
450 West 15th Street at 10th Avenue, 3rd Floor
(between 9th & 10th Avenues)
New York City
Friday, October 24 - Sunday, October 26, 2008
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is pleased to participate in The 2008 New York Art Book Fair. EAI will present a special program of videos that considers issues of access, circulation and obsolescence. The program explores "out of print" art and media, in the form of limited edition videos, site-specific installations, Internet searches, one-off broadcasts, and ephemeral actions and performances that exist only as documents or artifacts.
ALL CIRCUITS ON: DR. VIDEOVICH
JAIME DAVIDOVICH
TELEVISION WORKS 1977-1984
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue New York, NY
Thursday, September 11, 2008, 7:30 pm
Dr. Videovich, also known as Jaime Davidovich, got in on the video scene in the early 1970s. His television apotheosis was as Dr. Videovich, host of the weekly variety program THE LIVE! SHOW, which featured interviews, opinions and performances with real and invented personalities from the art world, along with live call-ins, art lessons, and the Video Shop, which sold television-related kitsch. Davidovich will be live, screening a specially prepared collection of rare grooves.
Organized by Rebecca Cleman (EAI) & Andrew Lampert (Anthology), ALL CIRCUITS ON is a collaborative series of Anthology Film Archives and EAI. It is funded by Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds, which is supported by public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. Special thanks to Sherry Miller Hocking.
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" featured an evening of projected silent video works, selected from the EAI Collection, accompanied by two simultaneous sound performances heard through radio headphones.
Audience members could tune in to either of the two live soundtracks, watch the works in silence, or sample all three experiences.
This event was co-presented by Electronic Arts Intermix, free103point9, and Socrates Sculpture Park. "Cinema On Air" was the concluding event of Socrates' "Summer Solstice" programs.
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 staged 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 were 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 presented a special evening with Michael Smith and Joshua White. Smith and White screened video works that they have produced together, and spoke 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.