DENNIS OPPENHEIM: Form-Energy-Subject
Screening + Conversation

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
6:30 pm

EAI presented a special evening devoted to the early films and videos of Dennis Oppenheim. Focused on Oppenheim's body-based performances of the 1970s, the screening was introduced by curator Jenny Jaskey, who spoke about the implications of Oppenheim's work for a new generation of artists approaching the body as a site and material for art-making. Following the screening, Jaskey moderated a conversation with New York-based artists A.K. Burns, Ajay Kurian and Yve Laris Cohen. Together, they reflected on Oppenheim's legacy and discussed the body's relationship with the inanimate and non-human in contemporary practice.

Participation
Daylong Screenings at EAI

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Friday, May 10 & Saturday, May 11, 2013
Noon-6pm

Please join EAI for Participation, a special three-hour video program that will be screened continuously from noon-6pm on Friday, May 10th and Saturday, May 11th. Featuring works by Steina and Woody Vasulka, Ant Farm, Charlotte Moorman and Jud Yalkut, Carolee Schneemann, and Jean Dupuy, Participation looks to a period during the late 1960s and early 1970s that saw a profusion of artist-initiated projects, collaborative experimentation, and an inclusive, improvisational ethos. The screening features rare footage of performances and happenings, pioneering video documents, and experimental participatory works, capturing a community of young artists responding to the countercultural sensibility and social transformations of that era. Using newly available portable video technology as well as 16mm film, these artists created extraordinary documents that allow viewers in 2013 to experience something of the multi-disciplinary, interactive and process-based spirit that defined the alternative artistic and cultural scenes of that time.

ALEX HUBBARD
Screening + Artist Talk

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Tuesday, April 30, 2013,
6:30 pm

EAI is pleased to present a screening and artist talk with Alex Hubbard, whose signature videos involve carefully choreographed and dynamically composed studio experimentation with objects, paint, comedic timing and destruction.

Hubbard will premiere two new short videos that depart from familiar territory, projecting his ideas beyond the studio. These new works are sketches for a larger feature-length project, currently in development with curator and writer Jay Sanders and playwright Richard Maxwell. The program also features studio-based videos made within the last year, including Hit Wave (2012), Eat Your Friends (2012), and Bottom of the Top (2012), as well as earlier works and rarely seen experiments.

Hubbard will be present to speak about his work and future plans, concluding with a Q&A with the audience.

CHERYL DONEGAN: ARTISTS + MODELS
Screening + Conversation

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Wednesday, March 13, 2013
6:30 pm

Cheryl Donegan joined EAI to present a selection of works from the 1990s to the present, from iconic lo-fi performance videos such as Head (1993) and Practisse (1994) to rarely screened works and the premiere of a new fashion-inspired piece, Blood Sugar (2013), which was shown at EAI with a live performance element. Following the screening program, she appeared in conversation with EAI's Josh Kline.

CHARLES ATLAS & MERCE CUNNINGHAM: EXCHANGE
Premiere Screening + Artist Talk

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor New York, NY 10011

Thursday, February 7, 2013
6:30 pm

EAI proudly presented the premiere screening of Exchange (1978/2013, 40:19 min), artist Charles Atlas' newly completed film based on the 1978 dance piece of the same name by legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009). Atlas—one of the foremost interpreters of dance, theater and performance on video and film—created the new film Exchange from never-before-seen footage that he shot in 1978 and that was only recently rediscovered by the Merce Cunningham Trust (MCT). The film captures a performance of Exchange by Cunningham and his company, with costumes and backdrop designed by Jasper Johns and music by David Tudor. Two of Atlas' earliest short films were screened before Exchange: More Joints (1972), featuring Cunningham's ankle in a starring role; and Nevada (1973), in which dancer and choreographer Douglas Dunn performs. Atlas introduced the screening and spoke about his long collaborative relationship with Cunningham.

CIRCA 1971
Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive at Dia:Beacon

Dia:Beacon
Riggio Galleries

3 Beekman Street Beacon, NY 12508

September 17, 2011—December 31, 2012

ESSAY
CHECKLIST
EXHIBITION BROCHURE
INSTALLATION VIEWS
CONVERSATIONS AT DIA:BEACON: Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Anthony Ramos, and Paul Ryan with Lori Zippay
PRESS: New York Times, Frieze Magazine, Bullett
PHOTOS: Circa 1971 Gallery Talk with Lori Zippay, February 2012

Dia Art Foundation presented Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries. Circa 1971 brought together 20 moving image works from EAI's collection of over 3,500 media artworks. Celebrating EAI's 40th anniversary, the exhibition was organized by guest curator Lori Zippay, Executive Director of EAI.

Circa 1971 included pieces by Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Shirley Clarke, Dan Graham, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Joan Jonas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Nam June Paik, Raindance, Anthony Ramos, Carolee Schneemann, TVTV, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and others.

Taking the year of EAI's founding as its point of departure, the exhibition set in dialogue a series of diverse works created in and around 1971, which are linked by alternative artistic and activist impulses. Circa 1971 exposed the generative encounters among these artists and influences and initiates unexpected correspondences between seemingly disparate works.

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: MOTION RHYTHMS

Screening + Panel with Doug Bressler, Cynthia Carr, Brent Phillips, and Tommy Turner.
Moderated by Rebecca Cleman.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor New York, NY 10011

Thursday, December 13, 2012, 6:30 pm

EAI presented a screening and panel discussion about the films of David Wojnarowicz. Centering around the rarely screened Beautiful People (1987) and a working soundtrack for A Fire in My Belly (1986-87), the event focused on an under-recognized aspect of Wojnarowicz's films and art: his plans and preparations for soundtracks. Rebecca Cleman, EAI's Director of Distribution, moderated a discussion with Wojnarowicz's former bandmate Doug Bressler, who was collaborating on a Fire in My Belly soundtrack with the artist; Cynthia Carr, author of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz; Brent Phillips, Media Specialist & Processing Archivist of Fales Library, and filmmaker Tommy Turner. A screening of Beautiful People, a collaboration with Jesse Hultberg that was originally presented with live accompaniment at La MaMa, and an excerpt of A Fire in My Belly with sound component preceded the discussion.

EAI IN TIMES SQUARE:

TAKESHI MURATA: MELTER 2

Times Square

New York, NY

November 1 - 30, 2012
11:57 pm - Midnight, nightly

EAI collaborated with the Times Square Alliance to present Takeshi Murata's extraordinary digital animation in Times Square. Murata's Melter 2 (2003), an abstract experiment in hypnotic movement and color, was screened as an immersive, multi-channel installation on a monumental scale: the piece flowed across fourteen of the Square's iconic outdoor video signs simultaneously - more than 36 screens and 63,500 square feet of screen space between 42nd and 47th Streets. Every night in November, just before midnight, Murata's graphic vision filled Times Square with an exuberant, rippling landscape of digital color.

Takeshi Murata's colorful and sensuous animation offered visitors to the square three minutes of pure visual pleasure, indomitable motion and dynamism. This presentation of Melter 2 was part of Times Square Moment: A Digital Gallery, the ongoing public video project organized and presented by the Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance.

SOUND STAGE @ EAI
Video Screening

part of
CHELSEA SOUND
A Not-For-Profit Festival of Artists in Sound

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Saturday, October 27, 2012, 2 pm - 6pm

Sound Stage was a special Saturday afternoon screening program featuring artists' videos that are driven by music performance. Sound Stage was presented as part of Chelsea Sound: A Not-For-Profit Festival of Artists in Sound, organized jointly by Printed Matter Inc., Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, Electronic Arts Intermix and Family Business. Taking place in Chelsea's Gallery District on Saturday, October 27th, the collaboratively produced festival included a series of performances, sound installations, and video screenings throughout the day across four venues.

Featuring works from the last four decades by a diverse group of artists, Sound Stage presented a program of videos that foreground musical performance. The screening embraced artists' documentation of music performances, artists' performances that incorporate live music, and works created for the camera and screen in which musicians take center stage.

Conversations at Dia:Beacon

Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Anthony Ramos, and Paul Ryan with Lori Zippay

Dia:Beacon

3 Beekman Street
Beacon, NY 12508

Saturday, September 22, 2012, 2 pm

Artists Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Anthony Ramos, and Paul Ryan joined EAI Executive Director Lori Zippay for a dialogue at Dia:Beacon on the generative artistic and political landscape that influenced the video art scene of the early 1970s. The four artists also discussed their works included in exhibition Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive.

JOHN CAGE'S ONE¹¹ AND 103
ON THE HIGH LINE

The High Line

The 14th Street Passage
at West 14th Street.
New York, NY 10011

August 2 - September 13, 2012
1pm - 11pm, Daily

EAI collaborated with High Line Art, a program of Friends of the High Line, to celebrate the John Cage Centennial with a special outdoor presentation of Cage's film and sound composition One¹¹ and 103 (1992) on the High Line, New York City's acclaimed elevated public park. EAI's presentation of Cage's One¹¹ and 103 launched High Line Channel 14, a new outdoor video program featuring daily screenings in the passageway above West 14th Street on the High Line.

EAI IN TIMES SQUARE

SEOUNGHO CHO: BUOY
Times Square Moment: A Digital Gallery

Times Square

New York, NY

June 1 - 30, 2012
11:57 pm - Midnight, nightly

EAI returned to Times Square to present Buoy (2008), Seoungho Cho's luminous tribute to the California desert, as a massive multi-channel installation on a monumental scale: the piece was presented on fourteen of the Square's iconic outdoor video signs—more than 36 screens and 63,500 square feet of screen space between 42nd and 47 Streets—simultaneously. This presentation of Buoy was part of Times Square Moment: A Digital Gallery, the ongoing public video project organized and presented by the Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance. Screened every evening in June, just before midnight, Cho's visually stunning moving image work turned Times Square into an immersive virtual canyon, surrounding the viewer with a Western landscape captured in motion, light, and digital transformation.

MARTHA COLBURN:
Screening + Artist Talk

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 6:30 pm

EAI presented a screening and talk with artist Martha Colburn. Over the last two decades, Colburn has created a constellation of intricate, politically charged animated worlds on film, using rigorous stop-motion animation, armies of found images and objects, and copious amounts of paint, glass, and tape. At EAI, Colburn screened and spoke about a selection of recent films that explore war, conquest, faith, and history—taking in America's recent military experiences in the Middle East along the way—as well as early and rarely seen found-film and animation experiments, music video projects, and a 2011 animated PSA on fracture mining (fracking) in New York State.

RAYMOND PETTIBON: SIR DRONE
EAI Screening @ Migrating Forms Festival

Migrating Forms

at Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Admission $ 10.00

Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 9:15 pm

EAI is proud to present Raymond Pettibon's Sir Drone (1989, 55:37 min), featuring Mike Kelley, at Migrating Forms. Shot in two days on home-video equipment, with dialogue read off cue cards, Sir Drone is part of a series of feature-length, low-tech video narratives that Pettibon made in the late 1980s focused on West Coast American radical subjects of the 1960s and 1970s. In Sir Drone, Mike Kelley and musician Mike Watt (of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen) play two teenage punks trying to start a band in the 1970s. They struggle to create the right image for themselves and their band, debating bands' names, the distinctions of punk and hippie music, and strategies to avoid being "rinky dink." Writing about Sir Drone, Mike Kelley stated, "Despite their crudeness, Raymond's tapes are strangely moving: he is a brilliant script writer."



Sir Drone will be accompanied by two lo-fi works involving teenagers and music by Cory Arcangel: Insectiside (1992-03, 7:29 min) and Message my Brother Justin Left Me on my Cell from the Slayer Concert Last Week (2004, 2:27 min).

JAYSON SCOTT MUSSON: AKA HENNESSY YOUNGMAN
Screening + Conversation

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 6:30 pm

EAI presented an evening with Jayson Scott Musson, the artist behind the viral video performance phenomenon Hennessy Youngman. Speaking about his work for the first time in New York, Musson discussed ART THOUGHTZ, the episodic Internet series that he hosts as Hennessy Youngman. Musson also premiered two new ART THOUGHTZ videos at EAI—The Studio Visit (2012) and Grad School (2012)—in addition to screening earlier works from the series, including Bruce Nauman (2010), How To Be A Successful Artist (2010), On Beauty (2011), and Relational Aesthetics (2011), among others. Following the screening, Musson joined in a conversation with Josh Kline of EAI and spoke about the origins of Hennessy Youngman—how he developed the character's comedic persona as a critical voice, how making rap music influenced his work as an artist, and about his use of the Internet as a platform for direct video performance.

MIKE KELLEY: VIDEO TRIBUTE

541 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011

Saturday, April 14, 2012
10 am – 10 pm

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and Dia Art Foundation paid tribute to Mike Kelley with a daylong screening of his remarkable video works, many of which were created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy and Michael Smith. The twelve-hour program, presented in coordination with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, included the screening of such seminal work as The Banana Man (1983); Heidi (1992), made in collaboration with Paul McCarthy; Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath (1999); Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) (2000); Day Is Done, Part 1 (2005-2006); as well as the recent work A Voyage of Growth And Discovery (2011), made in collaboration with Michael Smith.

JODI: U MAD BRO?

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Monday, April 2, 2012, 6:30 pm

In a rare New York speaking appearance, JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) took part in a presentation and conversation with independent curator Michael Connor and computer programmer, composer, and artist Cory Arcangel. JODI are pioneers of Web-based art who have been called the monkey wrench in the works of the digital revolution. At EAI, they presented a selection of their digital interventions, including videos, custom software, hacked video games, and Internet-based works.

EAI @ Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair

Moving Image

Waterfront New York Tunnel
269 11th Avenue
Between 27th and 28th Streets
New York, NY 10001

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6 - 8 pm

Hours:
Thursday - Saturday, March 8 - 10: 11 am - 8 pm
Sunday, March 11: 11 am - 4 pm

The Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair partnered with EAI to support the new Friends of EAI Membership Program with an information station at the fair and special programming, including a presentation by EAI Executive Director Lori Zippay on EAI's video preservation program on Friday, March 9th and a panel on collecting video, moderated by EAI Distribution Director Rebecca Cleman on Saturday March 10th. At Moving Image, EAI presented Ken Jacobs' A Loft (2010, 16:48 min, color, HD video), a new video from an ongoing series of innovative digital works exploring depth perception and 3-D animation.

Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive
Gallery Talk by EAI Executive Director Lori Zippay

Dia:Beacon
Riggio Galleries

3 Beekman Street Beacon, NY 12508

Saturday, February 11, 2012, 2pm

Lori Zippay, Executive Director of EAI and guest curator of Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive, presented a Gallery Talk on the exhibition at Dia:Beacon on Saturday, February 11th. Organized on the occasion of EAI's 40th anniversary, Circa 1971 brings together more than 20 single-channel works from one of the world's most comprehensive collections of video art. Taking the year of EAI's founding as a point of departure, the exhibition sets in dialogue a series of diverse works linked by alternative artistic practices and activist impulses. Circa 1971 presents a snapshot of a cultural moment—or, more accurately, a countercultural moment—and the fertile political and artistic landscape from which these works emerged.

TONY OURSLER: Screening + Conversation

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)

535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 6:30 pm

Focused on Oursler's single-channel video works, the screening program followed his wildly inventive exploration of narrative, visuals and sound across four decades, from his rarely seen, earliest video pieces of the late 1970s to recent work created in collaboration with musicians such as Sonic Youth, David Bowie and Beck. Following the screening, Oursler appeared in conversation with EAI Executive Director Lori Zippay.

GORDON MATTA-CLARK'S CITY SLIVERS
ON THE HIGH LINE

The High Line above West 22nd St.

Nearest entrances at:
West 23rd St. and 10th Ave.
West 20th St. and 10th Ave.
New York, NY 10011

After the park closes at 7 pm, the projection will be visible from West 22nd St., between 10th and 11th Aves.

Nov. 29, 2011 - Jan. 24, 2012
Dusk - 10 pm

EAI was pleased to collaborate with High Line Art, a program of Friends of the High Line, to present Gordon Matta-Clark's 1976 City Slivers on the High Line, New York City's acclaimed elevated public park. The presentation of Matta-Clark's City Slivers launched High Line Channel, a new outdoor video program featuring daily screenings. City Slivers was originally created by Matta-Clark for projection on the exterior façade of the Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan. The piece is an ode to New York City's landscape and a dynamic formal investigation of the city's urban architecture.

City Slivers was projected on a building to the east of the High Line at West 22nd Street, where it was visible from the park's Seating Steps, as well as the sidewalk on West 22nd Street—less than a block from EAI.