[spectre] Art in General/NYC 5th Annual Video Marathon

[Andreas Broeckmann]

(includes transmediale.02 video selection; abroeck)



=46rom: "Jeanine Oleson" <jeanine@artingeneral.org>


79 Walker Street / New York, NY 10013 / Tel 212-219-0473 / 
<http://www.artingeneral.org>www.artingeneral.org







Art in General=92s 5th Annual Video Marathon


Programs of New Video Work from Around the World




Saturday, January 11, 2003, 12 noon to 12 midnight




$5 suggested donation








On Saturday, January 11, 2003 from noon until midnight, Art in 
General will hold its 5th Annual Video Marathon. This 12-hour 
screening features a variety of programs including: From History to 
Memory: -Some Views from the Video Zone curated by Sergio Edelstzein, 
Tel Aviv; Re-envisioning Dissent, a program of video works 
envisioning politics in visual culture; Selections from Transmediale 
Int=92l Media Art Festival, Berlin; MONOCANAL: Selections of New 
Spanish Video Art, 1996-2001 from Reina Sofia, Madrid; 
Dinner/performance: a roving formal garden of food presented in a 
performance by Paco Rodriguez; two programs of emerging video 
artists' work curated from general submissions; and live video/audio 
mixing from square.square with dj Sara Walker.



Art in General is located at 79 Walker Street between Broadway and 
Lafayette. Take the 1/9, 6, A, C, E, J, M, N, Q, R, W, or Z to Canal 
Street and walk one block south. There is a suggested donation of $5 
for admission. Please call Jeanine Oleson at 212-219-0473 x 29 for 
more information or check our website 
<http://www.artingeneral.org>www.artingeneral.org for complete 
program notes.  



Made possible by funding from Bestype Imaging, Connecting Point 
Multimedia, Experimental Television Center, MercerMedia, New York 
State Council on the Arts/EMF Program, James Patterson, and general 
operating support.



PROGRAM:




12=961:30pm

=46rom History to Memory:- Some Views from the Video Zone includes 
international video work from the 1st International Video Art 
Biennial in Israel this November. Boaz Arad (Israel), Agnese Bule 
(Latvia), Olga Chernysheva (Russia), Irit Garty & Isaac Layish 
(UK-Israel), Rongotai Lomas & Philip Peacocke (New Zealand), Renata 
Poljak (France- Croatia), Jozef Robakowski (Poland), Maxim Tyminko 
(Byelorussia/Germany), Piotr Wyrzykowski with Iliya Chichkan 
(Poland/Ukraine), and Huang Yan (China). Curated by Sergio 
Edelstzein, Director of the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.



1:30=963:15pm

Re-envisioning Dissent, selected from Art in General=92s submissions, 
brings together images and ideologies of political dissent. From 
co-optation of media images to metaphoric responses, these artists 
find new means of envisioning politics in visual culture.  Includes 
work from Damian

Catera (NJ), Paul Chan (NY), Norman Cowie (NY),  Mary Patten (IL),  
S=E9bastien Pesot (Canada), and Jayce Salloum (Canada/Lebanon).


3:15=965pm

Selections from Transmediale International Media Art Festival, Berlin 
is a compilation of fifteen of the best international videos from 
Transmediale =9102.  The program includes work from Shawn 
Chapelle/Heather Hulse (US/Canada), Jorge Cosmen (Spain), Maia 
Gusberti.notdef (Austria), Robert Hardy/John Rowley (UK), Harald 
Holba (Austria), Matt Hulse (UK), Gudrum Kemsa (Germany), David 
Leister/Guy Moss (UK), Les LeVeque (US), Anita Sarosi (Hungary),

Laurent Vicente/Thomas Bernardet (France), and Fan Yuk Man (Hong Kong).



5=966:30pm

MONOCANAL: Selections of New Spanish Video Art, 1996-2001 from Reina 
Sofia, Madrid provides a glimpse of contemporary video art in Spain 
including the varied contemporary genres of the medium.  Curated by 
Berta Sichel (director of Audiovisuals, Reina Sofia), Juan Antonio 
Alvarez Reyes (art critic and curator) and Neus Mir=F3 (art critic and 
independent curator from Barcelona).  The program includes tapes by 
Pilar Albarrac=EDn, Lluis Escart=EDn, Alonso Gil, Valeriano L=F3pez: , 
Jordi Maragues, El Perro, Tere Recarens, Juan Carlos Robles and 
Manuel Saiz.


6:30=967:30pm

Dinner Break:  Parterre Extraordinaire, a performance by Paco 
Rodriguez presents roving sculptures reminiscent of a formal French 
garden, but with food.



7:30=969pm                 

Selections from Art in General=92s Submissions including new work by 
Oreet Ashery, Hackworth

Ashley, Tom Gleeson, Drew Heitzler, Joseph Maida, Tricia McLaughlin, 
=46r=E9d=E9ric Moffett,

Samuael Topiary, Matt Wolf, and Erika Yeomans. 

Organized by Art in General=92s Video Advisory Panel.


9=9610:30pm                          

Selections from Art in General=92s Submissions including new work by 
Becca Albee, Michele

Beck/Jorge Calvo, Fritzie Brown, Dave Choi, Cybele Clark-Mendes, Ofri 
Cnaani, Brent Evans

Arnold, Kyra Garrigue, Peter Geschwind, K8 Hardy/Wynne Ryan, Tali 
Hinkis, Shin Il Kim, Patrick Martinez, Monica Panzarino, Julio Soto, 
Traci Tullius, Erika Vogt, and Abbey Williams.

Organized by Art in General=92s Video Advisory Panel.



10:30pm=9612am

Dance Party with square.square

Bruno Levy represents music on a visual level by mixing live video to 
the spinnings of dj Sara Walker.



Go to Art in General's website for complete program notes: 
<http://www.artingeneral.org>www.artingeneral.org



  Media Contact: Jennifer Gootman, Communications Coordinator,

Email: <mailto:artingen@rcn.com>artingen@rcn.com, Tel: 212-219-0473, ext. 39