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The iotaWeekly
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August 30-September 5, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Aleph" (2002) by Bill Alves
Watch a clip from Bill Alves' "Aleph" (2004), inspired largely by the geometric patterns of Islamic art, an art derived from the same proportions and numerical symbolism as the tuning systems of the ancient Greeks and Byzantines.
"Aleph" can be found on Visual Music from iota, available from the iotaStore.
For more information about Bill Alves and his work, please visit his website.
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Site of the Week
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
Nestled right near iotaCenter's Library and Study Center in Culver City, CA, The Museum of Jurassic Technology is an institution dedicated to preserving relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities with a flavor of "incongruity born of the overzealous spirit in the face of unfathomable phenomena."
Become an iotaCenter Member today and bid on a ticket to a private screening of experimental film rarities curated by Academy Archivist Mark Toscano held at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Find out more at iotaCenter's Membership Page and 2010 Online Auction Page.
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from Symphonie Diagonale (1921)
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Viking Eggeling
1880(Lund, Sweden)-1925
Swedish painter Viking Eggeling lived in Paris from 1911 to 1915, where it is likely he became aware of Léopold Survage's attempt to animate a series of paintings. In 1917, Eggeling settled in Zurich, the center of the emerging Dada movement, and met Hans Richter. They began collaborating and moved to Germany in 1919. Eggeling labored for three years on an unfinished animated film HORIZONTAL VERTICAL ORCHESTRA. After that he created SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE (DIAGONAL SYMPHONY), which was screened in 1925. Eggeling was too ill to attend the premiere and died six days later of septic angina.
For more information about Eggeling and his work, please visit his iotaCenter Profile.
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August 23-29, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Anthrodance Variation #3" (2004) by Beth Warshafsky
Watch a clip from Beth Warshafsky's "Anthrodance Variation #3" (2004), one of an on-going project using motion capture data to create experimental animations. The work is based on dance movement choreographed and performed by Beth Warshafsky and Ellen Scott at SIGGRAPH. The motion is translated into data in a 3D environment and then reinterpreted in a creative process of filtering through 3D, 2D, video post-processing, and editing techniques.
"Anthrodance Variation #3" can be found on Visual Music from iota, available from the iotaStore.
For more information about Beth Warshafsky and her work, please visit her website.
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Site of the Week
Glendale Planetarium
Previously home to Dome Fest, the Glendale Planetarium is currently host to a number of exciting astronomical shows as well as J. Walt's Spontaneous Fantasia. Catch J. Walt's performance this Saturday, August 28!
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from Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
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Shuji Terayama
"The late Shuji Terayama remains one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Japanese cinema. His films are thick with symbolism, featuring a psychosexual content that can, and has, rubbed many the wrong way. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Tomato Ketchappu Kotei, 1970), with children taking part in sexual scenes, is but one example. Incest fantasies were among his most recurring motifs.
Terayama was much more than just a filmmaker. A playwright, stage director, poet, essayist, and all-round media personality, his work continues to have a strong following in his homeland, where he remains a phenomenon. On our shares, largely due to a shameful unavailability of any of his work, he has never received his due. As a filmmaker he is often lumped together with the Japanese New Wave, despite his complete lack of filmmaking apprenticeship. His unorthodox approach to theatre has furthermore made him something of a pariah among Western historians of Japanese drama, who, unable to conveniently fit him into any sort of current, seem to have opted to simply disregard him."
--Tom Mes, MidnightEye.com
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August 16-22, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"frameframer" (2009) by Barbara Doser
sound by Hofstetter Kurt and Norbert Math, designed by Barbara Doser
Watch a clip from Barbara Doser's "frameframer" (2009) where a rotating video feedback event becomes a moving and transforming pattern by selecting a small image detail, multiply arranged in a matrix. Through the seriality in the horizontal lines and vertical columns of the matrix, the original circular movement will be transformed into a linear one. New forms in movement, and movement as form come into being.
"frameframer" will be featured in The Best of Punto y Raya 2009 US Tour in Fall 2010.
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Site of the Week
Northwest Audiovisualists
Looking for the latest developments, movers and shakers in audio visuals in the Pacific Northwest? Keep an eye on Northwest Audiovisualists, a community for aspiring AV Artists - VJs, Musicians, Filmmakers, Animators, Traditional Artists and more who meet regularly for workshops, screenings, demonstrations, collaboration and networking.
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from Parallel (2009)
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Huckleberry Lain (aka Paul R. Shepherd)
SPECIAL OFFER! As a part of iotaCenter's Membership Drive 2010, iota is offering DVDs of Huckleberry Lain's work as a raffle prize. Join today to take part in the iotaCenter member exclusive event!
"Huckleberry has been making films for over 8 years with more than 10 films completed within that time. He usually sticks to experimental and animation, but he has made documentaries, live-action comedies, stop-motion tragedies and many other styles and genres. He has performed in the films of underground film legends Mike and George Kuchar, rising filmmaker Marie Losier and established artist Katja Loher as well as other individuals.
...He has had films included in screenings around the United States including the LA Filmforum at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in New York City and the Artist Television Access in San Francisco among other places. Huckleberry has recently been accepted as a board member to the NewTown Art organization located in Pasadena."
--artist's website
For more information about the artist and his work, please visit his website.
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The iotaWeekly
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August 9-15, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Calculated Movements" (1985) by Larry Cuba
Featured as an exclusive benefit of iotaCenter's new 2010 Membership Program, this excerpt from "Calculated Movements" (1985) includes commentary from the animator and iotaCenter director Larry Cuba.
The full version of this film with commentary is available only to iotaCenter institutional members. Join here.
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Site of the Week
iotaCenter 2010 Membership Program
iotaCenter is proud to launch our 2010 Membership Program! After soliciting feedback from the members of our Advisory Council, we have formulated a plan to drive forward our mission by creating a tiered set of membership options tailored to the needs of our current community.
Membership levels include Basic, Artist, Academic, and Institutional, as well as various iotaCenter Program Sponsorships.
All members are eligible to participate in our forthcoming Online Auction! Join at ANY LEVEL to be able to participate and bid on artwork and special events!
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from Sensology (2010)
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Michel Gagné
Born in Québec, Canada and studying classical animation at Sheridan College School of Visual Arts in Ontario, Michel Gagné began a successful animation career in 1985. Since then, his works have played in festivals throughout the world, and he was honored by the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, with four Annie Award nominations.
Gagné works in various forms of animation, from feature films to video games to graphic novels. His animation segments can be found in popular Disney, Pixar, & Warner Bros. films, including Ratatouille, The Iron Giant, and Osmosis Jones, as well as in shows on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. He continues to create animation, special effects and conceptual designs for companies all over the world, and experiments with his various art projects, including painting, sculpting, and mixed-media works for gallery exhibition.
Gagné lives in the pacific northwest region of the United States with his family. For more information about Michel Gagné and his work, please visit his website.
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The iotaWeekly
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August 2-8, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Look Out (he's got a knife)" (2002) by Michael Betancourt
We continue our focus on works from Volume 1 of the "Visual Music from iota" compilation with a selection from Michael Betancourt's "Look Out (he's got a knife)" (2002), which explores traditions of abstract film by examining the rhythmic and visual possibilities of editing based on a pre-existing musical composition.
To view more of Michael Betancourt's work, please visit his website.
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Site of the Week
Montclair State University College of the Arts
Whether it's film, animation, art, design, music, dance, or theatre, Montclair State University College of the Arts offers quality programs taught by some of the finest artist-teachers in the New York metropolitan area. The College also features various art and cultural programs, as well as galleries and broadcast centers that allow for students and faculty to showcase and promote their work.
Montclair State University College of the Arts is also home to iotaCenter board member and experimental filmmaker Professor Roberta Friedman.
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from Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (1992)
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Joan C. Gratz
"An accomplished director, artist, and animator, Joan Gratz pioneered the animation technique known as claypainting. Working with bits of clay she blends colors and etches fine lines to create a seamless flow of images...Joan developed her animated painting when she was an architecture student, then shifted
from paint to clay while working with Will Vinton Studios from 1977-1987.
During that time her work included design and animation for Academy-Award
Nominees Return to Oz, Rip Van Winkle, and The Creation.
Since establishing her own studio, Gratzfilm in 1987, she has received many
honors for independent short films and commercials, including a Clio for
Coca-Cola, a Bronze Lion at Cannes for Knorr Recipe Sauces, and First Prize
at the London International Film Festival for United Airlines. Gratz is represented by LAIKA/house for commercial work...
Gratz travels extensively and has served on international animation festivals in
Zagreb, Croatia 1994; Hiroshima, Japan 2002; Castelli Animati, Italy 2003; Seoul,
Korea 2004: Hangzhou, China 2006; Changzhou, China 2008. Most recently
Joan taught claypainting to animation students in Tehran, Iran."
- from Gratzfilm
For more information about Joan Gratz and her work, please visit her website.
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July 26-August 1, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Tranquility & Stimulation" (2004) by Emile Tobenfeld
Recorded as a live video mix in concert with the Boston-based improvisational electro-acoustic band Lothars, "Tranquility & Stimulation" (2004) by Emile Tobenfeld creates tension by oscillating between peaceful and energetic moods to a dark, electric soundtrack. This selection comes from Volume 1 of the "Visual Music for iota" compilation, which can be purchased through the iotaStore.
To view more of Emile Tobenfeld's work, please visit his YouTube Channel and his Flickr page.
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Site of the Week
The Integratron
Described as "the fusion of art, science, and magic...an acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex in the magical Mojave Desert," The Integratron is a giant dome located near Joshua Tree, California where visitors flock to relax the mind and body while experiencing the Integratron's enhanced energy fields and unique Sound Bath.
The Integratron will host a Perseid Meteor Shower Party on Friday, Aug. 13 from 8:00pm to 12:00am.
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Lewis Klahr
Lewis Klahr has been creating experimental films since 1977, and has since become labeled the “reigning proponent of cut and paste” by critic J. Hoberman of the Village Voice. Klahr's films are predominantly collagist, dealing with materiality of objects and their associations with people, places, memory, and history.
Klahr's work is in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art and has been included in the Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Musuem of American Art. Commercially, he has created special effects and animation for television show openings, music videos, commercials, and documentary works, and even co-re-wrote the feature film The Mothman Prophecies. He also teaches directing and screenwriting at CalArts.
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July 19-25, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Herbstlaub" (2007) by Oliver Vogel
This excerpt of "Herbstlaub" (2007) by Oliver Vogel, featured as part of "The Best of Punto y Raya 2009," is a coming-of-age-road-movie of a dot.
To learn more about Oliver Vogel and his work, please visit his website.
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Site of the Week
dublab
dublab is a non-profit multimedia organization concerned with the production, promotion, and perpetuation of experimental sound and media all over Los Angeles and the planet. dublab specializes in music but also involves itself in other facets of the arts, including film and art exhibition.
To listen to a live stream of dublab's public broadcast radio, click here.
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Jason LaRay Keener
Alabama filmmaker Jason LaRay Keener makes short, intensely expressive non-linear stream-of-conscious films dealing with melancholic characters and their intense arguments, violent confrontations, absurd situations. His work is also notable for the use of found objects as props, including carcasses.
Keener's work has won awards at the Nashville Film Festival and the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. To learn more about Jason LaRay Keener or to view his short films, visit his website.
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July 12-18, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Yoga-Sutras" (2010) by Peter Mays
This excerpt of "Yoga-Sutras" (2010) from psychedelic experimental filmmaker and Single Wing Turquoise Bird member Peter Mays takes viewers on a sensual journey of spiritual symbology in this new intriguing work.
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Site of the Week
Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century
'Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century' is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. This unique series from the Public Broadcasting Service features episodes loosely themed around concepts such as "Memory" and "Spirituality."
Clips or full episodes can be viewed here via PBS.org
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Georges Méliès
French magician and trick filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1936) is considered the first filmmaker to incorporate special effects and narrative into his work, making over 500 films in his short career as a filmmaker. After witnessing the unveiling Cinématographe screening by the Lumiere Brothers in 1895, Méliès set out to build his own recording/projection machine, which he successfully revealed at his own screening in April 1986.
From a simple technical malfunction, Méliès serendipitously discovered the medium's ability to manipulate both space and time. He began experimenting with new techniques and incorporated them into his films, structuring narratives around the seemingly impossible visual trickery. Méliès is cited with discovering effects such as substitution, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color, respectfully earning him the label of a "cinemagician."
While many of the tricks of Méliès' films may seem outdated to audiences in the 21st century, they laid the groundwork for the advances and developments in technology of the film medium. Much of his work has endured the test of time, becoming an important part of contemporary pop culture, such as the iconographic A Trip to the Moon.
2 5-DVD collections of Georges Méliès works - Georges Méliès: The First Wizard of Cinema & Georges Méliès: Encore - can be purchased at Flicker Alley.
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July 5-July 11, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Lumia" (2006) by Paul Vlachos and Meredith Finkelstein
Watch this trailer for Paul Vlachos and Meredith Finkelstein's documentary "Lumia" (2006), a film that traces VJ culture to its roots in live visual performance, documenting the innovation of Thomas Wilfred and his Lumia machine to create the eighth major fine art, the art of light.
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Site of the Week
ARTSEDGE: Art of the Explosion
Featured as a tribute to the yearly Fourth of July festivities, this interesting website sponsored by The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. chronicles Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang and his creation of an explosive pyrotechnic-art show that opened the 2005 Festival of China. In a unique fashion, Art of the Explosion highlights not just the chemistry and physics involved in the creation of a pyrotechnics show, but also how thoughts of design and conceptualization can merge with science in order to create a work of art, in the same vein as animation and other forms of multimedia art.
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Neil Ira Needleman
"I was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1957 and learned filmmaking in the alleys of Brooklyn. Somewhere along the way I got lost in a tunnel that led me into a career in advertising. I have now rededicated myself to tinkering with motion images."
- Neil Ira Needleman
An example of an artist engaged in both commercial practice and personal expression, Neil Ira Needleman's work is featured in film festivals throughout the world, including Exploding Cinema in London and the upcoming 2010 Festival Images Contre Nature in France.
Neil Needleman continues to live and work in New York. To view more of Neil Ira Needleman's artistic or commercial work, please click here.
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June 28-July 4, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"A Moment Revisited" (2009) by Diana Reichenbach
Watch this charming short work from Diana Reichenbach, "A Moment Revisited" (2009), a playful interaction retold with a light soundtrack and frame manipulation as an experimentation in live-action movement and found footage editing.
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Site of the Week
Expanded Cinema
Published in 1970 by media arts theorist and scholar Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema was the first book to place video within the realm of the art world, and helped to establish the world of media arts.
In his book, Youngblood looks at new technological advances and their function in film and media creation, including computer & video art, special effects, and even holography. He traces the evolution of cinematic language to the end of fiction, drama, and realism. New technological extensions of the medium have become necessary. Thus he concentrates on the advanced image-making technologies of computer films, television experiments, laser movies, and multiple-projection environments, laser movies, and multiple-projection environments.
The entire book of Expanded Cinema can be found and downloaded from an online database hosted by visual media performers Woody & Steina Vasulka.
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Maya Deren
Maya Deren's first film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) immediately designated her as one of the seminal figures of experimental cinema. As both a theorist and artist, Deren created works that paved the way for future trance filmmakers by using film to explore and express her psychosexual identity in a stylistic and poetic way. She also wrote essays about the nature of film and filmmaking, emphasizing concepts (such as medium specificity) that she believed were essential to film as a medium. Deren was an outspoken critic of Hollywood and its artistic, political, and economic grasp on American cinema, believing that it prevented cinema from developing into a fine art form. She was a key figure in the formation of the New American Cinema.
Deren and her work are currently featured as a film exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City entitled Maya Deren’s Legacy: Women and Experimental Film. To learn more about Maya Deren and her work, please click here.
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