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Newsletter 2, September 2000
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Newsletter #2 ∙ September 2000 In this issue:1. DISAPPOINTED in LA, a cautionary tale2. KINETICA 2: A Centennial Tribute to Oskar Fischinger More screenings scheduled ... 3. New video release: Oskar Fischinger Films Volume Two 4. Office/Study Center closed for two weeks 5. VIDEOSPACE at Berkeley Art Museum 6. Video Synthesis Works of Stephen Beck 7. Visual Music Tone Painter at Smithsonian 8. About The iotaCenter 9. Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information |
DISAPPOINTED in LA, a cautionary taleThree days before the KINETICA screening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in July, I sent out an email notice about the event. Later several people wrote to complain that they had missed it, because I hadn't given them enough advance notice.However, this was just a *reminder* notice. The event was announced in our Newsletter sent out a month earlier and posted on our website. Moral: Read the Newsletter. Visit the website. Don't be disappointed. | |
KINETICA 2: A Centennial Tribute to Oskar FischingerThe KINETICA screenings at MoMA in NYC and the LACMA in LA were a big success. Four more screenings are on the schedule for the fall (listed below and on our website at www.iotacenter.org/program/exhibition/kinetica2)Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Sept. 23 - 26, 2000 Information: (510) 642-1124 Advanced Ticket Sales: (510) 642 5249 Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA Oct 13, 14, 15, 2000 Ticket Information: (617) 495-4700 The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC October 29, 2000 Information: (202) 842-6799 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Dec. 6, 13, 20, 2000 Information: 216-421-7340 Advance Ticket Sales: (216) 421-7350 or (888) 262-0033 There will also be show of Fischinger's paintings at the Jack Rutberg Fine Arts gallery in Los Angeles. Sep. 21- Nov. 4. (323) 938 5222 For those wishing to attend the Berkeley screening: PLEASE NOTE: the theater is small and a sell out is very likely. You can buy your tickets in advance by calling (510) 642 5249, between 11:00am and 5:00pm Monday-Friday or in person at the Berkeley Art Museum Box office. This is highly recomended. Avoid disappointment. For those who didn't receive The iotaCenter's last newsletter, the description of this program is repeated here: This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), one of the most prolific and influential artists of the avant-garde film movement. To commemorate Fischinger's centennial year, The iotaCenter produced a three-part screening series for New York's Museum of Modern Art. Coincidentally, this is also the year that the Disney Studios released Fantasia 2000, thus affording an opportunity to re-examine the seminal and uncredited role Fischinger played in the original 1940 production. This saga and other commercial work will be presented in conjunction with the highly personal work of this master of the visual/musical animation art form. The Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has spent the last year restoring Fischinger's major films from the original 35mm nitrates. This retrospective series will be the debut for many of these beautiful brand new 35mm versions. The series also features a presentation by art historian and Fischinger biographer, William Moritz, and a program of film and video by a few of the many artists Fischinger influenced and inspired with his work. This series is the second installment of The iotaCenter's annual touring program, KINETICA. After New York and Los Angeles, KINETICA 2 will travel to Berkeley, Cambridge, Cleveland, and Washington, DC. For a complete schedule and more information on Fischinger and this series, please check our website: www.iotacenter.org/program/exhibition/kinetica2 | |
New Video Release:
The iotaCenter is proud to announce the release of the
first videotape in its "KINETICA Video Library" series.
"The Films of Oskar Fischinger, Volume Two" is now
available for purchase at The iotaCenter's online store(video no longer available)
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Office/Study Center closed for two weeksThe iotaCenter office and study center will be closed between 9/7/00 and 9/19/00. | |
VIDEOSPACEThe National Center for Experiments in Television, 1967 - 1975at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 9.13.00 - 11.15.00 The "Videospace" exhibition of the NCET - National Center for Experiments in Television - opened this week at the Berkeley Art Museum on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The NCET was a "video bauhaus" research project of the PBS TV network, operating at KQED-TV, Channel 9, in San Francisco from 1969-1975. The 4th floor gallery exhibition includes Stephen Beck's Direct Video Synthesizer instrument on display, the Videola reflecting video sculpture, and viewing stations. It runs from Sep 13-Nov 15. more info: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/videospace.html | |
Video Synthesis Works of Stephen Beck9.27.00, 7pm, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CAhttp://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/filmseries/index.html In the Pacific Film Archive theatre at 7 PM on Wednesday, September 27, is the screening of "Video Synthesis Works of Stephen Beck" featuring works such as: "Point of Inflection" (1970) "Cosmic Portal" (1971) "Illuminated Music" (1972) from the live TV broadcast "Synthesis" (1972) "Shiva" (1973) "Methods" (1973) "Cycles" (1974) an allegorical videofilm collaboration of Stephen Beck and Jordan Belson, "Illuminated Music 3 and 4" (1973) "Video Weavings" (1974) "Video Ecotopia" (1975) "Union" 1976. Mr. Beck will be present to share slides, videotapes and other comments on the works and the pre-digital Beck Direct Video Synthesizer which he invented, designed and constructed in 1970 to realize his vision of "absolute television" - video images created in real-time. Beck considers his electronic video works to follow in the visual lineage of kinetic light and cinematic art from Thomas Wilfred, Oskar Fischinger, James and John Whitney, Charles Dockum, Harry Smith, and Jordan Belson. Newsweek.MSNBC.com features an article on Beck's work: http://www.msnbc.com/news/460218.asp?cp1=1 | |
Visual Music Tone Painter at SmithsonianThe National Museum of American HistoryWashington, DC 9.22.00, 9.23.00 As part of a Lemelson Center symposium on creativity called The Playful Mind, Stephen Nachmanovitch will demonstrate his Visual Music Tone Painter. 10:30am to 4pm outside the exhibit "Science in American Life" (first floor, west wing) more info on The Playful Mind symposium: http://www.si.edu/lemelson/events/playfulmind.html more info on Stephen Nachmanovitch: http://www.freeplay.com/ | |
About The iotaCenter"Color Music," "Visual Music," "MusiColor," "Mobilcolor," "Lumia," "Absolute Film," "Video Synthesis," "Image Processing," "Abstract Animation,"...The iotaCenter is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, promoting and celebrating the art of sound and light and movement in all its many forms and under all its various names. The iotaCenter's Research Library in Los Angeles houses the world's largest collection of materials devoted to abstraction in film, video, performance, installation and computer-animated art. Its website is the neighborhood center for a growing worldwide community of artists, writers, scholars and supporters involved in this art form. More information on The iotaCenter and abstraction in media art can be found at | |
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