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Exhibition and Distribution




The iotaCenter is bringing these rarely seen works to an ever-growing audience through its traveling screening series KINETICA and a series of videotape releases called KINETICA Video Library. The latest release in this series is a DVD compilation of Robert Darroll's Digital Animations 1990-2001

KINETICA Screenings

KINETICA is series of touring festivals of abstract art in film and video. iota's KINETICA series features the grand masters of the art, including Fischinger, Lye, Smith, McLaren, John and James Whitney, Bute, Hirsh, Belson, and others. These historical surveys are always complemented with a program of contemporary works by today's most accomplished visual music artists.

Each program in the series has screened at major venues accross the country such as The Museum of Modern Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The National Gallery, The Harvard Film Archive and The Anthology Film Archive to name just a few. Internationally, some of the locations iota's KINETICAs have screened are Paris, Amsterdam, Cologne, Madrid, Barcelona, Stockholm, Melbourne, and Sao Paolo. (These programs are no longer in circulation)

KINETICA 1: Selections from the iotaCenter Media Collection
KINETICA 2: A Centenial Tribute to Oskar Fischinger
KINETICA 3: Jazz and Abstraction in Beat Era Film
KINETICA 4: The Sixties: Spirituality and Psychedelia


iotaSalon

At the iotaSalon, we get together to screen and discuss works of Abstract Animation and Visual Music. Artists from around the world are invited to submit films and DVDs for screening at the salon. In addition, local artists can present live performance works. More...

KINETICA Video Library

In a further attempt to make these works accessible to a wider audience, iota is producing a series of video releases. First on VHS and now on DVD, The KINETICA Video Library is slowly growing into an essential collection of Visual Music Art. More...
My films are more or less educational - I've never done much with them as far as illucidating what the subject matter is - but they are like the basic rhythms that are in music.
-Harry Smith

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