Los Angeles Center for Digital Art & Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles
Call for Experimental Shorts and Video Art
Jurors:
Greg Ptacek, Co-Director Downtown Film Festival L.A.
Rex Bruce, Director L.A. Center for Digital Art
Henry Priest, Co-Director Downtown Film Festival L.A.
July 11-14, 2013
in conjunction with Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles
Reception Thursday July 11, 7-9pm
in conjunction with Downtown Art Walk
Two Categories:
Screening or Exhibit
Screening
at Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles
“Fast Film: Here and Gone in Sixty Seconds”
Call for 60 Second Video Shorts open to all Los Angeles and L.A. vicinity artists and filmmakers.
120 Official Selections!
Exhibit
at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
“Time Loops: Meaning in Motion”
International Call for Looping Video Art, open to all geographical locations.
Unlimited Official Selections!
click here for complete informationclick here to enter and upload your video
Online registration only.
For questions email us at lacda@lacda.com.
No phone calls please.
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Report of 9th International Festival of Digital Arts & New Media Athens Video Art Festival
An ambitious, difficult project, with the title “Living Athens”, was completed successfully. 9th International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Athens Video Art Festival, has come to an end.
For three days (7th, 8th & 9th of June), in five spots of historic center of Athens, technology met art and the city transformed into a prototype mosaic of expression. A celebration of artistic expression through new capacities of technology starring more than 350 artists, who were chosen among 1.500 applies, from 58 countries.
Under the motto “Living Athens” and motivated by their love for art, more than 18.000 citizens visited Festival’s spots and browsed into focal, but also scorned, areas of the Historic Center. The purpose was the contribution to the aesthetic revitalization and the suburban improvement of the city.
Iranian Video Art Featured in Public Art Discussion at CMA on June 20 2013 « Columbus Underground Messageboard ⇒
Iranian Video Art Featured in Public Art Discussion
Lost and Found in Tehran: Contemporary Iranian Video, featuring video art rarely seen outside Iran, will be presented Thursday, June 20, 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad Street.
Lost and Found in Tehran: Contemporary Iranian Video is co-sponsored by Finding Time: Columbus Public Art 2012 and the Columbus Museum of Art.
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Description under video says ‘the world’s first projection mapped pop-up book’. It was uploaded two years ago, so I’m guessing the project itself is no more than 3 years old.
You can learn more about it here. (There is also a list of past and future projections, so keep that in mind especially if you’re from the UK!)
The artists are Davy and Kristin McGuire, check them out on vimeo.
Featured Friday: The Pirate Cinema
This Friday, Beyond the Frame is featuring the work of Nicolas Maigret and Brendan Howell. The Pirate Cinema is a video installation that
shows Peer-to-Peer transfers happening in real time on networks using the BitTorrent protocol. The installation produces an arbitrary cut-up of the files currently being exchanged. User IP addresses and countries are displayed on each cut, depicting the global topology of content consumption and dissemination.
It’s brilliant visual representation that shows what films we love to steal in real time. I have to admit, I expected less Taylor Swift.
~ü
[Hat Tip to The Daily What]
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Digital TV Dinner
Early example of digital glitch art from 1979 - video embedded below:
Digital TV Dinner is a video art clip from 1979 created by Raul Zaritsky, Jamie Fenton, and Dick Ainsworth using the Bally Astrocade console game to generate unusual patterns.
The Bally Astrocade was unique among cartridge games in that it was designed to allow users to change game cartridges with power-on. When pressing the reset button, it was possible to remove the cartridge from the system and induce various memory dump pattern sequences. DIgital TV DInner is a collection of these curious states of silicon epilepsy set to music composed and generated upon this same platform.Hat-Tip to both Recyclism and systemsapproach
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Miami Filmmaker Opens The Screening Room To Promote Video As An Art Form
Video as an art form has come a long way. Although artists started seriously working with the medium at least a half century ago (some will pinpoint Nam June Paik’s German exhibition in 1963 as its official arrival on the scene), it remained somewhat the stepchild, not getting a lot of respect until the last couple decades. And in Miami, video art – good video art – was late in taking hold with local artists and in shows. That’s changed dramatically in recent years, and yet there have been few outlets dedicated to highlighting the form.
Enter The Screening Room, just opened by local filmmaker Rhonda Mitrani, which aims to exclusively host curated video and film programs to help progress the genre here.
The inaugural exhibit (opened on May 16) is from Venezuela-born artist Carola Bravo, “We Are Where We Are Not.” She’s also an architect and thus works with space and visual representations. It’s a nice hybrid of where contemporary video art is; mixing site-specific performance with video, it’s real time and recorded time.
Aloe Blacc featured in a new video singing, “When the Girl You Love Lives in California.”
Songs in the Key of Los Angeles: The Bedrock Sessions is a project of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles presented by KCET’s art and culture transmedia series, Artbound!
Songs in the Key of Los Angeles: The Bedrock Sessions - Aloe Blacc
Songs in the Key of Los Angeles: The Bedrock Sessions featuring Aloe Blacc
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