THE BODY ELECTRONIC: An Evening with Jesse Malmed

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THE BODY ELECTRONIC: AN EVENING WITH JESSE MALMED
WEDNESDAY JULY 20, 2011 at 7 PM (reception to follow)
The Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum

Whip smart, blissfully dense and multipronged cinema and performance; conceptual poetics, direct address, participatory movie song.
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Jesse Malmed presents a fascinating and manifold mix of conceptually rich video L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics, process-intensive bi-fidelity abstractedelia and participatory installations such as the multiple iterations of CONVERSATIONAL KARAOKE!! (in which audience members perform dizzying, strange and incisive texts of the artist's design). 
Briefest bio: artist, curator; video, film, installation, performance + text; Santa Fe, Bard College, San Francisco, Portland (, Chicago); Deep Leap Microcinema, Cinema Project, Creative Music Guild, Lasercave; Body Electronic, This Is What, Conversational Karaoke; galleries, microcinemas, bars, barns, universities, underground, skybound. 

"the sonic, visual and (extra-)communicative potentials of language, a keen eye toward the history of experimental media art and an interest in the transcendent power of pure cinema… equal parts conceptual and instinctual, the work bears a zany levity that helps to buoy sometimes-incomprehensible​ blissmash visuals and dense textwork." 
NEW WORKS! MOVING TO CHICAGO! ALL IDEAS MUST GO!
(This show also marks the release of several new publications on paper and cassette and the premieres of three new moving image works.)

www.jessemalmed.net