Ways of Something

TRANSFER is pleased to present the USA debut of 'Ways of Something'

Screening + Discussion ::: SATURDAY September 6 ::: from 7 -10PM

"Ways of Something”, is a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary, “Ways of Seeing” (1972). Commissioned by The One Minutes, at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and compiled by Lorna Mills, the project consists of one-minute videos by fifty eight web-based artists who commonly work with 3D rendering, gifs, film remix, webcam performances, and websites to describe the cacophonous conditions of artmaking after the internet.

The screening at TRANSFER Gallery is based on the first two episodes of a four-part series of thirty-minute films created by art theorist John Berger and produced by Mike Dibb. In the original episode one, voice-of-God narration over iconic European paintings offer a careful dissection of traditional “fine art” media and the way society has come to understand them as art. The second episode is a contentious and sometimes maddening look at the female nude in the western tradition.

The combined work is, in effect, art about art about television about the internet.

Featuring formal, figural and kitsch practices to videomaking, “Ways of Something” is constituted by aesthetically diverse interpretations of Berger’s ideas on looking at art after the introduction of digital media and the internet. Ultimately, it turns the highbrow nature of the original documentary film into a exuberant and disjointed series on how artists understand art today.

Debut Screening + Discussion Saturday, September 6th
7PM – Reception
8PM – Screening Begins
9PM – Discussion led by TRANSFER artist Lorna Mills, Julia van Mourik of The One Minutes at Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and Paddy Johnson of ArtFCity

Participating artists:

Episode 1:

1: Daniel Temkin
2: Rollin Leonard
3: Sara Ludy
4: Rhett Jones
5: Jaakko Pallasvuo
6: Dafna Ganani
7: Jennifer Chan
8: Rea McNamara
9: Theodore Darst
10: Matthew Williamson
11: Hector Llanquin
12: Christina Entcheva
13: V5MT
14: Marisa Olson
15: Joe McKay
16: Carla Gannis
17: Nicholas O'Brien
18: Eva Papamargariti
19: Rosa Menkman
20: Kristin Lucas
21: Jeremy Bailey & Kristen D. Schaffer
22: Giselle Zatonyl
23: Paul Wong
24: Alfredo Salazar-Caro
25: Sally McKay
26: RM Vaughan & Keith Cole
27: Andrew Benson
28: Christian Petersen
29: Faith Holland
30: Jennifer McMackon

Episode 2:

1. Kevin Heckart
2. Geraldine Juarez
3. Gaby Cepeda
4. Angela Washko
5. Emilie Gervais
6. LaTurbo Avedon
7. Lyla Rye
8. Mattie Hillock
9. Antonio Roberts
10. Georges Jacotey
11. Daniel Rourke
12. Sandra Rechico & Annie Onyi Cheung
13. Yoshi Sodeoka
14. Alma Alloro
15. LoVid
16. Andrea Crespo
17. Ad Minoliti
18. Arjun Ram Srivatsa
19. Carrie Gates
20. Isabella Streffen
21. Esteban Ottaso
22. ZIL & ZOY
23. Hyo Myoung Kim
24. Jesse Darling
25. Tristan Stevens
26. Erica Lapadat-Janzen
27. Claudia Hart
28. Anthony Antonellis


photo credit: Ways of Something 2 – minute 3 by Gaby Cepeda

The One Minutes is a global platform for moving images. Since 1999, The One Minutes has produced and distributed over 10.000 video works from makers of 120 different nationalities.

http://theoneminutes.org/

TRANSFER is an exhibition space that explores the friction between networked practice and its physical instantiation. The gallery supports artists working with computer-based practices to realize aggressive installation projects within our walls.

http://transfer.gallery/

Gallery Hours

Screenings every Saturday at 4PM and 6PM on:
September 13
September 20
September 27
and by appointment