A Celebration for Breaking Routines

A Celebration for Breaking Routines

Web Project Launch and New Video Works from EAI

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Reception 7 pm
Presentation & Screening 8-9 pm

Electronic Arts Intermix
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
(between 10th and 11th Ave.)
(212) 337-0680

Please join EAI for a special evening event celebrating new interactive media and video works: open source Web art, hacked video games, restaged and reworked films, girl-band music videos, and underground legends of the downtown music and art scenes.

Artist collective Paper Rad will launch Tux Dog, a new open source Web project hosted by EAI. Paper Rad members will be present to introduce and demonstrate this new project.

New and newly released video projects by multimedia, multigenerational artists: Cory Arcangel, Cheryl Donegan, Ken Jacobs, Kristin Lucas, Tony Oursler, Pipilotti Rist and Stan VanDerBeek.

The following works will be shown during the reception:

Tony Oursler: Synesthesia: Interviews on Rock & Art
Synesthesia: Kim Gordon, 1997-2001, 20:15 min, color, sound
Synesthesia: Dan Graham, 1997-2001, 36:47 min, color, sound
Synesthesia: Genesis P-Orridge, 1997-2001, 90:29 min, color, sound

Cory Arcangel, The Making of Super Mario Clouds, 2004, 65 min, color, silent

Stan VanDerBeek, Visibles, 1959-1972, 71:49 min, color and b&w, sound (excerpts)

Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom Chaser, 2002, 11 min, b&w, silent

PRESENTATION & SCREENING

Web Project Presentation

Paper Rad, Tux Dog

Artist collective Paper Rad will introduce Tux Dog, their new open source Web project, hosted by EAI. Tux Dog, which began as a cartoon character drawn by a Paper Rad member as a child, will be available as an open source license to the public. "Tux" will be distributed via the Internet, allowing anyone to download the character’s data for their own use. This data will include vector files and other media, all of which serve to empower young art developers and Internet users. EAI will also host examples of 3rd party usage of Tux Dog under the open source license, as well as an archive of past Tux Dog works.

Screening

Kristin Lucas, Science and Nature, performed by Flamingo 50, excerpted from Celebrations for Breaking Routine, 2003, 4:40 min, color, sound

Cheryl Donegan, Channeling, 2001, 9:50 min, color, sound

Pipilotti Rist, works from the 1980s and 1990s, newly distributed by EAI.

Kristin Lucas, Science and Nature, performed by Rainford Silver Brass Band, Merseyside Pipers Majorettes, excerpted from Celebrations for Breaking Routine, 2003, 4:35 min, color, sound


This event is funded, in part, by the Experimental Television Center. The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.