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Emile Zile is an artist and filmmaker engaged with the tension between reality and its mediation, the self and its representation, and language and its mutation. Building on a background of single-channel and performative video art, his current research focuses on photographic portraiture with contemporary image-making techniques, site-specific audiovisual performance and the use of the internet as a site for mourning, transgression and revelation. His body of work reflects a bleak humanism and dark wit, in the face of an ever-accelerating culture of image consumption and distribution.

Emile received a BFA degree from RMIT Media Arts Melbourne before relocating to Amsterdam in 2007 to commence a MFA degree at the Sandberg Institute. Recent exhibitions and performances include Bring Your Own Beamer Berlin and Athens, Rojo Nova Audiovisual Sessions Sao Paulo Brazil, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Palais Paradiso Amsterdam, F.E.A.V.S. Osaka Japan, Today's Art Festival The Hague, and the Rietveld Arsenale - 53rd Venice Biennale.

In 2012 he will commence a two-year studio residency at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam.
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EVENT

Five Production Company Logos in 3D at Dianne Tanzer Gallery + projects


Dates:
Sat Apr 02, 2011 18:00 - Sat Apr 23, 2011

Location:
Melbourne, Australia

Emile Zile’s Five Production Company Logos In 3D presents an
imaginary ‘real man’ behind these grandiose charades born of
selfimportant declaration. Just as design company CEOs probably come in
their pants when they look at their Maya-rendered fonts casting shadows
on planets, so are Emile’s hands ‘working magic’ as he performs aerial
jack-offs synchronised to Adam Milburn’s gilded melodic refrains. His
hysterical hand movements hilariously replicate the excessive overload
of those corporate logos which move around like Jane Fonda doing Zumba
on crack. Best of all, it simply looks like Emile is masturbating as if
he uses some amazing technique to whack a super load into our faces.
Which is exactly what the proud designers of those gleaming chromed
star-cruiser logo-ships imagine they’re doing. And a grand tradition it
is, for what is Coke’s ‘dynamic ribbon’ but the allusion to a frothy
foaming cum shot.
- Philip Brophy, January 2011 philipbrophy.com
Performed to audio created in the guise of fictional cinematic intro
sequences, here 3D modeling is reduced to hand movements. Constructed
spontaneous gestures and painterly hand motions, emerging and fading in
short-lived blooms against the unadorned white walls of an assumed
gallery medium. Though gestural hand motion implies stroke, the piece
also mines the history of the video format as a medium for effects,
motioning toward cursor or hardware driven art-forms. Paint without
paint. The online video format sublimated against itself - given form
against the absence of overt post-production.
- Ry David Bradley, December 2010 paintedetc.com


EVENT

Video Vortex 6 Amsterdam: *best*RapidEssayNSFW!! Emile Zile


Dates:
Sat Mar 12, 2011 20:00 - Sat Mar 12, 2011

Location:
Amsterdam, Netherlands

*best*RapidEssayNSFW!! new solo audiovisual performance by Emile Zile for Video Vortex closing night event. Expanded Browsing. Prepared Video. Caveman VJing. Millenial dot com crash cult leader monologues, evolution and decay, language and  truth, animism and portraiture.
http://emilezile.com/solo/bestrapidessaynsfw/
Constant Dullaart, Anja Masling and Giorgi Tabatadze are also showing work, Katja Novitskova will DJ.
Video Vortex 6: Beyond Youtube. Since 2007, Video Vortex events, conferences, workshops, and exhibitions have taken place throughout (and outside of) Europe, and includes the
publication of the first Video Vortex Reader (2008), and the second one
being published March 2011. With this program, the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, and its project partners, have been initiating
and facilitating a deep study of online video in its diverse forms and
uses, and further, its impact both on, and within, the information
society.
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/6amsterdam



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Jack screens at Institute of Contemporary Arts London


Jack 2012
4K RED video, 12 minutes
Director of Photography Mikael Brain
Composer and Sound Designer Philip Brophy

ICA London, Sunday 19 January 2013
Curated by Elsa Coustou, Lucia Garavaglia
and Alana Kushnir in collaboration with the ICA
Supported by MFA Curating, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Full details and bookings at http://www.ica.org.uk/35422/Film/Artists-Film-Club-Walking-Sideways.html

In response to the exhibition Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument, this Artists’ Film Club presents a selection of moving image works which delve into the social dimensions of architectural monuments. These monuments and their surrounding environments are more than a physical space; they generate individual and collective memories. The works reference the longevity of some built structures and the impermanence of others, exploring how histories are inextricably bound to geography and the synthesis of time.

The screening will feature works by Ludovica Carbotta, Shaun Gladwell, Leopold Kessler, Benjamin Orlow, Deborah Ligorio, David Maljkovic and Emile Zile.

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Rijksakademie OPEN


December 1-2, 2012
Sarphatistraat 470
1018 GW Amsterdam
The Netherlands


The Research and Destroy Department of Black Mountain College


Group show curated by Jean Bernard Koeman

Opens Friday 19 October at W139 Amsterdam

Featuring Stian Adlandsvik, Frank Ammerlaan, Saar Amptmeijer, Leyla Aydoslu, Sara Bjarland, Sven Boel, Kees Boevé, Antonia Breme, Crystal Z Campbell, Melanie Ebenhoch, Johan Henning, Roderick Hietbrink, Jan Hopf, Jeroen van der Hulst, Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Asger Behncke Jacobson, Katrin Kamrau, Daniel vom Keller, Bram Kinsbergen, Joris Kritis, Linda Lenssen, Mahal de Man, Tim Mathijsen, Sofia Montenegro, Xue Mu, Suat Öğüt, Marc Oosting, Olivia Alders Plessers, Thomas Raat, Daniel Rödiger, Fabian Schröder, Rosa Sijben, Kema Spencer, Edward Clydesdale Thomson, Britt Vangenechten, Kasper de Vos, Amanda Wasielewski, Jonas Wijtenburg, Emile Zile, Felicia von Zweigbergk.

http://w139.nl/en/article/21084/the-research-and-destroy-department-of-black-mountain-college/


The Last Event


Performance for the last event at NIMk/Montevideo.

Archive, Artist, Audience, Voice, Trust.

October 19, 20.00 Keizersgracht 264 Amsterdam

with JODI, Mark Bain, Justin Bennett, Germaine Kruip, Pawel Kruk, Rosa Menkman, Leonard van Munster.

Media Art is dead. Long live Media Art.

http://nimk.nl/eng/the-last-event-nimk

http://www.facebook.com/events/403137066422591/


OMG_sisyphus and *Best*RapidEssayNSFW!! at Studium Generale KABK


October 4, 17.00 – 19.00

Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag

http://www.kabk.nl/newsitemEN.php?newsid=0413&cat=09

Performance: Emile Zile

OMG_sisyphus and *best*RapidEssayNSFW!! by Amsterdam-based Australian artist, resident of the Rijksakademie. Live video essays with online and prepared video sources from YouTube, 24hour news streams, scientific trials, viral marketing blips, social software and monologues by .com-era cult leaders to weave an audiovisual portrait of contemporary culture and its acceleration of signs. With tutorials, self-portraiture, factory presets, the ecstasy of viewing and the sadness of YouTube.

Lecture Almila Akdag (UVA)

A theoretical view on the nature of (high/low) art and the art market, and its relation to online art communities. Almila Akdag, from the University of Amsterdam, has received a Veni awardfrom NWO to conduct her own research for 3 years. The project is a combination of the application of various scientific methodologies (mostly social network analysis and analysis of image archives). In this lecture she will talk about DeviantArt, an online community of artists and art appreciators, that plays a nowadays role of the Salon des Refuses. She will show the history of this initiative and highlight its social and organizational structure as well as its impact on the art education for the next generation of artists.


ManualTrackingControl


Solo show

Opens August 31, 6pm
until September 23

Footscray Arts
45 Moreland Street
Footscray, Victoria 3011

http://footscrayarts.com/event/manual-tracking-control/


Subtitle Kino (Färgfabriken) Stockholm, Sweden


Subtitle Kino (Färgfabriken)
August 18-19 2012
http://fargfabriken.se/en/right-now/item/613-south-söder

Across one weekend in August, Australian contemporary art initiative BUS Projects will collaborate with Färgfabriken to present an international mobile cinema and contemporary art performance space. Making use of a parked van converted into a mobile event space, SOUTH/SÖDER is curated by Jared Davis and will present a new performative, video and sound-based work in the public site of Liljeholmstorget.

This project draws from an ongoing series of mobile contemporary art and performance events initiated by BUS Projects, that have seen works presented in public sites in Melbourne (State of Design Festival, 2011), Athens (ReMap3, 2011) and Sydney (SafARI, 2012).


Chris Marker 1921-2012


‘the handwriting each one of us will use to compose his own list of ‘things
that quicken the heart,’ to offer, or to erase’

- Sans Soleil 1983