Harvestworks Artists In Residence John Brattin and Melanie Crean present and discuss their recent works in the Harvestworks presentation room.
Monday February 25, 2008,
6:30 PM FREE
HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St.)
New York, NY
http://www.harvestworks.org
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleecker, W/R Prince
Filmmaker John Brattin will show the completed version of Eros Is Sick, a twenty-minute Super 8 film on video with Patrick Blumer, Stephen Ward, and Dan Graff. Described by the artist as "a black and white requiem for the doomed," Brattin will answer questions following the screening.
Media artist Melanie Crean will discuss her Perception Series Projects, a series of three multi-media works on perception, politics and technology. Using sound, video and website interactivity, each of the works focuses on a specific aspect of perception as experienced by her unique subjects. The second work for example, Phrenology which was created during her Harvestworks residency, investigates the relationship between memory, writing and the perception of space, though writings created by incarcerated women.
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Media artist and Harvestworks Artist In Residence Melanie Crean will present her work February 25th. Crean's projects combine video, sound, and websites to present multifaceted stories narrated by women. In Phrenology she held a workshop with incarcerated women at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and composited these accounts onto the landscape of 360 degree photographic panoramas. Described as a "spatial poem", viewers navigate through these different environments by clicking through the text. Work-in-progress Chiros derives from a workshop with a group of HIV positive women in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Participants created video essays detailing their experience of time and memory after becoming positive. The final project will be realized as a website, installation and public projection. - Ceci Moss
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