THE WIDENING GYRE

THE WIDENING GYRE - 2007-6:50-BY GEOFF BELL

Inspired by William Butler Yeats' poem, 'The Second Coming', The Widening Gyre is an experimental 'dreamscape' that contrasts an age of exuberance within the larger context of strong geopolitical uncertainties and anxieties we are witnessing right now. Although the word gyre means any manner of swirling vortex, Yeats claimed that the image of the gyre captured contrary motions inherent in the process of history. The Widening Gyre presents unfamiliar beauties emerging from our rich visual history and posits them in relationship to world where the social chaos, and the pressure of information, the 'wreckage', is monumental.

FEELING FREE WITH 3D MAGIC EYE POSTER REMIX

FEELING FREE WITH 3D MAGIC EYE POSTER REMIX
8:00-STEREO-2004 BY SHANA MOULTON

Appropriating a dated exercise video hosted by actress Angela Lansbury, Feeling Free presents a woman, played by Moulton, who attempts to follow the televised workout in her living room even as elements of her home dÈcor begin to appear onscreen. Deriving its title from an inspirational segment of Lansbury's program, Feeling Free subjects the appropriated footage to eccentric visual and audio displacements, culminating in a psychedelic dance sequence set to a remix of the program's insipid theme song. The piece was first shown in the context of Moulton's multimedia performance Decorations of the Mind.

OTHER TURBANS

OTHER TURBANS-12:00-STEREO-VIDEO-2007 BY DARRIN MARTIN

The third piece in a trilogy on hearing loss. The artist as
post-operative subject discovers Max Neuhaus’s Times
Square and a field of high tension wires via contemplative
excursions to adjust to his new implant.

NEBULA

NEBULA-10:00-STEREO-2007 BY SUZIE SILVER & HILARY HARP

Nebula is a hallucinogenically immersive spectacle: a complex, audio-visual composition that pays playful homage to science fiction fantasies. Captured for video by means of stop-motion photography, objects made of glass, glitter and tulle, are nestled within a kaleidoscopic flow of computer-generated imagery. Drawing from Thomas Wilfred's Clavilux color organs as well as experimental abstract filmmakers such as Mary Ellen Bute, and James and John Whitney, Nebula also recalls liquid light shows and the marvelous sightings of the Hubble Space Telescope. By enveloping the viewer in a multisensory experience absolutely other than our daily materiality, Nebula mines the wonder and pleasure at the root of both cosmology and camp.SS+HH

THIS DELICATE MONSTER

THIS DELICATE MONSTER
10:00-STEREO-2004 BY MICHELLE HANDELMAN

'This Delicate Monster' is part of a multi-media pop fable inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s 19th century collection of poems, Flowers of Evil. I’ve transposed the Flowers of Evil into a contemporary pop landscape, creating a haunting and hallucinatory fragmented narrative that lies somewhere between conceptual art piece and pure visceral experience. Collaborating with couture fetish designer Garo Sparo, Italian noise band Larsen, and a cast of performers, I’m trying to seduce the viewer into the abyss of fear and desire, while breathing life into Baudelaire’s text such as, “No abyss compares with your bed”, “condemned to an eternal laugh because I know not how to smile”, and “to swallow up existence with a yawn”. Like Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty, this piece implicates the viewer into a mediated world of attraction and repulsion, with moments so loaded with the symbolic that they destroy meaning altogether. The exhibit becomes a sympathetic symphony of gasps, shrieks and repetitive actions that can best be described as a cross between a horror film and a fashion shoot gone terribly wrong.MH

BLOWBACK

BLOWBACK-5:00-2005 BY KARINA AGUILERA SKVIRSKY

In Blowback (2005), appropriated b-roll News images of victims of war and natural disaster promenade through Central Park slowly appearing into the landscape, stirring forward and finally becoming larger than life. Caught in the crossfire of cameras, they are symbolic zombies in between life and death. The soundtrack, sampled and composed from classic horror movie tracks, serves to emphasize the characters truncated physical movements. The classic Zombie movie explores the idea of the abject—the breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between subject and object or self and other. The primary example for what causes such a reaction is the corpse, which traumatically reminds us of our own materiality. Blowback seeks to both explore the Xenophobia that has become more direct since September 11 while also critiquing the media’s use of random images to support their stories—whatever they may be. The term “Blowback”, (negative fallout), was coined by the CIA in the 1950’s as a metaphor to describe the “unintended consequences of the US government’s international activities”.

DIGICOSMOS

DIGICOSMOS-14:00-2006 BY ARGENTINE LEE

In her works the artist questions the identity of the individual who is standing on the boundary between the machine and humanism. She expresses the unstable feeling of chaos and wandering.
'Digicosmos' is the artist's conjugation of two words : 'digi' meaning the digital and 'cosmos' meaning the perfect system, order, universe. This work explores the concept of time and space between the two cities, Paris(France) and Busan(Korea) joined by networks. It is the expression of a material universe composed of different times and spaces. In the earth the material has been divided into two parts: the east and the west.Both ends meet each other by the means of network system. The artist focuses the process of exchanging information and delivering concepts between the two cities. She conceived another universe of imagination in the network interface based on a new order.