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January project. In NYC with the Wreck & Salvage boys hammering out a series of 3-d animated mushroom videos.

Another screening update. My 2003 film Dissolve playing in the UK. Delicate Matter: experiments with flesh and the analogue. A programme of experimental film curated by Richard Tuohy. It’s the flesh, the touching physicality and tiny inconsistencies in approximation and decay that give the analogue its vitality. The film in this selection, sourced from around the globe, all demonstrate a fascination with the analogue physicality of cine film, with its fragility and its presence, with the vitality of its fleshiness.

I’ll have some of my Wreck & Salvage work featured in this exhibition @ UC Irvine.

VIDEO DADA
An exhibition and project by Martha Gever
Opening Reception Thursday, January 7, 6-9 pm | UAG
January 7- February 6, 2010

VIDEO DADA: No repeat of history, not neo-Dada, but still wreaking havoc with conventional parameters of art.  Nowadays inventive, intelligent, and aesthetically sophisticated videos can be seen far afield, outside traditional art venues like museums and galleries.  And artists circulate their videos on a much wider scale than that achieved by any television network.  VIDEO DADA asks how these changes complicate the conceptual and aesthetic contours of art.  The exhibition features 300 plus videos — playing on eight screens — by individual artists and art collectives that circulate in the hurly-burly multiverse of the internet.  Some serious, some humorous, and some both at once, these works exercise manifold strategies: absurd drama, wry animation, politically astute collage, wild performance, and uncategorizable others.  Some play with music; some incorporate extraordinary written or spoken texts; some prefer silence and all the noise that offers.  In sum, VIDEO DADA surveys the internet’s amalgamation of popular culture and art, calling into question the difference between the two.

And, yes, there may be echoes of Dada: “Dadaism was no ideological movement but an organic product that came into existence as a reaction against the cloud- cuckoo -land tendencies of so-called sacred art…. while military leaders painted in blood.” — George Grosz, 1924 .

Finally reaching the end of about six months of solid ebaying of approximately 250 duplicates I had in the truckload of 16mm films I bought last March. These sales have offset the entire cost of the acquisition. Next step is to cut down the remaining 500 films into more manageable highlight reels, selling empty reels on eBay and recycling damaged cans and reels at the scrapyard. In the end I’ll probably have 50 1200’ highlight reels that will be used as source material for the project.Then there’s another 200 films in the corner that are really cool and should probably not be cut up. I’d be more inclined to keep them if I wasn’t planning on moving. I’ll go back through them again and sell some to help acquire a transfer projector or pay for transfers. End goal is $0 out of my pocket. So far, so good.

Grew a beard in November.

First Snow - Grand Rapids, Michigan

Valdez (Un)Reel

Proof of Progress 004

How we roll in H-Town.