Hosted by Adam Paradis
May 14, 2010. 8pm, $5 suggested Donation
World Within Worlds will be a mind-bending exploration into the symbolic and creative potential of the scientific artifact. Territory both strange, shocking and bizarre will be examined through the aid of the projectors lens. We will discover new cinematic landscapes as World Within Worlds opens our eyes to a world in which we were all once blind.
So come one and come all, to witness an amazing night of cinema delights.
Films by Luther Price, Gordon Nelson, Brittany Gravely, a very special quad 16mm projection performance by Projexorcism (North Carolina) along with a choice selection of ephemeral 16mm films produced by Bell Phone Film Labs (featuring Stan Vanderbeek!), National Geographic, and Coronet Films.
The Eye: An Inside Story
Coronet Films, 16mm, 10min
How does the eye see? Photography allows us to assume a unique perspective: from a position behind the retina, we observe the eye itself as it recreates the process of vision through the laboratory dissection of a cow’s eyeball.
Fancy
Luther Price
15min, 16mm 2005
“Dissection reconstruction examination cool crips and thread blue and white greenish in tone with apron and mask pretty pretty flesh lip lip……”
Frankensteined Film
Gordon Nelson
16mm, 5min
World Within Worlds
National Geographic Society, 16mm, 23min, 1981
Though remarkably versatile and sensitive, and powerful, our eyes are limited, literally blind to much of the world around us. Time and size hide many things that cameras and other scientific instruments can reveal, dramatically enhancing our knowledge and perception. World Within Worlds will take us on a magical journey beyond the limits of the unaided human eye.
Incredible Machines
Bell Phone Labs, 16mm, 15min
An incredible display of early computer generated motion graphics and sound systhesization created at the Bell Phone Labs for AT&T. Featuring a rare glimpse of Stan Vanderbeek during his work with the Bell Labs and a prophesy that phones themselves, would one day be a tool used to create movies.
Introduction to Living in a Closed System
Brittany Gravely
16min, 2001, 16mm
“What each of them [Lewis Mumford and R. Buckminster Fuller] has done, really, has been to write philosophical poems celebrating a world that does not truly exist, and perhaps can never exist, even though the poems are true.” — Allan Temko
Introduction to Living in a Closed System is a fractured educational film based upon the idea of a biospheric utopia: a contained, self-sustaining, controlled environment which survives through dynamic systems (here, involving machines, plants, animals, and humans), each of which effects the development of the others. This hope of human-made technology and the natural world in harmony manifests itself in the collage of imagery, sounds, and text. The disparate elements variously unite or fall apart as all of the visions, fears, and dreams of this retrospective/future place attempt to operate within the ideal of a unified, efficient system. The film serves as an introduction to the complexity of the poetry and the problems created by pastoral dreams of synthetic futures.
Projexorcism (North Carolina)
Spaceglue Continuum
30 min, quadruple 16mm performance
John Glenn is in space and you are worried about him. The glue binding his spaceballs together is strong, but his heat shield is loose – though he maintains an outward calm we find in this heartwarming story that his photons are only human. Projexorcism melds the fuse that welds the salad bowl of educational entertainment to the fondue pot of random word association, positing firmly in your mind: “What the fuck are we doing in space?” Projexorcism uses quadruple 16mm Bell & Howell film projectors, dangling like low fruit from the Tree of Knowledge Dispensation, controlled by an audio actuated Mechanical Turk – all working together to improve your neural bandwidth benchmark tests. Standing guard are a dual headed video feedback Hydra and an overclocked Speak & Spell with 256-bit encryption. They have toured the world, played with every band, and are the greatest thing to ever be.
April 9th 7:30-9:30pm
Corvid College Presents:
Urban Sojourns: The Art of Traveling.
Study Philosophy, Die Crazy Lecture Tour.
Excerpt from the course description:
“In the Old Days tourism didn’t exist. Gypsies, Tinkers and other true nomads even now roam about their worlds at will, but no one would therefore think of calling them ‘tourists’.” -Overcoming Tourism, Hakim Bey
What does it mean to be a ‘tourist’?
What are the alternatives?
How can we go about changing the practices and discourses that make us tourists and not something more… I don’t know… romantic? Something more fulfilling?
These questions, as well as Hakim’s reflection, will act as a point of departure as we collectively renegotiate what it means to travel, and to be a traveler in our post-everything world. During the course we will (lightly) engage travel-narratives by Henry Miller, J.R.R. Tolkien, Guy Debord, Ernest Hemingway, the guy who wrote Hopping Freight Trains In America, Henry David Thoreau, Paul Bowels, Nobokov, and Jack Kerouac. However, more important than the words of these people will be our engagement with penpals, ‘travel photography’, exotic alcohol, and nature walks. Most important of all, we will let our personal insight lead us into the terra incognita that is the world that awaits to be re-discovered. This world, of course, awaits not only in lands far away, but also outside our door, and, perhaps most elusively, within our own minds. Running interests will include food, drink, sleep, maps, sex, the law, nature, animal companions, customs, companionship, and all earthly delights!
With a bit of luck and the wind behind us, we will host some guest lecturers from the urban cycling group SCUL, Harvard Divinity School, and beyond.
Method/Procedures: shared inquiry, light reading, ventures around town, trips to NYC-Brooklyn, camping adventures, and both walking and biking trips to other interesting environs.
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Friday March 18. 2011
Non-Event presents
Tumble
with Mark Cetilia
Spectacle
17 Edinboro Street #3
Boston (Chinatown)
617.435.2566
8 p.m. / $10
TUMBLE is the duo of Attila Faravelli (laptop and electronics) and Andrea Belfi (percussion and electronics) from Milan, Italy. Belfi and Faravelli create sound worlds through instant composition and improvisation. The results of this compositional process is somehow simultaneously chaotic and rational. The rhythms and textures created by drums and electroacoustic devices melt together to create volcanic movements of sound that are diffused through broken and modified speakers. Their first recording, On Tumbling, was released as a part of the 12-CD box set Musica Improvvisa on Die Schachtel this past year.
MARK CETILIA is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analogue and digital technologies. Over the past decade, he has worked to develop idiomatic performance systems utilizing custom hardware and software, manifesting in a rich tapestry of sound and image. Mark is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1 and the experimental media art group Redux, recipients of a 2006 Creative Capital grant for their Callspace project. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D in computer music and multimedia at Brown University.
His solo sound works have been published by Iynges, Anarchymoon and Quiet Design. His group Mem1 has collaborated with a variety of artists including the Penderecki String Quartet, Steve Roden, Jan Jelenik, Frank Bretschneider, and Stephen Vitiello. Age of Insects, a full-length album by Mem1 and Vitiello, will be released in May 2011 by Dragon’s Eye Recordings. Together, Mem1 curates the experimental music series Ctrl+Alt+Repeat and the record label Estuary Ltd., who recently released the group’s fourth full-length album, Tetra.
Please note: you must reserve your spot on-line! See below for details.
Experience Economies proudly announces Experience Economies #3: Evil Twin, featuring CHARACTER ANALYSIS #3 by David Levine.
David Levine lives and works in New York and Berlin, where he is the director of the Studio Program at the European College of Liberal Arts. Examining the conditions of spectacle and spectatorship across a range of media, his work has been seen at MoMA, Documenta XII, and the Watermill Center. His new durational performance HABIT will open at Mass MoCA Thurs, Feb 24 – Sun, Feb 27.
CHARACTER ANALYSIS #3 continues Levine’s exploration of acting technique as a mode of psychology, a kind of empiricism, and a science of empathy. What happens when a living, breathing, human being is approached as a character?
Experience Economies #3: Evil Twin
Monday, February 21, 8pm
At Spectacle, Boston
17 Edinboro Street #3 in Chinatown, Boston, near the Chinatown, Boylston, and Downtown Crossing T stations
A light dinner will be served
Voluntary donation of $5 suggested
Please note that this event is limited to 30 participants. Tickets will be available for reservation on a first-to-respond, first-served basis beginning Tuesday, February 15, at noon, at Brown Paper Tickets <http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/157787> (this link is not live until the sale begins).
Experience Economies is a nomadic social event series where cultural producers are audiences to each other’s spectacles. Not a lecture and not a party, the events incorporate performance, presentation, discussion, scheming, drinks and food. Experience Economies welcomes experimentation, works-in-progress, audiences that want their spectacles to mess with them and presenters who need a space to make that mess. Experience Economies is produced in Boston and Cambridge by Gavin Kroeber and Rebecca Uchill.
Special thanks to Spectacle and Brad Kelly for their contributions to this event.
Video Data Bank of Chicago has assembled a 75-minute video program composed of work by internationally recognized artists who have donated their work to raise money for Dara Greenwald, an artist and activist who is currently battling cancer. Please find detailed information on Dara below.
Thursday 27 January 2011
8pm @ Spectacle
17 Edinboro Street #3, Chinatown, Boston
http://spectacle.nu
$5-15 suggested donation
All proceeds will go directly to Dara and her partner Josh.
This program will be screened in cities across the country in the first part of 2011. For further information, please contact Caitlin Berrigan, email hidden; JavaScript is required.
Ben Coonley, One Trick Pony. Image courtesy Video Data Bank.
PROGRAM:
Pink Bloque
Dancing in the Street (excerpts) (Domestic Violence Awareness Month Rally October 2003)
Ben Coonley
One Trick Pony, 2002
Tara Matiek
Operation Invert, 2003
Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy
Kuleshov Sukiyaki, 2004
Melinda Stone & Igor Vamos
Suggested Photo Spots, 1997
Jim Finn
Sharambaba, 1999
Jem Cohen
Little Flags, 2000
Paul Chan
Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law and Poetry, 2006
Dara Greenwald with Ona Mirkinson
The Package, 2010
DARA GREENWALD:
Dara Greenwald is a 39-year old artist, activist, and curator living in Brooklyn who believes that art and other forms of expression can be a means toward a more equitable society. Through this work, she has met and befriended hundreds of people working in the creative and activist communities over the years, and is an important touchstone for many of them.
Dara’s recent projects include “Spectres of Liberty,” an ongoing public art project about the history of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States (www.spectresofliberty.com) and a curatorial project, “Signs of Change,” which displayed historic posters and video that related a history of social movements as experienced through visual culture and is now a book on AK Press.
Dara’s large community has coalesced around her and her partner, Josh, to help them get through this very difficult time. We are providing care for her including cooking, cleaning, laundry, and company. We are raising money so that she can pay her daily living expenses, medical expenses not covered by her insurance, and so that Josh can take some time off of work to be her full-time caretaker. The enthusiasm and dedication of her community is a testament to her generous spirit, her sense of humor, and how important she is to us as a friend, organizer, and fellow-artist.
Donate online at http://healdarag.org/donate-2/
