Fish Stories Community Cookbook is out
The Fish Stories Community Cookbook is back from the printer and ready for the Paths to Pier 42 fall celebration. We’re super happy with the way it came out and are excited to distribute it to everyone. Many thanks to everyone who contributed.
Working on Fish Stories at the 100 Wall St. LMCC Process Space.
Hito Steyerl at Artists Space
The latest issue of Millennium Film Journal – Millennium Film Journal 62, New Books, Fall 2015 – is out. It includes my write-up of Hito Steyerl’s expansive exhibition at Artists Space in NYC last summer. It was a feat of endurance to watch and absorb all her complex projects that fill both Artists Space locations – but worth it! Also a challenge to say something as articulate as what Steyerl would say about her own work. She is a media theory visionary. The line between theorizing and making in her work is very porous indeed. Scroll down on the Artists Space exhibition page to download her writings and you’ll see what I mean.
Interview with us on Fish Stories
Check out an interview with me and Meredith about our Fish Stories Community Cookbook project. It is part of the Making of Paths to Pier 42 series. Thanks to Hester Street Collaborative, one of the Paths to Pier 42 partners, for interviewing us.
Site-Specific Doc at Visible Evidence 22
Last weekend we had a great panel/workshop at the Visible Evidence 22 conference in Toronto: Site on Screen: Emerging Technology and Site-Specific Documentary Practice
Track: Expanded Documentary and Immersive Technologies.Type: Workshop Keywords: Mobile media, Locative media, Site-specific, Participatory, Collaborative, Psychogeography, Documentary, Experimental, Socially engaged, Interactive
In this workshop, documentary media artists Laura Chipley, Sarah Nelson Wright, Samara Smith, A.E. Souzis and Rachel Stevens will discuss site-specific documentary practice, highlighting their individual and collaborative location-based documentary projects and exploring how site-specific documentary practices have evolved with changing mobile and locative technology. All of the documentary projects to be discussed are site-specific explorations of physical spaces that augment or invite public participation in chronicling the physical world with mobile media. Technologies explored will include: audio, SMS messaging, augmented reality, sensors, go-pros, underwater cameras and aerial photography. Each presenter will open with a short overview of her body of site-specific documentary work focused on the central questions of the panel: How has your site-specific documentary practice evolved with new mobile technologies? How have new technologies influenced concept, form, collaboration, participation, interaction and audience experience? How do new technologies expand documentary audiences? Each artist will reflect on a body of experimental documentary work that demonstrates an evolution in engagement strategies blurring the lines between subject/audience and location/screen to expand the traditional documentary form and experience. After brief introductory presentations, the panel will engage in a discussion exploring questions central to the documentary work and evolving technologies: How do new and emerging technologies serve or complicate each project’s themes, motivations and goals? How does moving away from traditional narrative toward non-linear structures and “user-driven” mobile technology experiences impact documentary form and experience? How does it change or expand the documentary audience? What is unique about site-specific documentary practices? What is the relationship between screen/site and audience/subject/director? Projects discussed in brief opening presentations will include Oyster City, The Newtown Creek Armada, Architextour and COMMotion. Collectively, these projects draw on a variety of mobile technologies to increase interactivity and participation.
Stream: Chapter 2 (helpless)
Stream: Chapter 2 (helpless)
August 1st (12-5) and 2nd (11-4) 2015
South Windham, VT
An exhibition happening next weekend! Survivalist Cinema will be returning, this year with a line-up of experimental shorts called Anthroposcenic.
More on the 2 Chairs website.
On the screening:
ANTHROPOSCENIC
A program of moving image work to be screened in the Survivalist Cinema, a solar-powered micro-cinema housed in a wilderness lean-to. These experimental shorts reimagine the ‘figure in the landscape’ trope, calling upon consumer objects with mystical properties, “machinema,” low-tech sci-fi performance, post-production, and decomposition to augment or devolve bodies and personhood in relationship to the landscape.
Peggy Ahwesh, She Puppet (2001, video, 15 min.)
In She Puppet Ahwesh edited hours of playing the game Tomb Raider to redirect the narrative of the character Lara Croft from a goal-oriented tour through obstacle-laden adventure-scapes to one more dark and speculative.
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin, ARK3: THE WATERWAY SCENARIOS (2015, video, 13 min.)
This newly edited piece furthers Burns’ and Martin’s research into “diverse speculative fictions including re-imagined educational practices, crypto-utopian musicals, appropriated horror genres, paranormal phenomenon, re-animation choreographies, cos- play, and trans-human love stories.”
Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 3 (2004, video, 7:33 min.)
Moulton’s pained alter ego Cynthia interacts with household objects that operate as channels to surreal experiences or transcendent New Age epiphanies.
Jennifer Reeves, Landfill 16 (2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 9 min.) Reeves temporarily buried outtakes from her 16mm double projection When It Was Blue to “let enzymes and fungi in the soil begin to decompose the image. [She] then hand- painted the film to give it new life.”
Brian Zegeer and Rachel Frank, Far Rockaway (2012, mixed-media animation, digital video, 4:53 min.)
This music video was filmed at Dead Horse Bay, a Far Rockaway landfill that has since erupted onto the beach surface. Made in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the film imagines a vengeful nature at odds with human endeavors.
