16 May 2013

video_dumbo opening Thursday May 16th 6-9pm

video_dumbo
Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy
Co-presented by Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
in collaboration with Dumbo Arts Center
www.videodumbo.org
www.eyebeam.org


video_dumbo is proud to present its eighth annual festival and exhibition of contemporary moving image art, curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy.

On view from May 16 - 25, video_dumbo will include fourteen video screening programs, alongside eight installation works under the title Re-Return to Sender.

video_dumbo will present 106 artists from 30 different countries,
that include several US premieres and new video works by: Christian Jankowski, Eija-Liisa Ahtilla, Nicolas Provost, Matthias Mueller/Christoph Girardet, Bjørn Melhus, Johan Grimonprez, Mike Hoolboom, and Mark Lewis.


See program schedule at: www.videodumbo.org/13-festival-program.html


Re-Return to Sender speculates about the imagined consciousness of digital and electromagnetic moving image displays and projection apparatus. With the emergence of video art--its novelty of closed circuit TV and feedback loops-- in the early 70s, video began by looking at itself; early on, Rosalind Krauss detected the narcissistic qualities within it.

Forty years later, moving image technology has multiplied, oversaturated and accelerated to such an extent that we are forced to take a step back to consider its omnipresence. Now, radically stripped of its hallucinatory aura and spectacle, we come full circle to ask fundamental questions regarding the state of contemporary moving image media, including its reflection and narcissism, in an age of increasingly intelligent machines. Re-Return to Sender is an exhibition comprised of apparatus that recognize, investigate and celebrate themselves. Their relationship and interactions with humans --both passive and actives-- becomes less significant as all signal emissions, events, and occurrences are projected back onto its originator-- a historical Re-Returning to Sender.

Re-Return to Sender exhibition artists:

Bram Snijders and Carolien Teunisse, Christoph Meier, Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza, Pascual Sisto, Chris Shen, Daniel Canogar, Daniel Kötter, Steina and Woody Vasulka.


Screening programs participating artists:

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Christian Jankowski, Bjørn Melhus, Mark Lewis, Johan Grimonprez, Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, Jesse McLean, Nicolas Provost, Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen, David OReilly, Matthias Müller & Christoph Girardet, Gethan & Myles, Frederic Moffet, Mike Hoolboom, Lee Arnold, Simon Mullan, Tamar Latzman, Akram Zaatari, Volker Schreiner, Bogna Burska, Eli Cortiñas, J. Tobias Anderson, John Menick, Fertillet Baptiste, Gregg Biermann, Soren Thilo Funder, Miguel Ildefonso, Jani Ruscica, Carl Sebastian Lindberg, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Sami Van Ingen, Natalia Comandari, Henna-Riikka Halonen, Mikko Gaestel & Jaako Pallasvuo, Juha Mäki-Jussila, Anton Ginzburg, Melanie Manchot, John Skoog, Georg Tiller, Till Nowak, Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller, Joshua Thorson, Ralph Kistler, David Politzer, Johann Lurf, James Prevett, Toby Huddlestone, Meena Nanji & Tommy Gear, Celeste Fichter, Nicola Bergström Hansen, Deimantas Narkevicius, Clément Cogitore, Torsten Zenas Burns, Bubi Canal, Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir, Philpp Lachenmann, Elisabeth Smolarz, Reza Haeri, Constanze Fischbeck & Daniel Kötter, Shirin Mozaffari, Kaya Behkalam, Carlos Irijalba, Megan and Murray McMillan, Shumona Goel & Shai Heredia, Tanja Deman, and Giulio Squillacciotti.

Other highlights include: A video installation by Kurt Ralske at Dumbo Arts Center (May 2 - 31), a book presentation by Cooper and Battersby, and Mike Hoolboom and a Special Program of New Finnish Video Art, co-presented by AV-arkki, Finland.

Eyebeam additionally presents On Disappearance, an interactive video installation by Finnish artist Lauri Astala, which will be on view throughout video_dumbo.

Go to www.videodumbo.org for complete program information