Jared Nielsen
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
BYOTV
March 19-April 27th
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny
Portland, Oregon 97214
http://thevideogentlemen.wordpress.com/
In February 2009, the United States will add Dead Air to the acres
of accumulated Dead Media, pulling the plug on analog television
broadcasts. Subsequent waves of electronic waste are predicted
as consumers junk their abruptly obsolete receivers in favor of HDreadied
consoles.
Pre-empting the scheduled program of obsolescence, The Video
Gentlemen's BYOTV network launches a six-week season of
special reports in March 2008 engaged with this technocultural
turn.
Low-wattage transmissions emanate from an array of reconfigured
electronic detritus distributed around the gallery.
Telecommunication, and the distance implicit in its operation is
countered by a physical proximity prescribed by the limited range
of the BYOTV transmissions. Visitors are encouraged to "bring
their own TV," or borrow one from the gallery, intercepting
transmissions from their immediate airspace.
Awash with analog-only communiqués, the BYOTV airspace is
engineered for rabbit-eared receivers.
Reception March 22 New American Art Union 5-8 p.m.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Tony Conrad - Cologne Germany 2006
The people who shot this video are friends of Tony. I asked what the story was behind the video originally uploaded on YouTube. The following is from that correspondence:
Tony's a friend of a friend so we get to spend time with him every now and then...he had an opening for his "yellow movie" paintings at walter bucholz gallery in cologne a few winters ago and we happened to be in germany at the time so we went. the day after the opening tony bought and stuck the canvasses to his feet and walked to the gallery with them on and gave them the canvasses as kind of a funny gift for having the show...
Monday, March 03, 2008
The Lion & the Twins - Emily Geanacopoulos & Avi Paul Weinstein
Based almost entirely on incongruity, The Lion & the Twins, leads you through no familiarity whatsoever. It's a piece of humor similar to the Mothman Proficies (maybe) when you think you've got it, you don't, then you don't again. From the brains of Emily Geanacopoulos & Avi Paul Weinstein
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