Peter d’Agostino’s video / photo / text installation, comings and going: PARIS (Metro) is featured in the California Video exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, March 15-June 8, 2008. “Over the past four decades, video has played an increasingly central role in artistic production throughout the world. California Video highlights the unique sensibilities of West Coast video, while providing the first major survey of video art produced in California.” California Video: Artists and Histories is published by Oxford University Press.
The exhibition includes restorations of d’Agostino’s comings and goings projects:
PARIS ( Metro ) 1977 / 2008
San Francisco ( BART ) 1978 / 2008
Washington ( METRO ) 1979 / 2008
The comings and goings installations have been exhibited at: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; and, the Washington Project for the Arts.
The 1977-79 videos are included in several international collections and distributed by the Electronic Arts Intermix video archive [eai.org ] “In this three-part work, d'Agostino focuses
on the complex infrastructure of urban mass transit systems, drawing linguistic parallels to the visual image to investigate signs and their relation to structures of communication. Surveillance and control systems are juxtaposed with the human element -- pockets of life moving through the massive, intricate organism of these systems.”
Information about this and other works at www.peterdagostino.net
Contact: pdasite@aim.com
THE MAID selected to the Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation.
MFA alumna Heidi Saman's thesis film, The Maid, will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May and will compete in the Cinefondation.
It will also screen at Philadelphia's own Black Lily Film and Music Festival at the International House.
The Maid examines the moments in which we are forced to understand that other people are real in the same way that we are. Rasha is an Egyptian house maid who is not so skilled at her job. When her suspicions of her employers are confirmed, Rasha must come to terms with her perceptions of trust, duty and her place within the family household.
The Paradigm Shift in the Main Line Film Festival
The short film The Paradigm Shift – which was directed by Temple undergrad Jon Barr – was recently accepted to screen at the Main Line Film Festival at the Clearview Anthony Wayne Theatre in Wayne, PA. The short has previously screened at the Show Off Your Shorts Film Festival in Hollywood, CA back in February, and will kick off the inaugural Main Line Film Festival on Saturday, April 26th at 1:30 p.m.
The Paradigm Shift
The Main Line Film Festival
Watch new videos created by graduate videography students for Termite TV. Click to play:
Elisabeth Subrin's new film/video installation, Sweet Ruin, is showing in New York at PARTICIPANT, Inc.
Gaby Hoffman in Sweet Ruin (2 channel HD video projection, sound) January 20 - March 2, 2008
Wed- Sun, 12pm - 6pm
PARTICIPANT, INC.
NEW ADDRESS
253 East Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
Special guest Bruce Yonemoto
Mon Feb 4 Lecture @ 12:45-2:30 rm TL 306
Open discussion @ 3– 4:30 rm TL 4
Bruce Yonemoto’s imaginative and theoretically-informed media
artworks explore the interconnectedness of cinema and
politics, and the key role that visual culture plays in both
describing and executing the colonization of non-Western
cultures. Through film, video and objects, Yonemoto plays with
the conventions of Hollywood and Post-War American
iconography, incorporating narrative, kitsch, and formal
experimentation. Yonemoto is renown as a pioneering media
artist and leader in Asian-American cultural circles,
particularly for twenty years of collaborative practice with
his brother, Norman Yonemoto.
Yonemoto's work has been exhibited internationally, including
individual exhibitions at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo; Blum &
Poe, Los Angeles; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, MO; the Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH;
and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. His work has been
included in numerous biennials, including the Corcoran
Biennial (2002); Fukui International Video Biennale (1993);
the Whitney Biennial (1993, 1987). In 1999, the Japanese
American National Museum in Los Angeles presented a
retrospective exhibition of Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s work.
Recent exhibitions include Exile of the Imaginary at the
Generali Foundation, Vienna (2007) and In Other Words at Bard
College's Center for Curatorial Studies (2006).
Tom Quinn awarded Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature
The New Year Parade by MFA student Tom Quinn was chosen as the Grand Jury Narrative Feature winner at the 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival. Read the press release:
slamdance.org