Medium Cool
Lecture: Regarding Jeff's People, by Ed Halter
Art in General, New York, January 10, 2008.
The lecture by writer and curator Ed Halter took its starting point from the work of Washington, DC-based Jeff Krulik, maker of the legendary video Heavy Metal Parking Lot. In his talk, Halter addressed the utopian hopes and mundane realities of public access television, the question of fandom and subjectivity, underground VHS bootlegging as proto-file-sharing, criticism of art and comedy, and the challenge of defining the term "artist", and in particular, "video artist". Jeff Krulik's website here.
Lecture/ Screening: Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet) Version 2.0. By Hanne Mugaas and Cory Arcangel
Art in General, January 12, 2008.
Lecture/ Screening: Flipped Chips, by Lovid
Art in General, New York, January 12, 2008.
Dan Sandin, Nam June Paik, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Matthew Schlanger, Jim Wiseman, and Bill Etra represent a generation of pioneers who explored video and moving image synthesis. These artists developed hardware instruments as technological advancements in an era of idealism and utopian views of communication, where video and television were regarded as the ultimate new creative medium, able to elicit widespread cultural and social change.
At the screening, their work was shown alongside that of a new generation of artists returning to hardware-based video instruments, like Billy Roisz (NTSC), noteNdo, Jon Satrom, Paul Slocum, Karl Klomp, and LoVid. Departing from their predecessors, the latter set approaches technology with personal and global nostalgia as well as a romantic infatuation with the media-generating object. Inspired by noise, extreme music, glitch and hacker culture, as well as the fragility, unpredictability, and limitations of technology, they choose to work with decades-old electronic components for personal aesthetic reasons and as a reaction to the dominance of technology and media in mainstream culture.
All events organized by Hanne Mugaas
