exhibition
02 Jul 2009
Opening Night Reception at MIT Museum
CommonWealth opening night reception to be held at MIT Museum.
20 Aug 2008
The Last of the Red Hot Filmmaker Tours
Find out how the Southern Arts Federation takes their filmmakers on the road for a unique exhibition experience.
10 Jul 2007
BITE
What IS this shit? Some stuffed-shirt museums may fit the portrait of "elitist" arts in the NEA's American Canvas (sic!) report. Or maybe the symphony, opera, dance programs... But the media arts? OUR MEDIA ARTS, that sanctified realm of ideological acuity and radical social commitment in the U.S. since before the NEA even applied a name to this field?
10 Jul 2007
WAVES
L.A. Freewaves is a bottom-feeding festival nibbling at wet crumbs that Hollywood, public TV, ads and industrials don't notice that they have dropped. So what I know pertains for an unknown distance--especially under water. Advocating uncensored independent media, we are a network of videomakers, new media makers, librarians, high school teachers, art administrators, cable TV watchers, students, programmers, and others who have three jobs.
Programming
Sporadic describes the L.A. marginal art screenings, for example, one Sunday or Monday night per month.
TechArcheology2000
On January 5 and 6, 2000, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art hosted "TechArcheology: A Symposium on Installation Art Preservation." This gathering was billed as an "opportunity to significantly advance the development of conservation practices for technology-based installation art." The approximately 25 invited participants included conservators and curators from the Getty Conservation Institute, New York s Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Gallery, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pacific Film Archive, and SFMOMA, as well as four important installation artists: Dara Birnbaum, James Coleman, Gary
An Open Letter
We are reprinting this piece that AIVF's (then) executive director and former NAMAC board member Ruby Lerner recently wrote for The Independent because it especially speaks to and about media arts organizations and the infrastructural, systemic changes we are facing. While we are able to come together as advocates during times of direct crisis, these last several years of federal and foundation cuts have revealed a slower, yet more injurious crisis - how weakened our infrastructural ecology has become in comparison to other arts disciplines.
23 Jun 2007
Preserving the Immaterial: The Guggenheim Museum's Variable Media Initiative
On March 30-31, 2001, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York hosted a conference entitled "Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media." The conference made public for the first time the Guggenheim's Variable Media Initiative: a pioneering effort to explore the issues surrounding, and to find solutions to problems arising from, art made in inherently ephemeral media. This effort is spearheaded by John Hanhardt, the Guggenheim's Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts, and Assistant Curator Jon Ippolito.
23 Jun 2007
The Living Documentary: Journey Across the US
One late evening while editing, we members of the Termite TV Collective decided to go on a roadtrip across the United States and spend all of our time shooting and making videos along the way. We were tired of always squeezing our video work in between other jobs and commitments. We wanted to see new things, explore America, and see what was going on out there with our own eyes. We called this journey "The Living Documentary," and for awhile we carried this idea in our heads like a crazy but precious dream.
But you are probably wondering, who is Termite TV?
Spying in the House of Sundance
NAMAC was long overdue to establish a presence at Sundance, so in
January, our co-directors, Jack and Helen, went to the Festival. Our
raison de venir was to proselytize by giving out our membership
materials and publications, like Deep Focus, at the Filmmaker Lodge. We
got into some movies, we attended some parties, we stopped in on some
panels, we handed out our stuff. We shared a condo with our friends
Michael Lumpkin and Jennifer Morris from Frameline. Helen stayed for
the first weekend of the event, and Jack followed for the next three
days. Because we were not there at the same time, we had some different
experiences, which are recounted below.
