A New Wave Theory
|7:00 PM • Friday • February 2, 2023 |
| Woodland Pattern Book Center |
| 720 E Locust St • Milwaukee, WI • 53212 |
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Hey You Sandpipers
Kristin Lucas, 3 minutes 26 seconds, 2022
Synopsis:
A generative interspecies duet. Visually in a text field, an observer’s compliments to foraging sandpipers conversely turn to gibberish, character by character, as the birds peck at organisms in the sand. Indifferent to the observer’s presence, the sandpipers go about their restless routine.
This browser-based animation was written entirely from code with a ‘no media’ low kilobyte (kb) approach to animation, utilizing JavaScript libraries and an API to support WebGL, tone and speech synthesis. Script co-written with an AI entity. Code co-written with Joe McKay.
Artist Bio:
Kristin Lucas explores entanglements of art and life within everyday systems and paradigms, and creates work across genres of experimental media, network art, mixed reality, and performance art. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Engadget and Hyperallergic; and commissioned by institutions, such as Dia Center for Arts, FACT Liverpool, Rhizome.org, and The Whitney Museum. Lucas is represented by And/Or Gallery, Postmasters and Electronic Arts Intermix. She studied art at The Cooper Union and Stanford University, and serves as art faculty at University of Texas at Austin.
Empty House
Ben Kujawski, 5 minutes 33 seconds, 2022
Synopsis:
A personal reflection/film poem following a visit to my family's foreclosed home on Long Island, NY, which had sat empty for many years.
Artist Bio:
Ben Kujawski grew up on Long Island, NY and attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where he received his BFA in 2012.
Several of his recent film have premiered at film festivals including the 2021 Woodstock Film Festival, the 2022 Experiments in Cinema Festival, and most recently the 2022 International Film Festival Cologne.
He is currently based in Santa Fe, NM where he co-runs No Name Cinema, a microcinema and community space showcasing avant-garde, arthouse, and filmmaker presented films. Apart from filmmaking he is also part of the the Kujawski/Smith/ Rhody trio - an experimental music group focused on expanded cinema performances.
Echolocation
Nadia Shihab, 8 minutes 37 seconds, 2021
Synopsis:
The rain in Oakland, my grandmother's home in Baghdad, my aunts' voices in What's App, my daughter learning to count to 10, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio, the search for new forms.
Artist Bio:
Nadia Shihab is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the personal, the relational, and the diasporic. Her debut feature-length film JADDOLAND was the winner of five festival jury awards, including the Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award in 2020. Her work has shown in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, Berkeley Art Museum, Cairo International Film Festival, DOXA, Kasseler Dokfest, CAAMFest, BlackStar, Camden, Mimesis and New Orleans Film Festival. She was raised in Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq & Yemen, and works between Oakland, California and Vancouver, Canada.
The Fourfold
Alisi Telengut, 7 minutes 15 seconds, 2021
Synopsis:
Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, an exploration of the indigenous worldview and wisdom. Against the backdrop of the modern existential crisis and the human-induced rapid environmental change, there is a necessity to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and non-human materialities.
Artist Bio:
Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian origin. She creates animation frame by frame under the camera with mixed media to generate movement, and explore hand-made and painterly visuals for her films. Alisi is a Canadian Screen Award nominee and a Québec Cinéma Awards - Prix Iris winner in Best Animated Film. Her work received multiple international awards and nominations, including the Best Short Film at Stockholm Film Festival (Sweden), Best Animated Film at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival (USA) and Brussel Independent Film Festival (Belgium), as well as a Jury Award at the Aspen Shortsfest (USA). Alisi's work has been screened and exhibited internationally, such as at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (USA), the Canadian Cultural Centre at the Embassy of Canada in France, CICA Museum - Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea), UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein (Germany), Sundance Film Festival (USA), TIFF (Canada), Matthäikirchplatz am Berlin Kulturforum (Germany), among others.
A Distant Horizon
Ryan Marino, 6 minutes 30 seconds, 2012
Synopsis:
Remote landscapes elicit fragments of strata and sediment suggesting an existence marked
not by man but by time. A vibrant sun illuminates the contours of the land providing a natural
show of light and shadow play.
Artist Bio:
Ryan Marino is an interdisciplinary artist working with film, sound, and more recently collage. His 16mm films have screened at film festivals and venues including: Anthology Film Archives, New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco International Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Venice Biennale, Spectacle Theater, The Nightingale, and UnionDocs. In addition to creating the soundtracks for his own films, his sound work includes original compositions and commissioned soundtracks for short films and theater productions. His sound work has been issued by a number of labels on cassette and vinyl under his own name and various monikers. By day he works as an audiovisual archivist.
Wander
Rebecca Najdowski, 2 minutes 30 seconds, 2012
Synopsis:
Wander chronicles a road trip through the American West. Upon encountering various objects happened upon dusty roads and at highway rest stops, a photo was made with an instant film camera. Wander is a grid of moments depicting time in analogue; it is a meditation on photographic duration, which can feel unfamiliar in a digital world.
Artist Bio:
Rebecca Najdowski is an artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Her work includes video, experimental photography, and installation. Both embracing and critiquing imaging technologies, Rebecca’s projects have addressed desert ecology, botanical specimens, natural phenomena, and depictions of the climate crisis. Her work has been presented internationally, including Aperture Gallery in New York; Athens Digital Art Festival in Greece; and Belfast Photo Festival in Northern Ireland. She holds a PhD from Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) and an MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil.
Parergon
John Winn, 6 minutes 30 seconds, 2021
Synopsis:
“All that which in Picture is not of the body or argument thereof is Landskip, Parergon, or By-work” (Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1656).
Artist Bio:
John Winn (1993, USA) is a filmmaker and writer based in Durham, North Carolina. His films have screened at film festivals in the United States and internationally, including Transient Visions, Cosmic Rays, and Revelation Perth. His films frequently investigate the aesthetic and historical connections between an image and the damaged environment it captures. He also writes on the history of landscape in experimental film and is currently a PhD candidate at Duke University. His written work has appeared in Film International, Media Fields Journal, and four by three magazine.
i-am-a
Dagie Brundert, 2 minutes 30 seconds, 2022
Synopsis:
I'm at the sea, it's raining lightly, there's a lot of fog, and there's nobody on the beach, just me, a few seagulls and lots of thoughts and a melody. How about the dimensions?
(Developed in seaweed, vitamin c and washing soda)
Artist Bio:
I was born in a small town in the middle of West Germany. Beautiful nature, but boring after a while …
I moved to Berlin and studied visual arts / experimental film. Fell in love with my super 8 camera (Nizo) in 1988.
Since then I try to be a particle-finder, a wave-catcher and a good story-teller. I try to absorb weird beautiful things from this world. Chew them and spit them out again. And now I have become a specialist for ecologically developed films and photos.
I am a super 8 film maker. For over 20 years I have been developing my films myself.
Non-repeatable, unique results are my motivation, coincidence is my friend, chemistry is my helper.
My films and my bubble
My films have a positive, optimistic tone. I‘m convinced that I‘m in the business of throwing small, short beauty bombs into the world, I cannot help it and I‘ll never stop it. The world is complicated, dangerous and beautiful, people are brutal, greedy and stupid, but also confused, loving and incredibly social. My films are not obviously political, they are always personal and play in a small, manageable space, bubble, universe. However, you can extrapolate this space.