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[caption id="attachment_14" align="aligncenter" width="530" caption="Magic Box 2009 by Ruth Sergel"][/caption] Finishing Funds 2010 deadline is coming up in one week! Visit http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org under Grants for guidlines and application.

bricktheater: After all, NY MAG did call us The Festival Factory. But we need you, dear artists, to keep that revered title!... http://bit.ly/d0ySkl

 

Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 pm & Sunday, March 21 at 7:30 pm

Suggested donation $7

Craig Baldwin present for discussion

3/20/10

Mock up on Mu by Craig Baldwin

(2009, USA, 110 min)

The latest offering from director Craig Baldwin, straight out of the Other Cinema compound in San Francisco. A nice addition to his canon that includes Tribulation 99, Sonic Outlaws and Spectres of the Spectrum, all intoxicating feature-length films that use pre-exisitng media.

3/21/10

Showcase Collection of Shorts

War Against the Weak by Justin Strawhand

(2009, USA, 90 minutes, DVD)

War Against the Weak is the untold story of American Eugenics, a movement that attempted to breed a Nordic master race through the elimination of the “unfit’.

In the first three decades of the 20th Century, American corporate philanthropy, combined with the efforts of the scientific, academic and political elite, created the pseudoscience eugenics, and institutionalized race politics as national policy. The goal was to create a superior, white, Nordic race and obliterate virtually everyone else.

Mark Triant, Dafna Naphtali, Adam Rokhsar
Monday through Friday, March 15 - 19
10am to 6pm (40 hrs) - $1200 + $75 for membership

Harvestworks in New York City offers a 40-hour crash course in Max for Live (M4L) - a new incarnation of Max/MSP that runs natively within Ableton Live, enabling users to design and share custom-made instruments, processors, and interfaces, with a level of integration beyond what third-party plugins are capable of. This full-week, 40-hour crash course is designed to help new M4L users dive into the construction of new devices to run within Live, including MIDI and audio processors, new instruments, and interfaces to Live's API which allow M4L patches to monitor and control application-wide behavior in real-time.

Max for Live combines the limitless customizability and open-ended creative process of Max/MSP with Live's robust, integrated production and performance environment, setting a standard of performance and versatility never yet seen in an audio workstation. The course is taught by our Ableton Live and M4L specialist Mark Triant, and veteran Max programmers Dafna Naphtali and Adam Rokhsar. The course is designed for beginners to Max/MSP, with or without experience in Ableton Live, who want a head-start with this software package. The course may be especially appealing to artists living outside of New York City who don't have the opportunity to learn Max for Live in their own hometown and who would enjoy a week in New York City.

The cost of the course is $1200, plus $75 for the annual Harvestworks membership that is required to take the course. The courses are Mondays through Fridays 10am to 6pm. Working in our computer lab after 6pm can also be arranged. Lecture demonstrations will alternate with practice time, and some of our Max-savvy interns can be available to assist during practice time. The course will provide lots of practice and sample patches. Students enrolled in Max/MSP/Jitter related classes at Harvestworks are eligible for Cycling 74's educational discount when purchasing the software. The course is limited to 10 students.

Prerequisites: Students have to use their laptops with all necessary software installed. Call us if you have problems.

We will not provide meals or snacks for the course, but can point to lots of cheap dining places in the neighborhood. We also cannot provide accommodations, but can help with posting requests or bringing you in contact with other artists who might be able to help.

In his interview on Cycling74's website, Hans Tammen gives a few insights into Max teaching at Harvestworks:http://www.cycling74.com/story/2008/9/15/113650/347

Harvestworks: From our central SoHo location in New York City, we bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the digital arts, and provide a vital context and catalyst for creativity in the field. For the last thirty years we have offered artists on-site recording studios, programming services, workshops, classes and one-on-one tutorials in emerging technologies supporting the pioneers of computer music with equipment and instruction. As a tool for artists, Max has been a central part of the Harvestworks program for almost 20 years. We offer regularly scheduled year-round classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics relating to Max/MSP and Jitter; as well as our Certificate Program, a flexible course of one-on-one instruction.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is auctioning off audio equipment, display cases and other items online. For more info visit http://www.rasmus.com/auction_detail.php?ID=402010

This event is part of a monthly screening series with The Film-Makers’ Cooperative.

The program launches two videos which examine the construction of performance, both which are distributed by the Film-makers’ Coop. One comes from the perspective of contemporary art practice, the other as a strategic query into ways in which veracity and information are constructed and disseminated into a cultural mainstream.

Giornalisti En Maschera by Peter Cramer and Jack Waters

(2009, USA, 30 minutes, DVD)

Did painting die, or simply meiotically reproduce as video art? Has nationalism outlived its cultural relevance? These familiar questions and others are reconstituted and posed at the press previews of the  2001Venice Biennial. The drector/performers investigate relations of art, business, and politics in the guise of objective journalists three months preceding 9/11. Other interviewees include Special Prize winners Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (Canada), and other artists; woven together with excerpts from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice.

Söma Söma Söma by Peter Cramer

(2009, USA, 34 minutes, DVD)

Examining three generations of conceptual, performance, and installation  by artists Geoffrey Hendricks, William Pope L., and Patty Chang with interviews and footage of their exhibition performances. A documentary video of the exhibition of the same title curated by William Pope L. at NYC’s Sculpture Center at its former location on East 69th St. Originally conceived as a private commission by artist Geoffrey Hendricks to document his performances, Cramer & Waters had access to include the artists  regarding their participation to provide a wider context for the exhibition.

http://www.franklinfurnace.org/goings_on/thismonth/soma.html

Peter Cramer and Jack Waters have been partners for over two decades in their combined experience in performing, visual and media arts. Their films, videos, installations, and performances have shown in New York City, throughout the U.S., and internationally.

harvestworks: Juan Rubino and crew were working on a second life project in the lab today . Hisao Ihara was in the video studio working in After Effects.