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Cinema Remixed and Reloaded

Black Women and the Moving Image Since 1970

Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Valerie Cassel Oliver

This is a truly wonderful book.  I had the chance to exhibit and have filmwork recognized in this publication.  This was a truly amazing exhibition of contemporary video /film work done by women of the African Diaspora.

Customer Review

5.0 out of 5 stars HISTORIC, MONUMENTAL, & FABULOUS, November 25, 2008

the exhibition–the first ever of its kind—is a great contribution to the canon of art and Cassel-Oliver and Barnwell Brownlee knew what they were doing to produce such a great publication….the historic exhibition will will live on long after it comes off tour………..

a definite resource–textbook quality



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Installation Art: Concepts in Video Installation & Immersive Environments – Marguerite Harris

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Marguerite Harris.

Recently, installation art has begun to engage narrative and conceptual language. In my own video installation work, I am interested in using recent technologies, including video, DVD and virtual space. Narratives here include personal constructed histories as well as the experience that the viewer brings to the installation, ultimately completing the sculpture. Much of my own work focuses on the idea of the body in time and space as well as on the use of virtual immersive technologies relating to video and computer graphing.
My past experience, however, is more so in experimental and film art. In film, I explored the processes inherent to the medium itself. By using organic materials, I altered the film’s surface to create shapes and patterns, which expand even beyond the filmic frame.
My interest in video installation then is a transition and development from my work in the experimental film arts. In my installations, I explore the very boundaries between time, space, the body and the machine/filmic apparatus.
In my recent contemporary installations, a human form in shadow, created through projection, often replaces the structure of the human body. Images of grids and lines are superimposed here as well. In these works, there is an image projected through a collapsed sense of time, and one that does not just exist in two-dimensional space, but also as a three-dimensional figure. In such virtual installation art, the role of the viewer becomes that of the performer, as the machine apparatus is employed to project the viewer’s body onto the architecture of the space.
Virtual time here is marked by the creation of a simulated experience authored or created by the viewer. The archiving of information and memory are similarly characteristic of this domain of the virtual arts. The act of watching is replaced by the act of shadow creation for the viewer—a haunting, mirroring apparition within three-dimensional space.
Coded language, graphs and lines are projected onto the architectural space and onto the body here. Instead of the body in the machine, as in the examples of video or film recording, the shadows here exist in three dimensional space and time.

These are the many concepts and narratives that I have explored in video and computer installation. Through the use of these processes, I hope to better understand the dialogue between art, culture and technocratic civilization.


Cinema Differents: Paris, France 2007

Cinema Differents: Paris, France 2007


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Cinema Differents: Paris, France 2007

Cinema Differents: Paris, France 2007

I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Paris, France in 2007 and spend time there with my other talented filmmaker and videographer colleagues.  I am always inspired by the incredible creativity in the artistic community there.

We were interviewed at the Cinema Differents Festival by the news program La Telelibre.  There is an online video file documentation of the program.  Special thanks to all my French, Parisian colleagues.

Viva La France!


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Cinema Differents 2007, Paris, France


directors-lounge-berlin

• DL television • placeboKatz • everything else auf deutsch

DL archive placebokatz
directorslounge www

• elsewhere

Hall Of Fame
Directors Lounge 2008
is kindly supported by

SCALA e.V.

NAS

SpreeGetraenke

catraction

keep/on

Cafe Dix in der Berlinischen Galerie

DL 2008 program magazine blog specials location map

Directors Lounge 2008, Berlin, february 7-17

• Video installations Foyer

A wide variety of video installations will be on display at the foyer.
Space is limited and loops will screened in exchange. Don´t hesitate to ask if you are looking for a specific work.Works that relate to specific programs will be shown alongside the screening

Flowers and Leaves
Marguerite Harris Flowers & Leaves

Videoinstallationen, Ein-Kanal-Loops von zahlreichen Kuenstlern sind im Foyer zu sehen. Aufgrund des begrenzten Platzes werden die Arbeiten im Wechsel gezeigt. Arbeiten die zu speziellen Programmen gehören werden während der Praesentationen laufen. Bei Interesse bemuehen wir uns spezielle Arbeiten auf Anfrage zu zeigen. Einfach fragen.
• Installation videos • one channel loops ongoing

Magda Bielez PL Unreality Moments 2007
Maja Borg SE Construct (Two Moments In Beauty) 8 min, 2006
Daniela Butsch DE Landschaft Schnell 36s, DV, 2007
Jason Ferguson US Inanimate Autopsy 20 min, DV, 2006
Happy Famous Artists BE Eastern Philosophy 2008
Marguerite Harris US Flowers & Leaves 2007
Sigalit Landau IL Barbed Hula 2 min, DV 2000
Sophia New GB when no one was looking, i snuck backstage 6 min 47s
Sophia New GB how I loved you till i could no longer see you 4 min 35s
Lorenzo Oggiano IT Cinematic N.10 2007
Lorenzo Oggiano IT MOD513 2007
Asya Reznikov RU/US mapping 23 minutes 23 tongues 2004
Simo Rouhiainen FI Oscillation 2007
Andreas Sachsenmeier DE Mojo 2 2007
Anette Sunder- Plassmann DE les enfants DV, 2007
Felice Naomi Wonnenberg IL Fishy Things 14 min , DV, 2000


TechnoDesire

The Festivals between France,Paris and Berlin have been a great time to revisit conceptual themes in contemporary techno issues & the image.


Journal Entry

It’s been a while since writing on this blog page. This isn’t easy to keep up with writing. I’ve been busy preparing for the Spelman show. Also, trying to keep up with the collective in Paris. Submitted work for the show there.

Conceptual Photos

The photo pieces and experimental films have me thinking of systems of logic and how forms of logic and systems of thought predispose us to particular forms of perception. It is forms of logic and patterns of thinking within this logical system of thought that create the perception of the film plane as a flat space which runs in linear time as opposed to a space with parallel vision. Also, the creation of montage and timed sequences within the filmic frame.

Since the Spelman show, I’ve thought of this in relation to issues of race and gender as well. In 4 black and white photos, the concept or notion of color only exists in relation to it’s polar opposite. There can be no black unless there is white and so on within the color scale. Each color exists in relation to it’s other. In this symbolic construction of language and perception, each color frame defines the next scale of perception.


4 Black & White Photos & 8 Color Photos