video_dumbo

video_dumbo

Opening reception: Thursday May 16th, 6-9pm









Screenings (schedule on right) 

May 16-25: 

$5 each, $10 daily pass, $20 festival pass BUY TICKETS! 





Exhibition open to the public May 14 - 25 during open hours



Eyebeam is pleased to present video_dumbo's eighth annual festival and exhibition of contemporary moving image artwork, curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy. On view from May 16 - 25, video_dumbo will include fourteen video screening programs, alongside eight installation works under the title 

Re-Return to Sender

. video_dumbo presents 

106 artists

 from 

30 different countries

, championing the diversity of today's experimental, moving image landscape. Screenings include several US premieres and new video works by: 

Christian Jankowski, Eija-Liisa Ahtilla, Nicolas Provost, Matthias Mueller/Christoph Girardet, Almagul Menlibayeva, Bjørn Melhus, Johan Grimonprez, Mike Hoolboom, Jesse McLean, 

and

 Mark Lewis.

The concurrent installation, Re-Return to Sender, speculates about the imagined consciousness of digital and electromagnetic moving image displays and projection apparatus. With the emergence of video art-- its novelty of closed circuit TV and feedback loops-- in the early 70s, video began by looking at itself; early on, Rosalind Krauss detected the narcissistic qualities within it.

Forty years later, moving image technology has multiplied, oversaturated and accelerated to such an extent that we are forced to take a step back to consider its omnipresence.  Now, radically stripped of its hallucinatory aura and spectacle, we come full circle to ask fundamental questions regarding the state of contemporary moving image media, including its reflection and narcissism, in an age of increasingly intelligent machines. Re-Return to Sender is an exhibition comprised of apparatus that recognize, investigate and celebrate themselves. Their relationship and interactions with humans-- both passive and active-- becomes less significant as all signal emissions, events, and occurrences are projected back onto its originator-- a historical Re-Returning to Sender.

One artist, UK-based 

Chris Shen

, muses on televisual hardware metamorphoses in his installation Infra, in which hundreds of old, discarded TV remotes join together, transforming and uniting into an enormous electronic image screen. Similarly, RE: by 

Bram Snijders

 and 

Carolien Teunisse

 displays a mid-size video projector that projects upon itself, covering its entire surface with a single image. This is echoed by 

Daniel Canogar's

 installation Spin, in which the copied contents of 100 discarded DVDs are projected back onto their surface. 

Annica Cuppetelli

 and 

Cristobal Mendoza’s 

piece projects the exact representation of vertical columns upon itself until the participant crosses the space between projector and image, causing a destabilization that results in swirling moiré patterns

. Christoph Meier

 assembles a Mondrian-like rectangular puzzle out of various projectors with different aspect ratios and light temperatures. 

Steina and Woody Vasulka’

s

 

hybrid portrait series, riffing on 1970s experiments at the origin of the video medium’s signal-as-protagonist theme, deconstructs the digital image into simultaneous two- and three-dimensional properties. Bühne by 

Daniel Kötter 

mirrors the cinema space (and literally starts a revolution), and The Society of the Spectacle – Now in 3D by 

Pascual Sisto

 is exactly that.

Other highlights include a video installation by 

Kurt Ralske 

at Dumbo Arts Center, a book presentation by 

Cooper and Battersby

 and

 Mike Hoolboom

, and a

 Special Program of New Finnish Video Art

,

 

co-presented by AV-arkki, Finland.

Eyebeam additionally presents On Disappearance, an interactive video installation by Finnish artist 

Lauri Astala

, which will be on view throughout video_dumbo. Click here for more information.