Screen-Based Projects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqwgeZooUmQ

http://www.flickr.com/photos/18223959@N06/

I had to write a research paper on a topic of my choosing for my Avant-Garde American Film class this past week, and I had no clue what to write it on. I was talking online with a friend about this, and she suggested this crazy film/performance/projection piece available on dvd that she had seen once that she thought I'd like. Turns out, it's done by Ken Jacobs (directed Tom, Tom the Piper's Son and Blond Cobra), who I learned about in class, with John Zorn, a musician who I also knew about.

Anyway, it's a really amazing piece, I watched it in Bobst at Avery Fischer because it's available on DVD. It's a projection piece utilizing a device called the Magic Lantern, which is very similar to a slide projecter. Jacobs modified this, making the shutter spin causing a strobing effect of the images--and from that he called his use of the device the "Nervous Magic Lantern." The DVD is compilation of several different performances of these projections in which no film or video were used, just simultaneous slide projections. John Zorn and Ikue Mori provided the soundtrack, which is a really great noise-based piece that really enhances the whole experience. I recommend checking it out, the whole thing is 68 minutes but youtube has two really short, low quality clips.

After class, I did some research and discovered that since Adobe now owns Dreamweaver and Flash, they made it difficult to import quicktime trying to get people to make flash movies instead! I think FotoMagico and keynote can export to a flash movie.

Alternately, you can do what many of you do yesterday in Dreamweaver: Insert>Media>Plugin.

In searching google, I found this info on alternate ways to embed quicktime which gives lots of options for showing/not showing controls, background color, autoplay, etc.
read about it.

I'll post more info as I find it.

some answers to our tech problems

playing quick time movies simultaneously

making a quicktime movie from Keynote: - click record timings at bottom of box where you load your audio

make websize quicktime movies (mp4s) directly from quicktime

reBloging the Rhizome blog

Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the "Incubator" program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art.
May 8, 2008: 10 p.m. - May 11, 2008: 1 a.m. at Ontological Theater, St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St., Manhattan, NY, www.ontological.com/
Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio. Audio and video at www.free103point9.org

Read about Bebe Barron (née Charlotte May Wind), who opened the first electronic recording studio in the US in the Village.

Jonas Mekas - info about his films and thoughts on the fate of Super 8mm films.
see also www.jonasmekas.com/

video documentation of recent Future of the Internet Panel at NYU.

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Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning filmmaker whose latest documentary, “Standard Operating Procedure,” examines the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, is being pressed about a procedure of his own: paying interview subjects. read NY Times article

NPR Studio 360 show on Errol Morris' film plus artist responses to the Abu Ghraib photographs.

Review of film

Errol Morris NY Times Zoom blog on photography, film, and culture.

Errol Morris website

One last share as B.o.W. I've been watching this one photographer's work and really enjoyed it. Maybe I enjoy it so much because hes "self taught."
His blog.
His website.
Some info about Liu.

nothing to do with screen-based art, but an interesting and important article - the NYT published this web-only Ahmad Fadam dispatch about art in Iraq.

Baghdad Film School-Making Movies in Iraq
Now available online - Film clips and audio recording of Maysoon Pachachi and Kasim Abid's presentation "Baghdad Film School: Making Movies in Iraq."
from ARTEEAST

what looks like a good panel coming up on April 29, 6:30-8pm:
Who Owns This Image? Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel
(fyi: I heard about this from Newsgrist, a great art blog edited by artist Joy Garnett. I suggest signing up for the email newsletter.)

another good one - LIVE from the NYPL:
Tuesday, May 13 at 7pm
PHILIP GOUREVITCH & ERROL MORRIS: Standard Operating Procedure
Author Philip Gourevitch and filmmaker Errol Morris, two of our keenest moral and political observers, have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved. @Celeste Bartos Forum, NYPL on 42 st and 5th ave.

Errol Morris also has a blog on the NY Times site where he writes about photography and political issues. I recommend it.

and while I'm posting - do you know about tinyurl?