FV BLAST

MASS ART

FILM/VIDEO

DEPARTMENT

F/V BLAST

March 2018

In This Issue

All School Film/Video Show

Exploding House Show!

Events

Film/Video All School Show

Tuesday March 20 , 7 pm | Tower Auditorium

Thursday March 22, 7 pm | DMC lecture Hall

Exploding House Show!

Presented by the Mass Art Film/Video Sophomores

March 21, 5pm

Tower 7th Floor Black Box

Creative Counterpoints: Artists Translate Difference

Featured Ryan Vazquez, Film/Video '17

Creative Counterpoints: Artists Translate Difference is the second event in the Creative Counterpoints series started in 2016 to explore narratives of creativity and difference.

This year's program featured artist talks by three recent MassArt alumni:

- Mariana Yanes Cabral, Art Education '17

- Ryan Vazquez, Film-Video '17

- Gustavo Barceloni, 3D Ceramics '17

The common thread across these artist talks is "translation" of/between various linguistic, cultural and mediatic forms, as it manifests in these artists' lives and work.

FV Alum

Youjin Moon's Blink

in competition at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

Films in Competition 4

March 22, 7:30pm | Michigan Theater Main Auditorium

Recent experimental, documentary, and animated films: Blink (Youjin Moon), 601 Revir Drive (Josh Weissbach), North of Eden (Maren Hahnfeld), Industrial Zone (Friedl vom Gröller), Sunken Treasure (Shanna Maurizi), Clonal Renderings 3: Landscape with Clouds (Peter Sparling), Stillness (Marc Pelletier), Re-Vue (Dirk de Bruyn),

FV Alum

Cate Giordano's

Rome

Performed at the Spring/Break Art Show in New York

During Armory Week, people like to gripe about art fairs. There's a certain art world cred that comes with the disdain people demonstrate towards the realities of the art gallery system being laid bare. The Spring/Break fair is different, not because of the way the art is presented (though that's somewhat true), but more because of the spirit of this scrappy affair that appears to prize quirky projects that often fall outside the purview of more commercial ventures.

Soon-MI Yoo's
Songs from the North showed at the Forum de Images in Paris

Ericka Beckman
Zabludowicz Collection, UK

22 March-8 July

In her first major solo exhibition in the UK, Zabludowicz Collection is pleased to present four seminal works from the Collection by American artist Ericka Beckman that span over 30 years of genre-defying filmmaking. Beckman's work consistently treats film as a performance medium, and draws on the pioneering energy of her years at CalArts and the do-it-yourself sensibilities of New York's Downtown Scene in the late 1970s and early 80s. It also astutely anticipates the social and cultural impact of video gaming and online networks over recent decades. Shot on 16mm, with all the animation and visual effects being constructed in camera through multiple exposures, Beckman's films create narratives using the pedagogic and competitive structures of games. They playfully reveal the conditions of gender and identity formation in relation to labour, leisure, architecture and capital.

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Media Artist

Dara Birnbaum

at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Thu, Mar 29, 6 pm

Dara Birnbaum presents an artist talk, followed by a moderated conversation with the artist and Benjamin Buchloh, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture. Birnbaum's pioneering video, media, and installation work has, over the past four decades, addressed the ideological and the aesthetic character of mass media imagery and has been considered fundamental to our understanding of the history of media art.

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