Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • Because We’re Human: 10 years of D.I .Y. Collaboration

    “Don’t wait for leaders” said Mother Theresa, “Do it alone, person to person”. That’s hardcore. Mike Watt (of the Minutemen) calls it “jamming econo”. Well, nowadays that’s just about all there is … and right on if you can get that together. For 10 years, Mike Missiaen (filmmaker, VJ, ATA board member) and Lee Bob Watson (writer, musician, music producer) have been engaged in DIY collaborations on the margins of the music and art worlds. Armed with medium grade technology and abetted by able assistants – most notably Mitch Slater (aka “the Machine”) – Mike and Lee have managed to turn out an eclectic mix of short films and music videos. They dream big, go small and slowly but surely they get shit done. As Lee Bob explains, “We’ve built a miniature media empire that exists in shoe boxes and suitcases spray painted gold.” Why do they do it? Because they can.
    The show will include video screenings and live music, highlighting the best products of 10 years of collaborative work, featuring the debut of the latest collaboration: a music video for the song “I ‘m a M an” from the forthcoming album TRAVEL : WORLD CR* T VOL 1 and live performances of various artists that performed on the album.

  • Right Window Gallery at ATA: Matthew Gordon is “Posing as an Echo Tourist”

    November 7 – 28, 2010

    Opening: Sunday, November 7th, 4 – 8 p.m.

    Right Window is pleased to present a new installation by San Francisco-based artist Matthew Gordon.Through e-mail correspondence with the artist, I learned that the exhibition takes its name from aconversation where Gordon misheard/misunderstood what was being said to him. He wrote the phrase down in a notebook, along with other phrases gathered in a similar manner, and stored it away for later use. Eventually it reappeared in a poem, but also as a locus of thought around which Gordon created a new body of visual work.

    When I asked him to expound upon this idea of re-purposed text and ideas, Gordon responded via e-mail with the following:

    two plexiglass boxes-

    part almost then,

    part almost window,

    contain a prismatic relationship

    where mystical smog transforms into an accidental newscasting technique-

    i watch my hands,

    loosing a high stakes performance space,

    fill a field with guilt-

    i am enchanted by a copy and its double.

    posing as an echo tourist,

    my little heart is broken

    by a tactical break-up spell

    as the light shimmers on my invisible authors.

    And I’m sure we all know what that means.

    – Kevin Killian

    (The North Carolina Dermatologist, not the San Francisco based Poet/Playwright) Matthew Gordon (b. 1979) is a recent graduate of the California College of the Arts (2009). He is the Co-Director, along with Mik Gaspay, of the quasi-fictional exhibition space/opinion FiSHSPACE Gallery. His work has been included in group shows at Patricia Sweetow Gallery (SF) and Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery (Portland, Oregon).

  • Quiet Lands: ATA Gallery

    Please join us for the opening reception of Quiet Lands at ATA gallery (Artists’ Television Access).


    Quiet Lands is a group photography exhibition that features work by Amanda Boe, Ashley Suzanne Taylor, Chris Koperski, Kurt Manley, Nicholas Albrecht, and Paccarik Orue. Their photographs collectively depict the American landscape through a contemporary vision while exploring themes of home, culture, and timeless Americana.


    The opening will be on Saturday, November 6th from 2:00-5:00 PM with a live performance by These Hills of Gold.