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  • Selected Shorts from 2009 ATA Festival to screen in Hong Kong

    A program of short works from the 4th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival is going to be part of the 14th edition of the Microwave International Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong. The screening will take place at the Lecture Hall of the Hong Kong Space Museum on December 12, 2010.

    As the first and only art festival in Hong Kong dedicated to new media art, Microwave has steadily grown into a well-established festival that brings cutting-edge works to provoke thought in the technological hub that Hong Kong is every year.

    With the theme SCREENARCADIA, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2010 is breaking the screen borders with a series of exhibitions, workshops, screenings and conference, and the very special world-touring street performance – “as if it were the last time”. Inviting audience to step into the screen world, open up its infinite possibilities.

    Check out the festival program at http://www.microwavefest.net/festival2010/index.html

    PROGRAM

    The Salariat in Parts
    Zachary Epcar – San Francisco, CA

    Diatribe
    Ben Popp – Portland, OR

    Breathe
    Sam Barnett – Berkeley, CA

    Passage Briare
    Friedl vom Groller – Germany

    Elro
    Ariel Diaz – San Francisco, CA

    Spectrololgy
    Kerry Laitala – San Francisco, CA

    A Poem to be Read into a Flashlight with a Microphone Placed Above the Breast of a Pregnant Mother
    Tommy Becker – San Francisco, CA

    Naomi & Irving
    Laura Bouza – Los Angeles, CA

    Destination Finale
    Philip Widmann – Germany

    My Tears Are Dry
    Laida Lertxundi – Spain/USA

    Myth Labs
    Martha Colburn – Netherlands/USA

    Chorus
    Paul Clipson – San Francisco, CA

  • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics

    INCITE! is calling for submissions for its issue #3: NEW AGES

    Utilizing the 2010 International Experimental Media Congress as an opportunity for reflection, this issue aims at addressing the generational shifts and divides in today’s experimental film, video, and new media sphere.

    Submission Deadline: December 15, 2010

    More info at http://www.incite-online.net/callforsubmissions_issue3.html

  • 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 a conversation 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).