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Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

2013-03-04 Thread Felix Garcia

Maybe László Moholy-Nagy? ;-)

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Subject: [Frameworks] texts on Light

Dear Frameworkers, 

Could you please recommend theory writings or artists' texts about projected 
light or just light as a sculptural matter?
So far I can only think of McCall's writings and the Luminist Suprematism 
article Karin Schneider wrote on Kubelka's work.

many thanks,

e.

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Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

2013-03-04 Thread Esperanza Collado

Maybe, but I believe his work is more oriented to writing light rather than
the formation of light as a sculptural object... There must be something
more specific I hope. Or should I write it myself?! :-)

2013/3/4 Felix Garcia 

> Maybe László Moholy-Nagy? ;-)
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> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:04:17 +0100
> To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
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>
> Dear Frameworkers,
>
> Could you please recommend theory writings or artists' texts about
> projected light or just light as a sculptural matter?
> So far I can only think of McCall's writings and the Luminist Suprematism
> article Karin Schneider wrote on Kubelka's work.
>
> many thanks,
>
> e.
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Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

2013-03-04 Thread Lola Hinojosa Martínez

Hi Esperaza!

David Lamelas has some interesting installations around that matters in his 
earliest work. It can be interesting for you.

As well Olafur eliasson works with light as sculpture. I depends on the 
approach of your research.

what are you working on now? (you can write to me in private and talk about it!)

Best,
Lola

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Maybe, but I believe his work is more oriented to writing light rather than the 
formation of light as a sculptural object... There must be something more 
specific I hope. Or should I write it myself?! :-)
2013/3/4 Felix Garcia mailto:fgvr2...@hotmail.com>>
Maybe László Moholy-Nagy? ;-)

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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:04:17 +0100
To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com
Subject: [Frameworks] texts on Light


Dear Frameworkers,

Could you please recommend theory writings or artists' texts about projected 
light or just light as a sculptural matter?
So far I can only think of McCall's writings and the Luminist Suprematism 
article Karin Schneider wrote on Kubelka's work.

many thanks,

e.



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Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

2013-03-04 Thread Jonathan Walley

Dear Esperanza,

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder's artists' statements (many of which
can be found online) typically deal with the nature of projected
light. I have a few things they've written if you'd like me to send
them to you.

And Moholy's writings are absolutely relevant to this question.
Richard Kostelanetz's collection of Moholy's writings (published in
1970) is great: Moholy's essays "From Pigment to Light (1926),"
"Light: a Medium of Plastic Expression (1923)," "Light: A New Medium
of Expression (1939)," "Light Architecture (1936)," and "Problems of
the Modern Film (1930)" are all worth reading in relation to light
(projected and otherwise) as a material substance. James Broughton's
book MAKING LIGHT OF IT (1977?), is filled with poetic meditations on
light as substance. Not all of these are directly about light as
sculptural matter, but they do treat light as something material, and
so lay the groundwork for a more explicitly sculptural conception of
light. They are also a pleasure to read.

Hope you're well.
Best,
Jonathan

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Esperanza Collado
 wrote:
> Dear Frameworkers,
>
> Could you please recommend theory writings or artists' texts about projected
> light or just light as a sculptural matter?
> So far I can only think of McCall's writings and the Luminist Suprematism
> article Karin Schneider wrote on Kubelka's work.
>
> many thanks,
>
> e.
>
>
>
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Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

2013-03-04 Thread Gene Youngblood

You might want to look at the literature on James Turrell, in my mind one of 
the great artists ever. For light as material, nothing comes close to “The 
Light Inside” at the Houston Art Museum

From: Esperanza Collado 
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 12:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

Thanks for your helpful indications, Jonathan and Lola. Some of the 
writings/works you mentioned are familiar to me, although probably not the 
exact pieces you are referring to. Jonathan, thanks for all the details, I'll 
have a look at the material available online by Gibson/Recoder and get back to 
you if I cant find much. I found Broughton's SEEING THE LIGHT on pdf. Here it 
is, in case you're interested:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54281438/Broughton-James-Seeing-Light
It seems quite similar to MAKING LIGHT OF IT, at least to your description, but 
will look for the latter too. All the references seem very inspiring indeed... 
Hope you're well too.
Lola, I will write to you shortly! 

Many thanks again, and all the best,

Esperanza.

2013/3/4 Jonathan Walley 

  Dear Esperanza,

  Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder's artists' statements (many of which
  can be found online) typically deal with the nature of projected
  light. I have a few things they've written if you'd like me to send
  them to you.

  And Moholy's writings are absolutely relevant to this question.
  Richard Kostelanetz's collection of Moholy's writings (published in
  1970) is great: Moholy's essays "From Pigment to Light (1926),"
  "Light: a Medium of Plastic Expression (1923)," "Light: A New Medium
  of Expression (1939)," "Light Architecture (1936)," and "Problems of
  the Modern Film (1930)" are all worth reading in relation to light
  (projected and otherwise) as a material substance. James Broughton's
  book MAKING LIGHT OF IT (1977?), is filled with poetic meditations on
  light as substance. Not all of these are directly about light as
  sculptural matter, but they do treat light as something material, and
  so lay the groundwork for a more explicitly sculptural conception of
  light. They are also a pleasure to read.

  Hope you're well.
  Best,
  Jonathan

  On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Esperanza Collado
   wrote:
  > Dear Frameworkers,
  >
  > Could you please recommend theory writings or artists' texts about projected
  > light or just light as a sculptural matter?
  > So far I can only think of McCall's writings and the Luminist Suprematism
  > article Karin Schneider wrote on Kubelka's work.
  >
  > many thanks,
  >
  > e.
  >
  >
  >
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[Frameworks] Some gifts Frameworkers may like - last days to support experimental film in Austin!

2013-03-04 Thread Ekrem Serdar

Hello fellow frameworkers,

  First off, I want to thank any and all of you who may have donated to our
cause. It's really humbling to see the community come out from all over the
world for our little start-up transient cinema.  We're very close - just a
little less than $400 to go. It may not seem like much, but it's almost a
fourth of our goal.

  We are now in the final days of our fundraiser, and we recently added
some gifts that Frameworkers may be interested in:

A personalized DVD of work by Scott Stark! Choose from any (most of 1990 -
Present) of Stark's work, adding up to 75 minutes, and the filmmaker will
make you a personalized and signed DVD! Scott's films and videos have shown
locally, nationally and internationally. His films have won many awards,
his film Angel Beach was selected for the 2002 Whitney Biennial and in 2007
Scott received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

-We still have DVD's from Other Cinema! Thank you Other Cinema!

-Plus, we also restructured some of our other perks. We added an additional
set of tickets to our shows (along with a large t-shirt); donors at the $30
level can receive tickets to the Fusebox Festival; and taking a class on
16mm filmmaking and hand-processing is now available to donors at the $50
point. The last set of buttons from our Avant-Erotica show is now available
as a stand-alone perk as well!

  If you don't know about us, we're Experimental Response
Cinema.
We recently completed our first year of operations, and are very busy
bringing an other cinema to Austin. It's been going good.

  This fundraiser is vital for us to fulfill the terms of our grant
application and every dollar counts. All our funds go towards film prints
and filmmakers, and all of it so we can share it with the city. Please
donate if you can, and please spread the word! You can find out more by
clicking the image below, or visit http://www.indiegogo.com/ercatx

(and this is the last time I'll post this here. Thank you for your
patience!)


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Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

2013-03-04 Thread William Wees, Dr.

You might find something useful in my essay (and bibliography), "Light-Play and 
the Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film," in the book "Avant-Garde Film," edited by 
Alexander Graf and Dietrich Scheunemann (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007), 
pp.183-196.

--Bill

William C. Wees
Emeritus Professor, McGill University

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Esperanza Collado
Sent: March 4, 2013 6:04 AM
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Subject: [Frameworks] texts on Light

Dear Frameworkers,

Could you please recommend theory writings or artists' texts about projected 
light or just light as a sculptural matter?
So far I can only think of McCall's writings and the Luminist Suprematism 
article Karin Schneider wrote on Kubelka's work.

many thanks,

e.



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[Frameworks] Let's define things

2013-03-04 Thread Chuck Kleinhans

http://independent-magazine.org/magazine/2013/03/Minhae-Shim_defines_experimental-film_avant-garde_video-installation

For me, experimental film is essentially a broad strokes or umbrella term for 
moving images that explore the human condition, nature, or fantasy in ways that 
haven’t been traditionally explored before. “Experimental film” includes a wide 
range of works, from a video performance of a heavily made-up woman smearing 
her face on a pane of glass (Pipilotti Rist,Be Nice to 
Me) to Wes Anderson’s Moonrise 
Kingdom.




Chuck Kleinhans

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Re: [Frameworks] Let's define things

2013-03-04 Thread Beebe, Roger

I tried to post a comment to this article expressing my dissatisfaction about 
her very idiosyncratic lexicon, but it seems not to have taken.  The author 
goes on to say that Citizen Kane was avant garde, completely ignoring the 
historical usage of this term.  I don't understand why The Independent got 
someone to write this article who seems to have very little exposure to 
experimental film.  (She also seems to have mostly art-world references for 
exp. film, which is another problem after the more basic ones.)

Mass protest?
R.



On Mar 4, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Chuck Kleinhans wrote:

http://independent-magazine.org/magazine/2013/03/Minhae-Shim_defines_experimental-film_avant-garde_video-installation

For me, experimental film is essentially a broad strokes or umbrella term for 
moving images that explore the human condition, nature, or fantasy in ways that 
haven’t been traditionally explored before. “Experimental film” includes a wide 
range of works, from a video performance of a heavily made-up woman smearing 
her face on a pane of glass (Pipilotti Rist,Be Nice to 
Me) to Wes Anderson’s Moonrise 
Kingdom.




Chuck Kleinhans

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Re: [Frameworks] Let's define things

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Betancourt

This article left me with that "you're joking" sense: it doesn't even get
Sheldon Renan's name right (quote: Sheldon Ren, author of *An Introduction
to the American Underground
Film*,
writes that the term came into usage because “there was at the time a
feeling that the forces that be were trying to keep this certain kind of
film from being made.") Problem is, people who don't know any better will
read it and think they've learned something.

But somehow I don't think objecting will actually do any good. (It's
already in print.)

Michael Betancourt
Savannah, GA USA


michaelbetancourt.com
twitter.com/cinegraphic | vimeo.com/cinegraphic
www.cinegraphic.net | the avant-garde film & video blog


On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Beebe, Roger  wrote:

>  I tried to post a comment to this article expressing my dissatisfaction
> about her very idiosyncratic lexicon, but it seems not to have taken.  The
> author goes on to say that Citizen Kane was avant garde, completely
> ignoring the historical usage of this term.  I don't understand why The
> Independent got someone to write this article who seems to have very little
> exposure to experimental film.  (She also seems to have mostly art-world
> references for exp. film, which is another problem after the more basic
> ones.)
>
>  Mass protest?
> R.
>
>
>
>  On Mar 4, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Chuck Kleinhans wrote:
>
>
> http://independent-magazine.org/magazine/2013/03/Minhae-Shim_defines_experimental-film_avant-garde_video-installation
>
>  For me, experimental film is essentially a broad strokes or umbrella
> term for moving images that explore the human condition, nature, or fantasy
> in ways that haven’t been traditionally explored before. “Experimental
> film” includes a wide range of works, from a video performance of a heavily
> made-up woman smearing her face on a pane of glass (Pipilotti Rist,*Be
> Nice to Me *) to Wes
> Anderson’s *Moonrise Kingdom *.
>
>
>
>
>
>  Chuck Kleinhans
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[Frameworks] Doctor T in February and March

2013-03-04 Thread Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T)


Hi folks,

I've got a very busy March.

March 9 at 8:30 PM  brings Visual Music Live to Outpost 186, with old 
friend and very special guest David Rothenberg


Doctor T video mixing

featuring guest artist

David Rothenberg -- Nature Samples, Laptop, and Clarinet

and regular collaborators

Eric Crawley -- harpejji and Electronics
Tom Mungenast -- Electric Guitar, Electric Sitar, and Electronics

ECM recording artist David Rothenberg has performed and recorded on 
clarinet with Jan Bang, Scanner, Glen Velez, Karl Berger, Peter 
Gabriel, Ray Phiri, and the Karnataka College of Percussion.  He has 
twelve CDs out under his own name, including "On the Cliffs of the 
Heart," named one of the top ten releases of 1995 by Jazziz magazine 
and "One Dark Night I Left My Silent House,"  a duet album with 
pianist Marilyn Crispell, called "une petite miracle" by Le Monde and 
named by The Village Voice one of the ten best CDs of 2010. 
Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, book and CD, published 
in seven languages and the subject of a BBC television documentary. 
He is also the author of numerous other books on music, art, and 
nature, including Thousand Mile Song, about making music with whales, 
and Survival of the Beautiful, about aesthetics in evolution.  Last 
spring he released a book and CD called Bug Music, featuring the 
sounds of the entomological world.  You'll hear some of them tonight.


 http://www.zeitgeist-outpost.org

March 10 8 PM   is a rescheduled Visual Music Live event at Outpost 
186 in Cambridge, featuring The OUTPOST Band

Doctor T -- Video mixing
Eric Zinman --Drums
Andrea Pensado -- Electronics and voice
Michael Bloom  -- Table Guitar and bouzouki
Rick Scott -- Keyboard

Improvisation to the outer limits. Expect the unexpected-:)

March 16 is my next "Moving with the Light" Concert and Dance Jam at 
119 Gallery in Lowell, with music by Eric Crawley, Harpejji, and Rick 
Scott, keyboards and YOU -- movement --  All styles and skill levels 
welcome. Moving with the Light is a monthly event at which improvised 
movement, music, and video interact as equals -- each responding to 
and respectful of the others. A video excerpt from the February event 
can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OV_wE_pY-c -- you may 
need to click the link a few times.


The musicians will play improvised music suitable for contact 
improvisation and other forms of gentle movement, while I improvise 
imagery and all three of us react to the dancers as well as to each 
other.


http://www.119gallery.org/

Light and Motion,  - Photography and video art by Doctor T will be on 
display at 119 gallery in Lowell, Mar 19 - Apr 13. The show will 
feature sumptuous 22 x 12 prints from my Swirlies sequence. Some 
images from this sequence can be seen at 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22231918@N06/sets/72157626713121989/


The reception will be on Sunday, March 24 , from 3 - 6 PM, with a 
concert to follow at 7:30.


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"... cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it" -- Bob Dylan

My photography can be viewed at 
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[Frameworks] moving with the light video on You Tube

2013-03-04 Thread Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T)


Hi folks,

I've posted another video on You Tube -- at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OV_wE_pY-c


This piece is an except from my February "Moving with the Light" 
dance jam. The next event in this series is on March 16 at 119 
Gallery in Lowell.



BTW Some of my photography can be viewed at 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22231918@N06/collections/72157603627170351/

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" Practice makes perfect, imperfect is better."  -- Paul Bley

Emile Tobenfeld, Ph. D.
Video Producer  Image Processing Specialist
Video for your HEAD!Boris FX
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