I like the cube floating in an asteroid belt look, and the math rock meets vocal distortion music. The drummer, John Stanier was part of Helmet. Why is the quality of this so good? I guess record labels have a better “in” on not having their videos badly compressed by YouTube. Via Scott Heim.
It’s not as mortifying as I feared, although the bags under my eyes are pretty impressive. He did leave out my favorite part. When I said, “Collectors: don’t let anyone else tell you what to buy,” a cheer rose from the crowd.
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This is an interesting use of YouTube. Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ is trying to organize security workers at Chase buildings. They have posted a video on YouTube claiming to have found client records in the trash of several bank branches in the city.
Via Crain’s New York.
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Pulsewave is a monthly event at downtown space The Tank, showcasing “low-bit, video game influenced musicians and video artists” and “people getting down to the sounds of some rockstar jamming away on nintendos, gameboys, and ataris.”
The performers will be:
Saturday, August 26 @ 10pm sharp – $6
The Tank, 279 Church Street, between Franklin and White
If you schedule yourself well, you can start that evening in the East Village for the Smitten show at Giant Robot and then head downtown for The Tank.
[photo of Anamanaguchi performance from The Tank’s website]
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Jonathan Podwil, Huey, 2006
film loop still
James and I are big fans of the work of Jonathan Podwil.
I’m happy to announce that he has a new website, hosted by ArtCat. Check out the video works, as he did a great job of getting those to a nice web-ready size.
If you want to see a work by him in person, he is in a group show at Plane Space in the Village through July 30.
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Assuming the weather doesn’t totally suck, this looks like a fun event tonight.
Wednesday, June 28th
9:00 pm
Pier 63 Maritime
23rd Street and the Hudson River (directions below)
New York City
Admission free
Please join EAI for an outdoor program of alternative music videos and music-based video by artists. The screening will include works by Cory Arcangel, Charles Atlas, Michael Bell-Smith, Johanna Billing, Dara Birnbaum, Meredith Danluck, Devin Flynn, Shana Moulton, Tony Oursler with Sonic Youth, Ara Peterson, Seth Price, and William Wegman.
The videos will be screened on the tented stage at Pier 63 Maritime, the public access pier on the Hudson River. Food and drinks will be available for purchase at the pier.
The artist-made music videos in the program include Charles Atlas’ new music video for Antony and the Johnsons, Ara Peterson’s pulsing abstract video for Black Dice, Devin Fynn’s animated epic for Erase Errata, William Wegman and Robert Breer’s classic video for New Order’s Blue Monday, and Tony Oursler and Sonic Youth’s 1990 tribute to ’70s pop star Karen Carpenter.
Other artists manipulate or re-conceive footage from appropriated music videos or live music performances. Cory Arcangel tries to take Simon out of Simon and Garfunkel’s 1984 Central Park performance, while Michael Bell-Smith makes an entire R. Kelly DVD happen all at once. Dara Birnbaum integrates the audience and even the weather in her rendition of performances by Radio Fire Fight at the legendary Mudd Club and Glenn Branca.
Other works playfully subvert the music video format, reworking and reinterpreting its rules and strategies. Seth Price uses analogue video graphics to map out a pop history of the music genre New Jack Swing. Meredith Danluck experiments with James Brown and the power of context, Johanna Billing blurs the lines between documentary, performance and music video, and Shana Moulton uses an electronic rave as a hallucinogenic escape route from the everyday.
Directions to Pier 63 Maritime
Take the C or E train to 23rd Street. Transfer to the westbound M-23 crosstown bus and take it to the end of the line. Walk west to the end of West 23rd street and cross the West Side Highway. Walk through the parking lot in front of Basketball City, bearing right. The ramp leading to Pier 63 Maritime is directly to the right of Basketball City. The screening will take place under the tented area at the rear of the pier.
[Image above from EAI. I think it’s a still from Charles Atlas’ snew music video for Antony and the Johnsons.]
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