"Land", by Maarten Ploeg
Commodore Amiga file transferred to video.Colour, stereo sound, loop, 1992

In an old edition of Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira, the entry word computer (then called ordenador) is illustrated with a vector-based drawing of a face. It shows the first computer-generated drawing, depicting the kind face of a samurai. That funny looking picture can be seen as the computer's first attempt at a self-portrait, a clear demonstration of its highly complex level of self-determination.

Maarten Ploeg was a multi-talented genius born in the flat lands of Holland. Trained as a visual artist, he was part of the punk music scene in the late seventies (Soviet Sex, Blue Murder and Astral Bodies), as well as a pioneer in computer art and in the art of TV piracy. He was co-founder of PKP TV, a channel that hacked regular broadcasting and of Park 4DTV (http://www.park.nl/), a still operational art platform.

Jodie Mack is an American animator/performance artist whose work questions the regimes of looking and the stability of human perception in a post-psychedelic world. Under Mack’s direction, merch tables meet museum gift stores, the sublime meets Sublime the band, and stoner shop tie-dyes and dollar-store trinkets collude to create pulsing, ebullient spectacles. This stroboscopic collection of animated films and performances shines a light on the incessant stream of abstract imagery that permeates our everyday lives - unleashing a kinetic energy that resides in wasted and overlooked consumer objects. Through exquisite layering and Mack’s trademark cut ’n’ paste flash frame animation techniques, complex patterns of movement ensue which she calls ‘anti-sequences’.

Curated by Lili White

Featuring never before screened works from Another Experiment By Women Film Festival (AXWFF)

- The D-Blok Snag (Joey Huertas (AKA Jane Public), 16mm Bolex in-camera editing, 5.10 min)
- Black Rectangle (Rhayne Vermette, 16MM to digi, 1.30 min)
- Full Of Fire (Rhayne Vermette, 16MM to digi, 2.15 min)
- She learns to lunge (Katya Yakubov, 6.40 min)
- Constellation (Muriel Montini, France, 5.00 min)
- Sweetmeats (Denise Iris, digi, 4.40 min)
- I Snake-Foot (Lili White, digi, 5.18 min)
- Turquoise Beads (Lili White, Sound: BUSHMEAT aka Thomas Stanley, 38.14 min)