The iotaSalon
Thursday, November 19, 7:30pm
UCLA Design | Media Arts Department
Broad Art Center, 1st Floor (EDA)
240 Charles E. Young Drive, on the UCLA campus
Westwood, California
FREE admission!

At the iotaSalon, we get together to screen and discuss new experimental works alongside some classics.  We couldn't have been more pleased about the turnout and discussion at our first revitalized salon in October! iota will hold another salon on November 19th in the Broad Art Center on campus, first floor at the EDA screening space.

The theme for this screening is RHYTHM.  How is rhythm dictated in abstract work? Is it musical? Poetic? Biological? Mechanical? How do visual and aural rhythms intertwine or reject each other?

We will screen a historic segment with works on film, followed by a selection of more contemporary works.

The second volume of the Exquisite Corpse Video Project will have it's first screening in Berlin on November 19th, 8p.m. at Kulturpalast Wedding International.

The project members Stina Pehrsdotter, Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), Wai Kit Lam (China), Kim Dotty Hachmann and Matthias Roth (Germany) will be in attendance.

WHAT?
The ECVP [Exquisite Corpse Video Project] is a video collaboration collaboration project inspired by the Surrealist creation method, the "Exquisite Corpse". The project is coordinated by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela and currently has 63 participating artists from 21 different countries.
The ECVP vol. 2 was made during 2009, with the participation of 56 artists. Together, these artists made about 110 minutes of experimental video, divided in 12 chapters.

HOW?
In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own work from that small portion. When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to reveal a strangely divergent, yet contiguous form or figure.
Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists' game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten seconds of the previous member's work. Each member is asked to incorporate these seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they please, until
everyone's vision is threaded together into an instigating final "corpse."
While the Surrealists are said to have created the method almost a century ago, only recently could such a fast-paced, pan-global, audiovisual variation of this exercise be produced. The inspiring process of exchange between artists from around the world illuminates the possibilities and potentials of a globalized, collective creativity.

WHERE?
ECVP Screenings and exhibitions have been taking place in various countries since June 2008, such as Sweden, USA, Greece, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa.

Light Reading Series 9
The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art Of Seeing
Friday 20 November 2009, at 7pm
3rd Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG

Light Reading’s ninth series continues with a special performance and screening by Canadian artist and filmmaker Alex Mackenzie. Using a homemade, hand cranked projector and a series of hand processed films, the piece forms part of an ongoing exploration into the experiential potential of the cinematic apparatus and the materiality of film. THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX will be performed after Mackenzie’s day workshop at no.w.here on the techniques of handmade film.

THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX is both an archaic and a contemporary investigation into an immersive encounter with the moving image, employing deconstructive and reconstructive methods that draw out the potential for various contemporary, expanded experiences of a cinema of illusions that is created through the apparatus and in the hand making of the image. THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX is performed live with a hand-cranked 16mm projector built and assembled from various relic 16mm projector and rewind parts and framed in a wooden box. Ten “chapters” are presented over the course of 4 reels. Film speed is varied manually by cranking more quickly or more slowly, while the direction of the action is controlled by winding forwards and backwards. The Wooden Lightbox is an ongoing work in progress, an assembly of images entirely hand processed and contact printed, transforming and developing as new materials are added and deleted.

THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX had its world premiere at Victoria’s Anti-Matter Underground Film Festival, Canada and has been screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Lightcone (Scratch Projections) Paris, le 102 Grenoble, (k-raa-k)3 festival Brussels, Grand-Guignol Lyon, WNDX festival of film and video art Winnipeg, Canada, Struts Gallery Sackville, Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Canada and is currently being performed across the UK and most recently in Toronto, Canada in 2009.

Alex MacKenzie is a media artist working in film, video, light projection and performance. He has worked with a variety of independent film organizations over the past 15 years including Mainfilm, Pacific Cinematheque, Cineworks, and Doxa. He was the founder and director of The Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, The Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival, and currently works as an independent curator, graphic designer and writer.

Light Reading is an ongoing series of critical dialogues that engage artists, writers and curators in conversation around a selected artist’s body of work. To be included on the mailing list for future events, please contact: <[email protected]>. Places are limited so booking is essential.

at

no.w.here
3rd Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG
Nearest Tube / Train: Bethnal Green

Tickets: £5 door / £4 advance / £3 members & students
Telephone: 020 7729 4494
Email: [email protected]
Places are limited so booking is essential

Flecks of Interruption
Sunday 15th November / 5pm
The Odessa Club / Doors: 7 euro (5 euro concession), Dublin