Moving Still: The Multiple eXposure Project Zine 2.0

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the multiple eXposure project zine

issue 2.0

July 2015

[moving still...] <an archive of video arts on self-as-subject>

Cover image by Jayson Carter Jayson Carter’s current body of work uses studio portraiture, a glitchy printer, a scanner, and postprocessing to distort and abstract the human form, resulting in a series of semi-organic, semi-mechanical humanoids whose identity has been corrupted by pervasive technology. http://www.jaysoedwardcarter.com

Published by The Multiple eXposure Project: A multimedia, multi/trans/inter-disciplinary artistic practice and research-based initiative that explores the many layers of image-making, participatory photography, visual ethnography, and performative encounter(s) between the image and the spectator; the subject and the viewer.

Editor/Curator: Sherwin Altarez Mapanoo Website: http://www.themultipleexposureproject.co.nr Email: themultipleexposureproject@gmail.com

Featured Artists:

Jessica Buie Liat Berdugo Laura Hyunjhee Kim Nicola Hands Tony Radin Jacobs (c) merry Talia Link Justin Zachary Adrian Errico Matteo Pasin Jean-Michel Rolland Manasak Khlongchainan Boris Contarin Hüseyin Çife Suman Kabiraj Patrick Moser Francesca Fini Aaron Oldenburg

Benjamin Grosser You Qi Dénes Ruzsa Fruzsina Spitzer Fran et Jim Amelia Johannes Heidi C. Neubauer-Winterburn Jess, Lau Ching Ma Scott F. Hall Eleni Manolaraki Elise Frost Harrison Banfield Jack Rees Daehwan Cho Wu Siou Ming Masako Ono Bárbara Oettinger

Disclaimer: The copyright of all materials on this publication belong to the respective artists. All rights are reserved. Reproduction in any form requires the written permission of the copyright owner.

Editor’s Note: By Sherwin Altarez Mapanoo

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n this sophomore issue of the Multiple eXposure Project zine,“Moving Still”, we feature a heterogeneous breed

of new media and video artists whose experimental and provocative works emphasize the potency of “videos” or “moving images” in the exploration and expansion of self-representation in the discursive flow of transmission and mediation – from the screen to the spectator; and the perceptive to the conceptual. Selected artists here make use of the “screen” as medium and performance space. By displaying, curating, and performing in front of the screen, self-image-formation is enacted while relying on playful encounter with unknown spectators in order to weave different webs of interpretation. In this regard, the screen operates as an intermediary in the artist’s performance that brings connections to identities, personal narratives, history, everyday politics, and imaginaries. The symbiotic relationship between the screen and the subject cultivates the construction of an image or spectacle that is consumed – temporally and spatially - in a doubling of intermediation. They deflect and reflect a plethora of shifting, hybrid pretexts about ourselves within the digital ecology where the delineating lines between the public and the private; the human and the mechanical; and the material and the virtual boundaries become blurred. Given their hyperreal structure, these video performances, visual interventions, and recorded choreographies trigger a mode of mediated encounter that heavily manipulates moments of reality – of space and time. Intimacy and presence are concomitantly altered as these pieces can be incessantly scrutinized by the gaze of many anonymous viewers floating in the digital currents, allowing us to re-locate the individual and re-think about the concept of selfhood more fluidly.

life is but a screen (my avatars, my selves) and as told by omegle - Jessica Buie [USA] the zoom series - Liat Berdugo - [USA/Israel] moving to the cloud - Laura Hyunjhee Kim [South Korea/USA] who taught you to hate yourself?- Nicola Hands [UK] dad teaching me to wrap tefillin - Tony Radin Jacobs [Israel] watching martin kohout - (c) merry [Czech Republic] nicole kidman pillow DIY - Talia Link [USA] untitled - Justin Zachary [USA] eye contact - Adrian Errico [USA] naked screen 01 - Matteo Pasin [Italy]

(1.) performing in the screen//

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life is but a screen (my avatars, my selves)---------------

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ife is But a Screen (My Avatars, My Selves) is exploration of the visual limitations of identity provided by the hetero-normative framework of 'the net'.

Jessica Buie [USA] https://vimeo.com/109334622 00:00:39

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as told by omegle----------

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series of forced conversations between two anonymous strangers on the chat website, Omegle. The artist designs a question for the strangers to be asked, and observes as the digital veil of anonymity allows the users to speak freely without fear or threat of repercussion because of their obscured identities.

Jessica Buie [USA] https://vimeo.com/102892177 00:08:16

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Jessica Buie is a new media artist working primarily within inter-media experiments and actions.

She received her B.A in Art from St. Edward's University, Austin, TX in 2013 and works out of southern California.

--http://www.jessicabuie.com

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the zoom series------------

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he Zoom Series is an ongoing series of video works that recontextualizes the multi-touch gestures of digital devices. Technology and its devices teach bodies new gestural lexicons: simply put, we’ve learned to move differently. The Zoom Series highlights these new movements by removing the digital device from the picture entirely, leaving only their gestures behind. This series explores the animation of the body through technological gesture.

Liat Berdugo [USA/Israel] https://vimeo.com/album/2122984

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The Original Zoom was filmed in 2012 with the iSight camera of a Macbook Pro laptop. It is an exercise in self-enlargement: I move my body closer to the camera to make it bigger. Intimate relations are relations of proximity and closeness, both metaphorically but also quite literally. With intimacy bodies get closer. Bodies have many gestures of getting closer, but digital technologies have mostly one: zooming. The video ends with an intimate, close view of the face. Under U.S. Copyright Law, works of dance are copyrightable. So while Apple, Inc. owns the patent to the pinch-to-zoom gesture for touch and hover sensitive devices, I own the copyright to the “dance” of zooming myself. US Patent Number 7877707 belongs to Apple; US Copyright Number 913988071 belongs to me. This series includes works that explore other gestures other than zooming: rotating, panning, scrolling, and double tapping. But as if by compulsion, I kept returning to the pinch-to-zoom  — a gesture of enlarging what was once small, touching devices as if we wanted to become intimate with them — or at least, with their contents.

Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Her work strives to create an expanded, thoughtful consideration for digital culture. Berdugo has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and her new book, The Everyday Maths, was published by Anomalous Press in 2013. She curates video art for Print Screen, Israel’s international festival of digital art, cofounded the Bay Area’s Living Room Light Exchange, and collaborates widely with individuals and archives. Berdugo holds a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Digital + Media art from the Rhode Island School of Design.

--http://digikits.ch http://liatberdugo.format.com

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moving to the cloud-----

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oving to the Cloud is a continuation of Laura

Hyunjhee Kim's exploration in the various modes of communication through the Internet and modern technology. The piece in particular realizes the contemporary obsession with storing data and retaining memory through cloud computing.

Laura Hyunjhee Kim [South Korea / USA] https://vimeo.com/103098696 00:01:49

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Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a new media artist who primarily works with video, performance and the Internet. Approaching the Internet as a creative tool and platform for distribution, she pulls source materials from the everyday including her own social media feeds. Appropriating familiar imagery and stylistic formalities from popular culture, Kim often embeds absurd deadpan humor, satire and parody in her work as a means to generate conversation within the on/offline communities the work is shared with. Kim's recent works have been subjected to her "It's Complicated" relationship with technology that heavily relies on the Internet. Kim received her B.S. in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and M.F.A. from the New Genres Department, San Francisco Art Institute. Kim currently resides and works in San Francisco, California.

--http://www.lauraonsale.com

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who taught you to hate yourself?----------

Nicola Hands [UK] https://vimeo.com/17382539 00:39:38

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Nicola Hands is a fine artist based in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Through the creation of sacred spaces, multi-media installations and oil painting, Hands endeavor to explore the legacy of colonial Britain and the evolution of modern celebrity obsession and consumer worship. The disparateness of the world’s population has created a revolution which manifests itself in subculture and fandom that confirms a sense of tribal identity and belonging. As a British woman of mixed British, Irish, Indian and Jamaican ethnic origin my connection to this country is often fraught with contradicting and often aggressive messages. Combining ready made merchandise, painstakingly constructed altar pieces, video performance and racist kitsch I have begun to understand and re-establish my multi-cultural persona within the praxis of western society.

--http://www.nicolahands.co.uk

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dad

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me to wrap tefillin----------------

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ad Teaching Me To Wrap Tefillin is an investigation into my Jewish identity probed through my father. The wrapping of tefillin is a daily undertaking in Judaism prior to starting one's day centering the mind and heart as a demonstration to service G-d. Dad Teaching Me To Wrap Tefillin touches on themes of father/son relationships and teacher/student relationships in hopes of making a connection to my father.

Tony Radin Jacobs [Israel] https://vimeo.com/60524169 00:13:33

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Primarily working in photography and video, Tony Radin Jacobs’ aesthetic draws on tableaux and documentary conventions while candidly scrutinizing the white-collar suburban culture in which he grew up. Pervasive in this environment is competitiveness, peer judgment and ridicule. Residing in this culture’s line of fire, he investigates the subversion of socially normative behavior like drug addiction, the abject, and heterosexuality as it is constructed by pornography while probing the realms of class, religion and family. By questioning the status quo, he initiates dialog regarding issues experienced by many but commonly suppressed.

--http://www.tonyradin.com

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watching martin kohout--

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atching Martin Kohout is reaction on conceptual/performative piece by Martin Kohout

Watching Martin Kohout (http://www.martinkohout.com/watching-martin-kohout) which itself deals with subjectivity and ways we use and perceive the Internet (and are perceived by other users). Watching Martin Kohout is instruction for DIY performance with channel comprising videos of people who followed those instructions.

(c) merry [Czech Republic] https://www.youtube.com/user/WatchingClassB

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(c) merry is Czech conceptual and digital artist based primarily on Internet. She is fascinated by the specific syntactic structure of internet and its various distinctive areas with their specific vernaculars and expression modes (facebook, YouTube etc.). Her concern also lies on converting the structural and expressive of the Internet into the physical world, and on exploring the boundaries of the institution of authorship. She is best known for her YouTube based artproject, interventions and net art installations, and for body of performances on-line as well as off-line (with the longest one taking over a year). Since 2013 she consistently develops the concept of guerilla curating and is devoted to the conceptual level of glitch art. Especially in her photographic and video works, she opposes the “uncritical acceptance of the major contemporary aesthetic convention embodied by perfect HD image that leads to discrimination of low quality as valid aesthetic standard.� This is related to the development of creative/author potential of the medium itself, which is seen as one of the equal co-authors. She is in the use of alias (c) merry for her artistic activities since 2011.

Under the name Mary Meixner she acts as critical and theoretical writer and curator, concerned primarily with internet art. She is ia editor of Experimental cinema, moving image and contemporary art section of Film magazine 25fps, co-curates Screen Saver Gallery (on-line contemporary digital art gallery started in 2013) and PAF, Festival of film animation and modern art in Olomouc, Czech Republic. She studied English Philology, Film Studies nad Communication Studies (FF UPOL, Czech Republic), and is curently an Art Education PhD. student (PdF UPOL, Czech Republic).

--http://crazymerry.tumblr.com

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nicole kidman pillow DIY---------

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ow come I’m fully aware of the twisted body image the media in feeding me, but, at the same time, can’t ignore the urge to botox my mouth corners? In Nicole Kidman Pillow DIY, I walk you through the making of a pillow with Nicole Kidman’s pictures. I use Google and Photoshop to create a digital collage of the actresses, an online service to print this collage on a fabric and then a sewing machine to make a throw pillow cover. Between all that I talk about the double standard the media shows when it comes to women’s aging. I use Kidman’s public persona, as well as my own insecurities, to talk about the conflicted experience of being a woman nowadays, knowing that there will be no place for me on the screen once my aging signs will get apparent.

Talia Link [USA] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD3wnD68D9w&list=UUSlQdlrk lJBzLKz7i56iomw 00:06:49

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Talia Link is an artist, a current MFA student at Columbia University, and a YouTuber. Her work combines video, virtual performance, internet art, and installation to address issues of feminine identity, mass communication and popular culture. She often uses common themes and practices such as celebrities, news stories and marketing strategies in order to whisper in your ear something that Madison Avenue will never let you know.

Check out her YouTube channel, called Talia Link (yes, it’s her real name), where she hosts an ongoing series of web videos and virtual performances exploring the conflicted experience of being a woman at a time in which BeyoncÊ sings about feminism while wearing almost nothing.

--https://www.youtube.com/talialink

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untitled----------

Justin Zachary [USA] https://vimeo.com/115133150 00:00:47

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Justin Zachary is a senior artist currently completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Sam Houston State University in Photography.

His works are inspired by personal experiences dealing with family relationships, sexuality and death. He draws inspiration from memories and current issues within in his family and social life.

--jzachary.casias@gmail.com

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eye contact------

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hrough the use of projection, layering/masking, and the manipulation of light, EYE CONTACT explores the repercussions and implications of

forced consumption. Impersonal depictions of femininity are made uncomfortably intimate through the viewer's close relationship with the subject. Both strong, yet vulnerable, the subject silently attempts to find her place in this realm as she becomes nothing more than just another surface to project onto.

Adrian Errico [USA] http://youtu.be/yYKvjggnU8U?list=UUbGxRlopStb9p5V0Xj9YnPw 00:02:54

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Adrian Errico is a video artist from Tampa, Florida.

Working primarily with digital media, Errico makes experimental narratives that break away from linear modes of storytelling. Through heavy editing, the artist manipulates audio, cutting, layering, and green-screening to allow the viewer to reside in a liminal experience that is between dreamscape and reality. For Errico, the construction of video is contiguous with the construction of memory, and she uses her video installations to activate spaces with a mysterious dialogue that is both highly private and internal. Errico earned her BFA at the the University of South Florida, and is currently pursuing an MFA degree at Florida State University.

--Website: http://adrianerrico.tumblr.com

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naked screen 01----

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ideofeedback as a reflection of a screen on itself, as a self-consciousness process, a visual and conceptual reflection on a surface that is not only a transparent glass made to link the inside with the outside. On the contrary, this screen has a concrete and independent substance being visible by a looped-input-light, like a double mirror. The object (the medium) through mediation of a new medium (the human subject) becomes a subject itself. With this process the medium becomes the message for real, the invisible comes visible and the technological unconscious is open.

Matteo Pasin [Italy] https://vimeo.com/84825818 00:02:38

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Born in Treviso in 1986, Matteo Pasin is photographer and video artist based in Milan.

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Italian

He graduated in 2011 from University Ca'Foscari of Venice with a degree in Philosophy. As a member of the art collective dirtmor he is the organizer of a weekly series of concerts, performances and screenings in Treviso. In 2012, dirtmor was selected for a one year residency at Fondazione Vevilacqua la Masa in Venice.

--http://www.matteopasin.net

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the first person shooter - Jean-Michel Rolland [France] anatta - Manasak Khlongchainan [Thailand] water get no enemy - Boris Contarin [Austria] bare - Hßseyin Çife [Turkey] the smart kitchen - Suman Kabiraj [India] hanging and watch me see me - Patrick Moser [USA]

(2.) politicizing the self-image //

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first person shooter---------Rhythm’n’split video where the artist makes a failed self-shooting session. The frenzy in the handling of the camera, the visible lack of interest of the performer and disfigurements inflicted to the selfportraits leave an indelible stain which could permanently tarnish the public image of the subject.

Jean-Michel Rolland [France] https://vimeo.com/55430220 00:04:43

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Jean-Michel Rolland is a French artist born in 1972. A musician and a painter for a long time, he melts his two passions - sound and image - in digital art since 2010.

At the origin of each of his creations, musicality plays a role as important as image does and each one influences the other by transmediality.

The result is a series of experimental videos, generative animations, performances and interactive installations where sound and image are so inseparable that the one without the other would lose its meaning.

--http://franetjim.free.fr/jim_eng.html

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anatta-------------

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ince taking power on 22nd May 2014, Thailand's military authorities have jailed opposition leaders, set a curfew and shut down hundreds of websites. They have also cracked down on academics and journalists. Now we are facing the problem of freedom of expression in Thailand. After 1932, when the absolute monarchy was abolished, Thailand has had 25 general elections and 19 coups d'état. So, I’m just thinking about “I have to do something”. Then I try to express my mind. After a month, I have decided to make a short video and dedicate it to those who have been jailed due to political issues, especially academics, journalists and individualists who fought against the power by wisdom. I also try to reflect the myth from my hometown in north-east Thailand about ghost and soul. The souls couldn't get away from their places, their memory. They get stuck in their rooms forever.

Manasak Khlongchainan [Thailand] https://vimeo.com/107326532 00:04:16

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Mr. Manasak Khlongchainan is a filmmaker from Thailand. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication art, Major in Broadcasting and Film at Bangkok University.

Artistic Statement: In Thailand, most people grew up with a tale, especially ghost stories and the supernatural. These inspire me. When I make a short film or a video work, I usually link my work with mysterious things because I think the film is a medium that can do anything and very free. In all of my works, I always try to experiment using transformation, distorting structure, and letting the sense bring me to the end, as our life can’t predict the future. I grew up in the Northeast Thailand where there are so many ghost stories from the past to the present. Many narratives are very interesting which relate to poor rural people, human greed, love and the social class. I’m so fascinated with all of them. These have become my ideologies to create films and videos. Nowadays, I am also interested in human rights and the political issues in Thailand.

--hovelvideo@gmail.com

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water get no enemy-----

the essence of nature and the essence of human's artificial, I relive the magical practice through art, and I sink things in this horizon, to let them be remembered or forgotten forever.

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he title of this short video comes from a song of Fela Kuti, where water has a political meaning. This work, however, is not political at all. If I should explain what this is, I would say that it's a single channel video-sound piece, non-narrative, but strongly poetical or evocative, or at least tries to. The realization of pieces like these is totally out of control, I just follow the stream and links of images, perceptions and symbols. Water has no political meaning at all, I said before, and the link to Fela Kuti is just an evidence of how hard choosing a title is, sometimes. Water has a wide range of meanings and perceptive stimuluses, and the easiest way to describe how I see it is by remembering Virginia Woolf's vision, as a cosmic mother, silent but benign, often contradictory but totalizing, all-embracing. Being is the ability to be opened on the horizon of the totality which coincides with the thought. On this horizon I wander myself about the difference between

Boris Contarin [Austria] https://vimeo.com/109503758 00:02:49

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Boris Contarin makes experimental and non-narrative videos, with a large interest in sound art and its relation with image and video editing.

He is a student of Philosophy in Venice, did two years at the Academy of fine arts in Milan but then quit and didn't finish. All of his works are a representation of mental situations, where he tries to follow the speed of thought, symbolism, poetry, perception and contemplation.

--https://www.flickr.com/photos/95475769@N03/sets/72157637781902 785/

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bare-----------------

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very step we take against the sameness of the society by getting rid of our given titles to enter our own existence is a step forward but at

the same time with this step we enter a suppressive environment. This step initiates a resistance against life in which we take part in our purest self. This is a remix video produced by MODE Istanbul for Gezi Lab organized as part of the Lab MODE program: modeistanbul.org/labmode/gezilab. This

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Hßseyin Çife [Turkey]

visit https://vimeo.com/86499531 00:04:15

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the smart kitchen -------I

am trying to point out the deficiencies in certain human institutions and the social issues which result from them in such a way that they become absurd, even hilarious, which is therefore both entertaining and accessible. It aims to keep collective conscience alert; it exposes absurdity for what it is and makes those inclined to adopt foolish or tasteless fashions aware that what they espouse is ridiculous. It shows society its own features and makes it odious to the sentient. So often satire in the visual arts is portrayed as anti-progressive, yet its ability to offer cutting critique is positive when aimed at the right targets as I demonstrate.

Suman Kabiraj [India] https://vimeo.com/96423975 00:05:10 Suman Kabiraj is an Indian artist working across a variety of mediums like drawing, painting, sculptures and new media art practice.

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Artist Statement: I create or seek to create images that are constantly being created in and around me, thanks to the great image journey called life. So, the things I paint, draw, install, make video, do photography or sculpt, originate from my everyday engagement with Reality. This is a Reality which, for me, is made of mundane happenings and uncanny images which penetrate into each other regularly, often unexpectedly, leaving me bewildered. Born in a semi-urban area, very close to village, I had the fortune of getting in close contact with the rural area and nature– both spatially and psycho-spatially. Then I moved to Kolkata for my art education in 1999 and since then, I’ve been into the entrails of this megapolis. Such a geographical binary, and the tension within, have contributed largely to my imagination. For example, this has allowed me to perceive human bodies and nature in different settings, in different postures and hence, with different nuances.

In my recent works, I used satire to enable comparison, understanding and insight and holds up the flaws in our institutions, our nations, our species and, indeed, ourselves. The works combine history, politics and current events with levity and witty irreverence. In my ongoing project I have chosen pen and ink, videos and sculpture. In this project, work is subversive and a comment on the human condition itself offering the viewer a behind-the-scenes look at the heroic and the rational. Most of my subjects are familiar but recontextualized. In what they encompass or allude to, these works transcend the merely comically grotesque or the quest for objectivity. Assessing these works in terms of their insight, interest, coherence, complexity, depth or intelligibility involves a cluster of notions which are interdependent. The grotesque element in my art greatly adds to its value. It does not, however, descend into perverse nihilism which is not an artistically legitimate instance of the grotesque. My forthcoming project is on the theme of ‘Reconstruction of History’. I have planned to remake the old master’s in different settings in order to time and content.

--https://sumankabiraj.wordpress.com

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hanging--------

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Patrick Moser [USA] https://vimeo.com/39340680 00:02:00

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watch me see me----------

Patrick Moser [USA] https://vimeo.com/41841266 00:02:36

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Patrick Moser lives and works in St Augustine, FL, USA. His video pieces are experimental performances exploring identity, gesture, repetition and violence.

--http://patrickmoserpaintings.com/

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with an helmet - faith & loss - Francesca Fini [Italy] efficient body - Aaron Oldenburg [USA] more than oneself - Benjamin Grosser [USA] self pop portrait - You Qi [China] kids - DĂŠnes Ruzsa and Fruzsina Spitzer [Hungary]

(3.) acts of repetition and mechanization//

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transmitted to the audience, in a sort of empathic conditioned connection, unconscious and therefore completely useless.

faith & loss -----

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am wearing electrodes and I try to wear makeup. Involuntary muscle contractions caused by electric shock are very strong so that I cannot control the hands and the makeup spreads all over my face. We hear the chorus of Nabucodonosor by Giuseppe Verdi, which has a very strong symbolic value in the history of my country, bringing along the ghosts of old struggles for freedom that no one remembers anymore. “My country, fair and lost�. The hysterical, uncontrollable, movement of the hand represents the disease of social habit, which reveals its fragility when the system appears on the point of collapsing: the deep conflict between a conscious behaviour and external social conditioning. Even crying is involuntary, caused by the black pencil and mascara entering my eyes since I cannot calibrate the movement of the hand. A mechanical cry that is automatically

Francesca Fini [Italy] https://vimeo.com/54959718 00:05:24

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Francesca Fini is an Italian artist working with new media and performance art.

Fini’s live projects, always addressing social and political issues, are mixed with lo-fi technology, homemade interaction design devices, live audio and video. Primarily interested in video and live art, she also creates tangible artworks assembling performance art 'relics' and fine art prints of digitally processed video stills.

--http://www.francescafini.com

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efficient body----------------

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his is video capture of what was originally an experimental game created for the 48-hour online competition Ludum Dare, with the theme Minimalism. In this game, the player stands physically in front of a Kinect motion camera to control an avatar onscreen that is slowly disappearing. To prevent body parts from disappearing, the player must hit red balls that are flying at them: the body parts that most continuously are used to hit the balls are the ones that do not disappear (or take the longest to do so), and the others atrophy from disuse.

Aaron Oldenburg [USA] https://vimeo.com/65019804 00:01:05

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Aaron Oldenburg is a game designer and new media artist whose primary interest is in game rules as an expressive medium.

His video and interactive work has exhibited in festivals and galleries in New York, Berlin, S達o Paulo and Los Angeles, including SIGGRAPH and FILE Electronic Language International Festival. He teaches game design as an Associate Professor in University of Baltimore's Simulation and Digital Entertainment program and has an MFA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In October 2003 he finished two years as an HIV Health Extension Agent for the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa.

--http://aaronoldenburg.net

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more than oneself-----------

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art video and part sound art, More Than Oneself uses assembled Vine loops captured with a frontfacing smartphone camera to explore the aesthetics of watching oneself while editing oneself. What kind of interactive performance possibilities are created when one's self is continuously subject to self evaluation? How does temporal truncation through interactive editing change the immediate experience of self? Further, does this software-enabled feedback loop lead to a certain kind of aesthetic experience?

Benjamin Grosser [USA] https://vimeo.com/100020291 00:03:47

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Benjamin Grosser focuses on the political implications of software.

cultural,

social,

and

His works have been exhibited at major international venues and festivals, including Eyebeam in new York, The White Building in London, and the FILE Festival in São Paulo. They have also been featured in Wired, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Creative Applications Network, Neural, Rhizome, Corriere della Sera, El País, Der Spiegel, and The New Aesthetic. The Huffington Post said of his Interactive Robotic Painting Machine that “Grosser may have unknowingly birthed the apocalypse.” The Chicago Tribune called him the “unrivaled king of ominous gibberish.” Slate referred to his work as “creative civil disobedience in the digital age.” Grosser’s recognitions include commissions and awards from Rhizome, Terminal, and Creative Divergents. He holds an MFA in new media and an MM in music composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches in the School of Art & Design.

--http://www.bengrosser.com

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self pop portrait---------

Riu Hu [China] https://vimeo.com/95092764 00:00:30

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Rui Hu is pronounced "Ray Who?" or "Hooray!" in the Eastern order.

He is Chinese-born and currently based in New York. Working mostly with simulated computer graphics, video, and photography, he often takes the idea of system as the entry point. He is interested in different types of systems, their emergence, operation, evolution, failure, and serendipitous moments, how we construct their narratives and histories, and their relationships with space, perception, communication, and identity. He studied literature in China before finishing film school at NYU, where he also dived into computer science.

--http://www.hurui.org

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clocking-------

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n my understanding of time, time sometimes is not very accurate, influenced by the inner side of us. It automatically changes through our mood in situations.

In “Clocking�, I tried to create a tool that would modify time by our movements. The pendulous time here fluctuates by the second hand and minute hand. They are disturbed by the camera image capture that people walk by. I wrote code in Processing software to create this real time interactive clock. Time speeds up or slows down by our different speed of life. I represent this clock in a small room space. Through the indivivual movements in front of the camera oprojected as a public clock. Visually, the live moving image reflection as the background of the clock becomes the mirror of time.

You Qi [China] https://vimeo.com/99360371

00:00:58 Interactive moving image installation, Application design

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You Qi is a Beijing-born artist currently based in Brooklyn, New York. You Qi studied at the School of Art and Design, New York State College of Ceramics in Alfred University (Electronic Integrated Arts MFA) and at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Design BA).

--http://youqi.us

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kids---------------“

Fairytales don’t tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist.”

Short video with sculptures of Judit Rita Rabóczky.

Dénes Ruzsa & Fruzsina Spitzer [Hungary] https://vimeo.com/89327109 00:04:48

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DĂŠnes Ruzsa and Fruzsina Spitzer have been making short films and documentaries.

Their films have been screened at film festivals worldwide, amongst others, in Germany, Austria, Croatia, Italy, Greece, UK, France, Russia, Canada and USA. From 2007 they have been making films commissioned by artists, museums and art galleries. They also work as a photographer for books, catalogues and art magazines

--http://www.dokuweb.hu

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la traversĂŠe (the crossing) - Fran et Jim [France] signifiers of ritual mask (animals) - Amelia Johannes [South Africa/Australia] sky - Heidi C. Neubauer-Winterburn [USA] the fading piece - Jess, Lau Ching Ma [Hongkong] anima mentis - Scott F. Hall, Eleni Manolaraki, and Elise Frost [USA] ouroboros double reach around - Harrison Banfield and Jack Rees [UK]

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fur elise - Daehwan Cho [USA] shycacti - wander - Wu Siou Ming [Taiwan] daydream and kundalini stavah - Masako Ono [Japan] catharsis - BĂĄrbara Oettinger [Chile]

state of in-between-ness & transcendence

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la traversée (the crossing)---

T

raversée de deux mondes , réel et virtuel, traversée croisée entre Fran Longspring et Fran Lejeune.

Google Translation: Crossing of two worlds, real and virtual, cross- crossing between Fran and Fran Longspring Lejeune.

Fran et Jim [France] https://vimeo.com/108037052 00:02:56

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Fran et Jim are two contemporary artists working on intermediality, interactivity and transmission of emotions.

Fran Lejeune designs interactive performances, as well as video art.

installations

and

Jean-Michel Rolland works in the different fields of digital art.

--http://franetjim.free.fr/eng_index.html

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signifiers of ritual mask (animals)-----------

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ignifiers of ritual mask (animals) looks at identity, in particular the uncertainty of identity and reformation of the self through the dual embodiment of a cultural heritage and new national identity. The experimental video is a visual investigation into the consequence of migration and the inversion of identity to reflect on a personal investigation into relocation, memory, nationality and duality of a personal identity: South Africa/Australia, I/we, white/black, one/other, shared memories/lived experiences, homeland/diaspora. The masked beings act as representations of the self, never revealing the identity of the being, except through the signifiers of national and cultural icons.

Amelia Johannes [South Africa/Australia] https://vimeo.com/74182611 00:01:58

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Amelia Johannes is a Melbourne-based artist, whose practice visually explores identity, uncertainty and tradition.

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, her video, photography, sculpture and installation works are influenced by research into migration, lived tradition, cultural heritage and anthropology. Johannes’ video works have been screened as part of Tele Visions (Sydney), Tele Visions Afterlude at Experimenta (Melbourne and national tour), Nite Art (Melbourne), Australian International Experimental Film Festival and Filmideo (New Jersey).

--http://www.ameliajohannes.com

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sky--------------------

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ky is a video split between time, place, and presences. The split, mirrored sky of Barcelona

is mixed with the colorful sky-text of e.e. cumming's poem. It's the creation of the space inbetween, the space where we all live.

Heidi C. Neubauer-Winterburn [USA] https://vimeo.com/66483040 00:02:47

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Heidi C. Neubauer-Winterburn is an artist – who has been labeled a post-conceptualist— writer, and creative director.

She has been working for herself since 2008 and started her own company in 2011. Since 2007, her creative work has been part of exhibitions and screenings across the US and the EU. After over a decade of travel and several years in Chicago and Paris, she now makes her home in Denver and is the youngest full member of Spark Gallery.

--http://www.heidineubauerwinterburn.com

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the

fading

of the pastel, it is also a documentation of the transformation of energy.

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he Fading Piece is a duo stop-motion animation with sound. The animation on the right shows a diminishing pastel, while the left animation

reveals the development of a line-drawing on the Kwun Tong (located in Hong Kong) landscape, simultaneously, line by line. Gradually the skyline of the city is covered by black strokes left by the pastel. The landscape I animated no longer looks the same due to the urban renewal program in Hong Kong. In this work, I focus on the process of making an animation and restrict the role of animator, as the length of the animation is solely based on the natural consumption of the pastel. While this work reveals my engagement with time via the process of the deterioration consumption

Jess, Lau Ching Ma [Hongkong] https://vimeo.com/97293686 00:02:14

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Jess, Lau Ching Wa is a media and illustration artist, born in Hong Kong, 1991.

Her works often contemplate the relations between animation and contemporary arts in general. She studied Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong and Ist. Mag. Francesco De Sarlo, Italy.

--http://cargocollective.com/jesslau

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nima Mentis, a video with stereo sound by Scott F. Hall, Eleni Manolaraki, and Elise Frost, overlays two separately filmed women engrossed in seemingly diametric pursuits: one endlessly turns the pages of books while the other moves and poses her body sequentially. Their activities are synchronized to sound which audibly recalls clockwork. The two figures embody the western binary between body and mind while commenting on the artificiality of this stark division. Their combined urgency as enhanced by the sound, the physical and mental contortion implied in their frantic activities, their paradoxically symmetrical movement, and their equally frustrated womanhood reveal more similarities between the physical and the mental than allowed in the traditional body-mind paradigm.

Scott F. Hall, Eleni Manolaraki, and Elise Frost

[USA] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RvI5bn58S8 00:01:50

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Scott F. Hall (Merritt Island, FL) is an artist working in multiple mediums: sound, music, instrument design, still images, video, and sculpture.

--http://rhizome.org/profiles/scottf.hall

Eleni Manolaraki is associate professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Her fields of specialization are Roman historiography, epic, oratory, and natural history

--http://languages.usf.edu/people/emanolaraki

Elise Frost (Urbana, IL) is a choreographer, educator, and performing artist.

--http://www.dance.uiuc.edu/people/graduate-assistants

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ouroboros double reach around---------------

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look at the cyclic nature of DIY pop culture as a form of self consuming perpetual motion, Ouroboros Double Reach Around is a remix of a home made music video found on Youtube, an autogamous beast with two backs.

Harrison Banfield and Jack Rees [UK] http://youtu.be/QRAyq_yTtko 00:12:50

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Harrison Banfield is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in Newport, South Wales. His practice involves manipulating audio-visual content appropriated from the internet, exploring a range of contemporary issues activated and filtered by social media. He has a particular interest in voyeurism, human behaviour and political economy.

Jack Rees is a new media artist and musician based in South Wales, producing work under the name Spamwangler. Working with generated images, found footage, with an interest in media saturation, re-mix culture, facial distortion and the modern office working environment, creating moving image and sound for web, also for interactive audio visual installation.

--http://banfield-rees.com

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fur elise--------

Daehwan Cho [USA] https://vimeo.com/111227926 00:03:16

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shycacti wander----------

Wu Siou Ming [Taiwan] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrvFU11Bqw 00:06:08

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Siou Ming is an audiovisual artist, his work include A/V, installations, live performance, incidental music, covering sound art and ambient electronic music. From hearing and perception side, Siou Ming’s work not only explores different values, people’s faith in modern life but also petites perceptions from living environment and where the various forms of existence are.

Artist Statement: My thoughts always proceed from experience of hearing to discuss how we sense our body in the expansion of experience in contemporary era. Along the way of abstract hearing thinking, I try to understand hearing and carry out new possibilities. How could we perceive sound and extend our experience to the poetry of existence?

In such a context, I care about the evolution between sound and environment and borrow a little concept of “place”. I think the environment will shape our emotional system, affecting our expression by using sound. I also aim to express the endemic emotional system by using sound and investigate various levels of production between sound and environment. In other words, I put the place as the subject to see the structural state of pre-production of sound, and see how we could transform sound into re-production of the local emotional system and personal signification.

--http://www.shycacti.tumblr.com

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daydream and

kundalini

stavah---------------

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he human being is a miniature universe. Looking into our body means looking into the universe within, looking at “self-as-subject”. One aspect is masculine, and the other aspect is feminine, dynamic, energetic and creative. The feminine aspect is called Kundalini. This potential energy is said to rest at the base of the spinal cord. She will touch each chakras, which are affiliated with the senses (SMELL, TASTE, SIGHT, TOUCHING, HEARING, INTUITION) and then unite above the crown of the head with the masculine energy, the EQUILIBRIUM, the pure consciousness.

This is a metaphor for the spiraling energies of consciousness that move within us when spiritual awakening takes place. Kundalini works with whatever we have built ourselves to be. Whatever our encrustations and blocks, the fire in perfect equanimity uses everything good and bad to fuel the flame of consciousness. Chakras are the energy centres of the soul. There are actually more than 7 Chakras. The 7 Chakra system is the most conventional system to follow when obtaining ‘enlightenment’.

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There are chakras which are energy points or knots in the body, located at the physical counterparts of the major plexuses of arteries, veins and nerves. There are 7 chakras that are considered to be the most important ones and they are affiliated with the sense of SMELL, TASTE, SIGHT, TOUCHING, HEARING, INTUITION, EQUILIBRIUM, respectively. It is an ancient concept common in the East and the West, long time forgotten among people.

Masako Ono [Japan] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpgC0gVeBw 00:08:36

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Masako started dancing at the age of 4 under a modern dance graduate from the Martha Graham Dance School, USA. She additionally trained in western classical ballet at the MATSUYAMA BALLET, Tokyo; jazz and hip hop at the KBROADWAY DANCE CENTER, Tokyo. Masako joined NRITYAGRAM, the dance village started by the noted Odissi dancer, late PROTIMA GAURI BEDI, and won a scholarship for her studies. She received training in Odissi and attended classes in Yoga, martial arts, contemporary dance and theatre workshop. She is now an empanelled artist of Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Govt. of India, performed and given lecture-demonstrations / workshops in more than 20 countries, performed for the former PM of Japan, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi and Mr. Shinzo Abe, featured in NHK BS 1 as “First Japanese”. In between performances, she trains Odissi / contemporary dancers and directs MOPA (Masako Ono Performing Arts) in India, Japan. She launched “MUDRA foundation” supporting the activity of international artists help underprivileged children in India. Mudra Foundation launched ODISHA BIENNALE 2013. Masako Ono currently performs contemporary dance choreographies of her own derived from pan-asian themes besides Odissi dance repertoire.

--http://masakoono.com

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catharsis-----

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ith the tip of a pencil, the line is marking

within the space of a sheet of paper. Its contact generates a script with fast and determined pace. Daring but fearful, sincere but nostalgic. Four individuals and their pencil reach a catharsis, preparing a letter for an absent reader and releasing all kinds of memories. Housed in a video, each sheet is seen broken, wrinkled or folded, state in which it becomes unreadable, then begin a transforming process. Slowly, the fire consumes the object sign of the catharsis; destroyed yet purified, memories translated into lines are offered as simple ashes.

Bรกrbara Oettinger [Chile] https://vimeo.com/95783360 00:03:47

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Bárbara Oettinger is an artist from from Santiago de Chile.

Barbara Oettingher Searle (Santiago, 1981) has a degree in Fine Artsat the University of Chile and a Master of Arts degree from the Catholic University of Chile. She has participated in various exhibitions at the Museum of Visual Arts (MAVI), Museum of Contemporary Art of Quinta Normal (MAC), CTA Capital, Buenos Aires, Argentina; BECH Gallery, Cultural Center Cerro Carcel in Valparaiso Chile, Kavlin Cultural Center in Punta del Este, Uruguay, CAP Foundation Room (Pinacoteca) in Concepcion, Chile, among others. At the same time her work has been published in magazines, books and art catalogs (nacional and International) like Pheriperal Art-eries “Young contemporary art review”; "Show Room", emerging artists, F-Stop Magazine Latin American Issue, "10x15 international journal, "I love cachai", among others.

--http://www.barbaraoettinger.com

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