East Coast Video East Coast Video is an ongoing project this spring and summer at FLUXspace. East Coast Video showcases emerging makers of videos. Look for monthly screenings of a curated selection of artists from various east-coast cities. Next Screening: East Coast Video: Vol. 2 BALTIMORE Curated by Joshua Haycraft and Mark Dilks
 Artist Bios: BHBITB is a spiritual movement based upon the scientific foundations of Dr. Gifford Stranton and his research team at the New Moon Facility. Utilizing space-age fissile technologies Dr. Stranton has redirected time and space to effectively validate humanity’s origins and future potentialities. Since 1979 BHBITB has given hope to a world increasingly apprehensive of the future*, utilizing a proprietary method of Value Evaluation™, transforming the past to build a brighter tomorrow. BHBITB is a self-sustaining organization focused on integrating the Four Pillars of Society (business, science, government, religion) into an efficient network of systematized units. The ultimate goal of these units is to design and fabricate the Perfect World™, manifesting in new municipalities, replacing the old with the new. Our ministry’s current focus is education, spreading the accumulated wisdom of Dr. Stranton through videos, exhibitions, and seminars. At BHBITB we believe in the truth as dictated in The Practice of Principles™ and the calculations of Dr. Stranton. We acknowledge the origins of mankind and praise the Dark Mother, the void from which we all emerge. We appreciate the privileges and responsibilities that come with our privileged evolution and stay focused on our virtuous path. We look to the future and eagerly await the Universal Contraction that will reunite mankind with the cosmos. http://bhbitb.com Mark Dilks is a painter. He attended Hampshire College. After college, he worked with children as an Arts Coordinator at a popular museum. The children inspired him. As he worked, he decided he needed to focus more on art. So he did, eventually moving to Baltimore to attend MICA’s Post-Baccalaureate Program. At MICA, he learned what a Post-Bac was, among many other things, and met people. He is currently moving to Philadelphia to try his wares as an MFA candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. markdilks@yahoo.com Clarissa Gregory’s work weaves in and out of stop-motion animation, panoramic painting and installation—all rooted in the natural environment. Theatrical and dancerly kinetics occur throughout. She recently joined the modern dance troupe Effervescent Collective. Born and raised in Portage, Wisconsin, she's a Midwestern transplant, still absorbing Baltimore's smorgasbord of arts and culture. http://bakerartistawards.org/nomination/view/clarissa%20gregory Christopher LaVoie was raised in Tucson, AZ. He received a BFA in sculpture from the University of Arizona. He then worked as a teacher and community organizer before moving to Baltimore and earning a MFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Towson University. LaVoie works in sculpture, video, and drawing. His work considers themes of domesticity, masculinity, and violence. He has recently exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Irvine Contemporary in DC, and had solo exhibitions at the Arlington Art Center and McDaniel College. http://www.christopherlavoie.net Lloyd Lowe attended the University of North Texas, graduating in 2009 with a BFA in Fine Art Photography and a minor in Creative Writing. He now resides in Baltimore, MD where he is working towards his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the photographic electronic media department. As an artist he is obsessed with the rudiments of affectation in media imagery, new imaging technology and the subsequent effects of both on the singular psyche and the collective milieu. He is also acutely interested in the imagery of social unrest and anti-hero filmic personas. His films and photography have been exhibited nationally. The Rising Gallery in Dallas, TX represents him. http://lloydlowejr.com/ Robby Rackleff, a native of Tallahassee, Florida, received his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art graduate program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009. He is an active member of the Baltimore-based Wham City art collective and has lived in Baltimore since 2005. http://dothemathcomics.com/ Jimmy Joe Roche is an American Visual Artist residing in Baltimore, MD. His videos have screened internationally in venues including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Incubate Arts Festival in the Netherlands, Rojo@Nova 2010 in Brazil, and Baltimore Museum of Art. In 2008 Roche had his first solo show at Rare Gallery in New York, 2010 marked his second solo show in Colorado at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, and his third solo show opened at Rare Gallery in January of 2011. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Beautiful Decay, The New Museum's "Younger Than Jesus" Artist Directory, "100" a new book by Francesca Gavin to be published in 2011, and a recent feature article in the November issue of the Spanish Art Magazine BELIO. http://www.jimmyjoeroche.com/
East Coast Video Vol. 3 - Boston The next edition of East Coast Video has arrived from Boston! Featuring the short works of:
LJ Frezza The film titled "The Conqueror" starred John Wayne as Genghis Khan. It was shot downwind from a nuclear testing site and close to half of the cast & crew subsequently developed cancer, including "the duke" himself. This video is a reinterpretation of the film, looking at "conquest" in our past and present media, fiction and non-fiction, and the "compression" of these experiences into a mediated form ready for consumption. LJ Frezza is a film and video maker whose work addresses commercial media culture and its effects on human experience. He utilizes appropriated imagery, and frequently works with the imperfections of various motion picture formats. In December 2010, he earned a BFA degree from Emerson College with a focus in Experimental Media Production and a minor in Postcolonial and Global Studies. He currently lives in Cambridge, MA where he works on a food truck and makes movies in his free time. Ben Mosca Set in a rural unnamed American town, an anonymous narrator recalls a hazy, drunken winter night with the memory of what actually happened returning in fragments. Ben Mosca grew up in Southern Florida, raised on a steady diet of fast food, strip malls, and suburban sprawl. He is interested in how people are shaped by their environments and vice versa. Tara Nelson In 2009 I made a short video depicting an average looking woman struggling to complete everyday tasks, such as leaving her bedroom, brushing her teeth, eating breakfast, watering the plants and leaving the house. The goal of the piece was to portray a person (particularly a woman) in conflict with unseen forces, which act against her and make her life difficult. By using exaggerated gestures, dramatic music, theatrical lighting and overdubbed sounds of sighs and moans, the video is an intentional over-analysis of an internal psychological state. Tara Nelson Tara Nelson makes art that investigates the psychological space of creativity in search of the imagination. How does our sensory experience of the world work with our memories, expectations, ideas and emotions to create meaning? She is motivated by the study of human perception as both the filter through which we experience the world, and the mechanism that makes it meaningful. Adam Paradis Looking in on two turtles and the chaos of a contained existence. Since graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2007, Adam Paradis has continued to independently produce work as a filmmaker and artist in the Boston area. He has also organized and programmed local film screenings, including the 2010 Summer Screening Series at The Video Underground in Jamaica Plain, for which he coordinated and curated screenings twice a month. His film and video work has been screened in festivals worldwide, and has been used by the Palace De Tokyo in Paris, France and featured on websites including Pitchfork. His film One Last Shock (2008) has won multiple awards, including Honorable Mention at the 2008 SMFA Film Annual, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as winning both Best in Show and Jurors Choice at the Nor'Eastern Film Festival, Boston in 2008. The film was chosen by the Bearded Child Film Festival to be included in a screening held as part of the New Media Symposium at the University of Texas, San Antonio in 2009. Adam has also been invited as a visiting artist to present his films at such institutions as Emerson College and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His most recent film, Damage Control (2010), has been selected by the TIE festival to be included in an upcoming program of Boston Filmmakers at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art in March of 2011. Frankie Symonds "THE BAHAMAS is a self portrait made with equal amounts of loneliness and love." - FS Frankie Symonds is an artist/ writer who was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA. He is concerned with the clashes between personal politics and society, control, the pastoral, and certain animals... among some other things, but not that many other things. Nicky Tevares A domestic adventure in cleaning, Saint Edward's Circle follows Erica as she empties her cell phone inbox and Holly as she organizes the kitchen. Nicky Tavares is a Boston-based multimedia artist working primarily in film and video. Her first documentary, Fwd: Update on My Life, is currently screening at film festivals and micro cinemas including New Directors/New Films, the Balagan Experimental Film Series, Videofest, the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, the Kent Film Festival and MassArt Film Society. In addition, her work has been screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and featured in The Boston Globe. She is a Walker Foundation Scholar (2003) and a World Studio Foundation Scholar (2005). She holds a BA in photocommunications from Saint Edward's University and an MFA in Film and Video from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has taught in the Film and Video department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Computer Animation department at Mount Ida College. Rob Todd Reflective calligraphy on a dock. In the past twelve years Rob Todd has produced a large body of short-to-medium format films that have been exhibited internationally at a wide variety of venues and festivals including the Media City Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Le Rencontres Internationale, Black Maria Film Festival, Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, Cinematheque Ontario, the Harvard Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, the Paris Biennial, Slamdance Film Festival, and others. His films have won numerous festival prizes, grants, and artist's awards. He has taught film production at Boston College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Boston, University of Massachusetts, and the Boston Film and Paul Turano Reconfigured events from protest to crackdown of the Green movement in Iran recorded by witnesses on cell phones and mini-cams. This work is inspired by a report that the government had changed the green bar on the Iranian flag to blue as an attempt to dis-empower the primary color symbol of the Green movement. Red Toxic Sludge, 2011, 5:00 On October 4th 2010 a containment wall broke flooding the village of Kolontar, Hungary with toxic red sludge. Four people were killed and 150 injured in the deluge, which released poisonous chemicals from an alumina plant into the surrounding countryside. This work recasts the incident with the "Internationale" sung in Hungarian and the current Hungarian national anthem as a soundtrack rich with relative ideological and emotional meaning. This ecological tragedy is both an inherited by-product of lax environmental management from the Soviet era as well as continued neglect by the current government, which has been similarly unable to control industrial waste. Lost in the process is the fundamental importance of the protection of Hungary's people and ecosystems. Paul Turrano uses film and video as poetic tools for exploring the human condition, incorporating subjects as close as his back porch and as far away as the planet Mars. He often employs autobiography, essay forms, and subjective reportage as strategies for examining the larger issues that both intrigue and challenge him. Recent work in 16mm—Porch Film: 76 Day St. Apt. #2 (2004), Windows onto Montebello Road (2009), Albumleaf (2010)—depicts domestic space as a site for individualized transformative experiences. His use of quotidian images and sounds in these works provides both an emotional register and a contextual grounding in a larger personal, social, or political moment. While these film-based works represent a private engagement with the immediate environment, his video works investigate the effects of mediated experience on personal identity, memory, and history by engaging with representations from the public sphere. By appropriating from historical and contemporary public archives he recasts history through a subjective lens, with an eye toward the human capacity for malevolence.
East Coast Video Vol. 4 Short Films by: Katya Gorker, Leslie Rogers, David Kessler, Spencer Sheridan East Coast Video Vol. 4 is curated by Egina Manachova and will exhibit the short, witty, films of Leslie Rogers, David Kessler, Katya Gorker and Spencer Sheridan. Roger’s Mouth Puppet Series confronts the morally gray area that her puppets and her audience inhabit. Kessler wants all of us to discover new and exciting products for the whole family in his World of Products I & II. Gorker’s “First Thoughts, Last Words” will take us on what she describes as “an episodic, no strings tour of emotional ventriloquism”. A clueless soul finds little direction in the Universe in Spencer Sheridan’s The Last Starfighter: Part 2. Catch these moving images on Thursday, March 31st at 9:00 pm sharp. The artists will be on hand to discuss their work post screening. Stay to celebrate this evening of video with good spirits and the sound of hand-spun vinyl tunes leading your feet on to the dance floor. For an even better dance routine, BYOB a drink that hints at a refined palette.
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