Roundtable: Video After Video in the Post-Media Age
in celebration of visiting artist Clemens von Wedemeyer
Wednesday, May 14 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Has video securely taken its place as a more generally "filmic" art form? How does that art form operate under the conditions of what is sometimes referred to as the post-media age? Does the term "media specificity" have any meaning today? And how do contemporary video and short film position themselves within (or without) dominant critical paradigms such as feminism and post-colonialism? Leading curators, critics, and artists will address these and other questions confronting contemporary film makers today.
Participants:
Jenny Schlenzka is Assistant Curator of the Kunstewerke Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, and curatorial liaison through KW at The Museum of Modern Art, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City. Schlenzka is interested about the dialectical relationship between avant-garde cinema and current video art. More specifically she will examine the frequent use contemporary filmmakers such as Clemens von Wedemeyer make of the split screen.
Rudolf Frieling is Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His presentation, “Video as Shareware and Discursive Practice,” will discuss recent video installations in the context of Web 2.0.
Terrence Handscomb is a video artist based in Southern California. Terrence has worked with electronic media since 1991 and has exhibited widely in Europe and Australasia. His recent work will be represented at the forthcoming 6th Liverpool Biennial. Terrence moved to the USA in 2004 having previously lived in Germany and Australasia.
Erika Suderburg is a filmmaker, visual artist and writer. Her work has been exhibited internationally including the Pacific Film Archives-Berkeley, the Millennium Film Workshop-New York, Capp Street Projects-San Francisco, the Museum of Modern Art-New York, The American Film Institute-Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles. Suderburg has just completed her second feature film an experimental documentary on aerial bombing, war, reconstruction, mass protest, monumentality and memory entitled Decline and Fall, which was released in 2007. She is currently a Professor at the University of California-Riverside.
Darrin Martin creates videos, sculptures and installations, which explore how technologies are used to attempt to measure and augment, our daily perceptions. His works have screened and exhibited internationally at museums and media festivals, including most recently, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Impakt Festival in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Davis.
René Daalder has written and directed 6 feature films as well as numerous television- and music-related projects, in Europe, the US and Canada. In his native Holland he worked as a team with Jan de Bont , made numerous films with Dutch documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet, and wrote several screenplays with his frequent collaborator Rem Koolhaas. Together they made some highly acclaimed, award winning movies, culminating in Daalder's directorial feature film debut The White Slave. Often operating at the cutting edge of his medium and heavily involved with special effects, software development and music, Daalder has gained worldwide recognition as a pioneer of Virtual Reality and digital motion picture technologies.
Moderators: Sven Spieker (UCSB); Laurie Monahan (UCSB).
Sponsored by the IHC’s Visiting Artist Program, the Idee Levitan IHC Endowed Lecture Series, the Department of Art, the College of Creative Studies, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies.
