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ECHO: PAF PRESENTS: DIGITAL ART / GLITCH ART


Dates:
Tue Oct 29, 2013 20:00 - Tue Oct 29, 2013

Location:
Brno, Czech Republic

At the end of October the Festival of Film Animation will be introduced in Brno within the ECHO cycle (presentation of festivals) organized by UNTR, the local cultural base. Marie Meixnerová and Tomáš Javůrek will introduce PAF in both reminiscent and anticipatory way.
With regard to original grasp of moving image structure and content anticipation, the program will be entitled Tausendjahrekino.

PROGRAMME [TAUSENDJAHREKINO]:
Screen Saver Gallery
Screen Saver Gallery project, the gallery of contemporary digital art in screen savers, will be introduced by the Czech artist and pedagogue Tomáš Javůrek.
The unique exhibition concept has been developed since the March of 2013 and it has encouraged four contemporary artists so far. How does it feel to run a non-standard gallery? What is its ideological background? How did the works of art presented in this space look like? And what is going to happen next?
screensaver.metazoa.org

Perfectly Lost, Perfectly Found
The presentation and follow-up projection of digital videos from "Perfectly Lost" and "Perfectly Found" cycle by (c) merry.
The selection includes the cycle of digital videos proceeding from the crucial works of experimental film and Czech avant-garde reinterpreted by means of the power of mistake, coincidence and a creative genius of medium. Conceptually the works belong to guerilla curating.
crazymerry.tumblr.com

ECHO: PAF Presents: DIGITAL ART / GLITCH ART
[Tausendjahrekino]

Tuesday 29 October 2013
from 8 pm to 10 pm
UNTR, Gorkého 12 Brno, Czech Republic
guest: Tomáš Javůrek, (c) merry (Mary Meixner)
http://www.untr.cz
www.pifpaf.cz

Organized by UNTR Brno and PAF Olomouc

Supported by Visegrad Fund

ANNOTATION FOR PERFECTLY LOST, PERFECTLY FOUND SERIES:
Visual poems created not by a human author, but by the medium itself, stand on the boundaries of modern digital visual arts and classical cinematography.
This creative genius is often being ignored as a mistake and failure of digital technologies, however, many people intend to create it or even artificially copy it intentionally; they use glitch as animation technique by means of which they manage to achieve images of psychedelic qualities and stunning beauty. The newly-emerged scenes then cheekily and freshly encourage our deeply rooted stereotypes of audio-visual work perception.
The "true glitches" emerge naturally without human initiation, however, they involve another dimension. In the similar way as for structural and handmade films, which originate thanks to meticulous work with film material, the ontological dimension is typical for them. These mistakes and defects in image and sound records arise because of time, medium depreciation or transformation from one context to another. The work structure, which is suddenly almost as tangible as a film strip in hands of an experimental filmmaker, is coming to the foreground.
The digitized film does not disguise its real substance any more, but on the contrary, it profits on it. Powers of time and medium that are normally being suppressed by digital technologies give rise to new, beautiful and surprising structures.
The selection involves the series of digital videos proceeding from crucial works of experimental film and Czech avant-garde, reinterpreted by power of mistake, coincidence and a creative genius of medium.


EVENT

Facebook Sculpture: (c) merry, 2013


Dates:
Thu Aug 01, 2013 00:00 - Sat Aug 31, 2013

Facebook Sculpture: (c) merry, 2013
temporal metrical sculpture

Hello, I am (c) merry and I am Internet artist.

I was invited to participate on Chloë Flores curatorial project called “Chloë Flores facebook page” as artist in residence for this August. The residency is taking place on facebook, on user profile of Los Angeles based curator Chloë Flores. Every month, new artist is using the space provided by her profile in different manner.
Because of my deep interest in facebook-based net art and background in cinema studies, I've decided to use this opportunity to create temporal metrical sculpture.
That is, probably the very first sculpture on facebook - made on facebook out of facebook, following its structure and discourse. And of course, perceivable only on facebook.

I would be honored if you could spare a moment to see my work.

The sculpture will be performed between August the 1st and August 31st, 2013 on facebook.com/itsallbeendonebefore, and can be perceived only during this time.

You can discover more about the project on its website. The site already contains background information on the project and its inspirations, "Kaderplan" for the sculpture and more. During the residency/performance, it will be supplemented with detailed documentation on the project and public reactions.

With respect,

(c) merry
29th of July, 2013

Project webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/facebooksculpture/

Informal video statement for the project:
http://youtu.be/qbmvCF3JDzY

Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/688772284471767/