WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2008, 6-10PM FREE
Other screenings on:
Thursday, September 25, 7-8pm
Friday, September 26, 7-8pm
The 3rd Video Art Festival organized by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center features an assortment of works that broadly deal with the notion of façade—exteriority and artifice in architecture, the human body, identity, relationships and dreams. The three-night festival spans genres to include animation, documentary, shorts, and experimental single-channel videos.
Special SoHo Night opening performance on September 24th is veejayed by performance artist Danielle Abrams as her character Uncle Bob.
Other live performances will take place at Harvestworks in conjunction with the festival.
Visit the blog at www.hdmcvideoartfest.wordpress.com for the latest information.
Artists include: Elizabeth Axtman, Nina Barnett, Patrick Bergeron, Nanna Debois Buhl, Alan Calpe, Tirtza Evan, Brendan Fernandes, Natalie Frigo, Stephani Hough, Esther Johnson, Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk, Heidi Kumao, Lauren Kelley, Lilly McElroy, Shelley Silver, Kambui Olujimi, Jefferson Pinder, Alexander Reyna, Federico Solmi, Donna Szoke, Traci Talasco, and Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kabayashi, among others.
The Video Art Festival is curated by Nicole J. Caruth, a freelance writer and curator based in Brooklyn. She holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and earned a Bachelor’s in art history at San Francisco State University. A regular blogger for Art21, her writing has been published by the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Archives and Museum Informatics and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. Forthcoming projects include the exhibition Burning Down the House: Building the Feminist Collection at the Brooklyn Museum.
Multidisciplinary artist, Maya Seuss, is assistant curator for the festival. Her work in performance art, theatre, cabaret and installation has been shown at local and international venues.
About Harvestworks
Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Our programs are made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Jerome Foundation, media The foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, The New York State Music Fund, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, The Argosy Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation, The NY Community Trust, The Andy Warhol Foundation and the Friends of Harvestworks.
About SoHo Night
An evening of special programming and extended hours by not-for-profit visual arts institutions located in SoHo: CityArts, Apexart, Artists Space, The Drawing Center, Location One, Harvestworks, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Swiss Institute. Admission is free!
