Retinal Reverb
@ Audio Cinema - 226 SE Madison St, under the Hawthorne Bridge
Opening Night Party: Wednesday, April 25, 8pm-12am
Hours: Thursday-Saturday 12pm-6pm
Curated by Stephen Slappe and Mack McFarland
Once again, Portland artists Stephen Slappe and Mack McFarland have put together a satellite exhibition of video art for the PDXFF. Retinal Reverb features fifteen artists and artist teams from across the country and our own backyard, presenting an impressive arrangement of installation, sculpture and single-channel moving images in the cavernous confines of AudioCinema. Thanks to Ilan Laks and AudioCinema for hosting this event.
Installation, Sculpture, and Single Channel Videos:
Meatlocker
Mike Bray, Eugene, OR
Delving into the un-real moments of motion pictures to explore how the real has been distorted through the spectacle of moving images.
Humperdinck 101
David Borengasser, San Francisco, CA
One hundred and one pornos playing at half speed.
Passing Out Heart Game
Emily Bulfin & Tahni Holt, Portland, OR
Passing Out Heart Game is a study of the landscapes that contain us and a meditation on control: resisting the unknown and releasing into this unknown.
Coyote Search
Terry Chatkupt, Portland, OR
Coyote Search is a single-channel digital video installation, which uses surround sound technology to simulate the haunting cries of a pack of unseen coyotes.
Re-remembered, digital palimpsests
Brian DeLevie, Denver, CO
A visual exploration of recorded history and subjective memory via the model of the palimpsest.
Wettings
Marianna Ellenberg- Brooklyn, NY
A parodic health infomercial for restroom visitations.
Call Me Ishmael
The Experimental Team “Hope” Folk Art Ensemble Experiment
Cyrus W Smith, Luke Forsyth, and Lauren Kinney
10 foot monster-tv-face-void-void. TV-FACE-SURF-TV-void. Keanu Reeves, winged bull-headed tyrranosaur, void. VOID-TV-VOID-VOID-VOID
Transposition
Laura Fritz, Portland, OR
I am interested in the cool tension that results from the manipulation of natural systems before they are understood. My aim is to catalyze curiosity and inspire mixed feelings of doubt and unease.
Rail
Dan Gilsdorf, Portland, OR
I am interested in the allegorical capabilities of simple mechanisms. Using mechanically produced motion, my sculptures and installations examine the transformation of the present moment into memory and history.
Hooliganship 3-D
Hooliganship, Portland, OR
Hooliganship 3D provides instant insight to a world of Hidden 3D secrets that are normally unviewable to those with perfect vision.
Something to Remind Me
Scott Kildall, San Francisco, CA
I ask a stranger for a photograph and instead I shoot video with my digital camera. Each person strikes a distinctive pose with a fixed smile and stares directly at the viewer, tapping into a universal experience of anticipation.
Cheese Puff
Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand, Houston, TX
Cheese Puff is an experimental video about our relationship with modern television culture using the context of the ultimate junk food, cheese puffs.
The Yodeling Lesson Installation
Vanessa Renwick, Portland, OR
Yodeling bagpipe bicycling booty. NO HANDS! NO BRAKES! NO CLOTHES!
A Natural Birth
Edie Tsong & Pete Kuzov, Santa Fe, NM
Technological intervention has become a natural part of our daily lives. Even in the case of giving birth, the most ancient creative activity of human beings, intervention is now normal and expected. Is this natural?
P.D.A.
Cat Tyc, Portland, OR
Noise. Kiss. Noise.