Experimental Video Screening Series

These monthly screenings feature experimental short videos by artists that explore the innovative use of technology and software to manipulate image. Artists will discuss the way they digitally transform images to achieve their personal vision. MI’s creator, Program Director, and Curator is multimedia artist Alysse Stepanian.

For more details go to MI’s official website: http://manipulatedimage.com

PRESS CONTACT:
Alysse Stepanian - info@alyssestepanian.com
505-466-4832

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Manipulated Image is an international partner of Newmediafest’2010: Read about the history, philosophy, and future of Manipulated Image on its German partner’s site.

COMING UP:

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“memory” and “identity”
Manipulated Image #12

Friday, April 2, 2010; 7:30pm – 9:30pm
tickets: $6 suggested contribution

Manipulated Image/Santa Fe & VideoChannel Cologne
proudly present an intercontinental collaboration

As part of the 10th year celebrations of NewMediaArtProjectNetwork based in Cologne, Alysse Stepanian (curator of Manipulated Image) was invited by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne to curate a one hour compilation of experimental short videos by US artists titled “memory” and “identity.” This one hour compilation will become part of the collection of VideoChannel Cologne and its online screenings. On April 2nd, additional videos by the selected artists plus work by Chris Coleman and Penny Lane will be screened at the Complex. Mr. Coleman’s animation is already in the collection of Video Art Database.

12 ARTISTS FROM 6 U.S. STATES:
Lana Z. Caplan (Boston, Massachusetts), Chris Coleman (Colorado), Brian DeLevie (Denver, Colorado), Ron Diorio (Manhattan, New York), Michael Greathouse (Brooklyn, New York), Soyeon Jung (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Penny Lane (New York, New York), Laleh Mehran (Colorado), Joe Merrell (Los Angeles, California), David Montgomery (Fernandina Beach, Florida), Christine Schiavo (Staten Island, New York), Brooks Williams (New York City). DETAILS AND ARTIST BIOS HERE…

Laleh Mehran (Colorado), Chris Coleman (Colorado), and Brooks Williams (New York City) will be present in person to discuss their work. Brooks Williams will also present a solo musical performance…. more here….

In cooperation with VideoChannel
NewMediaFest’2010: 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne

“Absence||Presence”
“Ausência || Presença”
Manipulated Image #13

May 2010 (details to be announced)

Co-curated by Alysse Stepanian and Kika Nicolela, Brazilian artist and experimental filmmaker, with her selection of videos from Brazil.

Manipulated Image #14

June 2010
details to be announced

“Nietzsche Was A Man”
Manipulated Image #15

Friday, July 30, 2010
8:30pm – 10:30pm

Co-curated by Alysse Stepanian and an Iranian video artist (name to be announced), with her selection of videos by Iranian women

PAST SCREENINGS:

“For Action’s Sake”
Manipulated Image #11: First Year Anniversary Celebration

15 VIDEO ARTISTS from 10 COUNTRIES
ONLINE PERFORMANCES from HAMBURG AND SWEDEN
PERFORMANCES BY 12 LOCAL ARTISTS

Friday, March 12, 2010; 6:30pm – 11pm
tickets: $10 (includes food and reception)
WARNING: some material only suitable for adults
Read more and download event color catalogue here: http://manipulatedimage.com/MI11.html

In cooperation with VideoChannel
NewMediaFest’2010: 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
Co-curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne & Alysse Stepanian

NewMediaArtProjectNetwork: cologne -http://www.nmartproject.net
VideoChannel – http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
NewMediafest’2010 – http://2010.newmediafest.org

Friday, January 29, 2009; 7pm – 9pm
Manipulated Image #10: “Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.1″ & A World Premiere
Project coordinator: filmmaker, Kika Nicolela of Brazil (http://www.dilemastudio.com)
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project (ECVP) is a unique video collaboration of 36 artists from 16 countries, inspired by the Surrealist invention, the “Exquisite Corpse.” This project was coordinated by Brazilian filmmaker, Kika Nicolela. Local guest artist, David Enoch will also premiere his new surreal animation video with music by D Numbers.

Friday, December 18, at 7:00pm
Manipulated Image #9: “GUTTURAL!”
There is obvious and natural rawness to Martin Back’s work, an unbridled energy exuding its life force. Similarly, Paulo Barros’s percolating abstractions are only inhibited by their forced rectangular enclosures. Hey-Yeun Jang’s work penetrates the “in-between,” the deep cracks that are left unexplored in familiar realities. Niclas Hallberg (with his collaborator Stina Pehrsdotter), gives voice to disoriented beings that have come to feel shame in a civilization that has alphabetized and codified proper conduct. Wilfried Agricola de Cologne’s videos are both visually and viscerally penetrating, and his clear observations are potent and commanding. It is not necessarily the grating quality of the sound that makes these works guttural, but the restless audacity of the artists to breech the boundaries of the agreeable, the proper, and the familiar. (Alysse Stepanian, November 9, 2009)

Friday, October 30, at 7:30pm
Manipulated Image #8: The Moving Still
The Moving Still presents videos by three artists, whose approaches are vastly different, yet intrinsically “photographic.” The complex visual studies of James Coker contrast with Latvian artist, Krišs Salmanis’s light-hearted and playful animations that utilize photographic stills. A graduate in film studies, Brazilian artist, Kika Nicolela has been called a “visual-filmmaker.” The frames of her moving images are composed as if part of long sequences of photographic stills. Tonight we will also have the opportunity to hear James Coker speak about his work, and his algorithmic experiments with moving images.

Friday, August 28, at 8:30pm
Manipulated Image: Work from Four Continents and Virtual Second Life
Featuring mobile phone video and indie-animations by Russian collective, Selfburning, videos and interactive Flash web art by Kelly Monico, experimental video by local Andrew Edwards, Moroccan Mohamed Ezoubeiri’s visual slices of life, Fabio Scacchioli’s philosophical experiments based on the function of language, and relationship of object and image, and a virtual tour of Second Life with surprise animations by an artist from Amsterdam.

Friday, July 24, at 8:30pm.
Manipulated Image: The Whole Truth, the Space in Between, and Chopping Heads…
As suggested by the titles above, expect a night of screenings as diverse as music videos to mystery and the philosophical questioning of the meaning of life. Join us for the premiere of a new video by Keep Adding’s Brian Bixby. Brian will discuss past collaborations with LA filmmaker and spatial reconstructionist, Scott Pagano, whose work will also be screened. We will then take a look at London-based artist, Yuko Takemura’s mysterious video tableaux, followed by Gerald Guthrie’s animations, replete with technical mastery, humor, and philosophical depth.

Friday, June 26, at 8:30pm
New media artist and VJ, Peter Rand, will be showing recent sound films and performing live with special guest Paul Rudy. Screenings will include Dennis H. Miller’s fascinating abstract animations with his musical compositions, and New York artist, Donald O’Finn’s “strange video collages.”

Friday, May 29, at 8:00pm.
Join us for an evening of live cinema performance, experimental videos, and discussion with Potter-Belmar Labs. at the 4th Manipulated Image.

Friday, April 24, at 8:00pm.
The 3rd Manipulated Image presented the pioneers of video art, Steina and Woody Vasulka, who discussed and shared their work.

Friday, March 27.
This event featured videos by Benton C. Bainbridge, Susanna Carlisle, Matt Marello, David Stout and Cory Metcalf.

February 27, 2009: The first of the series featured artists and videos by Ethan Bach, Anne Farrell, Verena Grimm, Merrill Kazanjian, Leslie Raymond & Jason Jay Stevens (Potter-Belmar), and Flame Schon. Some sights from the event: