LOADBANG
Saturday July 10 7-11pm
Butcher Gallery
234 1/2 Queen Street East, third floor
"A program (patch) runs (load) on a computer and files of moving numbers are (bang) randomly played from one to twenty seconds"
LOADBANG is a one-night blast of subversive, emergent video and web-based art explored through presentation of a mashup, video installation, net art and performance. Questioning net art and Internet video as distinctly web-based media, this exhibition looks at how transgressive and experimental desires in the form and content of online video are translated into an exhibition environment. How do time-wasting interactions such as web-cam performance, gaming, format shifts, avatars and porn affect our appreciation of art and life?
Addressing the instabilty of authorship in new media art production, an intensified presentation of video in a mashup asks us to contemplate variable ways of watching and curating online video.
What is your erotic? What do you want to see in art and what do you expect to see online? How are vulgar uses of technology and appropriated images rearticulated as visual fetish?
Showing randomized video by: Artur Augustynowicz, Adam Cruces, Andrea Hitchman, Ann Hirsch, Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Nathaniel Sullivan, Jessica Vallentin, Ian MacTilstra, Mark Pellegrino, Lucas Soi
Related non-objects, events and actions:
- A screening of Artie Vierkant’s “Avatar in 3D” at 8pm
- A SCANDALISHIOUS performance by Ann Hirsch at 9pm
- Video installation by Adam Herst
- Death Star YouTube by Matthew Williamson
Curated by Jennifer Chan, this event was planned in response to an open call for “sexy, trashy video made for-or inspired by- the Internet”. Included videos and related artwork was selected in consultation with the gallery and a jury of new media artists/students/curators consisting of Jeremy Bailey, David Frankovich, Cheryl Sourkes, Kaitlin Till-Landry and Stephen Stanford.
This event would not be irl without generous assistance from Jeremy Bailey’s bangloading patchwriting and Mark Pellegrino’s technical consultation.
More information via http://butchergallery.com or contact@butchergallery.com
