Sep 19 2010

Pocket cinema: Robert Seidel’s experimental films

Robert Seidel is an award winning experimental film maker and visual artist… His films simply mesmerize by recalling psychedelic motifs in new digital environments and soundscape territories…

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Robert Seidel: excerpts from ‘_grau’ and ‘passion pit’ (c)

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Sep 9 2010

Body cinema: Lucy McRae – video selection

Visual artists, documentary filmmakers, animators and dance screen artists became a natural part of Body cinema… So, I’ve picked up video selection by former ballerina and ethereal body shaper Lucy McRae

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Lucy McRae: Metallic Skin
Photo taken from todayandtomorrow.net

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Aug 11 2010

Body cinema: Agata Olek’s actions and performances

She will crochet us all, my dear friendz… her finger army has no mercy… Agata Olek‘s designs, actions and performances recorded by Andreas Troeger aka TechonologyArtist…

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Agata Olek: Crocheted Bike, photo by Christopher Stribley (c)

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Jul 1 2010

Body cinema: Merce Cunningham’s solo dance in Good Morning Mr. Orwell

Here is an excerpt from Nam June Paik’s TV program called ‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’ (1984) featuring choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham dances with satellite-delayed images of himself, overlaid with crawling text about George Orwell’s time in Spain.

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Video still from Good Morning Mr. Orwell by Nam June Paik (c)

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Mar 7 2010

George Quasha: art is (Speaking Portraits)

George Quasha‘s video installation ‘art is (Speaking Portraits)’ belongs to the series of video projects (‘art is’, ‘music is’, ‘poetry is’, ‘myth is’, and ongoing project ‘freedom is’). Quasha asks artists one simple question: what art is? The project includes more then 700 international artists, poets and composers…

George Quasha is a contemporary artist and poet in constant search for interlaced forms of expressiveness…

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Photos by Claudinka taken from flickr (c)

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Feb 17 2010

Body cinema: Contemporary dance in videospace

Contemporary Dance in Videospace is a dance and video installation staged in Berlin in June 2007 at the studio 103. Dancer P. Park and Flavio Degen / Kosei Takasaki from kokomono collective mixed live contemporary dance and video art together…

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