In addition to the group show Isolated Fictions (which opened last Friday and features works by Deb Sokolow,  Carmen Price,  Jason Dunda,  Amanda Browder,  Nadine Nakanishi,  Rebecca Mir and Nick Butcher), a reading by Adam Levin, a performance evening centered around world - based art, a screening curated by Eric Fleischauer and Jesse McLean, and the third installment of the Now Itâ $ ™ s Dark
experimental film and music series are all on the agenda.
2002 Avantoscope,
experimental film and music festival at KIASMA, Helsinki Flicer, De Overslag Einhoven Shadazz, Royal College of Art, London
I look at very little contemporary practice in the visual arts, being inspired more by
experimental film and music.
Not exact matches
Perhaps the last awards - season
film that relied on
music to this extent was The Artist, which walked away with both best original score
and best picture; though The Shape of Water faces stiff competition, especially from first - time Oscar nominee Jonny Greenwood (for Phantom Thread)
and perpetual nominee Hans Zimmer (for his
experimental Dunkirk score), expect it to pull off the same trick (
and underwater, at that).
We don't watch horror or
experimental films for finely drawn character studies but for their particular attention to what
film theorists call «excess,» the stuff (color,
music) that goes beyond the imperatives of most cinema, whether it's the excess that takes monstrous or supernatural shape in horror, or the material, structural,
and textural excess of
experimental films.
She's only 28 years old
and this is her first
film score — she's probably best known as Micachu of the
experimental pop band The Shapes — which makes her the rare woman composing
music for movies today.
This really, truly happens in Swiss Army Man, the
experimental film debut of
music video directors Dan Kwan
and Daniel Scheinert.
But Rymer has fun with some expressionistic
and experimental -
film moments here
and there, specifically in Lestat's
music video
and his fantasy reveries.
He has produced 13 feature documentaries, including the award - winning I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART, about the band Wilco; MOOG, the documentary about electronic
music pioneer Robert Moog;
and an
experimental feature
film with the band Animal Collective.
This insures his independence from the modes of financing prevailing in
experimental film circles: certain (limited) grants, teaching jobs... Displaying a flair for the best of contemporary
music (his collaborators include Bill Frisell, Michael Gordon, Vijay Iyer, Jóhan Jóhannsson
and Todd Reynolds), Morrison has to insure the resilience of his «decaying» images against a wall - to - wall accompaniment.
Pinder seeks to find black identity through his
experimental videos
and feature
films that reference
music, videos,
and musical theater.
Fowler is a filmmaker who uses photographs, archival images
and music, building
experimental cinematic collages that ultimately deconstruct conventional thoughts about biography
and the documentary; the viewer is drawn in
and confronted with their own relationship to history
and to
film as an art form.
TONY CONRAD is an American avant - garde artist,
experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher
and writer, best known for such
films as «The Flicker»
and for his album, «Outside the Dream Syndicate,» recorded with German group Faust
and considered a masterwork of minimal
music and Krautrock.
After working as part of the London based
music and performance collective, The Scratch Orchestra, he went on to make the On the Air Trilogy, a series of
experimental films for British television exploring the nature of the broadcasting experience
and ran the New Cinema Workshop at the Midland Group in Nottingham.
Kenneth Anger is a pioneer within the field of
experimental film,
and has exerted an influence on both Hollywood movies
and the development of
music videos.
He has composed
music for independent
films,
experimental video projects
and art installations, collaborating with such artists as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler
and Dara Birnbaum.
He found an open, energetic art scene, full of
experimental sculpture, performance,
film,
and music that described its own creation.
A more expansive version of the video will be featured prominently on multiple screens in MASS MoCA's courtyard
and will be accompanied throughout the summer by live
music curated by John Colpitts of the
experimental rock band Oneida — who will be following in the daunting footsteps of Philip Glass
and the Chinese musician Wu Tong, who both previously provided unique scores for the
film.
Luke Fowler is a filmmaker who uses photographs, archival images
and music, building
experimental cinematic collages that ultimately deconstruct conventional thoughts about biography
and the documentary; the viewer is drawn in
and confronted with their own relationship to history
and to
film as an art form.
Idea Capital Location: Atlanta, GA Idea Capital offers grants ranging from $ 500 to $ 2,000 to Atlnata - area artists to encourage
experimental and investigative art projrects across all genres of the arts: including visual art, dance, lierature, performance, digital media,
music, curatorial projects, critical writing,
film,
and video.
Phill Niblock (b. 1933, USA) is an artist whose fifty - year career spans minimalist
and experimental music,
film and photography.
In celebration of the longest night of the year,
experimental composer Phil Niblock, 80, returns to Roulette for the third year in a row, giving a 6 - hour - long concert of acoustic
and electronic
music, accompanied by video
and film projections.
Yves Klein was one of the premier artists of his generation,
and made significant contributions to performance art
and Happenings,
experimental music, body art, monochromatic painting, the use of photography
and film,
and even invented a unique blue pigment — International Klein Blue, often abbreviated as IKB.
Drawing on varied genres including documentary filmmaking,
music video,
experimental film and theatrical performance, these artworks dispense with straightforward storytelling
and unfold in a manner akin to musical compositions.
International artists such as Urs Fischer, Carston Höller, Olafur Eliasson,
and experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger contributed mobile art yurts or
films; musicians like Cat Power, Beck, Giorgio Moroder, Patti Smith, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Twin Shadow,
and Thurston Moore provided live
music, a food «happening» by Rirkrit Tiravanija,
and marching bands Kansas City, are amouhg the few contributors.
Doug hosts an
experimental music radio show, does loads of video /
film work
and showcased drawings of figures inspired by horror
films during the open studios.
Collaborating on
music projects
and performing with Pauline Oliveros, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Scanner, Machinefabriek, Yasunao Tone
and visual artists including Tony Oursler, Joan Jonas
and the late, great Fluxus artist
and «Father of Video Art» Nam June Paik, Vitiello has composed for independent
films,
experimental video projects
and art installations for more than two decades.
Combining visual art, performance, poetry,
experimental music and film, Fluxus was similar to Dada,
and had a serious problem with serious modern art.
RhizomeDC is a nonprofit DIY arts space dedicated to providing a home in the Washington D.C. area for
experimental works of all kinds, including
music,
film, poetry, performance art, theater
and more.
The seminal,
experimental found - footage
film combines an assortment of unrelated scenes from newsreels, B - movies,
and soft - core pornography, to create an audio - visual collage that prefigured post-modern cinema as well as
music videos.
Music has inspired some of the most progressive art of our time from impressionist artists like Whistler
and Monet, to the abstract painting of Kandinskv,
and Pop artworks
and experimental films by Andy Warhol.
Between
films, working as a P.A. on a TV show
and teaching an analog video art workshop at EPFC, Miko directs
music videos
and performs visual projections within LA's burgeoning electronic
and experimental music circles.
The New Wave, the
experimental downtown culture of Manhattan, a symbiosis of
music,
film, performance
and art, reflected the pulse of the time, charging Cortez's exhibition with energy.
Emerging in the early 1960s world of
experimental film,
music, poetry, dance
and Happenings, Carolee Schneemann's multimedia work addresses the interrelationship between postmodern issues
and broader cultural concerns.
For Traces, a 2015
film, the Berlin - based, Turkish artist used balloons, tambourines,
and a children's playground to create what is both a kinetic sculpture
and a piece of minimalist
experimental music.
Emerging in the early 1960s world of
experimental film,
music, poetry, dance
and Happenings, Carolee Schneemann's work is characterized by experiments in kinetic technologies, as well as research into archaic visual morphologies, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos
and the body of the artist depicted in dynamic relationship with the social body.
Selected Events Monomania Festival, Cambridge Junction
and Aid & Abet 2014 Sluice Art Fair, London 2013 The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester 2013 Process Form Image —
Experimental Film 2013 Noise Improve
and Sound 2013 INIVA, pop up art fair, London 2012 Vane in the Bibliotheque 2012 Constructive Interference (
music / performance event) 2012 Psychic Power of Plants (workshop) 2012 Tower — David Ryan (
film screening
and performance) 2012 Transition Shop in the Bibliotheque 2012 Airtime — AIR networking event 2012 Refraction
and Reflection — salon 2012 Sluice Art Fair, London 2011 exhaustion
and exuberance, Eastside Projects Birmingham 2011
With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer history of experimentation in video, net art, installation, new media, expanded cinema, visual
music,
and experimental film.
Since the 1950s, she has been a pioneer of avant - garde
and experimental culture, with a multimedia practice that encompasses
music, performance, instructions, writing,
and film.
Tony Conrad (1940 — 2016) composed
and performed with La Monte Young
and John Cale in the Theatre of Eternal
Music; appeared in
and prepared the musical soundtrack for Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (1963); directed the
experimental film Flicker (1966, which has been known to induce hallucinations); sang backup vocals for Lou Reed
and Cale's pre-Velvets band The Primitives; collaborated with Mike Kelley
and Tony Oursler;
and was part of the media studies faculty at the University of Buffalo.
The duo combines historical research with musical performance,
and uses archival audio
and film to create ambient, electronic,
and experimental music and accompanying projections in museum
and festival settings.
Tony Conrad, the indefatigably
experimental artist whose career included landmark achievements in structural
film, drone
music,
and contemporary art, died today of pneumonia, according to the Buffalo News.
Aïda Ruilova is especially known for her video works, which are characterized by striking images, rhythmic cuts,
and sound design influenced by
experimental pop
music, with consistent references to the genre
films of the 1960s
and»70s.