Public Programs
Past Public Programs
GORDON MATTA-CLARK'S CITY SLIVERS
ON THE HIGH LINE
The High Line above West 22nd St.
Nearest entrances at:
West 23rd St. and 10th Ave.
West 20th St. and 10th Ave.
New York, NY 10011
After the park closes at 7 pm, the projection will be visible from West 22nd St., between 10th and 11th Aves.
Nov. 29, 2011 - Jan. 24, 2012
Dusk - 10 pm
EAI was pleased to collaborate with High Line Art, a program of Friends of the High Line, to present Gordon Matta-Clark's 1976 City Slivers on the High Line, New York City's acclaimed elevated public park. The presentation of Matta-Clark's City Slivers launched High Line Channel, a new outdoor video program featuring daily screenings. City Slivers was originally created by Matta-Clark for projection on the exterior façade of the Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan. The piece is an ode to New York City's landscape and a dynamic formal investigation of the city's urban architecture.
City Slivers was projected on a building to the east of the High Line at West 22nd Street, where it was visible from the park's Seating Steps, as well as the sidewalk on West 22nd Street—less than a block from EAI.
EAI 40th Anniversary Benefit
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 W 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
7 - 10 pm
8 - 8:30pm: Performance and Video Program
EAI's 40th Anniversary Benefit included a not-to-be-missed program featuring special live performances by Joan Jonas, Shana moulton, Carolee Schneemann and Michael Smith; video pieces by artists including Charles Atles, Dara Birnbaum, Takeshi Murata, Bruce Nauman and Seth Price, among others; and music selected by Dan Graham.
EAI @ The NY Art Book Fair:
40 Artists/40 Works/40 Years
The NY Art Book Fair 2010
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
September 29 - October 2, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 29, 6-9 pm
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary in 2011, EAI presented a special screening program at the NY Art Book Fair. Forty short videos and films by forty artists, one work for every year between 1971 and 2011, were screened, all drawn from EAI's extensive archive of media-based art. 40 Artists/40 Works/40 Years began with iconic early works by artists such as Joan Jonas, John Baldessari, the Vasulkas and Charlotte Moorman and concluded in the 2000s with pieces by artists including Cory Arcangel, Shana Moulton, Seth Price, and Takeshi Murata: a time-lapse portrait of moving-image art evolving across four decades. 40 Artists/40 Works/40 Years screened continuously during the fair in MoMA PS1's basement video vault.
LIGHTS IN MOTION:
Rare Film & Video Materials from the Howard Wise Gallery
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 W 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Noon - 7 pm
Program repeats hourly.
Join us from 6-7 for a drink.
Howard Wise was an innovative art dealer and a visionary supporter of video art. From 1960 to 1970, the Howard Wise Gallery on 57th Street in New York was a locus for kinetic art and multimedia works that explored the nexus of art and technology, presenting artists such as Len Lye, Takis, Jean Tinguely, and Group Zero. Wise's most influential exhibition was TV as a Creative Medium, the first in the U.S. dedicated to video as an art form. Featuring performances, single-channel tapes, video sculpture and multimedia installations by twelve artists including the premiere of Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman's TV Bra for Living Sculpture, the exhibition served to link the kinetic and art and technology movements of the 1960s with the emergent medium of video art. In addition to defining a burgeoning artistic movement, TV as a Creative Medium revealed the need for new paradigms to support artists working in video. In 1970 Wise closed the gallery; the following year he founded Electronic Arts Intermix as a nonprofit organization to foster creative projects in the nascent video medium.
The program included never-before-screened film documentation of kinetic artworks in the gallery, interviews with Wise on the founding of EAI, Jud Yalkut's rarely seen 16mm film documentation of TV as a Creative Medium, footage of Charlotte Moorman performing at the gallery, and more.
TRISHA BAGA
Performative Screening
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 6:30 pm
EAI presented a performative screening with artist Trisha Baga, an artist whose work blurs the line between video and performance. Interested in the inherent qualities and meanings of ordinary objects and occurrences, Baga uses performance to open up a phenomenological space for facing the "common things" that surround us. At EAI, Baga placed her video works—along with photos, raw footage, performance elements and super-8 home movies shot by her parents—in screensaver software that randomly selected clips to be screened. Interested in the screensaver as a device for creating narrative and generating the appearance of order, Baga allowed the software to curate her presentation. Taking her cues from the projected images, she responded through performance.
FUTURE FORMATS
Video in a New Decade
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 6:30 pm
EAI looked to the future with a special summer screening featuring a group of young artists who are redefining the use of video in contemporary art at the beginning of the century's second decade. Produced in the last two years, the works in Future Formats offer a glimpse of where artists may take the medium in the coming decade as they harness new technologies and consider their complex implications. The program included works by Uri Aran, A.K. Burns, Sean Monahan and Greg Fong, Andrew Lampert, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Ryan Trecartin, Leilah Weinraub, Yemenwed, and Hennessy Youngman.
ANDREW LAMPERT PRESENTS: ANDY LAMPERT
Screening + Conversation
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:30 pm
EAI presented a screening of new and recent works by artist and filmmaker Andrew Lampert, followed by a conversation between Lampert and musician/writer Alan Licht. At EAI, Lampert projected Super-8 films and works on video. Taking on the role of projectionist, he orchestrated the screening, providing introductions and commentary with performative elements. The event included the first New York screening of a video from Lampert's new diary series, shot (often surreptitiously) with the artist's cell-phone-sized pocket video camera; short films described by Lampert as "the death of Kodachrome," and two works that look at adolescence, one in a fictionalized, filmic past (Etka and Masha: Teenagers of The Old World, 2010, 14:41 min) and the other in today's video-saturated reality (Madeline Victorious, 2010, 6:26 min). These projects are unified in their emphasis on the frame around the edges of narrative—the genres and clichés in which he cloaks on-screen action, the happy accidents during production, and the unexpected events during a screening that shape the audience's response and foreground human activity in the cinematic context.
CYNTHIA MAUGHAN: HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN
EAI Program @ Migrating Forms Festival
Migrating Forms
at Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Saturday, May 21, 2011, 8:30 pm
EAI partnered with Migrating Forms to present the first New York screening devoted to the video work of Los Angeles-based artist Cynthia Maughan. Maughan produced nearly 300 direct-camera performances in a prolific period from 1973 through the 1980s. Absorbing Hollywood's beguiling superficiality, Maughan's performances treat the closed-circuit camera as a two-way mirror, in which and for which she prepares her public persona. Maughan's rarely-screened videos use and call attention to the tropes of television, horror films, B-movies, and lifestyle magazines, tackling issues of domesticity, hygiene, and gender roles with a dry wit and an iconoclastic sensibility. Cynthia Maughan: Holidays in the Sun featured works by Maughan alongside early videos by William Wegman and Paul McCarthy, as well as a reading from Trailer Life magazine, the basis for Maughan's series of the same title.
EAI IN TIMES SQUARE:
40 Years of Video Art
MTV 44½ Screen
Times Square
Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets
New York, NY 10036
April 13 - 19, 2011
Noon - 4pm and 6pm - 11pm
at the top of every hour
Saturday, April 16 & Sunday, April 17
Full program also plays at noon
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special project for Times Square. In partnership with the Times Square Alliance and MTV, EAI brought artists' visions to the MTV 44½ LED Screen. Marking EAI's 40 years of support for moving image art, EAI in Times Square celebrated video art's rich history of creative intervention in one of the world's most dynamic media landscapes.
From April 13 to 19, EAI highlighted the remarkable creative media interventions of artists on a spectacular scale. Works by Vito Acconci, Dan Asher, Phyllis Baldino, Dara Birnbaum, Gary Hill, Shigeko Kubota, Takeshi Murata, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Stuart Sherman and William Wegman were seen daily on MTV 44½'s large-format LED screen.
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE:
RUNNING OUTBURST
Screening + Conversation with Jay Sanders
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 6:30 pm
EAI presented a screening and conversation with internationally celebrated sound and performance artist Charlemagne Palestine. In a rare New York appearance, Palestine, who lives and works in Brussels, screened a selection of his video works, including Body Music I/Body Music II (1973-74), Running Outburst (1975), You Should Never Forget the Jungle (1975), and Ritual in the Emptiness (2001). New York-based curator and writer Jay Sanders joined Palestine in conversation after the screening to discuss Palestine's inimitable approach to performance, video, and sound.
Split of Light: Experimental Media
New York Film/Video Council Panel @ EAI
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 6:30 pm
EAI hosted a panel discussion organized by the New York Film/Video Council (NYFVC). The panel considered how experimental film and video has been impacted by the art world's increased interest in the moving image, parallel to a changed environment for independent media production and exhibition. The panel also took into consideration how the very term "experimental"—sometimes used interchangeably with "avant-garde" and "underground"—has been defined by audience demographics, and distribution, exhibition, and production models.
Moderated by Rebecca Cleman, EAI's Director of Distribution, the panel will include Thomas Beard, co-founder and director of Light Industry; Andrew Lampert, artist, programmer, and archivist at Anthology Film Archives; Alex Kitnick of Greene Naftali Gallery; and MM Serra, filmmaker and Executive Director of Film-maker's Coop.
Founded in the 1940s, the New York Film and Video Council is New York's oldest continuously operating non-profit serving the independent film, video and electronic arts community. Membership to the Council includes free entry to programming and events for the year. http://www.nyfvc.org
DARA BIRNBAUM: BEFORE WONDER WOMAN
Early Performance Video
Screening and Artist Talk
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Admission $ 7.00
Students $ 5.00
RSVP: rsvp@eai.org
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 6:30 pm
Dara Birnbaum joined EAI to screen and discuss her earliest media works, performance-driven videos produced in the mid-1970s. These videos, which are direct and unmediated, introduce themes that recur throughout her later work. In many of these works, Birnbaum appears on camera as the performer, investigating through the body intense emotional or psychological manifestations while also foregrounding the relation of the camera/viewer to the subject/performer. Rarely screened in public, these remarkable works, which were restored by EAI, were presented together for the first time in New York as part of EAI's ongoing 40th anniversary programming.
EAI ARMORY WEEK PROGRAM @ ARTPROJX CINEMA
ARTPROJX CINEMA
at The SVA Theatre
in association with
The Armory Show & Volta NY
333 West 23rd Street
(between 8th & 9th Avenues)
New York, NY 10011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Sunday, March 6, 2011, 4:05 pm - 5:05 pm
For Armory Week, EAI presented a screening program at Artprojx Cinema featuring some of the newest additions to its extensive collection of artists' video. The hour-long program featured works newly added to the EAI archive by a multi-generational group of artists including Jaime Davidovich, Andrew Lampert, Kristin Lucas, Cynthia Maughan, Takeshi Murata and Martha Rosler.
Artprojx Cinema, a new collaborative venture with The Armory Show and VOLTA NY, presented a screening program of over 80 artists' films and videos from over 40 galleries participating at the fairs and leading international public arts organizations and curators.
LAWRENCE WEINER: ALTERED TO SUIT
Screening and Artist Talk
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 6:30 pm
EAI presented a screening and talk with Lawrence Weiner, recognized internationally as a key figure in conceptual art. Weiner introduced and screened what has been described as his "rock and roll movie," the sensuous black-and-white film Altered To Suit (1979, 23 min), recently restored by EAI. The screening also featured three of Weiner's animated videos: Inherent In The Rhumb Line (2005, 7:25 min), Turning Some Pages (2007, 5 min), and his most recent video, Gyroscopically Speaking (2010, 5 min).
MARTHA ROSLER: KITCHEN THEATRE
Artist Talk, Screening and Premiere of New Work
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6:30 pm
EAI presented a screening and talk by Martha Rosler featuring her "kitchen videos." One of contemporary art's most important and incisive cultural critics, Rosler has frequently turned her keen analytical eye, her camera lens, and her sharp deadpan humor on the kitchen. At EAI, Rosler premiered her most recent work, Semiotics of the Kitchen: An Audition (2011, 10:26 min), alongside three of her landmark videos from the 1970s, A budding gourmet (1974, 17:45 min), Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975, 6:09 min), and The East Is Red, The West Is Bending (1977, 19:57 min).
