The following artists/works were selected for the Boston reel
which will be shown in Our
Friends Are Electric, Federation
Square, Melbourne Australia on April 10, 2008:
Ex-static by Nancy Davies (1:43)
PPPP by Nancy Davies (1:22)
Unmarked Package by the Institute for Infinitely
Small Things (9:32)
con-flict by Bebe Beard and Lou
Cohen (5:00)
Weather You Remember: Alfred I. Maleson by Maura
Jasper (1:50)
Anamnesis by Allison Holt (10:31)
Our Friends Are Electric - A Series of Projects Made for
Urban Screens is a unique series of screenings in the
lead up to the 2008 Urban Screens Conference, to be hosted
by Federation Square in October.
From the subways of Paris to electronic billboards in cities such
as Dublin, Berlin and Amsterdam, Our Friends Are Electric
is a series of projects created specifically for public screens
throughout the world. Beginning with the launch of The Streaming
Museum, the first moving image gallery to be broadcast both
in cyberspace, and public space over seven continents simultaneously,
Our Friends Are Electric celebrates how today’s
cities are becoming connected through a network of urban screens.
In a worldwide launch on January the 29th 2008, The Streaming
Museum is set to commemorate the pioneer video artist, Nam June
Paik, with an international broadcast of ‘Good Morning Mr.
Orwell’ (1984), a seminal work celebrating the global impact
of satellite television and forecasting the future of the Internet.
A showcase of international urban screen initiatives, Our
Friends Are Electric introduces the concept of urban
screens to the Melbourne audience in anticipation of the conference
in October. The series will include a range of international video
art programs produced for public screens around the world in addition
to individual artist initiatives created from collective contributions
around the world.
About Video Sharing
The goal of Upgrade! International's Video Sharing in
Physical Space project is to create low-tech video-sharing
communities in physical spaces. Videos are circulated between
cities so that programs can be screened locally and internationally,
preferably in the built environment. Flyers with individual contact
information for the artists whose work is shown are handed out
to encourage people who are seeing the work in each of the cities
to develop individual connections and relationships. This is essentially
a "social software" aspect that picks up on digital
social networking strategies--such as YouTube, MySpace, Facebook,
Friendster, etc.--and attempts to extend them into new spaces
in order to reach new communities. This is an opportunity to participate
in the grassroots building of an international network of video
artists, and have your work screened around the world.
Participating nodes are Amsterdam, Belgrade, Boston, Chicago,
Istanbul, Montreal, Paris, Scotland, Seattle, Skopje
and Vancouver.
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