Screening of Pixelday Dream

Montreal Nuit Blanche is February 28th and The Pixel Daydream Compilation will be screening!
It will be at
Red Bird Studios
135, Van Horne Ave.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

It will be screening all night.

the compilation

Cerca de mi, lemeh42, 4:00 min, photomotion, b&w, 2007

This work has been commissioned to us by Galeria Cartel (Granada, Spain) to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The work has been developed like a fantastic journey through the gallery’s most important paintings.
The two protagonists (Michele Santini and Lorenza Paoloni) are chasing each other in the fantasy, like it happened in the past, and finally they find each other in the same reality. The magnificent paintings realized by Russian and Spanish painters make the ideal frame for the city strolling, where words are made for flying, “hide and seek” is played under the studio table and one of the protagonists suggests us to be silent in order of not being discovered.

this is not an anchor, this boat is not an anchor, Marianna Milhorat, 11:10 min, s16mm, color and b&w, 2007

this is not an anchor is the internal journey through a magical and mysterious landscape, where romanticism is continuously disrupted by an unnatural and anxious treatment of the subject matter and nothing is able to be anticipated.

SOMETHING TO BE AFRAID OF, JAŠA, 6:54 min, video, color, 2007

Backstage – Urban Drama
Away from (or caused by) political debates and social discourses as an artist I am captured by the personal, intimate problems, which I approach in this work. I prefer to look at the real tragedy, the intimate – urban drama.

In the backstage of urban space stands a subject with his personal drama. He is acting by his personal beliefs and emotions.

Pain seen from an inner point of view has a different rhythm; a moment can last longer as it seems from the outside. Therefore the movement is represented with the subjective rhythm of the seen character. If the perception of time is made to suit the character’s feelings, the visualization made to suit ours – spectator’s perception. “The invisible enemy” – the form of fear or anger is a subjective matter, of the charter or the spectator.

“Somewhere in between the image of the city and everyday moments, there I am. One and only. The city is mine and the city has me, as a whole, with all my beliefs and disappointments.”

Dead Beat, Smriti Mehra, 1:40 min, video, color, 2004

Shot at one of Bangalore’s oldest meat markets, Dead Beat is a vignette that explores space and the ritual of work.

Hail the Failure of Urban Planning, Kim Kielhofner, 2:07 min, video, color, sound, 2007

Hail the Failure of Urban Planning is a possibility of creation and constraint through a visual movement as an urban dweller. Accompanying the visual movement is a text of tenets of urban practice, both sincere and ironic.

Blocks, Carlo Crovato, 7:06 min, video, b&w, 2006

A collection of 20 short videos shot with a pocket camera while wandering around various districts of Cairo. Presented as a loop with stereo audio. Images and audio arrive one by one from the left and travel, as does the audio, to their relative positions until screen is filled with all 20 clips. Each clips audio is panned relative to its position on screen. So audio for a clip on the far left can be heard spatially on the far left, a clip in the center can be heard in the center. Clips and audio then pan off one by one screen right. The loop restarts with clips arriving from the left.

Once We All Walk through Solid Objects, Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum
4:04 min, video, b&W, 2007

The projects Once We All Walk through Solid Objects consist of a video, a book, and a sculpture. This video is best described as Half Life 2 meets Hitchcock’s vertigo and Bridget Riley in a computer gamer like animation of a man watching a screen. As the tension mounts in the movie the man dissolves into the screen, becoming one with the patterns flickering across it. The sculpture shows the anatomy of a man drinking a patterned substance – illustrating how it infects the body from within. The book is a collection of 10 different pattern scenarios ranging from animal vision and camouflage to government propaganda through patterned textiles.

Raumzeittanz (space time dance), Karl Kühn, 6:10 min. video, 2005

The medial transformation of a three dimensional space into the two dimensional video image makes it possible to do certain interventions in space and time of the dance performance. Many temporalities are shown at the same time, which leads to distortions of the dancer’s moving body and dance aesthetics.
Technically the video screen has been divided into 720 columns, corresponding to the resolution of digital video. Each column was shifted slightly in time, accelerating from the left to right. The percussive soundtrack was composed and recorded by the artist himself and also used during the original dance performance.

Field of Industry, Ben Goloff & Josh Usheroff, 1:47, video, color, 2007

This video was shot in one afternoon in a defunct steel foundry. This site, abandoned since 1984, is one of the most toxic PCB sites in Canada. Since its closure, graffiti artists and homeless youth have sought refuge within its walls. The contrast of urban decay, the remnants of toxic industry and the work of spray-paint artists provide a visually intriguing space worthy of documentation.

Zdarlight, Jennifer Farrand, 4:16, video, color, 2007

Zdarlight is indirectly a parody of an MTV music video. It showcases a twelve-year-old girl dancing to house music in public and ordinary places. She doesn’t look glamorous and her moves are old school as she references Michael Jackson’s thriller and the robot.
It is a shot at the soft porn aesthetic of our music videos and the harmful impact it can have on a young girl’s identity, body image and her understanding of sexuality.

Artist Information

lemeh42
http://lemeh42.indivia.net
lemeh42 is a duo working in photomotion video comprised of Santini Michele and Paoloni Lorenza. Their work has been exhibited in Europe and been shown in festivals in Europe and the US. They won the Italian E-Content award for their project “The eyes inside of the rooms” Their interactive works can be found on the web at lemeh42.oziosi.org

Marianna Milhorat
Marianna Milhorat is a Montreal based filmmaker and graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. Having grown up in the wilds of Vermont, she is now primarily interested in landscape film and in creating works motivated by psychologically charged spaces.

JAŠA
http://www.ganes.si
The essential feature of JAŠA’s work is the interaction between moldable artistic matter and real environment. Only through their synergy – intimate and public space – can one develop a figurative language, which communicates with the audience. JAŠA is a graduate of “Academia di Belle Arti di Venezia” and finished a postgraduate program in painting and multimedia. JAŠA works and lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. JAŠA has exhibited extensively in Europe and is a member of the artistic group Crash in Progress.

Smriti Mehra
Smriti Mehra is a video artist from India who has just received her MFA in Media Art from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her non-fiction work deals with issues of labor, marginalization and invisibility. Her work has screened at various locations and film festivals in India, Canada, Germany, Denmark, and the USA.

Kim Kielhofner
http://www.giantpixie.com
Kim Kielhofner is a multidisciplinary artist whose video work is interested in image manipulation and themes of alienation, violence, memory, presence, and the creation of a space of new possiblities. Her work has been exhibited and screened in Canada, the US, and Europe.
Carlo Crovato
http://www.plastic-electrics.org
Carlo Crovato is an inter-disciplinary artist working with various media, mechanics, sound, video, and light.

Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum
http://anders-kristoffer.dk
Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum are a Danish artist duo working with video and installation. They have shown their work is Europe, the US, and Asia. Their work addresses the everyday existence that is filled with imagery of imaginary worlds, from the white frictionless commercials for detergent to the impossible physics of computer games. They believe these are the new utopian ideas for our “modern” times. They try to take these fantastic images and concepts seriously and examine what consequences they might have for our everyday existence: We want shiny new detergent bodies at one with the constant flow of information. We want frictionless existence that we are constantly promised by our contemporary society. This might be just another mirage, yet another hopeless utopian ideal, but it seems to give us, however briefly, a temporary fix of new ideals.

Karl Kühn
http://www.karlkuehn.at
Karl Kühn studied media arts and sculpture at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna in the classes of Bernhard Leitner and Erwin Wurm. He received his diploma with commendation, prize for best diploma in media arts. He lives and works in Vienna.

Ben Goloff & Josh Usheroff
Ben Goloff & Josh Usheroff play with video and explore abandoned buildings.

Jennifer Farrand
http://i-love-rabbits.blogspot.com
Jennifer Farrand is a student of Computer Mediated Art at Victoria University, Australia. Her video art is centered around movement and dancing.

deadline extended

The deadline to send in your videos has been extended! Look at the instructions below. We look forward to getting your videos.

Video Submissions Wanted

Video Submissions Wanted *Pixel Daydream Compilation* November 15, 2007

Pixel Daydream is a DVD compilation of video art. The goal of this project is to support emerging artists working in the medium of experimental video in relationship to visual culture, urban space, video as an audio practice, and alternative narratives. We are currently seeking short video works (under 10 minutes) for our compilation.

Here are some general themes open to your interpretation:
- Reproduction, Manipulation, Collage
- Urban Space and Movement
- Appropriation, text, and narrative

Please send the following information with your submission

Name:

Address:


e-mail:

website:

Phone:

Brief Synopsis of work (100 words or less):






Artist Statement or Bio (100 words or less):






Send DVD (NTSC) and completed form by November 15, 2007
Pixel Daydream
6745 St. Dominique
Montreal, Qc H2S 3B1
Canada
http://pixeldaydream.blogspot.com pixeldaydream@gmail.com