- Future Tense at the Los Angeles Filmforum
- ISEA 2012
- The Future Imaginary
- An Indirect Intention
September 21, 2014
The Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian
6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA
Curated by Tom Leeser, Future Tense was a collection of video and sonic works that can be seen to represent these parallel futures through abstraction, performance and narrative. These eight time based works consist of animation, found footage, spoken word, performance, electronic music and sound. Included in the Filmforum show were three works by sound artists and composers, Justin Asher, Stephanie Cheng Smith, and Gregory Lenczycki. Each of these three sound artists used NASA footage as a basis for creating new electronic music compositions. There are two works by visual artist and composer Kadet Kuhne that incorporates the elements of body performance, endurance and electronic music. Kerstin Larissa Hovland’s two works employ computer animation to produce a synthesis of “visual movement with a musical impulse.” The final video fuses Claire Phillips’ science fiction short story with Tom Leeser’s manipulation of found footage from a NASA shuttle launch. All the work share a common interest and critique of technology and its role in fostering impossible futures that can only be imagined. Never realized.
Future Tense originally was a collaboration between the Centre for Living Arts in Mobile, Alabama and the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts. It included twenty artists and was part of a larger exhibition at the Centre for the Living Arts called the Futures Project. The Centre’s director, Robert Sain curated the exhibit, which ran from May 2013 – February 2014. The project also included paintings, sculpture and installations by Kenny Scharf, Candy Chang, Dawn DeDeaux and Nina Waisman.
“Radical Cosmologies”at ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness
The ISEA2012 symposium consisted of a conference September 19 – 24, 2012 based in Albuquerque with outreach days along the state’s “Cultural Corridor" in Santa Fe and Taos, and an expansive, regional collaboration throughout the fall of 2012, including art exhibitions, public events, performances and educational activities.
The “Radical Cosmologies” theme gazed at the universe and questioned our place in it. It explored a wide range of creative perspectives and practices around the cultural, scientific and philosophical possibilities of contemporary astronomy. This theme incorporated various forms of media, written word, performance and installation, as well as workshops, community-based actions, lectures and online projects offering viewers fresh interpretations and experiences of cultural myths, indigenous histories and contemporary science.
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design presented the exhibition The Future Imaginary, in 2009. The exhibition featured work by 11 artists whose work responded to the interactive novel The Imaginary 20th Century by Norman Klein and Margo Bistis.
Viralnet.net brought its project—Home and Garden to a natural conclusion by orchestrating a final exhibition designed as a tactical intervention into the Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Culver City, California. The intervention was titled An Indirect Intention. It ran from June 17 to June 20, 2010.