The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture)
The infinite loop is the perfect form for expressing the reality of
contemporary existence. From the endless boom-bust cycle of capitalism
to the repeating right/left swings of American politics to the
misbehaving computer code frustrating our days, we are the society of
the loop. We're doomed to repeat history ad infinitum (not to mention ad
nauseum) with no progress nor resolve needed. These observations are
nothing new; how could they be? We've always been Sisyphus.
while (history) {
history = true;
}
Come celebrate the horrific beauty of the infinite loop at "The Wheel of
The Devil," a one-night-only screening of historic and contemporary
loops at Over The Opening. Each loop screened until the audience votes
to move to the next.
Artists (in no particular order):
JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre
LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris
Coy - Michael Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more... JODI - Rick Silva -
Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre LaCarte - Michael
Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael
Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more... JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon -
Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA -
Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael Bell-Smith –
jimpunk - and more...
curated by MTAA with Ed Halter
presented by T.Whid of MTAA
where:
Over The Opening (OTO)
60 N. 6th St. 2nd Flr (btw Wythe & Kent)
Brooklyn, NY, 11211 (map)
when:
Friday May 29th, 2009 7-10PM (one night only)
Doors open at 7PM, the lecture starts looping at 8PM sharp!
free and open to the public
Michael Sarff (M.River) and Tim Whidden (T.Whid) formed the
Brooklyn-based artist collaboration MTAA in 1996. MTAA has presented
artworks and performances at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters
Gallery, Artists Space, and Light Industry all in New York City; The
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Beall Center for Art and
Technology in Irvine, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA and at The Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA. International
exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and
Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. The
collaboration has earned grants and awards from the Creative Capital
Foundation, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam and New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.
Ed Halter is a critic and curator living in New York City. His writing
has appeared in Artforum, Arthur, The Believer, Cinema Scope,
Kunstforum, Millennium Film Journal, Moving Image Source, Rhizome, the
Village Voice and elsewhere. From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and
oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and has organized
screenings and exhibitions for the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Cinematexas, Eyebeam, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the Museum of Modern
Art, and San Francisco Cinematheque. He currently teaches in the Film
and Electronic Arts department at Bard College, and has lectured at
Harvard, NYU, Yale, and other schools as well as at Art in General,
Aurora Picture Show, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, the
Images Festival, the Impakt Festival, and Pacific Film Archive. His book
From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games was published by Thunder's
Mouth Press in 2006. With Andrea Grover, he is currently editing the
collection A Microcinema Primer: A Brief History of Small Cinemas. He is
a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and
electronic art in Brooklyn, New York.
Over The Opening (OTO) - Once a month, the artist duo MTAA convert their
Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art. The
ongoing project, begun in October 2007, has presented work ranging from
group tamale production to a LAN party involving a computerized version
of Guy Debord’s 1978 "Game of War."
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