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YOU ARE INVITED *Gerry Fialka & Suzy Williams music and film events in New York City 2016 - please spread the word* Sept 29 Thurs - Stormin Norman & Suzy house concert in Riverdale Facebook = <https://www.facebook.com/events/1224793380888529/> https://www.facebook.com/events/1224793380888529/ and <http://www.zamcheck.net/snandsuzy.html>http://www.zamcheck.net/ snandsuzy.html The song “God Bless The Family” by Stormin Norman & Suzy appears on the soundtrack for *We Can't Go Home Again,* the *experimental 1976 film by Nicholas Ray*, and in the 2011 documentary* Don't Expect Too Much* by Susan Ray. Sept 30 Friday 4pm to 5:30pm Gerry lecture at NYU – *Pokemon Go As Live Cinema*, FREE NYU Production Lab, 16 Washington Place, Lower Level, New York, NY 10003 please rsvp: https://www.facebook.com/events/1145953542164794 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pokemon-go-as-live-cinema-tickets-27493237012 Oct 1, Sat - Suzy & Rich Jenkins house concert (89th and Central Park) Facebook = <https://www.facebook.com/events/1764900827124297/> https://www.facebook.com/events/1764900827124297/ and <http://jenkinshouseconcerts.blogspot.com/>http:// jenkinshouseconcerts.blogspot.com/ and <http://laughtears.com/suzy_bio.html>http://laughtears.com/ suzy_bio.html Oct 2 Sun - Suzy & Rich in Ridgefield CT - house concert RSVP = <mwil...@atclayton.com>mwil...@atclayton.com, Oct 2, Sun – 7:30pm *Genuine Fake Films of Gerry Fialka at Union Docs* *http://www.uniondocs.org/event/2016-10-02-gerry-fialka/ <http://www.uniondocs.org/event/2016-10-02-gerry-fialka/>* featuring <http://laughtears.com/Genuine_Fake.html>http://laughtears. com/Genuine_Fake.html Oct 3 Mon - Gerry lecture *Pixelvision Aesthetics** for Mark Street's* Fordham film class11:30 - 1pm, FREE *MORE DETAILS follow...* THANK YOU, Gerry Fialka pfs...@aol.com 310-306-7330 http://www.laughtears. com/ *+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++* *Pokemon Go as Live Cinema * https://www.facebook.com/events/1145953542164794 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pokemon-go-as-live-cinema-tickets-27493237012 Paramedia ecologist Gerry Fialka will probe Pokemon Go, the augmented-reality cellular app, as projection performance art. Survey "live cinema" from its roots in Gesamtkunstwerk (total art work) to what Francis Ford Coppola teaches as the multimedia genre merging theater, movie making and live televised streaming. Many variations span from Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" to McLuhan's "Global Theatre." We'll delve deep into topics like *Expanded Cinema*, psychogeography, Marshall McLuhan, Jane Jacobs, the Situationists, Bunuel's *Land Without Bread*, and James Joyce. Joyce invented cyberspace and disguised it as a book, *Finnegans Wake*, where he wrote: "Where the hand of man never set foot." We'll review McLuhan's Menippean satirized percepts: - "We shape our tools, then they shape us."- "How about technologies as the collective unconscious and art as the collective unconsciousness?- "Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior." We'll explore the hidden psychic effects of cell phones and Pokemon Go, urban and country environments, and sense-ratio-shifting. Are we wandering about like post-post-modern flaneurs? Are we being played by Pavlovian prompts? How can we reimagine meta-analysis of Free will and Determinism? What are the services and disservices of reward systems? What is the difference between consciousness and experience? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *UNION DOCS presents* *Genuine Fake Films by Gerry Fialka **http://www.uniondocs.org/event/2016-10-02-gerry-fialka/ <http://www.uniondocs.org/event/2016-10-02-gerry-fialka/>* *Sunday Oct 2, 2016 at 7:30pm, doors open at 7pm, $9 admission* *Union Docs, 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11211* *718-395-7902 <718-395-7902> http://www.uniondocs.org/ <http://www.uniondocs.org/>* Gerry Fialka's interactive media yoga session probes the hidden psychic effects of cinema and the viewing experience. Delve deep into humor and epiphanies via James Joyce, McLuhan, Duchamp, Zappa, Luis Bunuel, Chris Marker and Craig Baldwin, who proclaimed "Fialka is a meteor shower in the contemporary media arts discourse." PLUS new RIA TOO sneak preview. For stills and more info <http://laughtears.com/Genuine_Fake.html> http://laughtears.com/Genuine_Fake.html "As this modern digital Dark Age of technological advances threatens to drive physical film stock itself -- the very stuff from which dreams are made -- into extinction, this evening of *Genuine Fake Films by Gerry Fialka* couldn't come at a more propitious moment. One of Los Angeles' great celluloid underworld overlords, relentless cultural provocateur and filmmaker Fialka has been successfully bedeviling our popular consciousness since the late 20th century. A recognized artistic force since his early 1970s breakout as head shot-caller at the notorious Ann Arbor Film Co-op and renowned as the veteran curator of PXL THIS, Hollywood's second oldest film festival, any presentation of Fialka's work is guaranteed to rate as a mind-bending affair. Framed as an evening of "short films and interactive discussion," featured titles include 2009's *Eye Am Not a Robot*; 2008's *All Advertising Advertises Advertising*; and* Double Duty Interrobang*, Fialka's 2003 Pixelvision (read: Fischer Price toy video camera) eyebrow raiser. It's a veritable stampede of visual strangeness, theoretical acrobatics and sociocultural redefinition, all delivered through the singular prism of Fialka's self-defined prime directive: 'exploration of the hidden psychic effects of human inventions.'" - *LA Weekly* Gerry Fialka lectures world-wide on experimental film, avant garde art and subversive social media. Fialka's films have screened world-wide at film festivals, art museums and galleries.He has curated * <http://www.laughtears.com/>http://www.laughtears.com/ <http://www.laughtears.com/>* film screenings in LA since 1980 for his many series - Documental, 7 Dudley Cinema, Subversive Cinema and PXL THIS (second oldest film festival in LA), earning praise: "Gerry Fialka is a cultural revolutionary." - Michael Simmons, *LA Weekly* "The multi-media Renaissance man” -* LA Times* "Fialka is a Los Angeles-based independent media hero."- Holly Willis, *RES Magazine* *FILMS to be screened –* *I THINK I'M INTO SOMETHING* (2012, 8 minutes) Gerry Fialka and Clifford Novey’s Pixelvision short hybridizes beautiful dancers and psychedelic jazz to the randomness of tube clown movements. "Mesmerizing to experience" - Noted film author Beverly Gray. Special "Live Cinema" version with live music and dancers. LINK TO SEE FILM = <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAK_DMzZOc&list=PLF87F977C76C1893A&index=8> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAK_DMzZOc&list=PLF87F977C76C1893A&index=8 <http://vimeo.com/59500786> *EYE AM NOT A ROBOT* (2009, 14 minutes) - Mark X Farina & Gerry Fialka's scintillating film probes the percept of technology "being alive" by evoking early Russian film and Constructivism. Cultural icons from James Joyce to Robby the Robot to Marilyn Monroe are your humanoid guides through new art technologies. Can machines surpass humans in the creative process? How are robotics restructuring patterns of social interdependence in Art, Science and Nature? Cine-poets Farina & Fialka reframe our collective compliance in anthropomorphizing media as art forms. In the spirit of McLuhan's mosaic writing, this collage film propagates mythic thinking, in the Jungian sense, where people mime cues from technology used by millions. By flipping the art museum video installation experience into media yoga, one can download morphic resonance into the nervous system as a Zen experiment. What is the future of art and artificial intelligence? See the likeness & difference in Anticipatory Mindfulness and Android Meme. Summon the impossible by examining what Derrida calls "the absence of presence." "The future of the future is the present." - McLuhan. "I wouldn't be seen dead with a living work of art." - Museum curator. LINK TO SEE FILM = <http://vimeo.com/59500786>http://vimeo.com/59500786 SUZY WILLIAMS appears in many of Fialka's films. The song “God Bless The Family” by Stormin Norman & Suzy appears on the soundtrack for *We Can't Go Home Again,* the experimental 1976 film by Nicholas Ray, and in the 2011 documentary* Don't Expect Too Much* by Susan Ray. Suzy also sings her original song in the new film *Roseanne For President* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LsSLix_FTw>https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=_LsSLix_FTw +++++++++++++++++++++++ *Oct 3 Mon - Gerry lecture Pixelvision Aesthetics for Mark Street's Fordham film class11:30 - 1pm* *PIXELVISION AESTHETICS - Gerry Fialka, Director of the PXL THIS Film Festival, presents an interactive workshop on the electronic folk art of the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 toy video camera. He explores the significance of this raw DIY moving image art tool through the percepts of Marshall McLuhan, George Seurat, Salvador Dali, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Frank Zappa & more. James Wickstead invented the plastic camcorder and Fisher-Price produced it from 1987 to 1989. It records picture and sound directly onto audio cassettes, which creates its grainy look. Another distinguishing feature is its "in-focus" capability from zero to infinity. The "in your face" attitude restores a certain human vitality to the overpowering sensory overload that bombards us daily. It illustrates Marshall McLuhan's percept that television is tactile - you can practically touch the dots, all 2,000 of them (as opposed to the 150,000 you normally see on TV). Orson Welles said that a movie studio is "the biggest electric train set a kid ever had." On the other end of the spectrum, the PXL-2000 video camera is the cheesiest failed toy ever -- a train crashes in the playpen. Yet, in the hands of visionary video-makers, it has become an essential tool of cutting-edge creativity. The irresistible irony of the PXL is that the camera's ease-of-use and affordability, which entirely democratizes movie-making, has inspired the creation of some of the most visionary, avant and luminous film of our time.* http://laughtears.com/PXL-THIS-25.html "Gerry Fialka’s annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated “toy” continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry." - Michael Almereyda, director "Gerry Fialka's PXL THIS festival snaps, crackles and pops off the screen with the funky, user-friendly energy of real first-person cinema. Goofy, gorgeous, and altogether groovy, his provocative program of pieces produced with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy video camera is not only downright entertaining, but more, its blipping and buzzing black 'n' white picture-bits coalesce into a veritable inspiration to all those who cherish the playful, spontaneous gestures and low-cost of electronic folk art." - Craig Baldwin, director & curator. "All the PXL THIS videos reflect festival organizer Gerry Fialka's commitment to the freedom produced by making art without financial constraints. PXL THIS is a welcome highlight in the Los Angeles media scene celebrating the rich lexicon available in a tool which might initially seem rather limiting." - Holly Willis, *LA Weekly. * "PXL is the ultimate people's video." - J. Hoberman, *Premiere Magazine. * "If movies offer an escape from everyday life, Pixelvision is the Houdini of the film world." - *SF Weekly* +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check these links for a detailed history of the future = * <http://goo.gl/zTqhfZ>http://goo.gl/zTqhfZ <http://goo.gl/zTqhfZ>* <http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/may-attract-other-coyotes-or-putting-on-put-ons-the-artist-as-trickster/> http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/may-attract-other- coyotes-or-putting-on-put-ons-the-artist-as-trickster/ http://www.cinemazine.net/silence/ http://laughtears.com/iwantmyRIA.html <http://laughtears.com/iwantmyRIA.html>
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