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Anarchy in the UK (1976, 18MB, 3:32 min) The Sex Pistols performing Anarchy in the UK in 1976 on the Granada TV show So It Goes . From Bedazzled

clip #1 (1995, 7.6MB, 32 sec.) clip #2 (1995, 3.2MB, 14 sec.) clip #3 (1995, 4.1MB, 17 sec.) Some lovely footage of the great free improv guitarist Derek Bailey, who died last year, working with be-bop hoofer Will Gaines. As with so much Bailey did, it seems at first deeply odd then, in equal measure, wonderful. Important to understand this wasn t some sort of gimmick: Gaines had known Bailey since the sixties although much of his fame was garnered firmly in the mainstream, he has spent a great deal of time working with cutting edge improvisors. Enjoy two wonderful artists at the top of their game. From European Free Improvisation CD DVD available from Incus.

16 [R]EVOLUTIONS (2006, 3MB, 1:50 min) I saw this piece from NY based group Troika Ranch a couple of weeks back in deepest Essex, UK it was utterly great - took me about ten minutes to put my jaw back in postion after. Certainly by far the most convincing mature use of digital technology/projection in a dance context I have yet seen. Much of the visual flavor comes from the Isadora real time video manipulation software created by co-artistic director Mark Coniglio used together with motion sensing software. It s not just the tech stuff though - it s great choreography dance somehow informed by the particular rhythms, logic, that the tech feedback loop sets up, implies. It s the fact, too, that a company deploying cutting edge tech can still use simple shadow stillness to devastating effect. I felt I was in at the birth of something quite new, quite different Definitely worth catching.

Dark Stars (2006, 6.9MB, 1:30 min) From Here (2006, 29MB, 4 min) Marisa Olson, of the indispensable Rhizome.org ( a dizzying number of other things), hotfoots it back from an Experimental Television Center residency with these. Well.. from Marisa we expect smart or witty, but did we expect poetic? (second bit of Dark Stars) or even, hush my mouth, b***t*f*l ? (All of From Here with its wonderful electronic mandalas ) Says Marisa: Both are made using a combination of analog digital processes and Dark Stars is almost completely analog.. but then again, both appropriate found material from the internet. From Here is the music video for Zach Layton s remix of my song of the same name. Dark Stars uses samples from one of those old VHS video games .

Wrong Time Capsule(2005, 6.6 MB, 3 Min.) This is a music video for the band Deerhoof, created by the artist Martha Colburn. A self-taught filmmaker, she animates her collages into very fancy, lo-fi, kaleidoscopic, trash-rock adventures. If you don t get it from this description, she has many cilps from her films posted on her website. Go out of your way to see her work. It will be included in an exhibition at Stux gallery, this month, in NYC.

blue shift (2006, 5.8MB, 56 sec. loop) From Scenes Of Provincial Life. The music is Wie Nahte mir die Schlummer by Carl Maria von Weber, sung in 1910 by Marie Rappold, found in the University of California, Santa Barbara, Cylinder Preservation Digitization Project subsequently somewhat manipulated. The photograph is by Craig Thomson.

800 collages (2006, 3.2 MB, 54 sec.) By Antonio Mendoza. Rather good! -more here.

DEATHDISCO aphrodisiskratch remix (2006, 16.8MB, 25 sec loop) Neat remix by jimpunk of abe linkoln s DEATHDISCO.mov, posted here last year . The sample is aphrodisiskratch by DJ QBert.

Cut Piece (2006, 36.5MB, 9 min) Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan, and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965. Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts at the moment of unbosoming. from Bedazzled .

Circulation (2003, 56.1MB, 3:24 min) ZDEN is a Slovakian artist and a pioneer in real-time video performing - VJing . His live visuals are produced by a self-developed post-production tool called CIRCULATION, a software-based real-time 3 source video mixing engine. Visit his site. Lots more to follow -watch this space.

Terminally Ambivalent Over You (2002, 26.1MB, 3:19 min) Based on Stephen Coates song from the album When Psyche meets Cupid , this animation tells the story of a prisoner who works in a prison s gramophone factory and while assembling gramophones thinks of his girlfriend. More neat stuff from Alex Budovsky, aka Aleksey Budovskiy.

Lamp (2006, 945 KB, 1:33 min.) Mr. Fish is a comic illustrator whose work is often featured in print publications. Now you can see his sardonic humor animated on LA Weekly s website! This one is more lighthearted than the usual Mr.Fish fare. For more biting political critique, in the form of awesome comics be sure to visit his blog.

Dreams That Money Can Buy, 1946 (2006, 7.9MB, 3:15 min) Realityfilm and Tate Modern present a psychoanalytical, cinematic cabaret with live music by The Real Tuesday Weld with a new original score for the film Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946), by Hans Richter and some of the greatest names in the Dadaist/Surrealist movement, including Man Ray, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger and Alexander Calder. Surrealist painter and Dada film-theorist Richter wrote, produced, and directed this experimental movie, one of the most significant contributions to cinema of the 20th-century avant-garde. Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Saturday 27 May 2006, 9-11 PM.

At Home with the Colonel - pilot (2006, 54 MB, 14:53 min.) Pilot for a proposed series of interviews by Mark Sanders with contemporary artists, directed by Mark Logue, who seems to have a serious track record. The press release says the interviews wil be playful conversational . Can t be bad - on the basis of this, hope v. much it gets commissioned. Still undecided about the Chapmans, whether tossers or wunderkinder, but this definitely attempts to shed some light thereon. Good.

moose and atv (2005, 2MB, 46 sec.) springwater finale (2005, 6.5MB, 2:27 min.) Final two pieces, chapters 7 8, from A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir. This has been an exhilarating series: Thanks for stopping by, Cary Christine! Y all visit again real soon!

Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2002, 15.3MB, 3:14 min) Alex Budovsky, aka Aleksey Budovskiy created this great animation based on Stephen Coates ( aka (The Real) Tuesday Weld s) song of the same title. This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move inside the cuckoo clocks. Очен хорошо!

Juicy Brunette (2006, 2.9MB, 3:24 min) Addi Somekh is obviously a talented musician but his chosen instrument is the common household balloon. You can hear more balloon music on his site Balloonbass.com and while you re at it, find out what else he can do with balloons.

Going Places Sitting Down (2006, 14.8MB, 2:34 min) Images from Hiraki Sawa Going Places Sitting Down , a triptych video projection. The New York James Cohan Gallery is currently presenting a solo exhibition of works by video-animation artist- Hiraki Sawa. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10-6 PM. (until June 3, 2006)

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (2006, 11.5MB, 3:00 min.) Oooh you gotta love this beautiful video directed by Robert Hales of HSI for the Gnarls Barkley tune Crazy it s all about the ink blot effect!

digging for chicory (2005, 3.6MB, 1:15 min.) doable (2005, 8.1MB, 3:31 min.) home economics (2005, 6.8MB, 2:06 min.) Chapter 3,4,5 from A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir. Here philosophical bickering, an ever more luxuriant formalism a mad -no other word - monologue on chainsaws Amsterdam make for a rich dish form this week s back door to the sublime Looks easy - bet it isn t.

Hollywood News (2006, 2.7MB, 1:06 min. ) Saddam on Trial (2006, 1.9MB, 52 sec) Two pieces from the Montreal based video collective Lossy Video. The idea being to take news footage ..er..look at it closely. The results are undeniably capable, attractive interesting. Reminds me, conceptually, of Mark Tribe s revelation projects first with the Amnesty website then with that of CNN. Must be the zeitgeist - interesting concept, if a tad disturbing: remove the political context to make something..er.. beautiful. Wonder what Benjamin would have thought?

Deaf (2006, 5.7MB, 56 sec ) Volcan0 (2006, 7.6MB, 54 sec ) Two beautiful expressive poems in sign language. The first is in British sign language comes from the deaf arts forum in Edinburgh, Scotland. There are subtitles for the hearing. The second is in American Sign Language is written performed by Ellie, a sixth grader at the Metro deaf school in St Paul. No translation for this one, so non signers should bear the title in mind enjoy the volcanic performance.

Recitation (2006, 2.2MB, 30 sec) We re down in t coil oil Weer muck clarts up t winders We v used all us coil now And we re reight down t cinders But if bum-bailiff comes E ll never find us Cos we re down in t coil oil Weer muck clarts up t winders from Scenes Of Provincial Life

waiting on bob (2005, 5.7MB, 1:56 min.) move this rock (2005, 12.5MB, 3:56 min.) stick like snakes (2005, 5.5MB, 1:54 min.) Chapters 1,2,3 from the DVD A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir. This is very smart work indeed - it references, or better evokes, ideas precedents techniques from all over world culture high low I m sure this is conscious. The thing is, a bit like the effect of C5 s short history of virtual hiking, featured here last year, the rather knowing formalism of it all the dry keep-your-distance wit ironically somehow create a space for a deeply traditional romanticism about nature the landscape to sneak back in. Not a criticism. Me, I love it.

Exciting Prizes (2006, 36.8MB, 4:38 min. ) The challenges continue, as special guest challenger, Dr. Donut, takes the stage. Now our contestants must satisfy Dr. Donut s insatiable donut lust by jumping into the air to eat donuts from a clothes line! With your hosts: the Great Fredini and Julie Atlas Muz. Performed before a hungry theater audience at the Belt theater, NYC, January 21, 2005. From - this or that.

beating.mov (2006, 4.8MB, 46 sec) Rudy Adler piece on the excellent gaaagle.com, protesting Google s spineless policy of assisting Chinese government censorship. Check out this site,... http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120321910&s=143441

will the summer make good for all of our sins? (2006, 34.8MB, 4:14 min.) Exquisite music video for the Icelandic band múm. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120321910&s=143441

Pan (2006, 10MB, 5:04 min) Lesbians (2006, 5.7MB, 2:34 min) Interesting work from young artist Sarah Garmisa. I m personally not entirely convinced by Pan although it clearly cost serious thought effort doesn t lack technical merit. Lesbians though, is an unqualified success: witty, precise executed with no little panache. I look forward to seeing more.

After You (2003, 12.2MB, 2:24 min. ) Christopher Cordingley is a character animator at Disney Feature Animation. I liked the idea of conveying emotions through subtleties in posture and facial expressions. In the end, After You is mainly about the virtue of patience and thoughtfulness, and the futility of acting out of frustration and anger.

Flight Patterns (2005, 22.9MB, 1:48 min.) A String (2005, 43.5.9MB, 3:49 min.) Documentation of two projects using the open source processing language. A String was made by E.J.Gone for a performance at the National Theater of Korea Flight Patterns involves flight pattern visualizations from FAA data parsed and plotted in Processing by Aaron Koblin. Fascinating austerely beautiful.