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COCKY

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:01:48 +0000

COCKY, the catalog, is a documentation of an exhibition that occurred from November 19, 2010 through Saturday, December 4, 2010. It was a conversation between the artist and his critics over the past seven years of creating work. This dynamic new body of work demonstrates Shumate’s mastery of storytelling while merging new contemporary pieces with the classical concepts from DuChamp to Ruscha. The semi-autobiographical show includes an exciting variety of multimedia experiences for its viewers. Central to the exhibition is the anthology of a contemporary cock.The familiar rooster, icon of domesticity chosen for both its regality and absurdity, takes on a multitude of forms throughout the exhibition. Each piece is a rhetorical answer to today’s artistic questions of criticism, aesthetics, and concepts- and finds humor in the sincerity of its execution.

Down Clark Street

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:51:59 +0000

Tom Palazzolo began making films about Chicago in 1964 while a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Coming from St. Louis, he saw Chicago with fresh eyes and began a four-decade career documenting “the city of big shoulders.” Mayor Richard Daley, the riots at the 1969 Democratic Convention, the ethnic festivals and neighborhoods, wedding showers, the Nazis of Marquette Park, and the legendary Maxwell Street have all been captured by the Palazzolo lens.

In 1999 Palazzolo looked back on old film footage and photographs he had shot while living near Clark Street in the mid 1960’s, images that documented an amazing contrast the Chicago of today. Gone were the flop-houses, vintage barber shops, and colorful street people. They had been replaced by financial office towers, trendy restaurants and bars, and people in business attire. Palazzolo’s nostalgic reminiscence blends his vintage footage with the new, and “On Clark Street” is a poignant recollection of those times and the Chicago that once was.

This CINEapp contains the entire film, amazing photographs of the residents of Clark Street, a POV written interview with Palazzolo by Robert Rayher, an essay by Jack Stevenson and commentary about the film’s premier on PBS in Chicago.
Take another look at the Chicago of the past, and further explore other aspects of this award winning film by a legendary filmmaker from Chicago.

THIS STATE I’M IN, 20th Anniversary Edition

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:47:52 +0000

THIS STATE I’M IN is the “true” story of Truey Kemah Shivers, a teenage girl filled with adolescent wanderlust and curiosity and completely dissatisfied with her uneventful life on the Texas coastal plain. When she can no longer tolerate the shabbiness and domestic squabbles of home, Truey decides to make a run for it and seek her fortunes elsewhere. She rows away into the Gulf of Mexico where she is swept up in a ferocious hurricane.

Washed ashore and reborn “way far away and perhaps in the past,” Truey finds herself alone and friendless in a strange and unknown territory. Her saga continues as she travels through three distinct time frames which correspond metaphorically to the evolution of the state of Texas. Her own journey from innocence to experience parallels that of the cultural and political history of the state as she encounters all aspects of the human personality such as pain, pleasure, lust, and greed. Truey is, in effect, a contemporary Dorothy, working her way home through a Texan Land of Oz.

THIS STATE I’M IN is enhanced by striking black-and-white cinematography and a richly blended music and sound-effects score. It features performances by noted Texas art personalities such as the late celebrated curator and Menil Founding Director, Walter Hopps; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, contemporary art curator Alison de Lima Greene; MFA/H Film Center Director Marian Luntz; Houston gallery owner Hiram Butler, Boston MFA curator, George Shackelford; and Marfa, TX based film programmer Ralph McKay. The film also features Texas artists Michael Tracy, Bert Long, and Gael Stack in memorable roles. Another notable member of the cast is Houston socialite Carolyn Farb who continues to be a generous fixture of the Houston philanthropic scene. The part of Truey is played by dancer and writer Claudia Obrosey.

In addition to its Wizard of Oz inspired narrative trajectory, the film documented Ziebell’s first impressions and actual experiences in Texas since relocating to Houston for the Museum of Fine Arts’ newly established Core artist-in-residence program. THIS STATE I’M IN may now be seen as a time-capsule preserving a vibrant moment in the nascent Houston art scene. It also foreshadows the future of Houston and surrounding areas, from events such as the Enron scandal to Hurricane Ike and the fate of the Bolivar Peninsula.

This app contains the full feature film, the storyboard, behind the scenes photos as well as interviews, reviews and opinions of the film.

Get the app here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/this-state-im-in/id422238252?mt=8

X-Corpse

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:32:33 +0000

Welcome to the surrealist parlor game, Exquisite Corpse, now on the iPad. Exquisite Corpse is a drawing journey into chance encounters with surprising juxtapositions. You as an artist participant in creating a composition on the drawing panel, and then pass it to another person without them knowing what exactly you have created. Play from two to up to five panels! No drawing skill needed!

History dictates that the ending composition is that of a body, or a “corpse” as the head, torso, legs and perhaps feet have all been imagined and executed by different creators. The final combination is a stitched together figure, one drawing panel bearing no relation to the the neighboring panels thus revealing a monstrous being.

But why stop at human figures?

Play Exquisite Corpse using anything as a starting object and let the chips fall where they may! Design new planes to fly in the sky, submarines to search the seas, or free forms to make up a new landscape.

“Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.” (“The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.”) -André Breton

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Read more about the X-Corpse project, log on to www.x-corpse.com.

Smile & Relax

admin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:37:26 +0000

Smile & Relax is an award winning short independent film made inside a photo-booth machine. This app includes the film, the script, commentary, photo strip stills, and an essay.

Before Apple attached the term to its iSight software, the photo booth was a vending machine that had an automated camera and film processor. Much like a confessional, the photo booth contained a seat designed for one or two patrons. Once the quarters were dropped into a slot, the photo booth began to take a series of photographs. A light or a buzzer went off before each photograph was snapped signaling the patron to pose. After the last photograph in the series had been shot, the photo booth began developing the film, a process which took several minutes. The anticipation of seeing the final results was part of the fun.

The modern concept of the photo booth with a curtain, screen or other material covering the background and entrance originated with Anatol Josepho in 1925 with the first machine appearing on Broadway in New York City.

The curtain provided privacy, which allowed subjects to create a fantasy or an illusion of themselves, a private performance piece that was documented in four parts.

The term “smile & relax” was one of the written “tips” inside the machine for good results.

“Smile & Relax spins a yarn through time-lapse and motion control photography with the assistance of a photo booth machine. The subject, an aspiring dancer, recounts a tale of love and affection while moving through a calliope of self portraits. Beautiful and heinous, happy and sad, smart and silly, are just a few of the emotions locked and loaded in a repeating volley of images thrown at viewers (the photos are the actual film strips from the photo booth machine). Other times the images are slowed down, allowing viewers to scrutinize every frame and facial change, as if under water. The film is a hell of a ride in less than 7 minutes.” – Robert Ziebell

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iVotive, The Series

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:28:30 +0000

A little luck, a dash of enchantment and a flicker of hope help your wishes come true with iVotiveCandle. Just type your desire in the form, light the candle and sit back and relax as your prayers are answered. And for a little extra luck and to assure your wishes are heard in the cosmos, send your desire into cyberspace (in confidence of course).

We dwell in the midst of infinite abundance. We now open our minds to receive the good. Nothing is too good to be true. Nothing is too wonderful not to happen. Blessings come in expected and unexpected ways. We are grateful. And so it is (along with a good dose of faith).

Check out all of our iVotive Candles at www.ivotivecandle.com.