A survey of recent work by Barbara Lattanzi will be screened on April 23 at Hallwalls, Buffalo NY.  All the videos share one desire - to be paintings. Pursuing that desire, their intensive processes generate novel spaces for visual and sonic exploration. In particular, the videos generate spaces between dimensions - interstitial to what we conventionally think of as three-dimensional space.  It is because these videos roam fractal between-nesses that they can be considered "grotesque". The videos are expressions of grotesque realism. The imagery includes coded and algorithmic expressions based upon pre-existing photographs and films fragments, as well as AI simulations to generate story-spaces.

Event organized by Tammy McGovern.

Barbara Lattanzi's art-making roots are in Chicago where she attended the School of the Art Institute, studying with Imagist painter Ray Yoshida and attending cinema lectures of Stan Brakhage. Several years later, she moved to Buffalo to study with Hollis Frampton and Tony Conrad at Center for Media Study at SUNY-Buffalo. During subsequent years in Buffalo, 1980s to mid-90s, she participated in a creative and critical milieu supported by Hallwalls, CEPA, Squeaky Wheel and many other art collectives and community initiatives. More recently, Barbara Lattanzi taught electronic media art (2006-2020) as a tenured professor at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University. Her films, videos, Internet art, and generativ software have been screened and exhibited at such venues as Buffalo International Fil Festival, Microscope Gallery (NYC), Rhizome, Whitney Museum of American Art, XCÈNTRIC 2020 (Barcelona), among many others.