UBS 12 x 12 Artist Talk: Ben Russell
Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 18h
MCA Theater, Free
220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

As part of his UBS 12 x 12 artist's talk, Ben Russell presents films from his past curated programs in order to expand on themes that lie within his newest work, Trypps #7 (Badlands). "From early cinema to psychedelic mind-melt, ethnographic study to hand-processed portrait, and occult attraction to aquatic flicker film, this is a media map of analog influence that locates curatorial practice as a critical component to art-making today." - Ben Russell

Light Industry: Anthony Ramos - About Media
Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 19:30h, 7$
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Presented with Electronic Arts Intermix

EAI is pleased to present a special screening and conversation with pioneering media artist Anthony Ramos at Light Industry.

Ramos belonged to the first generation of artists who used video as a tool to critique mass media, give voice to marginalized individuals and communities, and produce radically new forms of cultural documentation, combining art and activism in a series of potent but now rarely seen works.

His 1977 video About Media is an astute deconstruction of television news, focusing on the media coverage of President Jimmy Carter's declaration of amnesty for Vietnam War draft evaders as well as an interview conducted by New York reporter Gabe Pressman about Ramos's own eighteen-month prison term for conscientious objection. Through repetition and juxtaposition, he contrasts the unedited interview footage—and patronizing comments of the news crew—with Pressman's final televised report. In his ironic manipulation of the material, Ramos exposes the illusion of "objective" television news.

Tate Modern: To Be Is To Be Perceived
17-26 September 2010
Tate Modern Starr Auditorum
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG, UK

In conjunction with Tate Modern’s exhibition Exposed: voyeurism, surveillance and the camera (until 3 October 2010), this film programme explores ways in which artists have used the camera to draw attention to a society mediated by permanent observation. It looks at how the camera has been used as a weapon, as a tool to reveal moments of privacy, and as a means of creating cultural icons.

Featuring the premiere of William Raban’s About now MMX, as well as work by Javier Aguirre, Peggy Ahwesh, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Samuel Beckett, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Jean Colom, Harun Farocki, Coco Fusco, William E Jones, Helen Levitt, Yoko Ono, Chris Petit, Nicolas Provost, Julia Scher and Andy Warhol.

Curated by Cristina Camara and Stuart Comer.

Independence
Inaugural Exhibition
September 18th – October 18th
Opening Reception: Sept 18th 6-9pm
Live performances at 6pm
Microscope Gallery
4 Charles Place, Brooklyn 11221, New York USA

Curated by Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti

Featuring works by: Peggy Ahwesh, Michel Auder, Agnes Bolt, Martha Colburn, Bradley Eros, Raul Vincent Enriquez, Glen Fogel, Takahiko Iimura, Tom Jarmusch, Jonas Mekas, Anton Perich. And a special installation by Jonas and Sebastian Mekas.

MICROSCOPE Gallery opens its doors in an old carburetor shop near Freedom Triangle in Bushwick on September 18th. One of the only galleries in the world dedicated to film, video, sound and other time-based art MICROSCOPE launches its inaugural exhibition Indepedence, with a group show of emerging and established artists including the pioneers and heroes of the New York underground. Independent – from theory, accepted technique, prevailing politics, economic considerations, or even equipment; working with film, video, or sound; and based in New York, this describes the 11 very different artists we present in our inaugural month-long exhibition.