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  • Oporto: Night Works For Workers' Day

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    Hammer-Camera-Scissors (The Workers of Jacob Lawrence) (Martha Colburn, 2018)

    An 8 hour night shift run by Phill Niblock, Michel Giacometti, Martha Colburn and a chorus of master musicians fuelling the steam of resistance

    Starting either at midnight of April 30th or at the zero hour of May 1st
    Every two hours of film followed by an hour long session of improv music

    Fechas: 

    De Miércoles, Mayo 1, 2019 - 00:00 hasta Jueves, Mayo 2, 2019 - 07:55

    Local: 

    Oporto - Lisboa, Portugal

  • Oporto apresenta #37: Calculated Movements by Larry Cuba

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    Back in the sixties when computers were about to make their colossal breakthrough in the territory of art, Henry Flynt coined the term concept art for a new art-form based in mathematics. For digital pioneers such as Stan Vanderbeek, John Whitney or Larry Cuba, the computer was "the supreme mathematical instrument", a new media meant to trigger aesthetic intuitions. Tonight we will present what could be considered a pure form of conceptual work (by Henry Flynt's standards). We are screening the digital masterpiece Calculated Movements, a vectorial animation created by Larry Cuba while programming the wireframe structure for the infamous Star Wars' Death Star.

    Fechas: 

    Viernes, Marzo 6, 2015 - 22:30

    Local: 

    Oporto - Lisboa, Portugal

  • Oporto apresenta #36: Minimalize: Video-Dance Nr1

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    Minimalize: Video-Dance Nr1 by Walter Verdin
    Video b/w, stereo sound, 11'27'', 1981

    It's hard to explain how a successful pop artist, embraced by stardom, suddenly devotes his life to unglamorous work. In the early 80's, Walter Verdin was hit by success, as a member of one of the most interesting bands to ever compete in the Eurovision Song Contest. Shortly after having represented Belgium with "Pas de Deux", Verdin became a video practitioner adopting video as his sound instrument. For many years he devoted himself to a new field called Video-Dance, creating a pioneering body of work that revealed an acute and unstoppable sense of rhythm.

    Fechas: 

    Viernes, Octubre 10, 2014 - 20:30

    Local: 

    Oporto - Lisboa, Portugal

  • Oporto apresenta #33: Maarten Ploeg's "Land"

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    "Land", by Maarten Ploeg
    Commodore Amiga file transferred to video.Colour, stereo sound, loop, 1992

    In an old edition of Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira, the entry word computer (then called ordenador) is illustrated with a vector-based drawing of a face. It shows the first computer-generated drawing, depicting the kind face of a samurai. That funny looking picture can be seen as the computer's first attempt at a self-portrait, a clear demonstration of its highly complex level of self-determination.

    Maarten Ploeg was a multi-talented genius born in the flat lands of Holland. Trained as a visual artist, he was part of the punk music scene in the late seventies (Soviet Sex, Blue Murder and Astral Bodies), as well as a pioneer in computer art and in the art of TV piracy. He was co-founder of PKP TV, a channel that hacked regular broadcasting and of Park 4DTV (http://www.park.nl/), a still operational art platform.

    Fechas: 

    Viernes, Junio 6, 2014 - 22:30

    Local: 

    Oporto - Lisboa, Portugal

  • Oporto apresenta #31: The Basis of Make-Up I-III

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    "The Basis of Make-Up I-III" by Heinz Emigholz
    16 mm film transfered to video, color, sound, 90', 1983-2005

    The Basis of Make-Up I-III is the  primal soup that stands behind Heinz Emigholz abundant body of work. This  life-size film compilation, depicts  two decades of notebooks in an unstoppable flickery  flow. The blend of collages,  workaday writing  and  filming  is intersected by elaborate drawings halfway between medical and technical illustrations which somehow encapsulate the author's highly personal time and vision.

    "An image vortex where Ideas fall" - Alexandre Estrela after Ezra Pound

    Fechas: 

    Sábado, Noviembre 16, 2013 - 22:30

    Local: 

    Oporto - Lisboa, Portugal

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