From: konrad (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 14:40:26 PST
I just put together a show like this that will be at SF
Cinematheque's in May -- it's specifically tied to the idea of
"expanded" vision that implicates a non-human body. Here's the
description:
Excellent Adventures in Visual Space
Sunday, May 2nd, 7:30PM
Timken Hall, California College of Arts
Panoramic painting was invented because people wanted to see all
time and space at once. The cinema has from its inception also
been a means to see beyond language and mundane reality.
Muybridge's motion studies, Painleve's seahorses, and Brakhage's
sea of nameless greens all realize Vertov's KINO EYE: something
more than human. The science of biomimetics tries to get
machines to see how humans do, but these artists use cinematic
machines to see beyond the human and even induce the sense of a
body that you don't have. Featuring Robert Schaller's "My Life as
a Bee," made with a pinhole camera; Kurt Kren's matte box
virtuosity in "Asyl"; "Urban Episodes" by Steina Vasulka, part of
her "Machine Vision" series; Orkan Telan's immersive virtual
environment "On Escape," and going straight from camera obscura
to video, Ernie Gehr's weightless "Glider."
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Joost Rekveld wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm working on a series of programmes juxtaposing scientific and
> industrial films with experimental films. One of the themes I want to
> make a programme around is 'expanded vision', the camera as a tool to
> explore worlds beyond the limits of our pathetic human eyes.
> To my surprise (thinking of the Kino-Eye, Untutored-Eye line of
> inspiration in experimental film) I can hardly come up with any title
> of experimental film fitting this theme, it's the only programme in the
> series which I have trouble to fill. Amazing
> medical/industrial/popularscientific Xray films galore, night vision
> etc, but experimental work ?
>
> Telc by the Vasulka's is incredible (and that's even video), I find,
> but I can't think of much more, really, any suggestions ?
>
> and yes, it's a scandal that I'm the curator and I ask for free advice..
>
> thanks in advance anyway,
>
> Joost.
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