The Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices. With people everywhere gaining access to these devices, we felt the time was right to draw attention to the creative potential of this new mode of filmmaking. Far beyond its initial roles for video blogging and documentation, the DFF offers a forum to display how disposable media can be used for creative purposes. The DFF hosts screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase the best work within the disposable genre..

David Lynch, filmmaker; Fred Tavis, neuroscientist, Maharishi University; John Hagelin, physicist, Maharishi University. 

David Lynch, the award-winning writer, director, and producer, answers questions on his films, his 32-year practice of Transcendental Meditation, and the role of consciousness in the creative process. He is joined by physicist John Hagelin, who was featured in the documentary "What The Bleep Do We Know?" and neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management.

PBS | NPR Forum Network in partnership with Emerson College 2005 Oct 1

This movie is part of the collection: PBS | NPR Forum Network Arts & Media
Producer: WGBH Production Company: WGBH Forum Network

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

Spazialismo November 19 - December 30, 2009

bitforms gallery

529 West 20th St New York NY 10011 http://www.bitforms.com

via Art Agenda

Spazialismo is a group exhibition that explores the visionary concepts of Lucio Fontana's in the 1940's and 1950's about how people consider structures of space in the modern, yet still very natural world. The exhibit organizers say that it is also intended to serve as a vehicle for a contemporary review of the Spatialist texts, including 'Manifesto tecnico della Spazialismo," and "Television Manifesto." Fontana founded the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aries. The avant-garde school was founded to promote the idea that a new kind of art was needed to reflect the modern world as revealed by science.

Gathering the voices of five contemporary artists - Mel Bochner, R. Luke DuBois, Michael Joaquin Grey, Yael Kanarek and Matthew Ritchie - the exhibition focuses on expanded representations of space and dynamic movement. Also included will be photographic documentation of Fontana's 1951 illuminated arabesque for La Triennale di Milano - an early use of neon installation in an arts context.

Film, in the years to follow according to Fontana's manifestos, is evidence of the direction that the spirit has taken toward the dynamic. His principles chose to abandon the use of known forms of art and were a move toward development of art based upon the unity of space and time. According to Fontana, "The development of of the phenomena of color and sound are what integrates the new art. The subconscious - which houses all of the images perceived by intelligence - adopts the form of these images and accepts notions that give form to the nature of man, and transforms the individual."

While concepts such as Fontana's were the precursor for principles of postmodernism, a profound philosophy of our times,  most theorists and art lovers alike do not abandon earlier forms of art, choosing one form over another. In the current period of post-post-modernism one immediately grasps what Fontana theorized 40 years earlier. But this era also precludes a complete binary transformation from one to the other, rather this seems to be a time when art and imagery are created one way and interpreted another, in a remix culture unbound by scientific principles alone.

The ARTslant art network anounces the November Juried Showcase!

There will be over $20,000 in cash and promotion.

Showcase Winners: Will be exhibited in the Showcase premium placement box and be promoted to thousands of art watchers and buyers. Award designation will appear on the Artist Profile. Premium placement fee applies.

Juried Winners: Receive special display in our Showcase and on our homepage. Winners will be presented to all Artslant subscribers throughout the ARTslant Views e-publication. Juried Winners go into the Golden Frame competition in March 2010.

Golden Frame Competition: A final panel of gallerists and curators will select three Golden Frame winners from all Juried Winners.

GOLDEN FRAME AWARDS

1st Prize

• $5,000 cash and cash equivalent prizes
• Exhibition in a top ArtSlant city
• Press preview and announcements
• Golden Frame edition print

2nd Prize

• $2,500 cash and cash equivalent prizes
• Exhibition in a top ArtSlant city
• Golden Frame edition print

3rd Prize

• $1,000 cash and cash equivalent prizes
• Golden Frame edition print

Find out more at ARTslant's showcase page.

Are you an artist to watch? Can you imagine exhibiting in a top art venue? Do you want to be seen by art watchers and collectors around the world? These are some of the possibilities in our Showcase (learn more about Juried 5 )!

GALLERY PANEL OF JURORS

 to include: SF Camerawork, San Francisco, Nettie Horn Gallery, London

plus 3 other international galleries

New at the Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell, is TRANS: form | color, a traveling exhibition of abstract painters, Meridian Gallery says, a visual conversation and a transformable series in the San Francisco incarnation. Artists from Japan, Germany and the US engage us in a dialogue about painting and abstraction.

According to the gallery the exhibit began online, between several of the artists and has now grown to nine participating artists. A preview glimpse of the show reveals how the interaction between the artists pose questions of cultural, and aesthetic differences. This is indeed a range of abstraction ranging from the minimal to the expressive.

“…These painters, calling themselves TRANS, meeting in person or on the Internet, found that they share a common interest in the painting process, pure, and often not so simple. Unlike previous groups, they share no common ideology and they certainly are not likely to publish a manifesto.  And they all agree that it is the viewer's response, which completes the work…”
—Peter Selz

Exhibiting artists – Kasarian Dane, Stephan Fritsch, Brent Hallard, Leonhard Hurzlmeier, Robin McDonnell, Mel Prest, Richard Schur, Nancy White, John Zurier

Opening Reception Thursday, Nov. 12, 6-9 pm

Adobe Labs has released a new public beta of Lightroom, it's premiere digital darkroom software application designed for both amateur and professional photographers alike, although it's the professional photographers who will get the most out of Lightroom and many of the feature in the beta 3 upgrade.

According to Adobe, a lot of under the hood performance enhancements have been made to improve both responsiveness of the program and speed of the production process. Also added to Lightroom Beta 3 are:

Some of the new features included for you to play with in the Lightroom 3 beta are:

• Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries
• State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots
• Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease
• Portable sharable slideshows with audio—designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slideshows as videos and include audio
• Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own
• Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want
• New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy
• More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta (may require third-party plug-ins)*

Adobe and many other software companies have introduced early planned upgrades to software as public betas so that users can test the program for free and provide the application developers with valuable real time feedback about bugs, suggestions and new features.

If you haven't already you will have to register at the Adobe Labs site: http://labs.adobe.com/, then you will be able to download a Windows or Mac version of the software.