GREEN | RED
May 3, 8pm, 2012
The Archway under the Manhattan Bridge (Adams Street at Water Street)
DUMBO, Brooklyn 

This screening is presented as part of BAC's Scene: Brooklyn May 2012 Series.

GREEN | RED is a site-specific and immersive audio-visual experience by Peter Burr and Friends. Scrolling and cascading video 'frames' provide the viewpoint into a computer wilderness, with an accompanying surround-soundtrack. Curated by Mono No Aware. Co-presented with the Dumbo Improvement District with support from National Endowment for the Arts and One Dream Sound.

ARTIST STATEMENT
As a cross-disciplinary artist Peter Burr plays with familiar media guiding himself through intangible stories. He references media from the late 1980's and early 1990's, his own formative years in America, as a resource for reconfiguration. Using mass-market paraphernalia as a backdrop for these stories, Burr aims to touch upon larger questions about a lurking emptiness seeing a kind of life between 2 lives where there is the darkness looking forward and there are colors of light looking back. Lasers, smoke, mirrors and a pile of fluttering sound waves compete for a coherent wavelength.

ARTIST BIOS

Peter Burr's video and performance work has been presented in many venues including Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, ES; and the International Film Festival, Rotterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Superclub, Edinburgh, UK and Synchronicity Space, Los Angeles, CA. Past residencies include the MacDowell Colony (NH); Bemis Center (NE); and IMPAKT Works, Utrecht (NL). He is also the founder of CARTUNE XPREZ, an animation project that has released 3 dvd publications and toured through 20 countries over the past 6 years with site-specific cartoon events. Part live theater, part psychedelic insurrection, and part roadshow, his work has become a touchstone for an experimental genre that animates its way out of Sunday morning cartoons to the extent of anarchy.

Eric Timothy Carlson studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where he developed his interests in installation, design, and collective productions. He has had recent solo exhibitions in Minneapolis and Glasgow; has recently published works through Museums Press, The Journal of Artist Books, and Location Books; and, as a founding member of the collective Hardland/Heartland, has exhibited in institutions and artist spaces such as the Synchronicity Space (LA), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Van Abbe Museum (NL), and the Walker Arts Center (MN).

Jason Sapan (AKA Dr Laser) is well known for his pioneering use of laser lighting and holography. He has produced effects for Studio 54, Cher concerts, CBS Sports Spectaculars, and more, for over 30 years. He also owns and operates Holographic Studios, one of the largest public collections of holograms in the world.

Seabat is a collaboration of multimedia artist John Also Bennett with musician and film composer Forest Christenson exploring digitally synthesized sounds aimed to mirror the experience of virtual worlds within computers. They draw from a range of influences spanning the history of electronic music, from German kosmische, synthesist and film composer Vangelis, Micro-House, contemporary American noise and the avant garde. Seabat has recorded four full length albums, performed nationwide, and are currently preparing a new album of cinematic virtual environments mixed in 5.1 surround sound.

Steve Cossman is founder and director of Mono No Aware, an annual event that exhibits the work of contemporary artists who incorporate live film projections and altered light as part of a performance or installation. Cossman is the educational director of an analog filmmaking workshop series in Brooklyn at the Center for Performance Research. As a curator his touring programs (Optical Boundaries 2010, Borrowed Light 2011 and Direct-er's Cut June-2012) have been presented at a number of established galleries and micro-cinemas throughout the US. His own recent work on film, TUSSLEMUSCLE, earned him Kodak's Continued Excellence in Filmmaking award and has screened at over 50 institutions internationally. The work on film was shown last summer at the Video-Ex in Switzerland, European Media Arts Festival in Germany, Animator Festival in Poland, Berks Filmmakers - Reading US, and traveled as part of Ann Arbor Film Festival's touring program. His own artwork can be found in the collections of the University of Seattle (WA), University of Hartford Art School, The Len Lye Foundation (NZ) and a number of private collections. He's been a visiting artist at Yale, Dartmouth, and the New York Academy of Art.

GREEN | RED is part of Scene: Brooklyn: Independent Media Arts, which runs May 2 - 6.