Document 2 Reinvent: Video Panel
Event Time: June 10, 2006 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Additional InfoJune 10: Video Panel 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Video represents one of the most innovative, cutting-edge and exciting media in today’s contemporary art world. Yet the average viewer remains unfamiliar with video art and all its exciting artistic possibilities. For this reason, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is proud to present Document 2 Reinvent: Perspectives on New Media followed by an Echotrope media screening on Saturday, June 10 from 12:00 noon – 3:00 p.m. The panel runs from 12:00 noon until 1:30, with the Echotrope screening taking place from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Both these events are free and open to the public. The panel discussion Document 2 Reinvent features artists Phyllis Baldino, Peter Campus, Russ Nordman and Jody Boyer. The Echotrope screening is the first in a series of three public showings by Echotrope, a nomadic organization that curates experimental video, film and new media. Both these events are in conjunction with the multi-faceted exhibition SIGNAL CHANNEL, on view at the Bemis Center from June 9 – August 12, 2006. SIGNAL CHANNEL represents the most comprehensive video exhibition ever presented in the state of Nebraska.
Document 2 Reinvent highlights distinct aspects of video as an art form, and the panel includes some of today’s most significant national and regional video artists: As one of the medium’s most influential artists, Peter Campus embraces a wide array of techniques, including closed circuit installations and photography to create highly theoretical, philosophical and psychological works. He takes the electronic technology of video, which includes chroma-key, camera vision, simultaneity and color systems to create pieces that blend illusion with a sense of heightened reality and intimacy with displaced identity. His explorations have been shown in one-person shows at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia) and the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) as well as in group exhibitions world-wide. Campus lives and works in New York. Phyllis Baldino, also based in New York, focuses on both high and low-tech techniques, often taking found objects that she disassembles and then reassembles to transform them into entirely new functional pieces. Her minimalist projection vignettes frequently involve some sort of contradiction, and her topics address issues such as gender. Baldino’s work has been featured at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum.
Iowa artist Russ Nordman is the head of the Intermedia Department at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and works in video and assemblage. Featured as an artist in SIGNAL CHANNEL, Nordman frequently creates sculptures created from found objects that evoke nostalgia and a strong sense of time and place that are deep in atmosphere and emotional tone. What often emerges are abstract landscapes, setting for plays of emotional life, created by exposing subtleties of color, texture, aroma and weight in found materials. During the mid-1990s, Nordman worked with video installation artist Bill Viola, and he is a longtime collaborator with Hans Breder. Jody Boyer is a cofounder of Echotrope with Nordman, and this organization shows new media throughout the region in both traditional and non-traditional venues. A program officer with Iowa West Foundation, Boyer is an intermedia artist. In her work, she explores the interdisciplinary possibilities of photography and new media with a specific interest in landscape, memory and perception. Her work has been shown nationally, including at the Des Moines Art Center and Chicago’s Womanmade Gallery. Boyer compiled and curated the SIGNAL CHANNEL Echotrope screening, the first in a three-part series to be screened during the run of the exhibition.
All these artists bring their unique perspectives on the subject of new media and why it has emerged as the preferred creative outlet for up-and-coming contemporary artists as well as how video art provides the power to experiment, explore and test the parameters of conventional art-making practices. This is a rare opportunity to hear some of the best in the business discuss distinct aspects of video as an artistic medium, and we hope you will join us on June 10 at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts to be part of Document 2 Reinvent.
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