Newsletter 2, September 2000
Newsletter #2 September 2000
In this issue:
1. DISAPPOINTED in LA, a cautionary tale
2. KINETICA™ 2: A Centennial Tribute to Oskar Fischinger
More screenings scheduled …
3. New video release: Oskar Fischinger Films Volume Two
4. Office/Study Center closed for two weeks
5. VIDEOSPACE at Berkeley Art Museum
6. Video Synthesis Works of Stephen Beck
7. Visual Music Tone Painter at Smithsonian
8. About The iotaCenter
9. Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information
DISAPPOINTED in LA, a cautionary tale
Three days before the KINETICA™ screening at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art in July, I sent
out an email notice about the event.
Later several people wrote to complain that they
had missed it, because I hadn’t given them enough
advance notice.
However, this was just a *reminder* notice.
The event was announced in our Newsletter sent
out a month earlier and posted on our website.
Moral: Read the Newsletter. Visit the website.
Don’t be disappointed.
KINETICA™ 2: A Centennial Tribute to Oskar Fischinger
The KINETICA™ screenings at MoMA in NYC and the
LACMA in LA were a big success. Four more screenings
are on the schedule for the fall (listed below and on our
website at www.iotacenter.org/program/exhibition/kinetica2)
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Sept. 23 – 26, 2000
Information: (510) 642-1124
Advanced Ticket Sales: (510) 642 5249
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
Oct 13, 14, 15, 2000
Ticket Information: (617) 495-4700
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
October 29, 2000
Information: (202) 842-6799
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dec. 6, 13, 20, 2000
Information: 216-421-7340
Advance Ticket Sales: (216) 421-7350 or (888) 262-0033
There will also be show of Fischinger’s paintings at the
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts gallery in Los Angeles.
Sep. 21- Nov. 4. (323) 938 5222
For those wishing to attend the Berkeley screening:
PLEASE NOTE: the theater is small and a sell out
is very likely.
You can buy your tickets in advance by calling
(510) 642 5249, between 11:00am and 5:00pm Monday-Friday
or in person at the Berkeley Art Museum Box office.
This is highly recomended. Avoid disappointment.
For those who didn’t receive The iotaCenter’s last newsletter,
the description of this program is repeated here:
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of
Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), one of the most prolific and
influential artists of the avant-garde film movement.
To commemorate Fischinger’s centennial year, The iotaCenter
produced a three-part screening series for New York’s
Museum of Modern Art.
Coincidentally, this is also the year that the Disney Studios
released Fantasia 2000, thus affording an opportunity to
re-examine the seminal and uncredited role Fischinger played
in the original 1940 production. This saga and other commercial
work will be presented in conjunction with the highly personal
work of this master of the visual/musical animation art form.
The Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences has spent the last year restoring Fischinger’s major
films from the original 35mm nitrates. This retrospective series
will be the debut for many of these beautiful brand new 35mm
versions.
The series also features a presentation by art historian and
Fischinger biographer, William Moritz, and a program of film
and video by a few of the many artists Fischinger influenced
and inspired with his work.
This series is the second installment of The iotaCenter’s annual
touring program, KINETICA™. After New York and Los Angeles,
KINETICA™ 2 will travel to Berkeley, Cambridge, Cleveland, and
Washington, DC.
For a complete schedule and more information on
Fischinger and this series, please check our website:
www.iotacenter.org/program/exhibition/kinetica2
New Video Release:
The Films of Oskar Fischinger, Volume Two
The iotaCenter is proud to announce the release of the
first videotape in its “KINETICA Video Library™” series.
“The Films of Oskar Fischinger, Volume Two” is now
available for purchase at The iotaCenter’s online store(video no longer available)
Office/Study Center closed for two weeks
The iotaCenter office and study center will be closed
between 9/7/00 and 9/19/00.
VIDEOSPACE
The National Center for Experiments in Television, 1967 – 1975
at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
9.13.00 – 11.15.00
The “Videospace” exhibition of the NCET – National Center for
Experiments in Television – opened this week at the Berkeley
Art Museum on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
The NCET was a “video bauhaus” research project of the PBS TV
network, operating at KQED-TV, Channel 9, in San Francisco from
1969-1975.
The 4th floor gallery exhibition includes Stephen Beck’s Direct
Video Synthesizer instrument on display, the Videola reflecting
video sculpture, and viewing stations. It runs from Sep 13-Nov 15.
Video Synthesis Works of Stephen Beck
9.27.00, 7pm, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
In the Pacific Film Archive theatre at 7 PM on
Wednesday, September 27, is the screening of
“Video Synthesis Works of Stephen Beck” featuring works
such as:
“Point of Inflection” (1970)
“Cosmic Portal” (1971)
“Illuminated Music” (1972) from the live TV broadcast
“Synthesis” (1972)
“Shiva” (1973)
“Methods” (1973)
“Cycles” (1974) an allegorical videofilm collaboration of Stephen Beck and Jordan Belson,
“Illuminated Music 3 and 4” (1973)
“Video Weavings” (1974)
“Video Ecotopia” (1975)
“Union” 1976.
Mr. Beck will be present to share slides, videotapes
and other comments on the works and the pre-digital
Beck Direct Video Synthesizer which he invented, designed
and constructed in 1970 to realize his vision of “absolute
television” – video images created in real-time.
Beck considers his electronic video works to follow in the
visual lineage of kinetic light and cinematic art from Thomas
Wilfred, Oskar Fischinger, James and John Whitney, Charles
Dockum, Harry Smith, and Jordan Belson.
Newsweek.MSNBC.com features an article on Beck’s work:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/460218.asp?cp1=1
Visual Music Tone Painter at Smithsonian
The National Museum of American History
Washington, DC
9.22.00, 9.23.00
As part of a Lemelson Center symposium on creativity
called The Playful Mind, Stephen Nachmanovitch will
demonstrate his Visual Music Tone Painter.
10:30am to 4pm outside the exhibit “Science in
American Life” (first floor, west wing)
more info on Stephen Nachmanovitch:
http://www.freeplay.com/
About The iotaCenter
“Color Music,” “Visual Music,” “MusiColor,” “Mobilcolor,” “Lumia,”
“Absolute Film,” “Video Synthesis,” “Image Processing,” “Abstract Animation,”…
The iotaCenter is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving,
promoting and celebrating the art of sound and light and movement in
all its many forms and under all its various names.
The iotaCenter’s Research Library in Los Angeles houses the world’s
largest collection of materials devoted to abstraction in film,
video, performance, installation and computer-animated art.
Its website is the neighborhood center for a growing worldwide
community of artists, writers, scholars and supporters involved in this
art form.
More information on The iotaCenter and abstraction in media art can
be found at
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