news
april 6, 2010
SECRET AUDIOVISUAL MIX (p.s. not sure if that link will work, as that only directs you to a facebook event, and it's unclear whether it's public or not) debuts tomorrow night at the Wildfire Lounge in Ithaca. I'll show the beginnings of NO NO NOONE ON NO (no. one). Programmed by former and present Ithacan Keir, it looks like it'll shape up in a live mix of images and music, and will feature some international turntablism. Fun times for tiny town.
february 26, 2010
After 1 1/2 years, ONandOnScreen is finally up. I collaborated with Laura Spagnoli, and you can see the results here.
january 20, 2010
Thanks to Tompkins County's Community Arts Partnership for awarding me a 2010 CAP II grant. Later this year, I hope to present an event based around early 70s activist activities here in Ithaca, including the Ithaca Video Project and Glad Day Press.
december 1, 2009
This weekend sees the opening of krowswork, a new art space in Oakland, CA. Jasmine Moorhead, of Jaraf Video (w/co-conspirator and conjurer Rebekah Rutkoff), has assembled a video loop, of which Lake Affect is a happy participant. Jasmine also mentioned recession-priced tee-shirts, perhaps with one of the funny little bunnies.
november 10, 2009
Coming up this Thursday, Cornell Cinema hosts Requiem for Analog TV Noise, featuring works by Ithaca based makers and musicians. Live accompaniment to analog'd out video signals should make for fun.
september 21, 2009
Autumn arrives within 24 hrs. I find myself looking back to 1971, and 1975, and also looking forward to a new project, now funded by New York State Council of the Arts.
august 22, 2009
This summer I have been Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey. Below is a tribue to Harvey's assemblage diagram from Capital, Vol. 1, ch. 15, footnote 4. The sample is taken from each episode's title sequence.
july 10, 2009
july 1, 2009
may 2, 2009
The Two Boys: will show in SPECULATION(ELATION)2, curated by Torsten Zenas Burns. The event takes place at the Parsons Hall Project Space this Friday in Holyoke, MA. Wish I could go!
april 23, 2009
If you are in Vienna, you can see July Fix show as part of TIE's Masterpieces of New American Avant-Garde Film program.
april 12, 2009
Continual Repositions: The Art of Celluloid shows at Cinema Project today and tomorrow night. Porland, Ore.!
march 18, 2009
More information on the TIE retrospective can be found here. In other news, here's a great talk by Trevor Paglen on the Pentagon's secret geography.
march 13, 2009
Two screenings of July Fix approach. Cinema Project in Portland (Ore.) will host the upcoming TIE retrospective show, which will then travel to the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna. Also, Lake Affect will have its European premiere as part of the International Film Festival Breda in The Netherlands.
february 2, 2009
NYU's Didjulition recently broadcast a segment of Under Foot & Overstory on the radio. Thanks to Bill K.
january 13, 2009
A clip from Under Foot & Overstory featuring Michael Annus.
december 13, 2008
Attention Philly friends! Lake Affect will play tomorrow night at Independents Hall as part of Independent Exposure 08.
november 26, 2008
The TIE retrospective has been postponed until January, but the full schedule is up, with an impressive Ithaca showing.
november 9, 2008
July Fix will screen as part of a TIE retrospective at the Ross Media Center in Lincoln, NE on the weekend of November 20. TIE is one of my favorite festivals. Do go if you can.
By the way, that lovely devil's site seems to be down, so here's an image for the election scrap-bookers.
october 8, 2008
Hello Heartlanders and Pacific NW'ers. You can see Lake Affect at ICE in Iowa City and the CINE-X showcase that's part of the 25th Olympia Film Festival. Not to mention other mind-bending, experimental and generally misbehaving works.
september 21, 2008
Some lovely devil made this funny site. It makes me giggle.
setember 2, 2008
Fusion centers have contributed to the RNC repression, as has a transposition of "detainee" from war efforts to domestic abuse of civil liberties. Federal, state and local cooperation have led to preemptive raids, with suspicions of conspiracy to riot mobilized to justify the detainment. One has to wonder how vague this so-called justification to detain has become in recent years. This weekend in the Twin Cities we see an articulate, if blunt, response. MINORITY REPORT IS OUT ON DVD!!! (old news, sure, but now it's pronounced "Vegan Compost"). Over on alternet, a smart analysis of targeting video activists, witnesses and journalists. Around 6pm, a call from NMC that Amy Goodman was arrested/detained, following the intimidation of three other reporters from Democracy Now. Cops bust through an attic to harass I-Witness. What a day, what a kick-off to the week's Grand Ol' Police-state.
august 24, 2008
Microcinema has announced the winners of Independent Exposure 2008, and Lake Affect has turned up on the list of Jury Mentions, as determined by Asthmatic Kitty Records peoples. In other Lake Affect news, I'll be showing it as part of my introduction to the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour at Cornell Cinema on Tuesday, September 9, so stop on by, Ithacans and Central NY'ers.
august 17, 2008
You dont need a penny just to hang around,
But if youve got a nickel, wont you lay your money down?
Over on the corner theres a happy noise.
People come from all around to watch the magic boy.- J. Fogerty
august 13, 2008
The ongoing chilly weather has encouraged not only a web-based archival investigation, but an excavation of files on zip disks. Here is a fine example of an invitation to the Ithaca-based Revolutionary Dance Party. For anyone who wants to throw a RDP, the rules are quite simple. As you see above, everyone must dance, and no one can not dance. Everyone must bring music to share. No one can not bring music to share. Everyone must share a dance move. No one can not share a dance move. We've also discovered that iTunes type software (generally 'flow' based, for passive listening) counter-intuitively encourages hierarchy. To counteract this problem, try sticking to tape cassettes, cds and vinyl. This way, flow is interrupted and the democratic dance floor fluorishes.
