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Filmaktion

Filmaktion was a loose-knit group of British filmmakers who worked and performed together during an intense period of activity in the early 1970s. Endorsing a more active, participatory experience of cinema, they re-imagined the possibilities for film projection as a live event.

[...] The core members – Gill Eatherley (born 1950), Malcolm Le Grice (born 1940), Annabel Nicolson (born 1946) and William Raban (born 1948) – are major figures in the development of experimental film in the UK. Their commitment to a radical formalist and political agenda shaped an ‘expanded cinema’ marked by multiple screen projections, live film performances and installations. All four were active members of the London Filmmakers’ Co-operative (1966–99), an influential collective that combined the production, presentation and distribution of film in one facility and helped to foster a more artisanal approach to filmmaking.

Filmaktion’s improvisational, participatory and immersive approach to film required a more flexible architectural environment than the conventional cinema. Art venues such as Gallery House in London and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool became the primary sites for their events. The more elaborate arrangement of screens and projections and the frequent presence of the artist’s own body in the work carved out a more sculptural, immediate and embodied space for cinema. The role of the spectator was also implicated, as the direct spatial and temporal experience of viewing film became more of a priority than the medium’s ability to record narrative actions staged in the past.

"Filmaktion", Tate Modern, [https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/filmaktion]

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"In November and December 1965 Jonas Mekas presented an extensive series of multimedia productions in New York which included productions by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. Mekas' series has often been referred to as the Expanded Cinema Festival but at the time that it took place it was actually titled the New Cinema Festival 1." [Comenas, Gary (2014). Expanded Cinema?]

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The Village Voice (New York), 28 October 1965, p. 28.

"In November and December 1965 Jonas Mekas presented an extensive series of multimedia productions in New York which included productions by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. Mekas' series has often been referred to as the Expanded Cinema Festival but at the time that it took place it was actually titled the New Cinema Festival 1." [Comenas, Gary (2014). Expanded Cinema?]

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Monoskop page dedicated to Expanded Cinema.

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Trevor Paglen 

“Beckett,”(from the 2017 series “Even the Dead Are Not Safe”), a portrait of Samuel Beckett generated by mixing images that facial recognition programs tagged as him.

Metro Pictures, New York

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flashesofgold:

viktorbezic:via pinterest  Anne de Vries at Cell… https://ift.tt/3uFQ3de -> Telegram Design Bot

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Frieder Nake, Rechteckschraffuren, 1965.

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Frieder Nake, Zufälliger Polygonzug, 1965.

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Georg Nees, Sculpture 1, 1970. Offset lithography after photograph of wood sculpture. Idea and program by Georg Nees. Sculpture generated between 1965 and 1968 with a Siemens-system 2002 and 4004, programmed in EXAP-1 for a Sinumerik milling machine. Publicized in Georg Nees: Generative Computergraphik, 1969.

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Valerie Keane UNTITLED LAMP (KAZU X), 2015 acrylic, stainless steel, neoprene, neon, electronic transformer, aircraft cable, rize grips, hardware dimensions variable

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Open Studios - Jan van Eyck

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Michal Turtle - On a Canvas Lived a Baby (Planis003) https://planisphereeditorial.bandcamp.com/track/planis-003

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Platz: Samira Schneuwly

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Metahaven, Black Transparency

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Studio Bardhi Haliti

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Holly Herndon — “HOME” — still, 2014 “The definitive NSA breakup anthem” Music by Holly Herndon Video directed and designed by Metahaven RVNG Intl.