lunedì 9 dicembre 2013

Final Exam

FINAL EXAM

A grat mistake!!!

It is today Dec 10

at the same time 18:00- 20:30

 

But I'll be there tomorrow at the same time...

December 11

 18:00 - 20:30

 

Sory Sorry Sorry!

The Prof.

lunedì 11 novembre 2013

sabato 9 novembre 2013

Georgina Spengler talk

Dear Students
the artist Georgina Spengler will have a talk for us on Thursday 14 at 6 p.m
I strongly reccomend your presence!!!!

martedì 15 ottobre 2013

Prof Exhibition





                                 
                                     COMUNICATO STAMPA
                                   
                                       Serafino Amato   
                                                                                           
                           “Fuori dal circo!” Letterale!                                                            
                                   18  -  31 ottobre 2013
                                    Inaugurazione 18 ottobre ore 18.30
  Galleria Monty&Company, Via della Madonna dei Monti, 69, 00184
Orari: dal martedì al sabato dalle ore 16.00 alle ore 20.00 e su appuntamento cell. +39 328 7623389­­       


      
                                                      



"Out of the Circus!" Literally!
The elephant was walking at one meter from the road, rather dangerous I thought, and not only for him.  There was just a thin rope separating him from the passing cars and his  guardian was distractedly playing with his cell phone… but guardians and city outskirts are all the same at all latitudes and that indian elephant could have been in any city or suburb of the east or west.
I took the photos of the pachyderm  on Christmans day.  I was with my son, wasting away some time while we waited for the Christmas Dinner which every year was becoming leaner and lonelier.  I used a 1951 Kodak Retina camera, very silent, but nonetheless, at the click, the elephant jumped as if frightened.  A gigantic animal, made up of many parts… solitary, "sadly" and by now commonly urbane, a huge desk of arid grooves and deep wrinkles that accepts caresses that seem like slaps, until…
  The central photos were shot with an old ZeissTenax, a german camera from the forties.  A small instrument with a minuscule lens,but extremely precise.  A camera that disturbs me when I use it, maybe because it was produced during nazism, but I hope, mine at least, right after the war.  Do lens have memories? I fear they do.
These are simple photos…that look more and more like my early work, attracted as I am by the force that is produced by what grows, appearing or distractedly disappearing, things that when touched by light, for a moment gain beauty.
And this elephant,  bound to a proximity with highways, who adores silence, has set in motion desires… my own, his, it doesn't really matter, gentleness, memory, and an agitation that only the "minimum" can give.
Digital prints on cotton paper
The format of the photos shown in oak frames is 60 x 80 cm.
S.A.
1958.

Serafino Amato, Rome 1958. He formed his experience in the field of experimental theatre in the early eighties. He then dedicated himself exclusively to photography. “Segnavia”, 1989. “Der Professor, der Assistent und” 1997. “Pallido Pallido” 1998. “Appunti per operette morali” 2002. “Fogli dei giorni” 2008. 
Since 2000, he has been working in video as well. “RLC scrittore d’acqua” 2005 a video with Raffaele La Capria, 2005. “Racconti bislacchi” 2006. “Racconti melanconici” 2008. 
In 2008, together with Lorenzo Pavolini, he published “Ecatombe - i girini della storia”, (ed. Headmaster) “Fogli dei giorni-leafing through the days”, 2012 (ed. Headmaster)
He teaches photography at John Cabot University - Rome.

Galleria Monty&Company, Via della Madonna dei Monti, 69, 00184
Orari: dal martedì al sabato dalle ore 16.00 alle ore 20.00 e su appuntamento
Info: artstudio@montyecompany.com;  cell. +39 328 7623389­­  www.montyecompany.com

Peter Campus: Three Transitions

Peter Campus



lunedì 16 settembre 2013

TEXT 1


Is it possible to understand “power” in relation to its own flexibility?
Modern video cameras, from this point of view, can trace parallel lives. Whether night or day, memory challenges eaxh person’s possibilities. That is to say that the fragments made possible by “ancient” super 8 have passed into present time where even “stand-by” is indispensible.
Is everything indispensible, then?
What moves necessity?
The artist, of video or other, is at the service of which indispensability?

E’ possibile considerare “la potenza” di uno strumento in relazione alla sua flessibilità?
Le moderne videocamere da questo punto di vista possono tracciare vite parallele. Che sia giorno o notte, la “memoria” sfida la possibilità del fare di ognuno. Intendo dire che dai frammenti resi possibili dagli “antichissimi” super 8 si è passati ad un tempo presente dove nemmeno lo stand-by è indispensabile.
Risulta tutto, quindi, indispensabile?
Cosa muove la necessità?
L’artista, che sia video artista o altro, è a servizio di quale indispensabilità?

lunedì 9 settembre 2013

Bill Viola, The Raft, maggio 2004

Bill Viola - The Reflecting Pool

Marina Abramovic: The Abramovic Method, my body, my performance, my test...

Bill Viola - Acceptance, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJQmV8aPNao

Silvia

Apple cutting videos

Hi all, here are the videos from last class.  (apple cutting and putting back together).
I had a few troubles uploading them, and decided to put them together (with NO editing) and share them through I-movie. If you cannot download them and wish to have them on file I'll bring them to next class. 
have a great day! 

*S 



https://www.dropbox.com/s/09zqox0ocaf1bim/AS215%20project1%20Apples.mov





Nico Nevolo: Bill Viola "The Crossing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqhaH6m9pY

sabato 7 settembre 2013

The Dreamers (2013) consists of seven individual screens, which depict underwater portraits of people who appear to be sleeping. Presented in the gallery on the lower-ground floor, and accompanied by the gentle sounds of water, the viewer is led to feel as if they themselves are submerged with these figures. In this spiritual, immersive subterranean environment, ultimate interpretation is left for the viewer to define, through the lens of their own experiences.



http://www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/2013/bill-viola-frustrated-actions-and-futile-gestures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnfdzvDpGvY

Flaminia

Marina Abramovich & Bill Viola - Assignment

Dear students,

In this post you can find the text about the work of Marina Abramovich and Bill Viola.

I would like that every lesson a couple of you may talk about a video artist.

A short speech to introduce their work.

You can read this text and search a video to upload i the blog to project during the lesson.