[x] Andrews in group show at Surrey Art Gallery Sat Sept 15, 7:30-9:30

[Jim Bizzocchi]

Cool!
Jim

>I have a couple of new videos I made with dbCinema, the graphic 
>synthesizer and langu(im)age processor I wrote. These were 
>commissioned by the Surrey Art Gallery for their group show on 
>self-portraiture called 'Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses' 
>which opens on Saturday September 15 from 7:30-9:30pm (13750-88 Ave, 
>Surrey, BC). The show runs from September 15 to December 16 if 
>you're an asynchronous type of individual.
>
>Here's the card: 
>http://www.surrey.ca/files/Fall_exhibitions2012_invitation_final.pdf
>
>Brace yourself. These videos contain a lot of images of me. In fact, 
>nothing but. The two videos use about 53 images of me from the day I 
>was born to my current grizzled state at age 53.
>
>The curator, Jordan Strom, saw my dbCinema piece The Club ( 
>http://vispo.com/dbcinema/theclub3/pics.htm?n=1 ) at the show on 
>generative art at the Audain Gallery earlier in the summer, and 
>thought it might be interesting if I tried a self-portrait using 
>dbCinema. If you look at The Club you see that a self-portrait made 
>with dbCinema like The Club could be rather problematical. A kind of 
>Frankenstein or The Fly problem.
>
>The approach I took was to use images from babyhood to 53rdness and 
>video-collage them helter skelter. In the main, the mang does not 
>cohere. No coherent person emerges from this process of forcibly 
>joining/collaging/synthesizing/remixing these 53 photos of me. It 
>doesn't magically tell me who I have always been. Or does it? Or if 
>not, what *does* it suggest? In any case, it's a rather unusual 
>self-portrait; the whole show is concerned with self-portraiture, 
>mainly.
>
>There are two videos. One of them uses two dbCinema brushes. One of 
>the brushes 'paints' text (the text is simply my name, one letter 
>per brushstroke) and the other brush paints circles. Each brush 
>(usually) paints a different image of me, so the result is two 
>brushes simultaneously painting a different picture of me. Each 
>brush moves on to paint a different picture every five seconds or so.
>
>The second video uses only one brush and is more 'painterly'. This 
>video is in a dark room by itself projected to fill the wall.
>
>So there you have it. Hope to see you Sat Sept 15 from 7:30-9:30 at 
>the Surrey Art Gallery.
>
>ja
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Jim Bizzocchi                                   Simon Fraser University      
Associate Professor            Interactive Arts and Technology
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