New Media Curious Experimental Moving Images Festival

Festival Schedule

All screenings at 730 pm, Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media
Tickets $10, $8 ATNE Members
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Thursday April 8 The 29th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Since 1981, the annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival which takes it’s name from that of the world’s first motion picture studio built by Thomas Edison in 1893, has been an international juried competition and award tour, has been fulfilling its mission to advocate, exhibit and reward cutting edge works from independent film and videomakers. The festival is known for its national public exhibition program, which features a variety of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 or more award winning films and videos. The program will include work by Roslindale filmmaker Katherine Ramey. More about the Black Maria can be found at http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org/

Thursday April 15 INtransit V.6: Scientific American
INtransit is a twice yearly curated video journal of art and technoscience produced by media arts collective AstroDime Transit Authority. This edition looks at the history and representation of “American” science within and without the United States, using as a metaphorical framework, the magazine Scientific American. What is a scientific American? Artists and scientists examine this question through the lens of their disciplines. Astrodime Transit Authority will introduce the event and take audience questions.http://www.astrodime.org

Thursday April 22 Experimental Moving Images from the Art Technology New England Community
ATNE, a program of Boston Cyberarts, launched in 2009 is a quickly growing consortium of people working at the intersection of technology and the arts. Members of the free ATNE portal were informed of a call for work with a deadline of March 22 2010. Short work in any genre including narrative, non-narrative, documentary, experimental, that challenges obvious conventions of the medium makes up the program. More info and call for entries see arttechne.ning.com . More info about ATNE is at http://www.atne.org.

Thursday April 29 What If? 60×60x60
Media artist Gene Gort and composer/sound artist Ken Steen of New Media New Music New England bring us an audience participatory experiment in audio and video called What If? 60×60x60.  The project uses 60 video clips and 60 sound compositions that are 60 seconds in duration each. Contributors of the clips were selected from a call to New England mediamakers. During the event, audience members select one number each from a video and audio designated list. These selections will determine the evening’s program of 60 works, resulting in a 60 minute screening. What If? 60×60x60  investigates the serendipitous relationship of sound and moving image in terms of coincidence, shifting context and potential meanings that result. More info at http://www.nmnmne.org Gene Gort, Ken Steen and Boston mediamakers will discuss the experimental project following the screening.