FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 10, 2003
FOR MORE INFORMATION: please call (512) 322-2099
Cynthia Camlin, Director, Creative Research Laboratory
Cinematexas
8th Annual International Short Film Festival
September 16 - 21, 2003 at
Creative Research Laboratory
September 16-21, 2003 marks the 8th annual Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, America's premier showcase for radical explorations in cinema, sound and moving image arts. Over the course of 6 days, Cinematexas will screen over 300 films in venues all over Austin and offer moving image installations and interventions throughout the city.
At Creative Research Laboratory, Cinematexas presents a new moving image installation by the Amsterdam-based artist Isabelle Vigier as part of its Terra Cognita Series. The piece employs dual screens to create modulating levels of interference and obstruction. An opening reception with the artist will take place on Wednesday, September 17, 7 to 9 pm.
Also on view are video works, Systems of Space by Hana Hillerova, and Feedback by Young Min Kang, both recently shown at Creative Research Lab as part of the exhibition Superstring. Hillerova’s work results from investigations of growth patterns in nature and their relation to non-inert models of organization in architecture. Kang’s video plays with feedback effects and evocative sound to capture and take apart the moment of illusion.
Opening Saturday, September 20, Cinematexas brings to Creative Research Laboratory and Flatbed World Headquarters several programs highlighting its Terra Cognita and Parallax View Series.
•
An interactive ‘found opera’ installation by Steven Ausbury and Anthony Burr, Biospheria, uses synthesized ‘natural’ sounds, ambient music and spoken word diary entries related to Biosphere 2, the world’s largest enclosed ecosystem.
• A moving image installation, Five Days on the Line, by Cliff Evans, creates an abstracted landscape constructed from over a thousand jpegs and soundfiles downloaded from Internet sites.
•
An exhibition of posters by Eric Drooker and Robbie Conal, artists/activists engaged in guerilla street actions that protest corporate marketing and its "legal" invasion of public space.
Elsewhere in town, Terra Cognita will feature an installation by William Pope.L – perhaps the most notorious performance artist in America – at Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, 700 Congress Avenue. In association with Cinematexas, the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Texas at Austin will present a visiting artist public lecture by William Pope.L on Tuesday, September 16, at 5 pm in the Art Building, Room 1.102 on the UT campus. And at the New Gallery in the Fine Arts Building on the UT campus, Barna Kantor will present an installation of new interactive work as part of Terra Cognita, with an opening on Thursday, September 18, at 7 to 9 pm.
Creative Research Lab hours during Cinematexas:
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 12 to 9 pm (opening 7 to 9 pm)
Thursday, Sept. 18, 12 to 5 pm
Friday, Sept. 19, 12 to 5 pm
Saturday, Sept. 20, 12 to 8 pm (opening 6 to 8 pm)
Sunday, Sept. 21, 12 to 5 pm
For more information and a full schedule of screenings and programs of Cinematexas, visit www.cinematexas.org.
Creative Research Laboratory presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions of work by students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, and also facilitates workshops, performances, demonstrations, seminars and collaborations.
The Lab is located at 2832 East Martin Luther King Boulevard , located in East Austin at 2832 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, inside Flatbed World Headquarters. There is ample free parking and bus service available on Capitol Metro's route 18. The activities of the Department of Art and Art History and the Creative Research Laboratory are free and open to the public.
For further information about the Lab, contact Cynthia Camlin, Director, at crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu, or call us at 512.322. 2099.
For information about the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, contact Carolyn Porter, carolynp@mail.utexas.edu, 512.471.3379.
Creative Research Laboratory
2832 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78705
phone: 512.322.2099
email: crlab@uts.cc.utexas.edu