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Single Shot
Lumen | 21 March 2007
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Super 8 films and performance by John Porter
Lumen | 6 February 2007
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Cinema of Prayoga
Lumen | 2 December 2006
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Big Screen launch event hosted for Cornerhouse by Lumen
Lumen | 13 September 2006
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Gastronomy
Lumen | 13 February 2006
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David Lamelas: Time is a Fiction
Lumen | 21 January 2006
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Something of the Night: Five film screenings curated by Lumen
Leeds City Art Gallery | 22 October
- 26 November 2005
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Found Footage
Leeds Central Library | 3-13 November
2005
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Lillian Schwartz: A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine
Ocularis, New York | Lillian Schwartz
in person | 18 September 2005 | Further
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3 Films by Stan Brakhage
Leeds Central Library | 13 August
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3 Films by Michael Snow
Leeds City Art Gallery | 30 July
2005
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LoVid at Lumen
Lumen, Monarch House, Queen Street,
Leeds | 19 July 2005
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Patrick Keiller:
The City of the Future
24 May 2005 | The Leeds Club
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Karen Mirza / Brad Butler / no.w.here
23
April | Leeds Central Library | 7pm
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Margaret Tait:
Subjects and sequences
20 & 27 March 2005 | Leeds
Central Library
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Reverence: The films of Owen Land
25 & 26 February 2005 | Leeds
Central Library
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Lillian Schwartz:
A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine
21 January 2005 | PureScreen, Salford
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Antenna by Robert Whitman
29/30 October 2004 | Leeds
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Evolution 2004
1-6 November 2004 | Leeds
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It's all here and now and the future
5 March 2004 | Leeds
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Evolution 2003
9-11 October 2003 | Leeds
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Artists talk: Bill Fontana
22 May 2003 | Leeds
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It's
all here and now and the future:
A
half-day symposium exploring multimedia happenings of the 60s
Organised by Lumen as part of FuseLeeds04
5 March 2004 | The Leeds Club ,
Albion Place, Leeds | Symposium: 1.30pm - 5.30pm (£5/3);
Film screening: 7.30pm (£3.50/2.50)
Don Paulson showing his light show at the Science Center in Seattle,
1968
In the mid '60s artists, film makers and musicians created a new
form of live event. Music, light, film, art and counter culture
combined in truly multimedia happenings reflecting the energy and
intent of a radical new generation. This half day symposium and
film screening explores an era of experimentation from Andy Warhol's
‘hellish sensorium’, Exploding Plastic Inevitable with
the Velvet Underground, to America’s west coast lightshows
and London's infamous UFO Club (Underground Freak Out Club).
Symposium
Seattle based media arts curator Robin Oppenheimer will present
an overview of the origins of 60s lightshows on the west coast of
America demonstrating how this new form of multi-media event represented
the beginnings of a universal picture language first described by
visionary film maker Stan VanDerBeek and experimental film theorist
Gene Youngblood. Her presentation will feature rare documentary
footage from ‘60s lightshows in San Francisco, Seattle and
Portland; experimental films by VanDerBeek; and video extracts from
a range of art histories including Constructivism and Experiments
in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
Renowned experimental film maker Ronald Nameth will discuss his
first hand experience of Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia
events and screen his legendary film document, Warhol's EPI (Ronald
Nameth, 1966, US, 15mins, 16mm). Nameth will also talk about his
collaborations with avant-garde composers John Cage and Salvatore
Martirano. He will be screening Musicircus (Ronald Nameth, 1967
re-edited 2003, US and Sweden, 17 mins 4 secs, DVD), a documentary
of Cage's pivotal multi-media concert/happening; and L's G.A.
(Ronald Nameth, 1968 re-edited 2003, US, 25 mins 5 secs, DVD) the
artists film accompaniment to Martirano's music performance of the
same name, variously referred to as 'the quintessential anti-war
piece', and 'The Erotica of mixed media'.
Robin Oppenheimer
Robin Oppenheimer is a internationally-recognized media arts consultant,
historian, curator, writer, and educator who has worked in the field
since 1980. She was the first Media-Arts-Historian-in-Residence
at Bellevue Art Museum, near Seattle (2000-2), and co-produced an
Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.) Reunion symposium at
the University of Washington on October 25-26, 2002 (www.eatreunion.org).
As Manager of the Seattle Art Museum's Open Studio project (www.openstudio.org,
1997-2000), she oversaw Web production and literacy training for
almost 60 Seattle artists and arts organisations. She is also a
former Executive Director of 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle (1989-95),
and IMAGE Film/Video Center in Atlanta (1984-8), where she directed
the Atlanta Film & Video Festival.
Ronald Nameth
Ronald Nameth has created a number of internationally-recognized
works in experimental film and video and has been active since 1965.
He presently works as a film and video maker, digital media consultant,
writer and as an educator. He has also worked with large multimedia
projections and video installations and curator of experimental
film and video screenings. Nameth was in the first wave of artists
to work with electronic media - beginning in the mid '60s.
He first utilized electronic music devices to create imagery, and
also deconstructed the TV to create electronic imagery. One example
of this is L’sG.A. a live double-screen film mixed-media presentation
(made in '65 with audio composed by Salvatore Martirano). This film
was was one of the first to visualise cyberspace - the matrix -
16 years before William Gibson was to write about it in 1982, in
his novel Neuromancer. Many of Nameth’s films and videos have
been made in collaboration with creative people in a wide range
of fields - such as composer John Cage (The First Musicircus),
Salvatore Martirano (L’s G.A.), Michael Lytle (Tantra Energy
Forms), and Per Norgaard (Voyage Into the Golden Screen), Poet Michael
Holloway, artists Andy Warhol (Exploding Plastic Inevitable), William
Wegman (Grind), and Modern Dance with Al Haung (The Dance of T'ai)
and the Living Movement Dance Theater (Labyright), and Photographers
Aaron Siskind (Aaron Siskind Photographs) and Art Sinsabaugh (Landscape
With People). Nameth has received numerous awards around the world
for his film and video, and his work is in the collections of numerous
museums in the USA and Europe.
Screening
The day will conclude with a rare screening of 2 films which define
this era of radical experimentation:
The Velvet Underground and Nico (A Symphony of Sound) (Andy
Warhol, 1966, US, 67 mins, 16mm, b/w) is a portrait of the band
recorded at a practice session in Warhol's legendary Factory. It
shows the group rehearsing for their opening show at the Film-Makers'
Cinematheque basement theatre in New York City. The film was recorded
by Warhol on two 16mm reels to be projected on two screens between
songs as the band played live - here the reels will be projected
consecutively on a single screen. It features Factory regulars Lou
Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Nico, Ari Boulogne, Gerard Malanga,
Billy Name, Stephen Shore, the New York Police department and Warhol
himself.
Beyond Image (The Sensual Laboratory, UK, 1968, 14 mins 5 secs,
16mm, colour) perfectly evokes '60s psychedelia and the spirit of
the legendary UFO Club in London's Tottenham Court Road, where hip
young things mixed with celebrities like Mick Jagger and John Lennon
to watch bands such as Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine accompanied
by multi-media lightshows and film projections. Credited to
the Sensual Laboratory - a collective including Mark Boyle, Joan
Hills, Cameron Hills, John Claxton and Des Banner, which was responsible
for psychedelic lightshows at various events in the late '60s -
the film uses coloured oils swirling and bubbling together, filmed
through a series of filters to allow colours to slide and change.
The film is completed by a pulsating soundtrack from Soft Machine,
making for a far-out, mind-blowing feast of the senses.
Tickets
Call the FuseLeeds04 Box Office: 0113 222 3434 (10am-5pm,
Mon-Fri)
or the West Yorkshire Playhouse Box Office: 0113 213 7700 (9am-8pm,
Mon-Sat)
Discounted tickets are available to senior citizens, children under
16 and NUS students, LeedsCard holders, and anyone receiving unemployment
or disability benefit.
FuseLeeds04
FuseLeeds04 is a major new international music festival taking place
in Leeds between 3-7 March. The festival celebrates new music across
the spectrum of Jazz, world, classical, electronica and pop; and
will feature performances by Django Bates, Jonny Greenwood, Yo La
Tenga, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Bill Frisell, Malian Djelimady
Toukara, The Smith Quartet, Sikth, South Asian Music Youth Orchestra,
Kate Rusby and RJC Dance amongst many others. The programme will
see spectacular live concerts, exclusive new commissions, film and
video screenings, dance, and an extensive education and fringe programme.
FuseLeeds04 is a joint partnership between Leeds City Council, Leeds
College of Music and Leeds Jazz, broadcast in association with
BBC Radio 3. Django Bates is the Festival's first Artistic Director.
To order a festival brochure call the Fuse information line on 0113
3951244 or visit the website at http://www.fuseleeds.org.uk.
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