May 12, 2012, 5pm

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We’re sending our 5th season into the abyss with the comedy stylings of Angel Yau and her friends from UCBcomedy.com. We’re poking fun at all those super serious movie conventions with short films from Todd Bieber, The Midnight Show, Edmond Hawkins, Nathan Russell, In My Day 119, Dan Silver, Justin Noto, Joseph Nicolosi, a music video from the Spinto Band directed by Eric Notarnicola & Daniel Gray Longino, Angel Yau of course and more!   Plus comedy performances from Camp Woods. Plus food. Plus plus.

Featuring

Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy

April 8, 2012, 7pm

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We’re taking a look at how innovative artists experiment with the idea of capturing motion using drawing and the camera. There’s live performance manipulation with Mimi Yin, Merche Blasco, and Christine Doempke, motion capture animation by Brian Oakes, tablet drawing for a live audience with Jon Burgerman, and finally sketch animation by Kieran O’Hare. Join an interactive environment and explore how movement, camera and pen make something spectacular.

Featuring

Capturing Dance by Mimi Yin, Merche Blasco, and Christine Doempke

Capturing Dance is an interactive installation which explores drawing through dance using the 3-D sensing Kinect camera. Movement is captured in 3-dimensions and distorted, manipulated and visualized using Processing, a programming environment created for visual artists.

The piece was created by Merche Blasco, Christine Doempke and Mimi Yin
Live performers: Maddy Bullard and Lulu Soni

Marie by Brian Oakes

“Marie” is an experimental dance film that utilizes motion-capture technology in a uniquely minimal manner. The performer is represented by a simple group of moving spheres in front of a neutral-colored, stationary background, allowing the viewer to “connect the dots” while the short, meditative performance unfolds.

Original score by B.E.F. Oakes.

Pink Purple by Jon Burgerman

Live drawing of a poster using a Wacom Cintiq at the Humac store in Oslo in late January 2010. The music is by Yukihiro Takahashi, the song is called Curtains.

Pornalog by Kieran O’Hare

Illustrator Kieran O’Hare makes multiple line drawings of the same image, color and manipulate them in Photoshop, and pull them into Final Cut to put the film together. Pornalog is an animation exploring a rite of passage that has been undermined by the digital age, the discovery of pornography. It is comedian Sameer Naseem’s reminiscence about being introduced to porn by the shittiest of neighborhood kids.

Bruschetta by Jacq’s Kitchen

Jacq’s Kitchen produces indulgent, vegan baked goods and other culinary creations that are 100% cruelty-free, without sacrificing taste or quality.   Handcrafted in Brooklyn, Jacq’s Kitchen products are soon to be available at select local coffee shops and open air markets in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, and for catering.

On the menu for April 8:

Bruschetta:
Spicy Eggplant with Golden Raisins and Cilantro
Tuscan White Bean and Artichoke
Walnut, Pear & Agave with Cashew Ricotta

ChocPeCot Cookies ($3 package of 2): (chocolate, pecan, apricot, cranberry)

March 11, 2012, 7pm

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A very special presentation of a fascinating poetry/video/trace your roots kind of show from our friends at vvitalny. Join us for an evening of re-invention, interaction and some really good poetry. Oh, and there will be borscht. Because you can’t host a remotely Polish event without it.

Featuring

Po Prostu Milosz by vvitalny

“I am a problem…I am problem. Like the bear and the shark and the wind.”

– Bob Holman

Po Prostu Milosz is a series of videos in which vvitalny explores the politics of writing and the “Polish school of poetry” through conversations – about legendary Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz – with leading American poets Bob Holman, Jane Hirshfield and Robert Pinsky. These videos form the nucleus of a larger multimedia project where the anxiety of influence is a legacy we celebrate. It begins with the poetry of Miłosz, which echoes in the work of following generations of American poets. Their work, in turn, informs our work in video, as well as the work of Warsaw Philharmonic’s Tomek Januchta, whose original music accompanies these videos. The project itself is actually an online “art game”, which serves as a platform to explore the use of (new) media to remix these influences, and to create collaborations were none existed before.