NSA 2004 PRESS RELEASE

NOT STILL ART 2004.........PRESS PAGE

PRESS RELEASE:

WHAT: 9th Annual Not Still Art Festival
WHEN: Saturday October 2, 2004 1:00 pm Artists Talk / 8 pm SCREENING
WHERE: Micro Museum, 123 Smith Street, Brooklyn NY (718) 797-3116
CONTACT: nsa "at" improvart.com
ADMISSION: $10. / $5. student/senior (no one refused for lack of funds)
INFO: http://www.improvart.com/nsa/

The 9th annual Not Still Art Festival will screen it's eclectic international mix of music, abstraction and non-narrative shorts at 8:00 pm on Saturday October 2nd at the Micro Museum in Brooklyn (Bergen St. stop on the F train from Manhattan).

This finely wrought exhibition of unique and original work will be preceded in the afternoon from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm by previews and interviews with attending artists. "I'm so glad I found you" is an oft repeated phrase from artists tucked away in their studios in far-flung parts of the world. Often they travel to New York for the festival to meet their peers. This is a joyous event for everyone attending; a party and celebration for the long hours spent in creating their work.

WHO:

ATTENDING ARTISTS: William Brown, Christine Dunn, Chris Ernst, Ido Fluk, Carol Goss, Annie Loui, Robert Pirretti, Stephanie Maxwell, Allan Schindler, Bart Woodstrup, Walter Wright. (Please see links to their home pages at NSA home)

There is a great line up of debut pieces!
Chris Casady's very art deco flash animation; Ido Fluk's rant "What I Want" (not "...a dying mortgage... a house, an SUV, ...spend my life in front of the television..."); Chris Ernst's on and off relationship with the Watts Tower in LA,: Carol Goss' "Byegones", a contemporary take on a 1925 Boswell Sisters tune; Francesco Leprino's very sexy, Italian "On Smoking"; Tod Pardon's fast pasted "Undercover" romp; and Judson Wright's completely abstract "Homicidal Maniac for a President"!

Human relationships are obsessed over in "Cyberdate" (Bart Woodstrup), "Madcatter" (Robert Pirretti), and "Sing to Me You Precious Wound" (Max Gleason). William Brown takes us to a seemingly absurd ritual in India in "Holi Celebration." John Kneckt's playful "Crisis in Sapville" resonates with the daily news on a surreal level . Mark Zaki's "Absence Presence" is an impressionistic collaboration with dancer, Annie Loui.

Amazing abstract animation from Stephanie Maxwell, Christine V. Dunn, Keum-Taek Jung, Stephan Larson, Gerhard Mantz, Walter Wright, and Audri Phillips is complemented by music from a range of composer/musicians, including: John Adamczyk, Christopher Brakel, Allan Schindler, and Edgar Grana. World class improvised jazz comes to us from Arrigo Cappelletti /Giulio Visibelli and the Jon Voight Ensemble.

ADDITION: Friday night October 1 at 9:00 pm at the Micro Museum there will be a live Electrovideomove Performance with Music: DJ DeftlyD, Darryl Hell, David Linton; Video: Dial888, Lena, w2; Dance: Joe Burgio, Teresa Czepiel, Heather McQuiston, Edisa Weeks. Make sure to catch this the night before the Not Still Art Festival

BACKGROUND:
Founded and curated by Carol Goss as a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Not Still Art began in 1996 when four video artists (Goss, Walter Wright, Peer Bode, Bob Doyle) from the 1970s gathered together in Cherry Valley, New York for a public screening of their abstract and non-narrative video art. That event evolved into the annual Not Still Art Festival International Screening pimarily by word of mouth and e-mail relay.

The impetus was twofold: first, there was a need for a festival that focused exclusively on abstract and non-narrative electronic motion imaging with music/sound design; secondly, with the internet and e-mail it was at last possible to reach many of the international artists working in this form with a very small budget.

SPONSORS:
Abstract and non-narrative work has never been easy to fund raise for - mainly because it defies description - so try to write a grant proposal! So the Not Still Art Festival has progressed with the help of the artists, who contribute an application fee, and the Experimental Television Center, which pays a stipend to traveling artists from a Presentation Funds Grant (redistributed funds from the New York State Council on the Arts) .

We are also are fortunate to have Gala Radowic of GRS Systems in Manhattan convert PAl submissions to NTSC. The Laziza's of the Micro Museum support us with their energy and their space. Telenet.net, a subsidiary of Logical.net, has provided us with a website and internet connection from day one and Improvart.com has shared equipment and technical resources.