video & music festival 2000

PRESS RELEASE  January, 2000
E-MAIL: NotStillArt@improvart.com
CONTACT: Eba Twyford (718) 797-3116
DIRECTIONS
 

Not Still Art Festival
Saturday, April 29, 2000
at the Micro Museum @ 123 Smith Street Brooklyn, NY
Day Pass: $15. in advance, $20. at the door

Three Programs - One Day

2:00 pm - PAIK-ABE SCREENING, Nam June Paik 1971 film/video by
Jud Yalkut, historical tapes from the Paik/Abe analog video synthesizer,
background paper by George Fifield, DeCordova Museum
 

3:00 pm - NOT STILL ART INTERNATIONAL SCREENING 2000
from Moscow and beyond, abstract and non-narrative media art,
followed by artists discussion

7:00 pm - "MAY DAY, MAY DAY" Performance with
live computer/video imaging, dance, music by
NATO, Goss & Bley, W2 & Zipperspy, The Lumina Project

        The Not Still Art Festival will present two screenings and a tour de force performance,

"MAY DAY, MAY DAY", during its day long media marathon on Saturday April 29th., at the

Micro Museum in Brooklyn.  "MAY DAY, MAY DAY", performed at 7:00 pm, two days before

this auspicious first day of May, presents live computer and video imaging, music, and dance

based on the pagan and political significance of May Day.  Four performance groups will

participate, including: media artists - Nick Fortunato, Carol Goss, William Laziza, Walter

Wright;  dancer - Vanessa Bley; and musicians - Curtis Bahn, Haze Greenfield,

Dan Trueman, Maria Zipperspy.

        The  Not Still Art Festival,  termed "irreverent, annoying, and downright pre-cognitive" by

artistic director, Carol Goss, kicks off with the "Paik-Abe Screening" at 2:00 pm and the "Not

Still Art International Screening 2000" at 3:00 pm.  The "Paik-Abe Screening" celebrates the

early analog video synthesizer designed by Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe, considered one of the

pre-eminent colorizers by pioneer video artists.  Jud Yalkut's early film and video documentation

of Nam June's use of the synthesizer at WNET will be screened as well as pieces created from

the 1970s by Bill Etra, Goss and others.  A paper on the history of the Paik-Abe by George Fifield,

media curator of the Decordova Museum and director of the Cyberarts Festival in Boston, will be

presented.

 The fifth annual "Not Still Art Festival International Screening 2000" at 3:00 pm includes work from

a Moscow video art collective in addition to computer animation and video work from an international

Call for Entries.  Screened artists attend, so expect a lively discussion to follow the 90 minute

program.  Nearby restaurants are recommended for the dinner break before the

7:00 pm performance of "MAY DAY, MAY DAY".

 The Independent Film and Video Magazine called last year's Not Still Art Festival, at

Cyberarts in Boston, a "big hit".  The Festival, which is held in a different city each year,

provides a forum for artists working in abstract and non-narrative electronic motion imaging,

music and sound design.  " 'Not Still Art' is the best thing that's hapapened to abstract video art

since David Ross's show at the Everson Museum in 1976," says video artist Walter Wright.

 The day long festival is hosted by the Micro Museum, 123 Smith St., Brooklyn, (the

Bergen St. Station on the F Train).  The Festival Day Pass is $15. if purchased in advance online.

Passes are $20. at the door.
 
 

 Not Still Art is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.  It is funded in part by a Presentation Funds Grant from the Experimental Television Center and by a Media Action Grant from Media Alliance, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.  Sponsors include ImprovArt.com, Telenet.net, and Promote Art Works, Inc.
 
 
 

"These passionate [abstract] compositions are not limited to the purely visual celebration of what pleases the eyes. They reach beyond the world of the senses to symbolize the forces that activate life and the physical world with all their overwhelming complexity." from Rudolf Arnheim's essay "What Became of Abstraction?", p. 22, To The Rescue of Art U. of CA Press, 1992. HR

 Not Still Art is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.  It is funded in part by a Presentation Funds Grant from the Experimental Television Center and by a Media Action Grant from Media Alliance, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.  Sponsors include ImprovArt.com, Telenet.net, and Promote Art Works, Inc. The Not Still Art Festival receives promotional support from Media Alliance at WNET/Thirteen, FIVF/AIVF and the Bay Area Video Coalition.
Thanks to Telenet.net for graciously providing internet access and this website in support of the arts.   Festival Director: Carol Goss