5:00 – 8:00 PM: Reception with Installations:

1.  Drawing Restraint 13 by Matthew Barney
27:45 min. (2006).  Barney as General Douglas MacArthur in a scene that refers both to MacArthur's infamous WWII landing on the Philippines and the Japanese surrender.  (See discussion beginning on next page.)  Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery

2.  RMB City  - A SecondLife City Planning by China Tracy by Cao Fei
6:08 min. (2007).  A promotional demo trailer for the artist's "China-like" real estate project within the multiplayer online virtual reality game, Second Life, where development rights are now on sale ("RMB" is a name for the Chinese currency).  (CS)  Commissioned by Serpentine Gallery; courtesy of Lombard-Freid Projects

3.  Online access to Serpentine's website exhibition opening of RMB City

4.  Torcito Project by Marcin Ramocki
A work in which viewers can "play" their choice from among a gallery of bitmap portraits constructed by the artist as sonic scores using re-purposed Mac software.  (CS)  Courtesy of the artist.

5.  New Monuments, Endnotes, and Hoedown compilation by Tom Moody (with jimpunk as to Endnotes)

6.  The Arrangement of Two Opposites While their Maximum Contact is Under Generation by Yves Netzhammer
27:36 min. (2005).  Evocative 3-D animations by an artist exhibited in the most recent Venice Biennial.  (CS)  Courtesy of Galerie Anita Beckers.

5:30 PM: Art Talk on Drawing Restraint 13

8:00 PM: Live Performance by Treewave

Paul Slocum's band plays his original composition "chiptunes" (8- and 16-bit music) using Commodore 64's, an old PC FM sound card (OPL3), a Compaq Portable II, an Epson LQ500 dot-matrix printer, and an Atari 2600, with projected video created with original and hacked Atari code.

12:00 AM: Live Performance / After-Party: Apples in Stereo perform at Sons of Hermann Hall (separate admission fee to Sons, but {thanks, Sons!} a limited number of discount coupons will be available at the Conduit Gallery opening).

7:00 – 7:30 PM: Reception with Installations:

1.  Drawing Restraint 13 by Matthew Barney
27:45 min. (2006).  Barney as General Douglas MacArthur in a scene that refers both to MacArthur's infamous WWII landing on the Philippines and the Japanese surrender.  (See discussion beginning on next page.)  Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery

2.  Accidental Blue Screen, etc. by John Michael Boling + Javier Morales
The artist repurposes material from professional and amateur, corporate and volunteer sourcesto yield meaningful surprises.  (CS)  Courtesy of the artist.

3.  cover this YouTube in blood by Guthrie Lonergan
So many good reasons for this.  (CS)  Courtesy of the artist.

4.  Shiftspace Demo
ShiftSpace is an open source layer "above" the web that allows community members to comment  or build overlays on any web page, including adding postit-like notes, image swaps, source code modifications, and trails to other URLs, enabling artists, activists, educators, hobbyists, and others to create online contexts on top of existing websites.  (CS)  Initiated (in 2007?) by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv.

5.  Shiftspace Interactive
Try it out.

6.  The Arrangement of Two Opposites While their Maximum Contact is Under Generation by Yves Netzhammer
27:36 min. (2005).  Evocative 3-D animations by an artist exhibited in the most recent Venice Biennial.  (CS)  Courtesy of Galerie Anita Beckers.

7.  Sitcoms by Matt Marello

7:30 PM: Seated Screenings:

1.  Bend by Liz Magic Laser + Felicia Garcia-Rivera
7 min. (2008).  Five young men in a motorcycle club follow a series of instructions from an off-camera woman.  (CS)  Courtesy of the artists.

2.  Meals on Wheels by John Pylypchuk
The spirit of volunteerism is alive but not so well in this possibly all-too-realistic narrative.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Friedrich Petzel Gallery

3.  Rien du Tout by Clemens von Wedemeyer and Maya Schweizer
An open casting call has drawn dozens of young people to audition for a Medieval epic, a film to be directed by one of the most perfectly odious characters ever created.  One not so lucky kid is chosen while the others are told wait outside in the cold and the rain.  The peasants begin to revolt.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

4.  Residential Erection by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
4:34 min. (2008).  A cut and paste animated recap of the campaigns so far.  Disheartening news: it could also be a glimpse into the future.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Postmasters gallery.

5.  Once Removed on My Mothers’ Side** by Nathalie Djurberg
A young woman ministers to an obese elder.  (CS)  Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery.

6.  Host by Kristin Lucas
7:36 min. (1997).  Lucas has said, " . . . I participate in an on-line therapy session directed by the system operator of a streetside multi-media kiosk. . . . [the session becomes] an amalgamation of daytime television and tabloid, wherein the surveillance camera becomes the eye of the media."  Courtesy of the artist.

7.  Nude Beach by John Pylypchuk
4:59 min. (2006).  “I thought this was a public beach.”  Famous last words.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Friedrich Petzel Gallery

8.  Dumstrutt** by Nathalie Djurberg
A boy torments a cat, testing its and his own limits.  (CS)  Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery

9.  The Human Opera XXX by Meiro Koizumi
17 min. (2007).  The artist subjects a man to an "experiment" in which he is  to "share a tragic story of his life in front of a video camera" in return for "a monetary payment"; brilliant and profoundly disturbing.  (CS)  Courtesy of Nicole Klagsbrun

**NOTE: During the remainder of the week, Once Removed on My Mother's Side will be available for viewing only on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and Dumstrutt will be available for viewing only on Wednesday and Friday.

Rien du Tout is not meant to be exhibited on a viewing monitor, but will be in this once case to make it available for those who are interested.

9:00 PM: After-Party: T.B.A.

7:00 PM: Seated Screening: at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth:
(Please see Sat., August 2 Seated Screenings.)

Sat., August 9
Exhibition Opening
at Conduit Gallery

7:00 – 7:30 PM: Reception with Installations:

1.  Drawing Restraint 13 by Matthew Barney
27:45 min. (2006).  Barney as General Douglas MacArthur in a scene that refers both to MacArthur's infamous WWII landing on the Philippines and the Japanese surrender.  (See discussion beginning on next page.)  Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery

2.  A Family Finds Entertainment by Ryan Trecartin
41:12 min. (2004).  The artist's entourage and himself in multiple roles play media-immersed characters in a story about Skippy's adventures in "coming out."  See further description at right.  Courtesy of Elizabeth Dee Gallery

3.  Triptych TV by Rick Silva a.k.a. Rick Silva, jimpunk, + Mr. Tamale

4.  Shiftspace Demo
ShiftSpace is an open source layer "above" the web that allows community members to comment  or build overlays on any web page, including adding postit-like notes, image swaps, source code modifications, and trails to other URLs, enabling artists, activists, educators, hobbyists, and others to create online contexts on top of existing websites.  (CS)  Initiated (in 2007?) by Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv.

5.  Shiftspace Interactive
Try it out.

6.  Battleship Potemkin Dance Edit by Michael Bell-Smith
12:29 (2007).  The artist "separated the film into its constituent shots and time stretched them one by one to the exact same length [, and] then replaced the soundtrack with a one-second dance loop synced to the cuts", replacing the original editing structure of the revolutionary narrative, which has been called seminal in its use of montage, with the "dumb, visceral, metric montage favored by dance visuals and music videos".  Courtesy of the artist.

7:30 PM: Seated Screenings:

1.  Studies in Transfalumination by Peter Rose

2.  May I Help You by Andrea Fraser
A gallerist extols a series of black paintings by Allan McCollum, oddly and at great length.  (CS)  Courtesy of Friedrich Petzel Gallery

3.  Ride to da’ Club by Kalup Linzy
5:06 min. (2002).  Linzy plays the female lead and many of the voices in this cheerfully profane conference call all aimed at getting to the club.  Now, why is it no one wants to ride with Big Dick Johnny?  (CDM)  Courtesy of Taxter Spengemann

4.  Whispering Pines 8 by Shana Moulton
7:36 min. (2006).  One of a series of episodes in which the artist's naive, trusting alter ego, Cynthia, resorts to various 80's diversions in a continuing struggle against existential depression.  (CS)  Courtesy of Country Club Gallery

5.  Tommy Chat Just E-Mailed Me by Ryan Trecartin
7:15 min. (2004).  Described by the artist as a "narrative video short that takes place inside and outside of an e-mail," the artist's friends and himself in multiple roles play Pam, a lesbian librarian with a screaming baby in an ultra-modern hotel; Tammy and Beth, in an apartment filled with installation art; and Tommy, in a secluded lake house.  Courtesy of Elizabeth Dee gallery

6.  Artist Trilogy by Matt Marello
Mr. Marello plays the lead in three classic – well, maybe not so classic – films about artists as victims, killers, and charlatans.  Let’s see, did he leave anything out?  Oh, yes, insatiable sex fiend.  (CDM)  Courtesy of the artist.

7.  five more minutes by Dena DeCola + Karin Wandner
17:23 min. (2005).  The artists enact intimate moments between a "mother" and "child," to touching yet peculiar effect.  (CS)  Courtesy of Video Data Bank and the artists.

8.  Melody Set Me Free by Kalup Linzy
14:06 min. (2007).  The talented Mr. Linzy, in impeccable Whitney Houston drag, overcomes a mother's negativity and competitors' backstage backstabbing to find true love and a chance at stardom.  You go, girl!  (CDM)  Courtesy of Taxter Spengemann

9.  The Code by Anthony Goicolea
1:18 min. (2007).  Courtesy of Postmasters gallery.

7:00 PM: Seated Screening:

An Estranged Paradise by Yang Fudong at the  Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
76 min. (1997/2002).  This is Fudong’s first, near feature-length film, shot six years before he began work on his multi-part masterpiece, Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest (2003 – 2006). Fudong speaks for a generation of young Chinese intellectuals caught at “a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our future.”  The protagonist of Paradise is Zuzhi, a young man who drifts through a rapidly modernizing Shanghai, suffering from an undefined illness that seems to come on with the rainy season.  Although he has two girlfriends he admits he is happiest when visiting with doctors or entertaining his parents on their trips in from the countryside.  Yang opens his film with a lesson in Chinese landscape painting, in which what is left out can be the most significant elements.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery

Sat., August 16
Exhibition Opening
at Conduit Gallery

Sat., August 23
Exhibition Opening
at Conduit Gallery

7:00 – 7:30 PM: Reception with Installations:

1.  A Family Finds Entertainment by Ryan Trecartin
41:12 min. (2004).  The artist's entourage and himself in multiple roles play media-immersed characters in a story about Skippy's adventures in "coming out."  See further description at right.  Courtesy of Elizabeth Dee Gallery

2.  Who’s Listening 1 by Yu-Chin Tseng
7:55 min. (2003-04).  A series of children are surprised.  (CS)  Courtesy of the artist.

3.  Triptych TV by Rick Silva a.k.a. Abe Linkoln, jimpunk, + Mr. Tamale

4.  Second Life Dumpster  by eteam
45 min.(2008).  The artists are creating a dumpster within the multiplayer online virtual reality game, Second Life, to collect virtual trash such as unmarketable virtual merchandise and superseded avatar body parts.  (CS)  Courtesy of the artists.

5.  Max Payne Cheats Only I by JODI
23 min. (2004).  A video game said to have influenced John Woo is deconstructed.  (CS)  Courtesy of And/Or Gallery.

6.  Hand Flurry by Joel Holmberg
1:00 min. (2008).  Courtesy of the artist.

7:30 PM: Seated Screenings:

1.  The Guest by John Bock
11:25 min. (2004).  A rabbit.  An apartment.  A man with lettuce tied to his feet.  (CDM)  Courtesy of the artist.

2.  Palms by John Bock
In the films of John Bock, mad scientists and crazed farm workers conduct visceral experiments in settings that range from pastoral landscapes to baroque palaces.  In Palms, his first American-produced film, he takes on the world of Sunshine Noir.  Two European killers arrive at LAX, rent a Lincoln convertible, and set off on a journey that is part hit job, part road trip, and possibly a spiritual quest.  Expect blood, funny props, music, classics of modern architecture, and dialog that doesn’t really get scary until it begins to just maybe make sense.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Anton Kern gallery.

3.  Anniversary Waltz by David Adamo
3:58 min. (2007).  The party is over.  The guests have all gone home.  The artist dances alone.  (CDM)  Courtesy of Fruit and Flower Deli

9:00 PM: Special Surprise Presentation – or maybe not; we're working on it.  If not, the After-Party starts now.

11:00 PM: After-Party: Absinthe Lounge