12. februar - 28. februar 2010

Vi gjentar suksessen fra ifjor og viser streetart videokunst i utendørskino på Nytorget hver kveld frem til 28. februar. Utstillingen er kuratert av Martyn Reed.

Bakspeilet er Rogaland kunstsenters visningsarena for videokunst. På vinduet ut mot Nytorget kan forbipasserende oppleve skiftende videoprogrammer. Utstillingen er kun “åpent” om kvelden på den mørkeste tiden av året.

Utstillingen består av 5 videoverk, på 36 minutter, av kunstnere:

"Living decay" 12.33 med kunsten til DOLK og PØBEL (NO)

Rinpa Eshidan team (JP) - "Room" 4.50
BLU (IT) - "MUTO" 7.26 

Evan Roth fra Graffiti Research Lab (USA) - "Graffiti analyses"

Rinpa Eshidan team (JP)  - "1 week of artworks" 5.49

Tekst av Martyn Reed: 

BAKSPEILET

Curated by Martyn Reed (Nuart)

This collection of international film and animation is just a small example of how artists and directors are applying the medium of film and new-technology to the genre commonly know as “Street Art”.

From Norway to Japan and all in between, Street Art, taking its cue and modus operandi from Graffiti is currently sweeping the globe, invading museums & renowned galleries as well as auction & publishing houses. At the same time, there is creative spirit that is being expressed in so many different ways all over the walls of our streets in so many different mediums & styles. Graffiti for an internet and advertising savvy generation with access to cheap creative technologies and the will to get things done.

These films, though far from showing the complete picture, will give people on the street a short and interesting introduction into the world of Street Art and show how the medium of film is being used to both document and create some of the most interesting, relevant and dynamic pieces of contemporary art currently being produced the world over.

RINPA ESHIDAN (JP)

1 week of Artworks
Duration 05.49
A motion-painting project shown on the surface of a wall, this piece documents a week in the life of the Rinpa Eshidan.

Room
Duration : 04.50
Noiz-Davi: Artistic Direction, 2D Art
Daisuke Yamamoto: Artistic Direction, 2D Art
D.H.Rosen: 3D Art
Akari Sasai : 3D Art
Xola: Set Building, 2D Art

"Rinpa" is a word created by the founders of the group meaning "to bring people together, while "Eshidan" essentially means "art crew." The Rinpa Eshidan is a team of artists brought together by a common creative expression.

The Rinpa Eshidan core team is made up of Noiz-Davi, Daisuke Yamamoto, D.H.Rosen, Akari Sasai and XOLA . The group's main activities are performing in live-art events and creating videos of art in action.

“Instead of focusing on the finished project, we believe the process of creation itself is where art comes to life and our videos and live art aim to engage our audience in that process. Many people ask us how we can stand to erase the artwork we have worked so hard to create, but our focus is on the process of making art, not the end result. The good news is that the videos we make become a permanent record of the spontaneous artworks created during the filming”








LIVING DECAY (NO)
(Fairy takes in the middle of nowhere)
Duration : 12.33

Featuring work from DOLK & PØBEL.
In the summer of 2008 Dolk and Pøbel, two talented Norwegian street artists, took on the challenge of Lofoten Islands in Norway to create large-scale murals on the facades of abandoned houses. “Living Decay” is a suggestive daily log that narrates through 4 tales, the making of these huge paintings inside this unique northern landscape.

The documentary opens and closes with the narration by the American artist John Fekner, pioneer of 70’ street art. The soundtrack alternates between original tracks from “Starving pets” , “Perturbazione”, “Armstrong?” and “Farmer Sea”.

Paintings by DOLK, PØBEL & THE LOFOTEN LANDSCAPE
Voice over by JOHN FEKNER 

Edited by LUCA VIGLIANI, DAVIDE FASOLO

Music by FARMER SEA, STARVING PETS, ARMSTRONG, PERTURBAZIONE.
Shot, written & experienced by NULLIVERSI




EVAN ROTH (GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB) USA
 
"GRAFFITI ANALYSIS" Version : Nuart 09
graffitianalysis.com
Featuring Tags from Swoon, David Choe, Verbs, Chris Stain, Brad Downey and many more..


Graffiti Analysis makes visible the unseen movements of graffiti writers in the creation of a tag. Motion tracking, computer vision technology, and a custom C++ application are used to record and analyze a graffiti writer's pen movement over time. These gestures are processed to produce
algorithmically-generated digital projections that appear in motion on the surfaces of buildings in New York City. Relationships are created between analog and digital graffiti styles, forming a link among traditional graffiti, experimental street art, and new media. Graffiti is re-presented in the language of information analysis, offering a system for greater understanding of a highly coded form of creative expression.

What Martha Cooper did for archiving graffiti on film, and Chalfant/Silver did for archiving graffiti in video, Graffiti Analysis intends to do for archiving graffiti in code. The project aims to build the world's largest archive of graffiti motion and bring together two seemingly disparate communities that share an interest hacking systems, whether found in code or in the city.

Graffiti Analysis is a project by Evan Roth. Graffiti Analysis 2.0 was launched in December and the newest addition to the family is “Dust Tag”, an application developed for the iphone.

Biog

Evan Roth (aka fi5e) is an artist with interests in technology, tools of empowerment, open source, and popular culture.

Roth's projects have recently shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Moma, Tate, the New Museum, and on BET. Evan's work has been published in the New York Times, Time magazine, Rolling Sone, and Esquire, and is the number one return for the google search "bad ass mother fucker". Evan lives in Hong Kong with his wife and enjoys spending his free time violating laws related to copyright and vandalism. Current and past work is archived at evan-roth.com .

BLU (IT)

"MUTO"
A Short film by Blu
Duration : 07.26
An ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
www.blublu.org

music by Andrea Martignoni
produced by Mercurio Film
assistant: Sibe

Blu is known for his large, often surreal artwork presented in public spaces. Blu creates two-dimensional works of art across various landscapes that he later turns into a stop-motion film, allowing his art to take on a whole new persona. The sheer size and detail put into each movement of the graffitied scene is remarkable, given the amount of time that goes into the planning alone.

Blu’s artwork is unique in that it presents itself as legal street graffiti – while simultaneously covering other, non-sanctioned street art. MUTO is an incredible piece of Blu’s work in which his characters crawl across the walls and buildings of both Buenos Aires and Baden, Germany. The film has been viewed over 5.9 million times on youtube.

Martyn Reed - biography

Martyn Reed, came to Norway in 1996 at the invitation of Stavanger Kommune
and Cafe Sting to participate in a visual arts festival called Void. At the
time Martyn led a contemporary arts group Phased, based in Central London.

Tutured by Damien Hirst's old tutor Glynn Braithwait at Leeds College of
art, Martyn then went on to graduate in Fine Art with Honours from Middelsex
University in London, here he was tutored by renowned Italian American Light
Sculpture, Danté Leonelli. Established as a conceptual artist, Martyn
started curating and promoting a series of club culture happenings entitled
"Lessons in Art History", this later developed into a monthly club & visual
arts event named "Abacus" based at London's "Institute of Contemporary
Arts".

Martyn visited Norway, fell in love and never left... He established Numusic
in 2000, Nuart in 2001 and was instrumental in the development of Tou
Scene's first 5 years. Martyn established Nuproductions AS, a not for profit
cultural company in 2006, Nuproductions oversee's the festivals and numerous
other projects that Martyn develops alongside various partners.

He has performed as a dj and run productions throughout the globe.. In
recent years, Martyn's focus has shifted back to visual art, projects at
Stavanger Kunstforening, Oslo and Trondheim S for NSB, Hå Gamle Prestegård,
Stroke 2 Munich and Nuart New York are all currently under development.