V-LOUNGE | Canadian Videoart Channel vol.1-3

V-LOUNGE vol.2
The Hit Man of Sampling Video!

Sampling Videos and Demonstration of Final Cut Pro
The members of FAMEFAME will be invited to the lounge, introduce their sampling videos, and demonstrate how they made the sampling videos.

	Shadowplay Tasman Richardson 2006, 8min excerpt, colour / b&w Tasman Richardson's "Shadowplay" lays bare the post-human vacuity of pre-recorded existence, echoing Burroughs' reflection on modern civilization: "nothing here but the recordings." Through an absurd (while disturbingly rational), brief explanation of the history of recording media, Richardson describes our brave new world of artifice, emptiness and illusion where the magnetic ghosts of civilization have conquered the living.
	The Blob Jubal Brown 2000, 9min, colour Paranoid science fiction obsessing over the omnipresence of television and radio waves, wireless communications… in our very midst, in us and around us“ …a rock n’ roll fantasia, joining 50s horror flicks, swamp guitar and rave beats in a juiced up look at the roots of TV.” - Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival catalogue
	The Invisible Man Josh Avery 2006, 8min excerpt, colour "The Invisible Man" is Josh Avery's individualist anthem of self-annihilation and triumphant rebirth, like the bionic phoenix emerging on the other side of technological immortality. Avery faces the now invulnerable Society of the Spectacle through strategies of self-marginalization, isolation and eccentricity to dissect self-image and establish an identity of pure miscreant individuality.
	Voorhees Elenore Chesnutt 2004, 2min 55sec, colour A collection of horror movie prey as they are hunted. The faces and eyes emit wildly the emotion of imminent death - racing hearts, singleness of purpose, horror. We see the terror, without knowing the cause. Created for the FAMEFAME Halloween bash Flight 666.
	The Pack Elenore Chesnutt 2003, 3min 40sec, colour / b&w As the leader redefines the possible, the pack instinctively adapts to the new conditions. This collection of the record-breaking moments in the men's 100-m dash shows that not only can the unfathomable occur, it can become the norm.
	Dark Alana Didur 2004, 3min, colour / b&w An examination of myth surrounding concepts of good and evil in relation to day and night. Referencing movie culture that explores those ideas.
	Now You Know I Exist Alana Didur 2005, 4min, colour Alana Didur's "Now You Know I Exist" offers a prismatic vision through which the spectrum of the modern conundrum, nihilism and longing, is enacted in a collage of sights, sounds and recriminations. Referencing the many realms and degrees of psychological responses―from daily acts of passive aggression to her voicepiece, the Zodiac Killer―a line in the sand is slowly drawn.

Guests

Tasman Richardson

Tasman Richardson is a videomaker, electronic composer, designer, curator, and organizer. Over the past 10 years he has exhibited or performed in Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Egypt, England, France, Finland, Holland, Iceland, Peru, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and The United States.

His work focuses on the spectacle of the tele-visionary existence, video as language, and the re-nification of sound and image. He has performed and collaborated under the aliases M.O.I., JAWA, Pox, FAMEFAME, theblameshifter, IBM, OHVOV, Anvil, Polygon Noose, and Noise-Op. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada. His artworks are available through Vtape, Artcore, Art Metropole, Microcinema International, Ant-zen, and FAMEFAME.

Josh Avery

Josh Avery is a Toronto based video and kinetic sculpture installation artist. He has been exhibiting in Toronto for the past six years. Josh graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a major in Integrated Media. He has a general knowledge of a wide variety of fabrication processes, specializing in metal fabrication. He is currently a Technician in the metal shop at The Ontario College of Art and Design.

All of Josh's work utilizes some form of a cut and past technique. In his video work he appropriates images to give them a different meaning. Josh's sculptural works give the impression that a moment in time has been recorded, but the humans involved in this moment have been removed and replaced with machines. The result is a sense of dread.

Anger is a dominant element and gives the pieces an outsider or antisocial bent. Currently his work examines ideas of the empty desire that mass media injects into its audience, and the possible lines of action to negate this desire. Josh Avery is a Toronto based video and kinetic sculpture installation artist. He has been exhibiting in Toronto for
the past six years. Josh graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a major in Integrated Media.
He has a general knowledge of a wide variety of fabrication processes, specializing in metal fabrication. He is currently a Technician in the metal shop at The Ontario College of Art and Design.

All of Josh’s work utilizes some form of a cut and past technique. In his video work he appropriates images to give them a different meaning. Josh’s sculptural works give the impression that a moment in time has been recorded, but the humans involved in this moment have been removed and replaced with machines. The result is a sense of dread.

Anger is a dominant element and gives the pieces an outsider or antisocial bent. Currently his work examines ideas of the empty desire that mass media injects into its audience, and the possible lines of action to negate this desire.