Monday 1 December 2008

White Box NY video screenings series: November 28th: Damiano Colacito-Mauro Ceolin-Aldo Giannotti

On Friday 28th, the last of the White Box video screenings series took place. First, we saw Damiano Colacito's "Paradisi", a loop of screenshots of the most significant landscapes of the most significant video games identified by the artist. 
Then, Mauro Ceolin's "bushidoARCADE" a flash animation where Ceolin combines the Samurai honor code  with iconic images chosen from the multimedia and game culture.
Finally, Aldo Giannotti's "A Rewinding Journey", the story of a solitary astronaut trip when back on earth.
Between each screening Calder Martin  and Taketo Shimada played great minimal music
 
Damiano Colacito: "Paradisi"








Mauro Ceolin: "bushidoARCADE"










Calder Martin (Vizusa) e Taketo Shimada (Messages) 


Aldo Giannotti"A Rewinding Journey"





Monday 24 November 2008

White Box NY video screenings series: November 21st Liz Magic Laser, curated by Gabriela Galati

On November 21st the second night of the video screening series at White Box NY took place, where three videos by Liz Magic Laser where presented: Globe, Handled, and Bend, done in collaboration with Felicia Garcia-Rivera. 
The Rough Riders, the motorcycle gang featured in Bend, turned up at the event.

Globe

Bend








Juan Puntes



Felicia Garcia-Rivera and Liz Magic Laser with The Rough Riders

Handled










Sunday 16 November 2008

White Box NY video screenings series: November 14th Martin Gimenez, curated by Gabriela Galati

On Friday 14th, at White Box new space in Lower East Side, took place the first video screening of a series of three events.  In this occasion the artist presented was Martin Gimenez and his video "Limpida Fluit" of 2005.

White Box entrance.

Martin Gimenez, artist.


White Box space.



The screening.







Juan Puntes, Artistic Director of White Box, and Gabriela Galati, curator.

Tuesday 4 November 2008

Colacito goes to Tampa

Entrance to the USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, US.


Colacito starts to resemble his Wolfstein's HALFTRACK 


The Halftrack installed
Behind the track, one of the thre Health-bags on the wall


Colacito talks about his work at the preview visistors. On hte floor, John Haddock's "Screenshots Series" ready to be hanged.


John Paul Brichard's mime of the "shooting" to the armchair for his installation.


Philip Toledano's Portraits of Gamers hanged


Brody Condo's Jogn Caramack v2.0


Museum's entrance: Colacito's m_mission installation


Coalcito's Health-Bag installation


Don Fuller and Damiano Colacito at WMNF radio, invited by Jo Ellen Schilke in "Art in Your Year"


Launch at the Skippers smokehouse


Colacito's lesson "the arrow into the eye" at the Music Recital Hall, University of South Florida


Finally! The opening

View from the entrance, Mate's portraits of avatars


Colacito's work from left to right: Parloradio, Cold Meal, Health-bags and the Halftrack




Damiano and Stefano Monti at San Petersburg beach, Gulf of Mexico



Monti "The Reporter"


Colacito's first person view
26/10/08


Return home. Last American cigarette before the flight (view of the smoker cage). Tampa airport.