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Eli Ridgway Gallery

January 22 - January 22, 2010

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172 Minna Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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Just look around this place
A program of new works in video curated by Kenneth White. This is a one-time screening on: Friday, January 22, 2010 at 8pm Total running time is approximately one hour. Admission is free and open to the public. "Just look around this place" is a collection of seven short works in video that explore the transformation of social relations by the video medium. Using a diverse range of methods, including video-diary, home video, animation, direct address, and appropriation, the artists dissect their means of creative production and the mutations of social performance that their medium instigates. Video is an environment through which interaction is conditioned. In each work, we are beckoned to "just look around this place," and recognize the (often hilarious) scenes of life performed for electronic media. Works and artists include Let's Watch This Guy At A Coffee Shop (Julie Perini), HOME / VIDEO (Michael Hession), Video Terraform Dance Party (Jeremy Bailey), Pine Point (Kenneth White), Beauty Plus Pity (Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby), West Nile (Tom Sherman), and The Frills 3.0 (Jimmy DiPasquale). Kenneth White is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. He is currently a graduate student in the Art History / Film Studies Ph.D. Program at Stanford University. He received his B.F.A. in film production from Syracuse University in 2005. He is a co-founder of the Portland Film + Video Artists Collective, of Portland, Maine. White will serve as a visiting curator in the summer 2010 session of the Maine College of Art M.F.A. Program.