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Krowswork

July 23 - July 23, 2011

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480 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Double Header Screening: Face Time & Video Against Video Krowswork Screening July 23rd
Krowswork presents a not-to-be-missed double header screening, preceded by a closing event for the First Wave of the Summer of Video Art More about the Summer of Video Art: krowswork.com/sova.html More about these screenings: krowswork.com/firstwavescreenings.html FACE TIME featuring Steve Reinke, Steina, Kristin Lucas, Kerry Laitala, David Hevey, and Anthony Discenza, curated by Darrin Martin. Face Time is a program of short film and video meditations on facial difference and distortion. The works span from documentary to experimental genres and explores issues of memory, disability, age, and aesthetic manipulation. VIDEO AGAINST VIDEO featuring Buky Schwartz, Tony Conrad, and Manual Saiz, curated by Chris Hughes From its inception, video has been used by artists to explore and expose the medium's own intrinsic properties; while artists such as Nam June Paik and Steina & Woody Vasulka were cracking open the picture tube with their research into process-oriented forms of video, theorists like Martha Rosler and Vito Acconci took on the seductive psychological tactics employed by the mass media. Subsequent generations of artists have ensured questions regarding technical facile-ness and control remain central to the medium. This program presents two videos from the first and second decade of video art production together with a contemporary piece which considers questions raised by the previous works.