video_dumbo
annual festival of video art screenings and exhibition 
curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy

SEPTEMBER 23 - 25, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, September 23, 2011 at 7pm
Live performances by: Thomas Zummer and Synthhumpers (Jim Supanick and Josh Solondz)

video_dumbo is the annual festival of international contemporary video art, co-presented with Dumbo Arts Center [DAC] as part of the 2011 Dumbo Arts Festival.

For our 7th edition we are very proud to present 82 artists from 27 different countries, a number of NY/East Coast and world premieres, including works from places as remote as Chittagong, Bangladesh and Tarabulus, Lebanon.

Highlights this year include eight installations under the exhibition title QUASI CINEMA, featuring works that re-appropriate film technology as well as cinematic metaphors.For the past seven years, video_dumbo has been an important exhibition platform for emerging filmmaker and media artists. In our continuing mission to exhibit rarely seen video art, we present an ever growing selection of international, thought-provoking works to our audience.

Participating Artists:

Andrew Gaston, Andrew Kötting & Curious (Leslie Hill & Helen Paris), Andrew Norman Wilson, Angelica Mesiti, Ann Steuernagel, Anna Abrahams, Anthony Faroux, Axel Petersén, Azar Saiyar, Basma Alsharif, Charles Fairbanks, Christina Kelly, Daniel Lara, Daya Cahen, Elisabeth Smolarz, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, eteam (Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger), Fil Rüting, Gernot Wieland, Guillaume Linard-Osorio, Hisham Bizri, Isabelle Hayeur, J. Tobias Anderson, Jesse Mclean, Jessye Mcdowell, Johannes Dullin, Joshua Gen Solondz, Julie Casper Roth, Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans, Keith Sanborn, Kelly Oliver & Keary Rosen, Klára Tasovská , Lina Issa, Liselot Van der Heijden, Maki Satake, Marie Losier, Matthew Garrison, Megan & Murray Mcmillan, Michael Robinson, Miguel Fonseca, Natalia Comandari , Neil Beloufa, Nerina Penzhorn, Nick Fortunato, Noah Krell, Pascal Fendrich & Bernd Härpfer, Patrick Richter, Pauline Julier, Petr Hátle, Pilvi Takala, Ricardo Alves Junior, Robert Cambrinus, Rosie Pedlow & Joe King, Vincent Meessen, Vivian Ostrovsky, Volker Schreiner, Yasmine Kabir and Zbyněk Baladrán.

QUASI-CINEMA exhibition installations by:

Leslie Thornton, Aram Bartholl, Ernesto Klar, Ali Miharbi, Naho Taruishi, Andy Graydon, Cristobal Mendoza + Annica Cuppetelli and legendary avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs.

DVD launch: HALFLIFERS (Torsten Zenas Burns & Anthony Discenza)

Presentation: ASPECT MAGAZINE -The Chronicle of New Media Art

Location: 112 Water Street (between Washington and Adams) DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

*Free Admission to all festival screenings