Lillian Schwartz: A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine
Ocularis at Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn
Sunday, September 18 at 7 PM
http://www.ocularis.net

Ocularis is proud to host A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine, Lumen's
touring program highlighting the pioneering work of Lillian Schwartz,
Consultant in Film and Graphics in the Computer Science Department at Bell
Laboratories (New Jersey), 1969—2002.
 
During the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionary
techniques for the use of the computer system by artists.  Her formal
explorations in abstract animation involved the marriage of film, computers,
and music in collaboration with such luminaries as computer programmer
Kenneth Knowlton and computer musicians Jean-Claude Risset, Max Mathews,
Richard Moore, Mike Noll, Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, John Chambers, David
Dobkin, Gershon Kingsley, Emanuel Ghent Salieri, and Joe Olive.

Schwartz’s films have been shown and won awards at the Venice Biennale,
Zagreb, Cannes, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and
nominated and received Emmy nominations and awards. Her work has been
exhibited at, and is owned by, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Whitney Museum of American Art
(New York), The Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Centre Beauborg (Paris),
Stedlijk Museum of Art (Amsterdam), and the Grand Palais Museum (Paris).

Over the last year Lumen have collaborated with Lillian Schwartz and curator
Gregory Kurcewicz to compile a touring package of these important works. The
55 minute program features 11 animations restored to video.
 
Works to be screened: Pixillation, 1970, 4 mins; Mathoms, 1970, 2 mins 15
secs; Olympiad, 1971, 2 mins 32 secs; UFO's, 1971, 2 mins 32 secs; Enigma,
1972, 4 mins 14 secs; Googolplex, 1972, 5 mins 10 secs; Apotheosis, 1972, 4
mins 17 secs; Mutations, 1972, 6 mins 35 secs; Papillons, 1973, 3 mins 58
secs; Metamorphosis, 1974, 8 mins 10 secs; Alae, 1975, 3 mins 50 secs;
Newtonian II, 1978, 5 mins 20 secs
 
Curated by Gregory Kurcewicz and Lumen.

In addition to Lumen's program, the show at Ocularis will also feature The
Artist and the Computer, a brief documentary about Schwartz and her work.

Total Running Time: 65 mins

Lillian Schwartz will be present to answer questions after the screening.

Support for this event was provided, in part, by the Experimental Television
Center's Presentation Funds program, which is supported by the New York
State Council on the Arts.