Modart » Video http://www.modart.com Active Creation Creative Action Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:14:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 The Illmannered Milkman Revisited http://www.modart.com/2013/03/23/the-illmannered-milkman-revisited/ http://www.modart.com/2013/03/23/the-illmannered-milkman-revisited/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:33:02 +0000 Maxi http://www.modart.com/?p=4690 Willehad Eilers, better known as Wayne Horse, has a truly unique way of telling a story and a discomforting humor that makes you giggle when you think you shouldn’t. While his recent short movie, The Illmannered Milkman, premiered last year, he decided to follow his intuition and re-edit the whole thing.

It’s a different film now, but the essence remains the same: we follow the infamous Teddy Milks and the ABC kids into the woods, as a fictional story is transformed into a real event through coincidence, ritual and the reflection of opening doors and dodgy decisions.

Read the interview with Wayne Horse on No New Enemies.
Also, don’t forget to check out Wayne’s artwork in our web shop.

THE ILLMANNERED MILKMAN from Wayne Horse on Vimeo.

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An unusual title for an exhibition and for the new paintings of SMASH137. Monochrome areas nestle up against each other, to break up unexpectedly.
Multicolored lines bind together to lose and find each other again. Beams like handholds create a structure rich in contrast. A blaze of color, exploding right before us in time. Nevertheless the paintings look well-balanced. Some of them have a center, others a counterbalance. To the viewer the works look like a continual coming and going.

The paintings and writings of SMASH137 are powerful and dynamic operations. Colors are forces and to paint means to be constantly in a high-energy situation and wrestle with these forces. We will understand the correlation of energies better if we know the process of their development.

SMASH137 works on several paintings at the same time. Using similar colors, the paintings look like a sequence of forms. Sometimes we see a progression in the dynamic, sometimes a counterpoint or a backlash. The balance is hidden somewhere in this process full of confrontations. And the aim is to create harmony synchronous with the highest tension. But where are the limits of the painting? And when they are attained? Although color is something which is perceived differently by everyone, we all can feel the power of SMASH137 when he is creating a new piece. But what is the effect, the impact on the beholder? Viewing means to understand a flow of moments which together create the happening of perception.

Therefore the fight of SMASH137 with the forces of forms and colors constitutes the complex reality which we can find in his work. Or in the words of Sun Tzu: „The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.“ Our own experiences with life‘s struggles help us understand the power of harmony which SMASH137 gives us.So the title of the show can be both: the everlasting and painful struggle of the artist for aesthetic quality and the beauty of the strategic fight itself, the „art of war“.

Harald Kraemer for the Smash137 catalogue “beautiful Struggle” may 2012 at Speerstra Gallery.

]]> http://www.modart.com/2012/05/02/beautiful-struggle-by-smash137/feed/ 0 Projections http://www.modart.com/2011/03/08/projections/ http://www.modart.com/2011/03/08/projections/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:00:15 +0000 Maxi http://www.modart.com/?p=2487 PROJECTiON features bleeding-edge moving image works exhibited in fine art contexts. Ten films by: Scott Pagano – Arev Manoukian – Zeitguised – Kirsten Lepore – Masaki Yokochi – Mike Winkelmann – Hugh McGrory – Glenn Marshall – Rob Seward – J.G. Zimmerman. /break> Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo. /break> ‘Digital’ or ‘New Media’ art (Computer graphics, Computer animation, the Internet, Interactive technologies, Generative art, Information art, Video art, Robotics and Bio technologies) is often defined through its opposition to ‘Old Media’ art (traditional painting, sculpture etc). /break> Curated by CSM, works selected include experimental film, computer animation and visual effects. The PROJECTiON initiative views and presents work that has undergone computer/human interaction processes in direct lineage to its cultural predecessors, showing that an expanded digital toolset can lead to an expansion of formal concerns and impulses that can be traced back throughout the canon of art history. The curated series provides an opportunity for VOLTA NY patrons to experience these moving image fine art works in different contexts and environments. Works will be screened in multiple elevators taking visitors to the show, on the exhibition floor and in shuttle buses. /break> instrumental video nine from beeple on Vimeo. /break> “We believe that the most relevant art today is being made by people who do not necessarily refer to themselves as artists. They are animators, filmmakers and motion graphics experts who are creating visually stunning, thought-provoking pieces that capture and define the mood of the present. The PROJECTiON initiative is a first step in an ongoing curatorial process to give this artwork the attention it deserves,” said Debra Anderson, CEO and Founder, Culture Shock Marketing (CSM). /break> To view all the videos visit Culture Shock Marketing or check the Daily Fixes on No New Enemies.]]> Culture Shock Marketing (CSM) in partnership with online video sharing site Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], are pleased to present PROJECTiON, a curated series of contemporary moving image digital artworks selected from Vimeo.com for a special project featured at VOLTA NY during Armory Arts Week.
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PROJECTiON features bleeding-edge moving image works exhibited in fine art contexts. Ten films by: Scott Pagano – Arev Manoukian – Zeitguised – Kirsten Lepore – Masaki Yokochi – Mike Winkelmann – Hugh McGrory – Glenn Marshall – Rob Seward – J.G. Zimmerman.
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Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

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‘Digital’ or ‘New Media’ art (Computer graphics, Computer animation, the Internet, Interactive technologies, Generative art, Information art, Video art, Robotics and Bio technologies) is often defined through its opposition to ‘Old Media’ art (traditional painting, sculpture etc).
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Curated by CSM, works selected include experimental film, computer animation and visual effects. The PROJECTiON initiative views and presents work that has undergone computer/human interaction processes in direct lineage to its cultural predecessors, showing that an expanded digital toolset can lead to an expansion of formal concerns and impulses that can be traced back throughout the canon of art history. The curated series provides an opportunity for VOLTA NY patrons to experience these moving image fine art works in different contexts and environments. Works will be screened in multiple elevators taking visitors to the show, on the exhibition floor and in shuttle buses.
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instrumental video nine from beeple on Vimeo.

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“We believe that the most relevant art today is being made by people who do not necessarily refer to themselves as artists. They are animators, filmmakers and motion graphics experts who are creating visually stunning, thought-provoking pieces that capture and define the mood of the present. The PROJECTiON initiative is a first step in an ongoing curatorial process to give this artwork the attention it deserves,” said Debra Anderson, CEO and Founder, Culture Shock Marketing (CSM).
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To view all the videos visit Culture Shock Marketing or check the Daily Fixes on No New Enemies.

]]> http://www.modart.com/2011/03/08/projections/feed/ 0 Kenor and Pez on the Small Screen http://www.modart.com/2011/02/04/kenor-and-pez-on-the-small-screen/ http://www.modart.com/2011/02/04/kenor-and-pez-on-the-small-screen/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:06:11 +0000 Ripo http://www.modart.com/?p=2257 Kenor just got back into town after a short stint on the road. He was in Torino setting up a two-person show with his old friend Pez at the Galo Art Gallery as well as solo exhibition in Marseille at the Seize Galerie. He sent us over a few new videos while at work.



Kenor & Pez at the Galo Art Gallery



Kenor’s Pinto Musica



Kenor and Pez’s show, ‘Mucho Amigo Fusion‘, is on display at the Galo Art Gallery through February 20th.

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DreamCall Nightmare – a midwinter surreal fantasy from HELLO, SAVANTS! on Vimeo.


There are images found in the human unconscious that mean similar things to all of us. By understanding these images, it is possible to analyze our dreams and to learn from them. Our life experiences influence our interpretation of these images and as a result each person’s dream is unique to them and can only be truly understood by them.

We can go fast through this video like in life ignoring images like dreams, or we can use them, pay attention to them, take advantage of them and learn from them.

Directed and Produced by Rocco Pezzella
Music By Cristiano Nicolini and PepoFix

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