MediaScope: January 2003
January 13 and 27, 2003
MediaScope is a new initiative devoted
to artists and their recent media projects. Focusing on experimentation
with form and content, the program features both emerging and recognized
artists, who discuss their work with the audience. MediaScope
is presented biweekly on Monday nights, and explores filmmaking
and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation, and digital
art practices.
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator;
Jytte Jensen, Associate Curator; Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator;
Barbara London, Associate Curator; and Joshua Siegel, Assistant
Curator, Department of Film and Media.
Ericka Beckman's work deals with "the coordination of the self
in the physical world" according to particular ground rules
set up by the artist for her individual projects. The first American
artist to be invited to Hungary by the Béla Balázs
Studio after the collapse of Soviet power, Beckman produced Switch
Center (2002), an eleven-minute tribute to the futuristic Soviet
industrial architecture of the postwar period. Beckman will screen
a selection of her work and talk about the use of architectural
forms and the construction of soundscapes in her work. Program approx.
90 min.
The London-based artist Carey Young infiltrates the inner workings
of the multinational corporation, adopting its language, codes,
and tools in order to reflect on ideas of identity, strategy, and
progress. Young will discuss works made in a variety of physical
and electronic mediums, including her recent performance-based videos
Everything You've Heard Is Wrong (1999) and I Am a
Revolutionary (2001). Program approx. 90 min.
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