MediaScope
March 10 and 24, 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.
MoMA presents the New York premiere of
Clare Langan’s Film
Trilogy (Forty Below, 1999; Too
Dark for Night, 2001; and Glass
Hour, 2002),
which was first exhibited in its entirety at the
Liverpool Biennial (International 2002). Langan
uses hand-painted filters and lens attachments to explore man’s
fragile existence in the face of the limitless
powers of nature. The artist will discuss her
filmmaking practices and roots in still photography. Artist present. Approx. 75 min.
Piotr Wyrzykowski, a.k.a. Peter Style, uses technology-based art
to explore “the extended body.” He discusses three of
his works: There Is No Body, 1996–99; Cyborg’s
Sex Manual 1.0, 1999–2000 (a kind of tutorial of what
could happen in the near future); and Viktoria Cukt Campaign,
2000–2001 (a Web and public-space project he and fellow artists
from the media art group CUKT developed as a political campaign
for the perfect candidate). This program is supported by the Polish
Cultural Institute, New York. Artist present. Approx. 90 min.
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