For those in the New York metropolitan area: “Moving / Images: Preserving Downtown Time-Based Works” Screenings, Panels, Exhibition at NYU Fales Library will host a screening of selected grant-funded preservation work of film and video created by Downtown New York artists on Thursday, April 3, and two panel discussions on Friday, April 4. Both events take place at the NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street. Both events are free and open to the public. On Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m., preserved film and video works by Jaime Davidovich, Richard Foreman, Richard Hell, Frank Moore, Mabou Mines, Stuart Sherman, and David Wojnarowicz will be screened at the Cantor Film Center. On Friday, April 4, at 12 noon, a panel “Signal Loss: Saving Downtown Video” with Rebecca Cleman, Jaime Davidovich, Chris Straayer, and Sarah Ziebell, moderated by Ann Butler, will take place at Cantor. At 2 p.m. panelists Peggy Ahwesh, Bill Brand, Andrew Lampert, and Nick Zedd, with moderator Brent Phillips, will discuss “Not Your Home Movies: Downtown Film.” A multi-media exhibition entitled “Moving Images: Preserving Downtown Time-Based Works” opened Wednesday, March 26 at New York University’s Fales Library, third floor of the NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, and will run through Thursday, July 31. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The exhibition comprises moving image works and their supporting archival documentation and features selected works by artists Davidovich, Foreman, Hell, Moore, and Wojnarowicz, which have been preserved with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts, a co-host of this event, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Film Preservation Foundation. The moving image works consist of Super8, 16mm completed works and works-in-progress; performance documentation; early public access TV; and video art. Supporting materials, such as scripts, outlines, sketches, photographs, publications, and other archival documents illustrating the process of creation of the works will be shown along side the film and video works. This exhibition explicates the complex ethical and technical questions that arise when preserving artists’ moving image and time-based works. For further information, call 212.998.2596, http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/expub.htm. This event is funded in-part by The New York State Council on the Arts, and co-sponsored by Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) with support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Ann E. Butler
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New York University
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