Robyn Voshardt & Sven Humphrey upcoming events

New & Improved, 2007, 2'21min, HD single channel video/sound, dim. variable

24 April - 28 April 2008

Around the Coyote Video Lounge at Artropolis:
Curated by LiveBox

Merchandise Mart, Chicago, 8th floor
(concurrent with Art Chicago & NEXT)


PREVIEW TONIGHT 24.04.08, 6 to 9pm
Through Monday 28.04.08

Solo artist installations:
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey, Blake Carrington, Fabienne Gautier, Tim Geers, and Julia Oldham

Screening Room:
Marlo Bodzick, Christopher Bruchansky, Ellen Lake, Pierre St Jacques, Elizabeth Riley, Chie Yamayoshi

Around the Coyote, as a cultural partner of The Artist Project at Artropolis, brings you the Around the Coyote Video Lounge curated by LiveBox. ARTropolis is Chicago’s citywide celebration of arts, antiques and culture. The Video Lounge will open for the preview celebrations on April 24th, and run concurrently with Art Chicago through April 28, 2008.

Since the rise of You Tube and the use of video as a communication language, there has been talk about the death of video art. For many it is becoming increasing difficult to access the artistic quality of video art when the format represents entertainment and cheap reproduction. Very recently though, there has been talk of Video as “New.” New York times critic Holland Cotter wrote in January 2008, “At present it is shaped by a combination of pop fantasy, ingrained cybersmarts, neo tribalism and the angst-free take on contemporary life that marks attention-deficient internet culture.” Cotter was talking about a collection of rising video artists who were creating stunning original video. You Tube habitation and the like had liberated these artists to create fearless work. The ARTropolis Video Lounge is a celebration of video as a seminal medium for young artists today.

1 May - 24 May 2008

vt2
International Digital Art Projects
The Block
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove, Australia

This exhibition reflects a global commitment to exploring cultural identity through leading professional arts practice in digital media. Building on 2007’s Vernacular Terrain exhibition, VT2 presents vibrant, innovative screen-based and photo-media works from international and Indigenous Australian new-media artists.

through 10 April, 2008

Utopia of Space: Post for Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republik

Curated by Latitia Norkeit and Maxim Neroda

How does one bring international art into a country which does not have the financial means required to organize an international exhibition? Latitia Norkeit and Maxim Neroda, two artists from Germany who currently live and work in Bishkek, met this challenge by creating a project in cooperation with the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, giving it the provocative title “Post for Kyrgyzstan.” For the past few months, packages have been arriving at the museum from artists all over the world. The exhibition will give visitors access to a wide variety of contemporary art otherwise not available, and also show that art does not necessarily involve expensive materials and immense effort. Plans are underway for a new incarnation of the exhibition in Nürnberg and Berlin.