OUR 50TH EXHIBITION!!!! "Thanks for showing up."
With live performances, installation, and arcade games from local artists!
$15 or pay what you can. no one turned away for lack of funds.
[all money goes to artists in this event]
July 13th, 2024
6pm-8pm video installations and video games open
8pm show start (not punk time)
@ the Evans School boiler room
1115 Acoma St, Denver, CO 80204
Statement: Our 50th event is a celebration of friendships formed over the last 8 years of Collective Misnomers existence.
VIDEO/FILM INSTALLATIONS AND VIDEO GAMES (in alphabetical order)
OPEN from 6PM-8PM AND AFTER PERFORMANCES
**Video Installation**
Title: Electronic Landscape: New Grounds
Artist: Debora Bernagozzi
Statement: Electronic Landscape: New Grounds was not created by shooting a landscape with a video camera and processing the imagery, but by creating imagery through electronic signal and pushing it in ways that create a sensorial landscape. This re-imagining of my earlier Electronic Landscape work uses sound waves, transformed into video through a wobbulator, processed through feedback and a Jones colorizer/keyer. The videos were then combined using image processing software that allowed me to do frame buffering and pixel sorting with a great deal of control in a realtime performance.
Year: 2024
Origin: USA
**Video Installation**
Title: Kicks (4 in 1 version)
Artist: Ben Coleman
Statement: Kicks is a contemplation of the spectacular monotony of comic book movie violence and a generative piece of music
Year: 2019
Origin: USA
**Video Game**
Title: Space Invaders: Historical Edition
Artist: Eric García, Esteban Fajardo, Rafael Fajardo
Statement: Space Invaders: Historical Edition remixes the popular sci-fi arcade game of the same name from the point of view of the Aztecs. The classic alien iconography from the original are replaced by colonial symbols: knights on horseback, cannons, galleons, cathedrals, and the Spanish crown. This reimagining was created in a collaboration between Eric J. Garcia (ABQ), Esteban Fajardo (LAX), and Rafael Fajardo (DEN).
Year: 2023
Origin: USA, unceded Arapahoe, Ute, Tigua homelands
** FILM INSTALLATION**
Title: Blueprint for Analog Film Projection
Artist: Curt Heiner
Statement: A multi-layered process on a large-scale mechanism with a small-scale output. A celebration of the convoluted means to simplistic ends relative to film presentation and practice. Presented on a contraption revived/constructed by Anthony Vasquez-Hernandez with images from Eadweard Muybridge's collection.
Year: 2024
Origin: USA
**Video Game**
Title: Hey, Barrell!
Artist: Cherish Marquez
Statement: Hey, Barrell is a third-person game where the player controls the movement of the barrel. The goal is to make it to the river across the desert terrain. At the end of the game, once you make it to the river, you will see other barrels in the water, signifying pollution. The player unknowingly contributes to the contamination.
Year: 2020
Origin: USA
**Video Installation**
Title: Elements of Drama: Study #1
Artist: Jenna Maurice
Statement: This series explores the elements of drama as set forth by Aristotle, and asks if these elements are always successful to create “drama”. The elements are:
Diction- Specific language the artist chooses to use.
Spectacle- All the visuals represented in the work
Thought- What the audience learns
Characters- The work must be about someone
Melody- Everything you hear - music, sound effects, silence are all examples of this.
Plot -Work must have a beginning, middle and end. Something needs to happen.
Year: 2013
Origin: USA
**Video Game**
Title: Push Star
Artist: Bearwarp
Statement: Push Star is an alt ctrl tug-of-war game where the players play by spinning the controller to find and press the corresponding button shown on the screen.
Year: 2023
Origin: USA
Performances and video screening’s (in order of the nights schedule)
start at 8pm (not punk time)
**PERFORMANCE**
Artist: Diogenes Dreamer
Statement: Diogenes Dreamer will be playing music. Good old-fashioned music, albeit distorted through piles of circuitry, basically rendering his saxophone a cyborg. But a very emotional cyborg, not like all of the cyborg music these days that sounds like a contest to see who can glitch data from the International Space Station the fastest. More like if a mournful witch in 1455 discovered a pedalboard.
Year: This one
**VIDEO SCREENING**
Title: Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise
Artist: Kelly Sears
Statement: Created in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, animated figures from discarded mid-1970s high school yearbooks are situated in recently photographed backgrounds taken at a local high school. In this minimalist horror story, a malevolent force seeps into the high school walls, and the student body breaks down one extra-curricular activity at a time.
Year: 2011
Origin: USA
**PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO PROJECTION**
Title: I'll never wear a life jacket again.
Artists: Sharifa Lafon and Joshua Ware
Statement: A collaborative performance between Sharifa Lafon and Joshua Ware that activates moving images, sound, word, and body.
Year: 2024
Origin: USA
**VIDEO SCREENING**
Title: All ye faded expectations
Artist: Jason Bernagozzi
Statement: A performance that reflects on the things that never come to pass
Year: 2024
Origin: USA
**SOUND PERFORMANCE AND STROBE LIGHTS** (strobe warning!)
Title: Imminent Shift: Drop No. 2
Artist: Phillip Stearns
Statement: A light and sound composition that treats the unique optical and auditory neurophysiology of each audience member as an instrument, performed visa vis amplified, computer controlled strobe lights.
Year: 2023
Origin: USA