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Scanners: The 2007 New York Video Festival
July 27 – 29

A co-presentation of the Film Society and Lincoln Center Festival 2007

Welcome to Scanners, a compendium of works that cover the latest in the digital spectrum. When we first presented such a collection at the 1992 New York Film Festival, the genre was called video art. After 16 years and four program title changes, it’s called (by some) digital media. And it doesn’t necessarily start out digitally––or even analog-ly.

This year, free-form narrative will wow your senses in Edin Vélez’s multi-layered A Certain Foolish Consistency, while the documentary Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm reveals all you want to know about the O-word and more. Securing funding for these types of projects is never easy; our program of shorts Renewable Resources celebrates 20 years of Renew Media’s support for independent media artists. LivingVoom shows what happens when a television channel takes a beautiful aesthetic leap, devoting itself to video art as ambient media. THE SHAPE OF THE FORM, OPTICAL GARDEN, POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE and FRIGHT NIGHT each offer a look at some fantastic new works in short form for your enjoyment. CIRCUITS MAXIMUS is a live event with some of the best and brightest artists in music and media. And Scanners would not be complete without Armond White’s annual survey of music videos, with his irreverent commentary to go with it.

Of course, the lines between film, video and those things hanging out on your hard drive have been officially erased. In order to stay on top of the latest trends, Scanners will soon become a bimonthly event, giving us the ability to share the latest, as it happens. So come along now for an amazing ride, and join us again––sooner than you think!

For a listing of films in the Festival go to Program Overview.

Click on Calendar to view the schedule, film descriptions and, to purchase tickets online.

Scanners has been organized by Kathy Brew, Chris Chang and Marian Masone, with Berta Sichel of Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofia. The program is made possible by the Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and mediaThe Foundation.

Dee-Dee Does Utopia
Recent Artwork by Deborah F. Lawrence

June 29 – July 31
The Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, adjacent to the Walter Reade Theater's lobby. Open daily 2 - 8pm. Admission is free.

In November 2004, prompted by her own dismay at the results of the recent presidential election, artist Deborah F. Lawrence posed the question, “What does Utopia look like to you?” She sent it via email to a diverse group of teaching colleagues, students, fellow artists, writers, strangers and feminists, as well as an activist group. "I asked for visual and physical descriptions of what people envisioned as the 'ideal' world," Lawrence says. Dee-Dee Does Utopia is the resulting new series of meticulously crafted collages that explore these popular concepts of the sublime. With the support of a prestigious grant from Creative Capital Foundation, New York, the Seattle-based artist created a series of 22 works from paper, board, and recycled tin serving trays, combining images and text to illuminate the survey’s results; to date, she has received over 17,500 words in response. The top contenders for utopia? Beloved pets, beach scenes, and impeachment scenarios.

Artist’s reception on Wednesday, July 11 from 6-8 pm. A public conversation with Deborah Lawrence and Sean Elwood of Creative Capital will take place in the Furman Gallery on Saturday, July 14 from 3-4pm, admission free.




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