Avant-Garde Gutter

YES!
Avant Cinema 2.5: No Drinks Allowed In Screening Room:
Thursday, January 15 @ 7 PM
Austin Studios Screening Room
(1901 E 51st Street)
$4 for AFS Members & Students with ID / $6 for Non-members
New media artists Ben Coonley and Kevin Bewersdorf continue AFS's Avant Cinema series with this two-man show of their deceptively simple and richly subversive works, executed with a wide array of digital tools. This evening of PowerPoint lectures, slide-shows, short videos, Internet curiosities and other sludge from the avant-gutter will also feature a special contest, with a tasty beverage as the main prize (not to be consumed in the screening room).

Works by Ben Coonley

Remapping the Apparatus: Cinematographic Specificity and Hybrid Media (2007-09, 12 min.)
Titanic (1998, 7 min.)
Trick or Treat Pony (2003, 8.5 min)
Valentine for Perfect Strangers (2006, 3.5 min)
Appropriation Piece (2008, 4.5 min)
The Best Gifts (2005, 2.5 min)

Works by Kevin Bewersdorf

Yes, Communication, Unity (Video, 2007, 3 min 36 sec.)
Stock Photos of American Life (Performance, 2008, approx 30 min.)


Don't miss this girlies and burlies, it's gonna be gr9!

Year-end accolades for bees!

2009 is like 5 hours away!!!!
It's gonna be gr99999999999 around here. We have a new collection of videos for everyone, a fancy new website, and new members in the works!

But the end of the year obviously also means looking back at what's happened, and this year two of our bees have gotten some shout-outs from the internet:


Despite labeling AMOA's "20 to Watch: New Art in Austin" their WORST#4, Glasstire declares Jill Pangallo the standout of the show:

Pangallo’s work is smart, funny, highly original and kinda creepy. Let’s hope for more finds like her in the next show.

And let's not forget that that piece, Note To Self, won best work of art award in the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards!


Also, the fabulously fantastic Andy Campbell, in the Austin Chronicle's Gay Place blog decrees that Ivan Lozano's FANTASY VISION MEDITATION (IN COLOR) was the #2 best gay thing in Austin this year:

Everything from the archival material (Fred Halsted pornos) to the soundtrack (a glacially paced disco anthem) not to mention the heaps of glitter piled up on mirrors like so much glam blow, was truly spectacular. It was an ache and an elegy. Gorgeous.

Campbell also gives a shoutout and a co-#2 spot to Bee fwend Ben Aqua's " incredible photos of his friends in their domestic interiors." Hooray for gay!

I can't not post this video. I just can't.

Videos by Women in Austin! Hazah!

Hello, I just watched this new video from Crafthole, and wanted to share it with you all. It is a video loop by Elana Farley, Veronica Giavedoni, Marie Butcher, and Amanda Joy.


BORN HAPPIER from amanda joy on Vimeo.

The Bees Do EAST!

Make AVB a stop on your East Austin Studio Tour!

We're celebrating the release of our second video compilation with a group show at Salvage Vanguard Theater as well as an evening happy hour and screening. Come by to enjoy some great new video work and a pony keg.

xo, the Bees

My Love of YouTube Montages.

I went a rambling on my blog yesterday about montages... anyone else out there into this stuff?

Cartune XPrez Tonight!

Friday, November 7, 2008 at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (S. Lamar)
1120 South Lamar, Austin, TX
7pm–9pm, $7 Admission, Ages 18 and Up

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Austin/Kansas City Swap Part 1

Slow Cooked - New Work from Kansas City
From Okay Mountain's Website...
In conjunction with Kansas City’s Urban Culture Project and the Charlotte Street Foundation, Okay Mountain is pleased to present “Slow Cooked” – New Work from Kansas City, curated by Sterling Allen. The show is one half of an exchange project wherein the communities of Austin and Kansas City are brought a bit closer due to the sharing of each city’s artists and resources. The other half of this collaborative effort culminates in two exhibitions at Kansas City’s Paragraph Gallery; one featuring six Austin-based artists, curated by Kate Hackman and Grant Miller and one featuring a collaborative show by the partners and members of Okay Mountain gallery.

Though the formal and conceptual aspects of the five artists chosen for “Slow Cooked” are very different, an underlying detail to all the work is what seems to be a solid commitment to an idea and the patience necessary to carry that work into fruition. Though somewhat of a survey, this exhibition can also be seen as an
alternative to a current trend of artists who make work hastily or with little regard for craft. Artists include Marcus Cain, Michael Converse, Colin Leipelt, Kacy Maddux, and James Woodfill.

ARTIST TALK SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8th @ 6:30
OPENING RECEPTION FOLLOWING 7-10pm
CARNAL TORPER PERFORMANCE AT 9pm

WE CAN HAS!!!

thanks Dylan!

WE DID IT!!!!!