posted by Brett Kashmere at 13:17
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A B O U T
Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh, PA/Oberlin, OH-based filmmaker, curator, and cultural historian. His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos and scholarship have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle “may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.”
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N E W S
I curated a screening for the 2009 Images Festival in Toronto, entitled SATURN RETURNS, in connection with the release of the first print issue of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics. Artists include: Michael Bell-Smith, Mat Brinkman and Xander Marro, Jacob Ciocci, Oliver Laric, Tara Mateik, Takeshi Murata, Marisa Olson, Seth Price, Tasman Richardson, Michael Robinson, Ben Russell, and Leslie Supnet. The screening and launch take place on Friday, April 10th.
On April 9th, 2009, Christina Battle and I will be visiting a media curating class in Buffalo, NY, taught by Dorothea Braemer (more details to come).
On April 7th, I will be visiting Christina Battle's "Frame x Frame" class and screening "That Reminds Me of Something" at Vtape in Toronto.
The students in my "Exhibition Practices" class and I launched a new micro-cinema in Oberlin, Ohio called PIONEER SPECIES. You can join our Facebook group here
On March 4th I will be giving an illustrated lecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art, titled "All Samples Cleared! Transforming the Archive through Hybrid Interfaces." The presentation is part of the "hella hybrid" lecture series, organized by Sarah Paul, and it starts at 7pm.
My video-essay Valery's Ankle was included in the recent gallery exhibition, Game On!, at the MacLaren Art Center in Barrie, Ontario, Dec. 4-Feb. 22, 2009. "Game On! features video works that explore the impact of virtual realities, gaming, and sport on our notions of identity. These artists take a playful approach to an investigation of these cultural influences, while questioning who we are in the context of Canadian nationalism and identity politics."
In October 2008 I presented a PowerPoint lecture, titled "The Fifth Quarter: A Secret History of Basketball," at Encyclopedia Destructica's first ever BYO.PPT: Esoteric Lighting Lectures, in Pittsburgh (see poster below). This illustrated lecture can be found in the new Encyclopedia Destructica release: Make Your Own Truth, which includes 1 Book, 8 BYO.PPT mini-folders, and 1 DVD "assembled within a pretty crafty slip case." It's tres nice. Bill O'Driscoll, in the Pittsburgh City Paper writes, "Best of all might be Brett Kashmere's "The Fifth Quarter," which binds James Naismith, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh , Michael Jordan, Kurtis Blow and fan-puncher Ron Artest into a cogent sociological sketch on race, marketing and more. Pretty cool."
The Flying Destructicate: Make Your Own Truth book release and award presentation took place January 31st, 2009 @ the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Where Are We Now? - the introductory text that I wrote for INCITE! Issue #1: Manifest has been translated into Spanish! It can be found here
I launched the website for INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics at the WNDX Festival of Film & Video Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Friday, October 10th.
More info here
My 35mm film, Frames and Leaves also screened at WNDX on October 10th.
And on October 17th, I presented "Lost & Found: The Films of Arthur Lipsett" at the Winnipeg Cinematheque. This is the same program I introduced at Cafe 1001 in London, England, in collaboration with the good folks from no.w.here and Close-Up.
On September 12, 2008, I presented Arthur Lipsett: About Time, A Film Retrospective at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA) in Antwerp, Belgium.
My videos are now available to rent or purchase from V tape.
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Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh, PA/Oberlin, OH-based filmmaker, curator, and cultural historian. His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos and scholarship have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle “may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.”
MORE >>
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N E W S
I curated a screening for the 2009 Images Festival in Toronto, entitled SATURN RETURNS, in connection with the release of the first print issue of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics. Artists include: Michael Bell-Smith, Mat Brinkman and Xander Marro, Jacob Ciocci, Oliver Laric, Tara Mateik, Takeshi Murata, Marisa Olson, Seth Price, Tasman Richardson, Michael Robinson, Ben Russell, and Leslie Supnet. The screening and launch take place on Friday, April 10th.
On April 9th, 2009, Christina Battle and I will be visiting a media curating class in Buffalo, NY, taught by Dorothea Braemer (more details to come).
On April 7th, I will be visiting Christina Battle's "Frame x Frame" class and screening "That Reminds Me of Something" at Vtape in Toronto.
The students in my "Exhibition Practices" class and I launched a new micro-cinema in Oberlin, Ohio called PIONEER SPECIES. You can join our Facebook group here
On March 4th I will be giving an illustrated lecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art, titled "All Samples Cleared! Transforming the Archive through Hybrid Interfaces." The presentation is part of the "hella hybrid" lecture series, organized by Sarah Paul, and it starts at 7pm.
My video-essay Valery's Ankle was included in the recent gallery exhibition, Game On!, at the MacLaren Art Center in Barrie, Ontario, Dec. 4-Feb. 22, 2009. "Game On! features video works that explore the impact of virtual realities, gaming, and sport on our notions of identity. These artists take a playful approach to an investigation of these cultural influences, while questioning who we are in the context of Canadian nationalism and identity politics."
In October 2008 I presented a PowerPoint lecture, titled "The Fifth Quarter: A Secret History of Basketball," at Encyclopedia Destructica's first ever BYO.PPT: Esoteric Lighting Lectures, in Pittsburgh (see poster below). This illustrated lecture can be found in the new Encyclopedia Destructica release: Make Your Own Truth, which includes 1 Book, 8 BYO.PPT mini-folders, and 1 DVD "assembled within a pretty crafty slip case." It's tres nice. Bill O'Driscoll, in the Pittsburgh City Paper writes, "Best of all might be Brett Kashmere's "The Fifth Quarter," which binds James Naismith, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh , Michael Jordan, Kurtis Blow and fan-puncher Ron Artest into a cogent sociological sketch on race, marketing and more. Pretty cool."
The Flying Destructicate: Make Your Own Truth book release and award presentation took place January 31st, 2009 @ the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Where Are We Now? - the introductory text that I wrote for INCITE! Issue #1: Manifest has been translated into Spanish! It can be found here
I launched the website for INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics at the WNDX Festival of Film & Video Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Friday, October 10th.
More info here
My 35mm film, Frames and Leaves also screened at WNDX on October 10th.
And on October 17th, I presented "Lost & Found: The Films of Arthur Lipsett" at the Winnipeg Cinematheque. This is the same program I introduced at Cafe 1001 in London, England, in collaboration with the good folks from no.w.here and Close-Up.
On September 12, 2008, I presented Arthur Lipsett: About Time, A Film Retrospective at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA) in Antwerp, Belgium.
My videos are now available to rent or purchase from V tape.
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BYO.PPT: Fri Oct 24, 8pm @ Encyclopedia Destructica Studios, Pittsburgh
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August 15, 2008
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