Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Perry Bard: February 02-23, 2012
Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in collaboration with Ace Art Inc. presents:
Perry Bard “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”
Workshop with Perry Bard: February 01, 2012
Exhibition Dates: February 02-23, 2012
“Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake” is a participatory web and public video installation re-interpreting the original 1929 avant-guard documentary “Man With a Movie Camera” by Dziga Vertov. “The Global Remake” illuminates the capabilities of the internet to achieve global collaboration by encouraging culturally diverse participation. The piece includes footage shot by people around the world creating infinite possible versions of the film. As new videos stream online (dziga.perrybard.net) each contribution becomes part of a worldwide montage, in Vertov’s terms the “decoding of life as it is”.
Workshop
With New York Based artist Perry Bard: Februrary 01, 2012
(to sign up contact Lindsey @ vpprogramming@videopool.org or 204.949.9134)
Join Perry Bard to learn about and discuss “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”, influenced and inspired by Dziga Vertov’s remarkable documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” from 1929. Bard will lead a two hour workshop touching upon Dziga Vertov’s documentary practice and Vertov in the age of YouTube.
Participants will record their own video footage interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera, and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net/ where software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film. The submissions uploaded will contribute a Winnipeg chapter to the world wide project. The screening of the uploaded work and full project will commence on Thursday. February 02 at the Opening Reception, 6pm at Ace Art Inc.
Biography
Perry Bard grew up in Quebec City and lives in New York. She works individually and collaboratively on interdisciplinary projects for public space. She has worked with community groups to address issues of media representation engineering site specific public video installations for the Staten Island Ferry Terminal Building in New York and for Market Square in Middlesbrough UK. Public interventions about the war in Iraq include a mobile truckside billboard traveling the streets of New York, magazine ads and coffee cup sleeves featuring artifacts missing from the Baghdad Museum. Her web and public space project Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake dziga.perrybard.net invites participation in a mashup of a 1929 film belonging to world cultural history. The award winning work has been has been named by Google one of the 106 most creative uses of the internet, is on Guggenheim Museum’s Youtube Play Biennials’ Top 25, won Honorary Mentions at Ars Electronica ’08, Liedts-Meesen Technological Award 2010, Transitio_MX 2011, was nominated at Transmediale 2009 and Share Festival 2010,has been installed in over 50 venues to date including the Montreal Biennial 2009, Toronto Film Festival 2010, Moscow International Film Festival 2009, IDFA 2009, File 2009 and has screened on public LED displays in Manchester, Leeds, Norwich and Sheffield UK, Federation Square Melbourne Australia, e4c Seattle U.S.A. She has given workshops and lectured about the project worldwide; her article When Film and Database Collide is published in the Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond Youtube.