Highly Defined: New Works from the Voom HD Lab
October 17, 2007 - October 24, 2007
In 2004, Voom, a network of television channels aired in the 1080i format, initiated a residency program, giving artists access to the full breadth of HD technology. The variety of outcomes is stupendous, with fictive fantasies, quirky essays, performative portraits, and abstract image extravaganzas all sharing a common characteristic, a pixel count that would have seemed absurd just a few years ago. For some artists, the joy is in the looking as the color palette gains discrete and shining tonalities; others pay more attention to the granularity of the image now that the pitch is pronounced; and still others stretch out in the panoramic frame or revel in the crisply layered compositing. HD, at its best, has six times the resolution of standard def, and though this by no means guarantees brilliant art, it does give you a highly resolved place to begin. The HD works in this Voom compilation are just the beginning.
An additional program of HD works will be screened at the San Francisco Art Institute on October 21. Information: www.sfcinematheque.org.
Steve Seid
Video Curator
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
7:30 p.m. HD Program 1
Experiments in high definition reveal the medium magnified in its materiality of tone and depth. Works by Theo Angell, Toni Dove, Angie Eng, Bradley Eros, Ali Hossaini, Leighton Pierce, Jennifer Reeves, Fred Barney Taylor, and Ellen Zweig.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
7:30 p.m. HD Program 2
Handheld or precisely honed, these high-def shorts explore the varied pictorial possibilities of multiplying pixels. Works by Theo Angell, Benton-C Bainbridge, Ericka Beckmann, Lili Chin, Bradley Eros, Gregory King, Alix Pearlstein, Jennifer Sullivan, Leslie Thornton, and Gail Vachon.
Copresented with San Francisco Cinematheque.
Special thanks to Lili Chin at the Voom HD Lab, to Ellen Zweig for keeping us apprised, and to all the involved artists.
