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Event Listings for November 2006

Visual Codec event listings are a paid service ($10/event, or $100/yearly unlimited events for a single venue, artist, festival, or curator). Visual Codec event listings are open to all visual arts events (including "artsy" film showings) in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. To submit your event(s), send an email to: reserve@visualcodec.com.

Fri.Nov.03

07.30.pm
Green Film Series, Kick-off Screening
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
911 Media Arts Center and Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network (HWEFN) have teamed up to present a monthly showcase of progressive documentaries called the Green Film Series. Every first Friday of every month the HWEFN opens up its extensive film library to showcase documentaries of all shapes and sizes on environmental issues. The topic of the first Green Film Series screening is Cuba: A Story of Sustainability.

Sat.Nov.04

06.30.pm
BACK ROOM Supper Symposium with Hadley+Maxwell
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland OR
web.reed.edu/gallery/
Join host Matthew Stadler for the BACK ROOM supper symposium with exhibiting artists Hadley+Maxwell and writer Lisa Robertson. This special evening happens on the occasion of the Cooley Gallery exhibition. For tickets and more information, visit www.thebackroompdx.com/

07.00.pm
Student Works from New Media
Department Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (Czech Rep.)
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
A presentation of short videos balancing between objectivity and imagination, citation and free interpretation, manipulation and discreditation.

Mon.Nov.06

07.30.pm
Public Lecture by Exhibiting Artists
Vollum Lounge, Reed College Campus
Reception to follow at the Cooley Gallery
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland OR
web.reed.edu/gallery/
Join us for a public lecture by exhibiting artists Lucien Samaha and Hadley+Maxwell. The talk is followed by a reception at the Cooley Gallery. The Cooley Gallery will be open from 12.00-09.00pm on Mon.Nov.06.

Wed.Nov.08

07.00.pm
Upgrade! Seattle with featured artist Anetta Mona Chisa
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Visiting artist Anetta Mona Chisa will talk about some of her former projects (video, performances, installations). Most of her projects are contextual, based on personal stories, and very often she plays with the concept of access to different forms of power: professional, political, ideological, and geographical.

Thu.Nov.09

07.00.pm
Exhibiting Artist Lecture: Walid Raad & the Atlas Group
The Loudest Muttering is Over
Henry Auditorium
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, Seattle WA
www.henryart.org
The Loudest Muttering is Over is a multimedia lecture performance using events from the Lebanese wars as a lens through which to examine how we represent, remember, and make sense of war. Walid Raad incorporates slides, notebook pages, and videotape excerpts as historical artifacts attributed to imaginary sources, such as Dr. Fadi Fakhouri, a leading historian of Lebanese history, or Souheil Bachar, a former hostage. Raad's lecture-performances conjure up an alternate universe that mimics conventional formats of visual and textual representation.
$6 Henry Members / $8 Seniors & Students / $10 General

08.00.pm
New Works Lab 2006
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
What happens when visual artists and new media artists join forces? This is the basic premise of New Works Laboratory, a 911 Media Arts Center program in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery that pairs visual artists working in traditional media with digital media artists experimenting with new technologies to co-create and exhibit new and innovative works of art. This year's collaborating teams who were selected through a juried process in May 2006 are Robert Campbell/Yuki Nakamura and Carrie Bodle/Margie Livingston.

08.00-10.00.pm
Fall Exhibitions Opening Celebration
Henry Art Gallery
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, Seattle WA
www.henryart.org
Opening celebration for fall exhibitions (We Decided to Let them Say "We Are Convinced" Twice. It was More Convincing This Way.), a project by Walid Raad; Beyond Territory neuroTransmitter; and New Works Laboratory. Complimentary food, drink and entertainment. For more information call 206.543.2281.
$6 Henry Members and PCNW Members, $8 Students and Seniors, $10 General

Fri.Nov.10

07:30.pm
Publication Launch and Closing Reception
Helen Pitt Gallery
102-148 Alexander Street, Vancouver BC
www.helenpittgallery.org
Join us for the publication launch and farewell party for LatentCity. This exhibition brings together the recent work of six Vancouver artists who share an interest in the relationship between the urban environment and the psychological traces it leaves on its inhabitants. Conceived as an inversion of Freud's notion of the mind as a city, these artists present an archeological view of our built environments that suggests the opposite—the city as mind. The publication features colour plates of the works in the exhibition, writing by Willie Briscoe, director of Galerie Werner Whitman in Montreal and a foreword by Lance Blomgren, curator of the Helen Pitt Gallery.
Entrance is FREE.

Sat.Nov.11

08:00.pm
Readings: Andy Brown and Joe Ollmann
Helen Pitt Gallery
102-148 Alexander Street, Vancouver BC
www.helenpittgallery.org
Montrealers Andy Brown and Joe Ollmann present multimedia-enhanced readings of their recently published books by Insomniac Press. Brown's Mole Chronicles traces the complexities of family relationships through a paranoid landscape of skin disease, secret societies, eco-terrorism and post-global culture. Ollmann's collection of graphic novellas finds inspiration in the forgettable, magical and disturbing moments of the mundane—our uncomfortable silences, subtle acts of self-delusion and fleeting seconds of self-awareness. Originally from Vancouver, Andy Brown is the author of I can see you being invisible (D.C. Books, 2003). He is an editor of Matrix magazine and his writing has appeared extensively in publications throughout North America. Joe Ollmann is a cartoonist who lives Montreal by way of Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of two other books, Chewing on Tinfoil (2001) and The Big Book of Wag! (2006).
Entrance is FREE.

Mon.Nov.13

06.00-09.00.pm
Opening Reception: Anetta Mona Chisa
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
911 Media Arts Center is excited to welcome Slovakian artist Anetta Mona Chisa for a five-week residency. Chisa works primarily in photography, video, installation and performance art to create projects that confront the viewer with situations that challenge perceptual habits. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout Europe and was recently awarded the Oskar Cepan Award for young Slovak artists. While at the Center, Chisa is working on a new project inspired by her stay in Seattle. The final results will be on view from Nov.14 until Dec.20 with an opening reception on Nov.13.

08.00.pm
Open Screening
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Open Screening is held the 2nd Monday of every month at 08:00.pm in the brand new screening room at 911 Media Arts Center, 402 9th Ave N, Seattle. Open Screening is an "open mike night" for video and digital media arts; an open forum for filmmakers and digital media artists ranging from amateur to professional. Discussion follows each screening. How it works: Bring your DVD or VHS, disc/tape. Make sure it's cued, maximum ten minutes in length or less, first come-first screened.
Cost to submit or attend: $2.00 donation.

Thu.Nov.16

07.00.pm
Artists' Cinema, with guest artist and curator Jenny Perlin
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Henry Auditorium
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, Seattle WA
www.henryart.org
Artists' Cinema invites a guest artist to arrange an evening program featuring a work of their own alongside film and video works from contemporaries as well as past influences. Breathe In, Breathe Out brings together various works selected by New York artist and filmmaker Jenny Perlin to form a fugue-like structure that balances the suspense of held-in tensions and anxieties with the explosive release of laughter and violence. The evening also celebrates the release of a new book on Perlin's film Perseverance & How to Develop It (2003) to be screened as part of the program.

Sun.Nov.19
06.00-10.00.pm
Open Lab
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Open Lab at 911 Media Arts Center, every third Sunday of the month from 6-10 PM. An informal lab for new media artists to meet, collaborate, share new works, and experiment together. The Open Lab gives access to 911's theater and large studio as well as available equipment such as cameras, video projectors and a video mixer. Artists working in electronic and digital media are encouraged to bring their own equipment and add it to the mix.
Lab Fee: $2.00

07.30.pm
VJ Night
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Come join us for our first VJ Night at 911 Media Arts Center with special guest KillingFrenzy. Half social, half showcase the VJ Night is both a regular meeting point for VJs, DJs, and everyone who is fascinated by this highly artistic medium as well as a showcase of some of the best work of local talents. VJing as an emerging art form has yet to find a home in Seattle (in the US as a matter of fact) outside of the regular club scene and we have set out to change that. Every month we invite local artists to share their work and talk about their craft — what they do, why they do it and how they do it. We are excited to provide a forum for audiovisual creatives to meet, share, and enjoy the art of VJing.

Thu.Nov.30

07.00.pm
Take the Cake: Stranger Genius Programs
Loudhailer
Henry Auditorium
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, Seattle WA
www.henryart.org
An evening of short readings from Stranger literary geniuses Jonathan Raban, John Olson, and Matt Briggs punctuated by intermittent proclamations, prophecies, and other rants of brilliance on what makes a genius from local luminaries.
FREE