For English version see below.

ROBERT OCHSHORN: SCREENS
Control and illusion for the video interface

FotoForum i forbindelse med vores nye udstilling Rewriting Histories tirsdag, 10. november kl. 17-19 i Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V.)

“Much like the stabilized video from military drones, which allow commanders to observe and interfere with unfamiliar territory from aerial vantage, A Little Bit More Stable takes the viewer above and outside the normal passage of motion picture time. The source material, a promotion for video stabilization software that has been commercialized from its military applications, depicts the stabilization of home movies and implies a similar steadying influence on the lives of would-be customers.”

Den amerikanske kunstner Robert Ochshorn (f. 1987 i Californien, USA) bor i Californien og arbejder som medie og computer forsker. Han arbejder med media interfaces for at udvide muligheder for menneskelig perceptuel og udtryksfulde kapaciteter.
http://rmozone.com/

Værkerne på udstillingen Rewriting Histories genbesøger historiske begivenheder og undersøger hvad receptionen af fortiden betyder for opfattelsen af nutiden. Ved at genfortælle historien på en ny måde og fra et nutidigt perspektiv, peger udstillingens kunstnere på historien som en – ofte ideologisk – konstruktion.

Rewriting Histories bliver vist i sammenhæng med CPH:DOX. FotoForum vil foregå på engelsk.

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ROBERT OCHSHORN: SCREENS
Control and illusion for the video interface

FotoForum in connection to our new exhibition Rewriting Histories on Tuesday, 10th of November from 5pm to 7pm in Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V.)

“Much like the stabilized video from military drones, which allow commanders to observe and interfere with unfamiliar territory from aerial vantage, A Little Bit More Stable takes the viewer above and outside the normal passage of motion picture time. The source material, a promotion for video stabilization software that has been commercialized from its military applications, depicts the stabilization of home movies and implies a similar steadying influence on the lives of would-be customers.”

American artist Robert Ochshorn (b. in 1987 in California, USA) lives in California working as a media and computer researcher. He is working on media interfaces for extending human perceptive and expressive capabilities. http://rmozone.com/

The exhibition Rewriting Histories is revisiting historical events and investigating what the reception of the past means for the understanding of the present. By retelling the history in a new way and from a present perspective are the artists of the exhibition pointing at the history as a – often ideological – construction.

Rewriting Histories is part of CPH:DOX program. FotoForum will be held in English.

LASSE LAU & BENJ GERDES: COLLECTIVE PRACTICES
Rewriting Histories talk with the two curators and exhibiting artists

The first event in connection to our new exhibition Rewriting Histories is happening on Sunday, 8th of November from 2pm to 4pm in Fotografisk Center (Bygning 55, Staldgade 16, 1699 Kbh. V.)

“The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.” (Walter Benjamin ‘On the concept of History’)

Benj Gerdes and Lasse Lau have worked as individual artists and as part of art and political collectives. When working at the intersection of art and activism, the question is often how to effect change in the present. To generate better tools, groups frequently immerse themselves in oral histories and subcultural archives to reclaim past histories of resistance and struggle. What are the projects and conclusions that result from this “archival impulse?” In this presentation the artists, themselves collaborators on this exhibition and both members of Kran Film Collective, will discuss some common ground between their experience in groups and collectives, as well as the different approaches and relationships those groups have had to earlier political movements and actions.

Benj Gerdes (b. in 1978 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA) lives in New York working as an artist, writer, and media arts professor. He is interested in intersections of radical politics, knowledge production, and popular imagination.

Lasse Lau (b. 1974 in Sønderborg, Denmark) lives in Copenhagen and New York, USA, working as a visual artist and filmmaker. His projects often function as a mediator and channel of crises and displacements that occur by frictions of reason in-between absolute, relative or relational spaces.

The exhibition Rewriting Histories is revisiting historical events and investigating what the reception of the past means for the understanding of the present. By retelling the history in a new way and from a present perspective are the artists of the exhibition pointing at the history as a – often ideological – construction.

Rewriting Histories is part of CPH:DOX program. FotoForum will be held in English.