An evening of “Expanded Cinema” and “Noise Music”  performances utilizing 16 mm film projectors, guitar effects pedals, 35 mm slide projectors, and other sound and image producing devices…

Bruce McClure: “Two Projectors & A Barrel Full of Monkeys”
Born in 1959, Bruce McClure studied and later practiced architecture for many years. While working in small architectural offices in New York City he led a double life as a draftsman and artist making drawings, installations, and performances. His interest in early cinematographic inspiration led to the rediscovery of the influence of a high speed xenon flash on rapidly spinning discs which won him an invitation to the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in 2000. He marks this date as the beginning of an international reputation for performances using modified projectors with film as a catalyst between himself and an audience. In addition to the translucence of film as it appears intermittently in the projector’s gate, the continuous reading of contrast, which forms the basis of optical sound system, is foregrounded for contemporaneous excursions.

“Two Projectors & A Barrel Full of Monkeys” calls to attention the machinery that will make film loops accessible to the audience and the projectionist. A barrel roll is a flight maneuver in which an airplane makes a complete rotation on its longitudinal axis while approximately maintaining its original direction. Meanwhile, maneuvers are possible actions given the materials at hand.

“Elegant and meditative works that reflect the mix of order and chaos in the universe.” -Fred Camper

Cameron Worden + Omnia Sol: “UNTIME (Techno)”
Cameron Worden is an analog film artist, programmer, and projectionist based in Chicago, IL. His films, primarily finished in 35 mm and broadly concerned with mediated perception and the technical apparatus of image making, have screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, La Cinémathèque Française, and New Directors/New Films. “UNTIME,” his most recent work, is an enveloping set of performances for multiple 35 mm slide projectors and dissolve units, presenting numerous slides assembled from original and appropriated film materials as a series of overlapping and constantly shifting abstract compositions which push against the rigid confines of traditional screen space.
For this edition of “UNTIME,” Worden is accompanied by Syd Ross, a multidisciplinary artist and musician whose work deals with the relationship of nostalgia to media archaeology and the irrealist landscapes found between spaces of analog and digital glitch. As an avid collector of old physical media such as VHS and an enthusiast of analog technology in its application to visual and sonic art, they work to create an expansive onslaught of colorful (and occasionally strobing) plunderoptic video art. Ross performs as an audiovisual artist under the moniker Omnia Sol as well as providing visuals for DJs and other musicians in the Chicago underground DIT rave scene.

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