Over The Opening

10 Untitled Drawings (Indulgences), 2010

“…the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven.” - Wikipedia

Back in in the fall of 2007, MTAA began to invite artists and art collectives to present one-night exhibitions of time based art in their Brooklyn studio. This ongoing monthly event, Over The Opening (OTO), operated as a blurring of studio space, exhibition venue, social experiment and media laboratory. The artists who worked with OTO represented a diverse range of practices. Using mediated performances, theatrical productions, participatory events, and conceptual lectures, artist who participated in OTO shared interest in how the digital world intersects within the corporeal.

On December 10 of 2009, after 24 exhibitions, MTAA put Over the Opening (OTO) to sleep.

In spring of 2010, MTAA began sending co-editing invites to artist for Goggle doc drawings. The ten invites, sent out without instruction or further information, have resulted in the following 10 collaborative, web based and ongoing drawings.

Untitled Drawing #1 (MTAA)
Untitled Drawing #2 (MTTA+Stern)
Untitled Drawing #3 (MTAA+Olson)
Untitled Drawing #4 (MTAA+Cloninger)
Untitled Drawing #5 (MTAA+Mandiberg)
Untitled Drawing #6 (MTAA+RSG)
Untitled Drawing #7 (MTAA.+Renda+Poe)
Untitled Drawing #8 (MTAA+Abrahams)
Untitled Drawing #9 (MTAA+Ramocki)
Untitled Drawing #10 (MTAA+Garnett)

Seen together, these 10 drawings represent Over The Opening’s 2010 exhibition titled Indulgences.

OTO will be in hibernation for the time being as MTAA works on some projects in the studio. In the meantime, please visit the OTO Show Archive.

OTO is pleased to present Brinson Renda, Preston Poe and Michael Sarff ’s The Purple Reign - live and prerecorded dramatic readings of the 1984 classic Purple Rain

Prerecorded readings at The Purple Reign’s YouTube channel -

http://www.youtube.com/digigogo

Installation for live readings Dec 3rd to 12th at Digi a Go Go  - 2724 NW 2 Avenue, Miami, FL 33127 - corner of NW 2nd Ave & 28th St. Opening Friday Dec 4, 2009 from 7-11pm

This will be the last OTO project for the near future.

more photos from The Purple Reign in Miami on Flickr

On Saturday November 21, from 7 to 10pm, Over The Opening is pleased to present
SUBWAY • 1 • 2 • 3, a new three-channel projection by G.H. Hovagimyan.

The subway is a defining urban experience across cultures. Underground and in the subconscious, every rider experiences a disjunctive experience when entering one place and emerging in a different one. In day to day experience, time spent on a subway ride can resemble lost footage between cuts in a movie. But when a movie includes scenes shot in a subway, the subway passage becomes a shared, collective experience. Familiarity with subway scenes from movies have become part of the contemporary vernacular, creating “Oh I remember that film!” reactions. Movie scenes shot in subways also trigger deeper feelings as the viewer defines and redefines personal and shared experiences. In the work I have created using subway scenes from movies, narrative conventions of standard film techniques have been removed to further the exploration of submerged emotions.

The installation includes three video loops of one hour each. The piece is designed as a three-panel projection with the three loops running simultaneously. Since the individual movie clips in each loop are of varying aspect ratios, I selected a standard 1280 x 720 pixel ratio and fit the clips into that size. By doing that, some of the clips are squeezed into higher definition and others become pixilated. The use of translation and codec problems, and the variations produced by varied definition are an integral part of the work. Visual association, media memory, and a collective experience can be furthered by asking the viewer to adapt to differences. Copyright issues are addressed as the completed artwork is composed entirely of re-purposed cinema found solely on the Internet.

The complete subway movie list is provided below for reference. The movies with dots after their names had subway sequences that I gleaned from the Internet and are included in the work.

48 Hrs
A Taste of Tea‚•
Adventures in Baby-Sitting‚•
After‚•
After Hours‚•
Along Came A Spider
American Werewolf In London
American Werewolf In Paris‚•
Annie Hall
Bang the drum slowly
Barbershop 2: Back In Business
Beethoven Virus‚•
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES
Blade‚•
Bless the Child
Bless the Child trailer‚•
ButterflyMole‚•
Brother From Another Planet‚•
Carlito’s Way‚•
Collateral
Condemned‚•
Conspiracy Theory
Die Another Day
Die Hard With a Vengance
Do the Right Thing
Edmond‚•
End of Days
Fame
FBI Story
Flatliners
FRENCH CONNECTION II
Getting Even With Dad
Ghost‚•
Ghostbusters
Godfather
Godzilla
Happyness‚•
HUNTED
Incident
Inner Circle‚•
Irreversible.
ITALIAN JOB (2003)
Jacob’s Ladder Cowboy Way
Creep‚•
Crocodile Dundee
Daredevil
Daybreak Express‚•
Death Wish
Little Fugitive
Little Nicky
Lost in Translation
Malcolm X
Maniac
Marathon Man
Matrix Revolutions
Men in Black 2
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Meat Train‚•
Mimic
Money Train
Mr. Wonderful
My Best Friends Wedding
My Boss’s Daughter
My Dinner with Andre
Naked City
Network
Neverwhere (Neil Gaimens )
Next Stop Greenwich
Village
Nighthawks
North by Northwest
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
ODDESSA FILE
On The Line
Paycheck
Passer By
Pi‚•
Pickup On South Street‚•
Predator II
Prizzi’s Honor
Pursuit of Happyness
Quartermass and the Pit‚•
Resident Evil?
Risky Buisness
Rosemary’s Baby
Rules of Attraction
Saturday Night Fever
Serendipity
Seven Year Itch‚•
Silver Streak Just Another Girl on the IRT
King Kong‚•
King of Comedy
King of New York‚•
Knowing‚•
Sleeper Cell‚•
Sliding Doors
songs from the 2nd floor
Speed
Step Up 2‚•
Strange Days
Subway (by Luc Besson)‚•
Suicide Club‚•
SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
Swat
SWIMMING POOL
TAKING OF PELHAM 1,2,3
Taxi Driver
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secret of the Ooze
They
Three and Out‚•
Total Recall
Trackman‚•
Train Simulator‚•
Trick‚•
Tube‚•
Twelve Angry Men
Underworld.
Untouchables
volcano ‚•
Waking the Dead‚•
WARRIORS‚•
Weekend at Bernie’s II
West Side Story
When Harry met Sally
While you were Sleeping
Wings of Desire‚•
Wrong Man
Yards‚•
You’ve Got Mail

Update - documentation from the event
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mriver/sets/72157622853778656/

On October 10, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm, Over The Opening is pleased to present “YouTunes”: a performance sound project with Preston Poe and Kyle Hester.

YouTunes is a personalized song customization and distribution system. Poe and Hester invite you to participate by filling out a simple primarily multiple-choice form. Based on your answers, the artists will craft a custom-made song just for you.

“We’ll write, play, sing, record and burn a CD just for you on the spot- all for 99 centavos”

In an effort to compete with iTunes, the artists will be charging 99 cents per song. You bring a dollar bill and they will give you back your very own song burnt on CD and penny for your thoughts change. Choose your themes, rhythm, key phrases, and musical style, and they will match it to a carefully considered, spontaneous, personally crafted melody - with lyrics to boot!

Poe and Hester’s cache of musical YouTunes styles and instruments includes (but is not limited to) Theremin, electric “micro” pipe organ, washtub, fingerpickin’ guitar, ukulele, various percussion instruments, and many other surprises.

Free beer and wine will be on hand as well as a variety of international culinary tastes that will appeal to one and all.

Update - documentation from the youTunes event

some photos from You Tunes at OTO last night on Flickr

Participants answer questions on a form, such as favorite superhero or cake. The You Tunes band (Preston Poe, Kyle Hester, David and Tara Gladden, Monica Hurtado and Clinton Wilkins) with about 1 min prep, played your song and burned it on CD. They asked Tim and I to kick it off by attempting to each do a song. Here are the awkward-but-fun results.

M.River Song by T.Whid
T.Whid’s Song By M.River

OTO and Conflux09 are proud to present MTAA + Mike Koller’s World’s First, Possibly Only and Probably Last iPhone Drum Circle (aka IPDC)

Who: MTAA in collaboration with Mike Koller and anyone with an iPhone and a drum or bongo application.
What: a 1-hour iPhone drum circle in a park.
Where: McCarren Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Driggs and union near Green Dome Garden).
When: September 20, 2009 from 2 to 3pm
Why: it is an idea that needs to be attempted at least once.
http://tinjail.com/ipdc

Rain location at OTO - 60 North 6th Street 2nd floor

Update - documentation from the IPDC event

IPDC Flicker Set
2 short quicktime clips
Teck Si-Fi Jam
Pet Sounds

OTO is on vacation. We will be back in September. In the meantime, please visit our archive of past shows.

some photos from Kai’s OTO, The Feraliminal Lycanthroparty, now up on OTO’s Flickr set

On June 13th from 7 to 10pm, OTO is pleased to present a new sound environment by Kai Vierstra

The Feraliminal Lycanthroparty is a celebration of one of the most diabolically wacky inventions science has ever seen (or at least whispered about). It’s the feraliminal lycanthropizer and it’s a low frequency thanato-auric wave generator, and it’s at OTO for one night only. Expect some serious relaxation of muscles and mores with vibrations and party favors. It’s gonna be an awesome night. The feraliminal lycanthroparty is brought to you by the Brooklyn based artist, Kai Vierstra, who bases this and most all his other work on the continuation of what little he knows and can guess about his father’s wave research with MIT/Lincoln Laboratory’s group 38 “Air Defense Systems”.

For more information on the feraliminal lycanthropizer, please visit-
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/8/feraliminal/

and for more of Kai’s work - http://kaivierstra.com

documentation from this event

some photos from last nights OTO - The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture) now up on
OTO’s Flickr set