I just finished a music video for the band Thanatos entitled Homage To Catalonia from their new album The Exterminating Angel.   The song features Pat Ogle, Tim Larson and Chris Connelly.  This is my first venture into music video making.

Check it out here:

The Duende Bros’ track, I’m The Zipper, is featured in issue #15 of the online audio publication Text Sound, which features poets and multi-media artists from around the world.  This month’s issue also features the work of ‘tENTAVELY, aCONVENIENCE’, Machine Libertine, AB Gorham, Thylias Moss, and Ansted Moss.

Check it out here.

On Friday, March 22nd, Anas Nebula will be shown amongst several international films/videos through MIA: A Monthly Moving Image Art Screening Series in Pasadena, CA at The Armory Center for the Arts.   This month’s series is titled, ATTENTIONAL SHIFT.  Come by if you can, and read below for more info:

MIA presents video art from nine artists working with repetition, manipulation and found footage on March 22nd. These artworks each focus the audience’s attention through selective editing and image manipulation in order to reveal secondary meanings behind the initial surface impression.

ATTENTIONAL SHIFT
22 March 2013 — 8PM
Rocky Horton – Stephanie Hough – Marco Mendeni
Jessica Miller – Zach Nader – Charmaine Ortiz
Mikey Peterson – Rembrandt Quiballo – Tahir Ün

MIA is a brand new series screening the work of artists using the moving image. Curated by artist Alanna Simone.

Screenings every 4th Friday at 8PM
A donation of $5 is suggested.

The Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103

Moving image art includes experimental film, video art, installation art, performance art, essay films and animation.

Made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.

STREETVIDEOART and Art Television will be showing Anas Nebula among many other films at Gallery WHITE PROJECT in Paris, France.  The opening is this Saturday, March 23rd.  Please stop in if you’re in the area.

Info and other contributing artists are below:

Gallery WHITE PROJECT “Utopie Distribuée”

24 rue Saint Claude 75003 Paris / 09 March – 27 April 2013Workshop 09 – 22 March / Verissage 23 March

Arlen Schumer/ Alain Longuet/ Alejandro Cerón / Barton Lewis / Michael Peterson / Kye Wilson / Russell Chartier/ Silvia Toy / Martin McGill / Rogier Dirkx/ Toby Kaufmann-Buhler / Tahir Un / Jessye Mc Dowell / Marcantonio Lunardi / Yannick Verdier Monsegur / Linda See / Rohan Graeffly / Keaton Fox / Geogette Soh / Sije Kingma / Lotta-Pia Kallio / Mariel Sanhueza / Johana Hartwig / Jerome Bouchez / Stefano Giannoti / Sally Grizzell Larson / Sam Spreckley / Ian Henderson / Ezra Wube / SB / bARut / zerOposition …

My new video entitled Stranger Leaves is now complete and is currently exhibited here and at Art Television.  Like Anas Nebula before it, this piece continues my exploration of nature through distortion, displacement, and sound with hope that it alludes to other ideas about the world we live in.

After several months of videos displayed publicly throughout the streets of Paris, the STREETVIDEOART: Walk Your Telly exhibition is now showcasing the artists that participated.  My video, Anas Nebula, is among those selected.  The show runs through November 8th at the Larcade Gallery in Paris, France. Please stop by if you’re in the area.

You can watch documentation of the opening as well as the street exhibitions HERE.

Anas Nebula has been selected as part of the International Short-Films Competition at the Lucca Film Festival in Tuscany, Italy during the week of October 1st – 6th.

Below is a bit of info about the festival:

INTERNATIONAL SHORT-FILMS COMPETITION

The 8th edition of the Lucca Film Festival will take place in October, from 1st to 6^th, at the Cinema Centrale, in the centre of Lucca. The Festival wants to promote the knowledge and diffusion of international cinema in all its forms, in a spirit of freedom and conviviality. In addition to the sections mentioned in the following paragraphs, the festival will present retrospectives, exhibitions and homages to artists who excel in film and video-making, in order to promote a better understanding of the history of cinema and videoart.

Click HERE for info on the official line-up of films. More info will be posted when it’s released.

Anas Nebula, along with many other video works from around the world will be shown throughout the streets of Paris, France this summer through Art Television’s latest public exhibition StreeTVideOart.

A video previewing these events can be seen here.

Below is a brief summary of these public exhibitions:

The new art movement is born:

StreeTVideOart ®

Action / Exhibition / Movement – Paris 2012

“StreeTVideOart” is an art action on an international scale consisting of a number of presentations of an emerging video art in an urban context.

“Unexpected, daring, provocative exhibitions of video art, taking place at secret and surprising places in Paris… will mark the beginning of the movement that will undoubtedly last long in all the big cities of the world.” – author of the concept Milan Atanaskovic, March 2012.Video art in a public space – Very soon via Art Television 

StreeTVideOart is an international art action consisting of a number presentations of emerging video art in an urban context.

This new art movement is made up of video artists from all over the world, who will “attack” - with their video artworks - the city of Paris by night in the months to come - its streets, passages, windows, walls, hallways, pavements, squares, yards, unexpected places… We will exhibit works by setting up TVs in an urban and industrial scenery – in direct contact with the audience and the metropolis; return-to-zero, in order to reset, electrify, revive the city! Emerging video art in public space! StreeTVideOart will start in Paris and gradually spread to London, Berlin, New York, Madrid – all the major cities in the world…

My video works, Anas Nebula and Six Moments Of Clarity have been recently featured in the Mexico City-based art/culture magazine Blancopop.

Check them and many other videos, photos, and articles here.

Read the English translation below:

MEDITATION IN MONOCHROME | Mikey Peterson | Blanco Pop

Mikey Peterson speaks to us with the language of distortion: natural environments are modified to invite the viewer to a disconcerting place.

There are artists who take advantage of the fact that the brain does not distinguish between what is real and what isn’t in order to put those who follow them into a type of emotional trance; this is the case with videographer and singer/songwriter Mikey Peterson.

He lives in Chicago and his videos have reached international screens at venues like the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York and the Performance Intermedia and DokumentART festivals in Szczecin, Poland.

His experimental work is focused on rhythm, sound and organic abstraction: distorted images –always of natural elements– a bit unsettling because they subject those who view them to a state of restless meditation.

For example, the hypnotic piece Anas Nebula shows us a type of sparkling outer space where patterns at times reveal confusing shapes that have different meanings for each person.

Conversely, in Six Moments of Clarity, tranquility is abruptly interrupted by a concert of lights and sonorous repetitions, jumpy movements that disturb the monochromatic view of the same image multiplied.

If you would like to find out more about Mikey Peterson’s work, you can visit his official web site or listen to some of his songs on MySpace. Once you delve into his experiments, your state of mind won’t escape unscathed.

Translated from the Spanish by Paul Grens

My new video, Anas Nebula,  is officially finished and is exhibited online at the New York-based Videoart.net and the Paris/London-based ArtChannel.  This one-shot video contains 10 layers of manipulated ambient sound taken from the original source recording.  It is definitely headphone-friendly, so play it LOUD.

Watch it here: