AVMOTIONAL [ Bucharest, Romania ] TBC 2008  info

CIMATICS 07 AV FESTIVAL [ Brussels, Belgium ] November 22, 2007  info

LAPTOPIA #4 FESTIVAL [ Tel Aviv, Israel ] November 21, 2007  info

DECIBEL FESTIVAL/THE HENRY ART GALLERY [ Seattle, Washington, USA ] Sept 20, 2007  info

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM [ Brooklyn, New York, USA ] September 8, 2007  info
special live AV performances: Taylor Deupree+Richard Chartier and Sawako

G FINE ART [ Washington DC, USA ] April 27-May 26, 2007  info

ELLIPSE ART CENTER [ Arlington, VA, USA ] April 27-May 26, 2007  info

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART [ Washington DC, USA ] April 25, 2007  info
special live AV performances: Ernest Edmonds + Mark Fell and Sawako

The COLORFIELD VARIATIONS program, curated by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier, is a collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists including: Frank Bretschneider, Alan Callander, Chris Carter + Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris&Cosey / Throbbing Gristle), Sue Costabile, Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand, Mark Fell (SND/Blir) + Ernest Edmonds, Tina Frank + General Magic, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Stephan Mathieu, Steve Roden, and Bas Van Koolwijk. Colorfield Variation includes new works especially created for this program.

Color Field painting, an abstract style that emerged in the 1950s following Abstract Expressionism, is characterized by canvases painted primarily with stripes, washes and fields of solid color. The first serious and critically acclaimed art movement to originate in the nation's capital, Washington Color School was central to the larger Color Field movement. As a reaction to the emotional energy and gestural surface of Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field artists and members of The Washington Color School turned away from the individual mark in favor of color itself becoming the content of the work. Breaking painting down to the fundamental formal elements, the Color Field artists created pure simplified, large-format, color-dominated fields on a large monumental scale.

During the early sixties, Color Field painting was the term used to describe younger artists whose work were related to second generation abstract expressionism yet clearly pointed toward a new direction in American painting. Artists such as Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Leon Berkowitz, Frank Stella and others eliminated recognizable imagery from their canvas and presented abstraction as an end in itself with each painting as one unified, cohesive, monolithic image. Think in terms of Barnett Newman¹s painting ŒWho¹s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?¹ with its almost physical effect.

Colorfield Variations in its original form was commissioned for Washington Project for the Arts as part of the city wide ColorField.Remix events which took place in April-June 2007 in Washington, DC. For its premiere at the Corcoran Gallery of Art [ Washington, DC ] on April 25, 2007 artists Ernest Edmonds, Mark Fell, and Sawako performed live/real-time audio/visual works created especially for the event.

Subsequent Colorfield Variations screenings and events include: G Fine Art [ Washington, DC ], Ellipse Art Center [ Arlington, VA, USA ], Issue Project Room [Brooklyn, NY], Decibel Festival [Seattle, WA], Cimatics [Brussels, Belgium], Laptopia [Tel Aviv, Israel], and AVmotional [Bucharest, Romania]. Upcoming screenings to be confirmed in 2008 include: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Paris.

STEVE RODEN (US)  www.inbetweennoise.com
"dark over light earth" / 13:00 / 2007

ALAN CALLANDER (US)  www.visionload.com
"CF01" / 5:00 / 2007

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER (DE)  www.frankbretschneider.de
"looping i-vi (excerpt)" / 12:00 / 2004-5 VIEW EXCERPT

STEPHAN MATHIEU (DE)  www.bitstream.de
"Orange was the color of her dress" / 10:00 / 2007

SUE COSTABILE (US) + BEEQUEEN (NL)  www.sue-c.net /  www.beequeen.nl
"AMP_SWELL" / 3:49 / 2005 VIEW EXCERPT

TINA FRANK + GENERAL MAGIC (AT)  www.frank.at
"Chronomops" / 2:00 / 2006 VIEW EXCERPT

BAS VAN KOOLWIJK (NL)  www.basvankoolwijk.com
"FDBCK/AV - Silver" / 3:29 / 2007

CHRIS CARTER + COSEY FANNI TUTTI (UK)  www.cartertutti.com
"Chronomanic Redux" / 10:00 / 2007

RYOICHI KUROKAWA (JP)  www.ryoichikurokawa.com
"Scorch" / 3:04 / 2005 VIEW EXCERPT

EVELINA DOMNITCH + DMITRY GELFAND (RU/US)  www.portablepalace.com
"Ten Thousand Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid" / 8:00 / 2007

ERNEST EDMONDS (AU) + MARK FELL (UK)  www.markfell.com /  www.ernestedmonds.com
"Broadway One"(excerpt) / 2:00 / 2004-5