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"LET A THOUSAND VIDEOS BLOOM"
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Ken Feinstein will present five new video works in The Project Room @ Chelsea Art Museum from Tuesday, November 9 through Saturday, November 27. Two public events are scheduled to facilitate interaction between the artist and museum visitors — a reception on Thursday, November 11 6-8 PM, and The Project Room's "Introductions: Meet-the-artist" program on Saturday November 20 at 2:00 PM.
Feinstein's exhibit, Let A Thousand Videos Bloom, discards traditional ideas of presenting videos and images to create a stunning new visual topology. Until recently we have used the same word ˜cinema˜ to designate both the art form and the place in which it is shown. Let A Thousand Videos Bloom explores how digital technology has liberated the presentation of video from the prison of that white square on the wall.
Rainbeach projects onto the floor, giving the illusion that the waves are about to rush over the viewer's feet. Vanishing Tower shines into second floor window frame giving the impression of an actual window view. In another new work, the screen has been custom made to the shape of the image — it is no longer in a rectangle and appears to be an actual object.
Let A Thousand Videos Bloom makes the location of cinematic presentation an integral part of the experience. Using recent technologies such as flat screens and high intensity video projectors, Feinstein injects the experience of cinema (time-based media) into the every day world. As the presentation's location changes, so does the very nature of the experience. We are no longer tied the window we call the movie screen. As radical as Cubism was in its time, so is the direct experience of media art.
Support for "Introductions: Meet-The-Artist" is provided by Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds Program. The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds Program is supported by the New York State Council on the Art.
Biography
New York based artist Ken Feinstein has been working in the digital realm since 1984. His first IRIS print was on the machine with serial #7. Over two decades he has expanded his work to include time-based installations as well as digital and traditional printmaking and photography. Feinstein's artistic themes lean toward issues of memory, personal and cultural. His work has used images from mass media as well as others based on Romantic painting. His intention is to reinvigorate the viewer's understanding and participation, providing an antidote to a modern culture dominated by mediated images and meanings and shifting traditional relationships to enhance the experience of the world around us.
Ken Feinstein's work has been exhibited in Video Art of the '90s 2002, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY, curated by Janet Karden, a group show with Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, and Pipilotti Rist; COMTEC Œ99 in Dresden, Germany, with Merce Cunningham and Don Ritter; a solo show at the Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York; Cross Overs in Johannesburg South Africa; the Fukuya Art Gallery Hiroshima, Japan (in remembrance of the 50th Anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb). His IRIS print, Try Me, was the first IRIS print in the collection of the New York Public Library. And Feinstein' work was recently included in CinemaScope, at the Townhouse during Art Basel: Miami
Feinstein is currently working on a large interactive video installation and finishing new multi-channel video works. A professor of experimental video at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design, he has studied with Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Peter Greenaway, Manuel De Landa, Yves-Alain Bois and Wolfgang Schirmacher.
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