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Brian De Palma (1940, Newark, New Jersey) is an American film director, best known for directing the Al Pacino classic Scarface, and the Academy Award-winning film The Untouchables. Brian De Palma’s Redacted, a prizewinner in Venice and a polarizing selection at film festivals in Telluride, Toronto and New York opens today in New York and selected cities.

What De Palma has done is what is called a “mockumentary”, a fictional film done in a rage and fear documentary style. Not much a traditional plot, the film fictionalizes and dramatizes the Al-Mahmudiyah killings that took place outside Baghdad in March 2006, where five U.S. soldiers gang-raped and murdered a 14 year old girl, after first killing her parents and younger sister.

“Redacted” means to select or adapt (as by obscuring or removing sensitive information) for publication or release. Mr. De Palma’s premise, implicit in his choice of title and stated in many interviews and public pronouncements, is that the truth about Iraq has been edited and obscured, kept away from (not only) the American public.

Starting with the HD video diary of PFC Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), the view shifts soon to his platoon: Their mission is to guard the check points. The film ends with photos of the carnage in Iraq, just to get the point across the crime of supporting a country that in the last 24 months killed 2,000 Iraqis, and few were proven to be insurgents.

An unrivaled master of cinematic reality, De Palma’s film remixes raw images and videos culled from surveillance cameras, cellphones and Web sites. As he would like to say that the media environment is the real battlefield of contemporary, where everyone is, at least potentially, a fighter.

Written and directed by Brian De Palma; with: Izzy Diaz (Angel Salazar), Daniel Stewart Sherman (B. B. Rush), Patrick Carroll (Reno Flake), Mike Figueroa (Sgt. Jim Ross), Ty Jones (Master Sgt. Sweet), Rob Devaney (Lawyer McCoy), Kel O’Neill (Gabe Blix), Zahara Al Zubaidi (Farah) and Bridget Barkan (Judy McCoy). HDNet Films and Magnolia Pictures.

Antonio Mendoza, Jimpunk and Abe Linkoln started the triptych.tv project. It seems a dadaist collection of microvideo, the result is amazing, it’s a real contemporary junkspace, you can see everything presented much more faster than TV. The structure is like a blog, but each piece is a microvideo to be seen in the contest of all the page.

“If you’re remixing popular music you change the rhythm or the sound-What I do is something entirely different. I have thought for a long time about what to call what I do. I liked the word ‘remix’ because it comes from youth culture.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.”

GEORG BASELITZ, Auftritt am Sandtreich II – bei + 30 C (Remix), 2006
Oil on canvas

Georg Baselitz is one of Germany’s most prolific and well-known living artists. Born in Saxony in 1938 – painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Selecting subject matter (figures, animals, birds, landscapes and still-lifes) and placing them in dramatic settings, Baselitz’ works also place the viewer in a world of heightened self-consciousness to confront the being with the brutalities of history and the human tragedies.

He also partakes of a particular rebel sensibility and – like Camus Homme révolté - examines several countercultural figures and movements to cast anti-heroes as a strategy to liberate the subject matter, from the grotesque one, to the broken soldiers of the Fracture paintings and the inverted figures of the disturbing upside-down paintings.

Baselitz’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Werner & Katz, Berlin, caused a public scandal. Two of the pictures, “The Big Night Down The Drain”/ “Die große Nacht im Eimer” (1962/63) and the “Naked Man”/ “Nackter Mann” (1962), are seized by the public prosecutor. The ensuing court case does not end until 1965. Again in 1980, at the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale, he caused a stir with a monumental carved wooden figure, which appeared to making a Hitlerian salute. as well as the sixteenth century German woodcuts and African sculptures.

Georg Baselitz photographed by Lothar Wolleh, Mülheim, 1971

Remix Paintings is title of the exhibition of recent paintings by Georg Baselitz at Gagosian Gallery – New York
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In the recent Remix Paintings, Baselitz has revisited the most provocative aspects of his own history, such as Die grosse Nacht im Einer and Die grossen Freunde, and made new versions or interpretations of them, with the experience of hindsight. Enlarged and rapidly painted with swathes of bright, transparent hue across white canvas and explosive, meandering lines, the Remix paintings are radical transubstantiations – part-caricature, part-ghost– of their muted, more ponderous predecessors. The spontaneity with which they are executed gives rise to mnemonic flashes of things in the past, present, and future. The references to Hitler, once ambiguous, are now clearly articulated. The impulse to improve, clarify, and update is clearly evident, but the haunting, fleeting quality of the Remix work has also to do with a mature artist’s meditations on time, presence, failure and possibility.

Gagosian Gallery
555 West 24th Street – New York

Opening reception for the artist: Friday, November 9th, from 6 to 8 pm

Gagosian Gallery
555 West 24th Street – New York

After being raised in the cornfields of Indiana and brought up on Midwest house & techno (Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Derrick Carter, D-Wynn), in 1994 Troy moved to New York to study photography and blew the remainder of his cash on a pair of turntables. His flatmate was also the manager of Temple Records: an endless supply of quality tunes on hand from labels like Perlon.

Troy hooked up with Magda at the Detroit Music Festival in 2001, who in turn introduced him to Mark Houle six months later. An immediate chemistry developed between the three of them and although Magda was now in Berlin, Mark in Windsor and Troy in New York they started swapping music files over the net. By the time the Run Stop Restore project finally crystallised into their debut release in early 2003, Troy had already moved to Berlin.

The release of the Minimise to Maximise compilation in 2005 and the accompanying tour left a lasting impression on clubbers.
Minimalism lines developed for a dance floor allows him to work in between. The resulting hybrid sound exploits the fractal space between the beats and push out into the hearing dimension.

Troy is a strong advocate of cutting edge technology like Ableton Live, Final Scratch and sample tools like Cyloop. The ability to shift between these sound sources offers him spontaneous improvisation. The result is a montage of scratchy subliminal textures and grinding beats driven by dark funky acid bass riffs.

His new album is entitled Gone Astray released with Label M_nus , Catalog#: MINUS 52 CD
6 Aug 2007. Cover album and artwork design by Jason Patterson. Photography by Gibby Miller. Remix – Konrad Black (tracks: , Louderbach (tracks: 10). Vocals – Gibby Miller (tracks: 5, 10)

Troy Pierce - Turin
WHEN: nov 10 Troy Pierce in Italy
WHAT: Club to Club Festival
WHERE: Club to Club Festival

The Department for Image Science and the Database of Virtual Art present:

=> REMIXING CINEMA: FUTURE AND PAST OF MOVING IMAGES <=
Sean CUBITT “Immersion, Connectivity, Convivilaity”
Lev MANOVICH “After Effects, or Invisible Revolution”

Live debate at the MUMOK in Vienna’s MuseumQuartier
Danube TeleLecture #4: Thursday, Nov 8, 2007

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