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Fri, Jan 11, 2008
7:00 PM

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Continuing Education for Dead Adults

Part of New Silent
 
Music/Performance, Film/Video, New Media
 
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Three multimedia performances riffed off youth culture and adolescent education. East Coast collective Paper Rad premiered two videos: the twenty-minute "Problem Solvers" (2008), and a three-minute short, "crank dat spongebob batman dropdead robocop" (2008). New York-based artist Ben Coonley presented a new fifteen-minute performance, "Kindred Spirits is the Working Title," and the Providence-based experimental band Wizardzz performed in front of a mesmeric animated tapestry composed of images taken from the Web.

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Paper Rad, Problem Solvers (detail), 2008
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Organized by Rhizome, the New Silent Series is funded, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and The Rockefeller Foundation.

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Paper Rad, Problem Solvers (detail), 2008

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Paper Rad, Problem Solvers (detail), 2008

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Ben Coonley

Ben Coonley is a Brooklyn-based video and performance artist, cat fancier, and baseball fan. His work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals including the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, and the Corcoran Gallery. He has received the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for an Exceptional Emerging Video Artist, Cinematexas, 2003. Video Data Bank distributes his work.


Paper Rad

Formed in 2001, Paper Rad is an East Coast collective whose unique pop iconography synthesizes material from the Web, video games, advertising, and television. Visual artists and performers, Paper Rad seamlessly translates their aesthetic across mediums, from video installation to print to music to Web-based Flash animation.

http://www.paperrad.org/

Wizardzz

Wizardzz is the performance project of Providence-based artists Brian Gibson and Rich Porter. Their music—inspirational, uplifting electronics floating over hyper drum beats—is accompanied by animations, elaborate costumes, and stage sets. Porter is also known as Bug-Sized Mind, a one-man noise ensemble. Gibson is also the bass player in the band Lightning Bolt and the creator of Barkley's Barnyard Critters. Wizzards has existed for three years and recently released an album, Hidden City of Taramound, through Load Records.

http://www.myspace.com/wizardzzband