Barbara Lattanzi: “Song At Midnight” Installation At Squeaky Wheel: Part 1
This amazing installation piece will be on display at Squeaky Wheel ( www.squeaky.org ) in Buffalo until Saturday, December 4, 2010. Description from Facebook event invitation page: www.facebook.com “As part of 2010′s Beyond/In WNY Biennial, Squeaky Wheel is proud to host the opening reception for three new installation works by artists Barbara Lattanzi, Jessica Thompson, and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes. “INFORMATION ABOUT THE INSTALLATIONS AT SQUEAKY WHEEL: “Barbara Lattanzi: “Song At Midnight” “Viewers are invited to experience a seizure-inducing, stroboscopic adaptation of the 1937 Chinese horror film “Yè Bàn Gē Shēng (夜半歌声)” (English title: “Song At Midnight”), reconfigured using the Optical De-Dramatization Engine (ODE), a custom-built image processing system designed to strip “drama” out of moving images through a computer generated process of technological image sifting. “Images are re-presented as hypnotic and rhythmic streams of flickering, pixilated B&W images that can be devoured as aesthetic eye candy or scrutinized further as a technological grafting of past & present culture.” Barbara Lattanzi’s Home Website: www.wildernesspuppets.net/ Artist Description of this ODE project: www.wildernesspuppets.net Wikipedia page on “Yè Bàn Gē Shēng (夜半歌声)” (English title: “Song At Midnight”): en.wikipedia.org Original film available for free online viewing and download at Archive.org: www.archive.org Squeaky Wheel Events Page for upcoming artists’ talk given by Lattanzi …
Sun, Aug 14, 2011
Chinese songs with lyrics