Past Future Now! May 3, 2012

Thurs. May 3rd from 8pm-9:30pm, Fri. May 4th from 8pm-10pm w/Q&A

Oddball Films present:
"PAST FUTURE NOW!"
Films from the PAST have been selected from Oddball Film Archive (San Francisco) by curator/artist Ashley Lauren Saks, that are about the FUTURE, which is NOW. With these 70s and 80s film clips as a starting point, specific artists were asked to create video reactions/responses. This delicately curated program is meant to take the viewer through a journey from the Past to the Present to the Future and back...

Including commissioned videos by Artists:
Daniela Anastassiou & Miles Martinez
Jeanne C. Finley
Dan Gilsdorf & Bean Gilsdorf
Sasha Krieger
Christine Lucy Latimer
Christian McKay
Ranu Mukherjee
Doug Garth Williams

Featuring Film Excerpts from:
-Future Shock, 1972 // A documentary film narrated by Orson Wells, based on the Futurist book by Alvin Toffler
-Robotics: the Future is Now, 1984 // Hosted by William Shatner
-Computer Dreams , 1988 // An anthology of computer graphics and digital effects, hosted by Amanda Pays
-Visions Of The Future, 1970s // A 3 part film montage by Richard Whittaker
-Signal Syntax, 1983 // An amateur film short about "death by computers"
-Ethics in the Computer Age, 1984 // Dramatic vignettes addressing the consequences of software piracy and hacking

"We re-examine the didactic lessons of the source material in light of the technological, cultural, and legal developments that have occurred in the intervening years, and skewer the supposed benevolence of corporate-sponsored educational propaganda." --Dan Gilsdorf & Bean Gilsdorf

Curator's Biography
Ashley Lauren Saks is a graduate of California College of the Arts' Media Art Masters program. She is a video / performance artist, digital art educator, and independent curator in the Bay area. Her art explores memory, family dynamics, social boundaries, and the passing of time. Besides visual art, Ashley spends time playing music with the San Francisco based band, Micro Mtns (www.MicroMtns.com)

Official Website: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.ca/2012/04/past-future-now-thurs-may-3-fri-may-4.html