Atomic TV to be part of D E A D A I R Video Exhibition

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Scott Huffines

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D E A D A I R
Video Exhibition
Feb 17 – Mar 22
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Exhibit Opening: THE END of Analog Party
Tue Feb 17, 2009
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
$6. Light snacks. Cash bar.

w/ bands: Lo Moda, Plans Plans, and Edie Sedgwick

VJs: Joe Reinsel, Chris LaMartina, and Guy Werner

Exhibiting Video Artists: Vin Grabill, Atomic TV, Phil Davis, Kristen Anchor, and Preston Poe

Metro Gallery
1700 N Charles St
www.themetrogallery.net

Good-bye analog, hello digital! 11:59:59pm February 17, 2009 is currently the legal deadline for TV broadcasters to switch from over-the-air analog broadcast to digital, leaving traditional TV sets unable to receive broadcast TV. Dead Air marks this momentous cultural and historical occasion taking a look back at analog and forward to digital — how we use it, abuse it, love it, and hate it– the flaws, joys, (dis)advantages, and beauty of it all.

We kick off the exhibition on Feb 17 with THE END of Analog Party, a rock ‘n roll multimedia circus including music by Baltimore’s art rock super-stars Lo Moda and Plans Plans plus DC’s Edie Sedgwick (Discord Records), with original site-specific visual accompaniment created by Joe Reinsel, Chris LaMartina and Guy Werner.

Baltimore underground weirdos and movers-and-shakers mix with indie music videos, Mexican wrestling, classic commercials and other ephemera. News anchors meld, stutter, and fight static in rhythmic gestures. George Bush slowly morphs into Barack Obama. Garbled, static-y footage follows a man in a suit on an ambiguous chase. Dead Air presents five single channel video works by artists Vin Grabill, Atomic TV, Phil Davis, Kristen Anchor, and Preston Poe.

THE END of Analog is coming. Are you ready?

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The Place: www.themetrogallery.net

The Bands: www.ediesedgwick.biz
www.lowmoda.com
www.plansplans.us

The Artists: myspace.com/chrislamartina
www.joereinsel.org
www.pressedengine.com
www.atomicteevee.com
art.umbc.edu/varts/faculty/grabill.php

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Tom Warner: Man About Town

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Scott Huffines


“Warner, a trim blond with a well-groomed mien more befitting a GQ editor than a librarian cineaste, organizes several film programs a year…”

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Managers Corner by Skizz Cyzyk

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Scott Huffines

Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver colorfully answers questions from baseball fans.

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Michael Nesmith – Cruisin’

Posted on March 13, 2006 by Scott Huffines

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Another classic music video from the pre-MTV era, I guess I first saw this video on Don Kirschner or some other late-night music show. I love how in the olden days the plot of a music video actually followed the song’s lyrics. Plus how can you beat a line like “Trying to make connections with their blemish-free complexions”?

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Butterfly Ball (sung by Ronnie James Dio)

Posted on March 8, 2006 by Scott Huffines

When we first saw this bizarre cartoon in the mid-80’s during Night Flight’s “Cult Classics” we swore it was Sabbath’s Ronnie James Dio singing… and it took us over 20 years to confirm the fact. A very trippy cartoon that was very fitting for USA Network’s late-night stoner programming… back in those days we would finish our night shifts at Friendly’s and then rush to the liquor store to buy cheap cases of RWB — “Red, White and Blue” beer. We would then ingest all sorts of goodies, legal and illegal and topped off with 6-foot Wawa subs affectionately known as “babies,” hunkering down in a hazy bliss for another weekend Night Flight all-nighter. –Scott Huffines

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