bearing

"bearing" Exhibitions & Screenings EXHIBITIONS: AGA Sidewalk Cinema, presented at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton October 11, 2021 – January 23, 2022 One of 3 former NTAA (New Technology Art Award) video artworks from the Zebrastraat Collection as curated by Annelies Geenan and Cinema Tick Tack, large screen window gallery and online at Cinema Tick Tack, Antwerp, Belgium, April 18 to May 5, 2021 Scottish Society of Artists in collaboration with CutLog Artists Moving Image Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland, 22 December 2019 – 30 January 2020 NTAA’19 - International Art Exhibition of New Technology in Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium, one of 20 international artists, finalist for the 2019 New Technology Art Award biennial November 2 – 24, 2019 Antimatter, 2019 Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, BC October 16 – 26, 2019 Broadcast Lab - Arts Commons, Calgary, Alberta September 9 – November 30, 2019 FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: Film Screening | The Terrestrial and the Universal - A Short Film Program, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton January 13, 2022 North Bellarine Film Festival, Drysdale, Victoria, Australia November 13 – 15, 2020 Supernova: “World on Fire.” Denver Digerati’s 5th annual digital art & animation festival, downtown Denver, including Night Lights Denver projections. Sept. 3-30 Denver Theatre District, 16th Street Mall and online, Denver, Colorado 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, with online and physical events July 10 – September 10, 2020 Delete TV, online screening and television broadcast in conjunction with Okto.tv, Vienna, Austria June 11, 2020 Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema, San Francisco, USA, Avant to Live program, May 30, 2020 (postponed due to pandemic) Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA (USA Premiere) March 24 – 29, 2020 (switched to online live event due to COVID-19) Kino Klub, Split, Croatia December, 2019 Alternative Film/Video 2019, Official Selection in Belgrade, Serbia, Competition Program December 11 – 15, 2019 Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey November 13 – 17, 2019 Cinema Forum, Warsaw, Poland, part of 2011 – 2019 Best of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival programme, Nov 6 – 10, 2019 2019 Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, BC, film program in addition to public installation October 16 – 26, 2019 Llawn, A Line in the Sand, multi-arts festival, Llandudno Arts Weekend, North Wales, UK September 13 – 15, 2019 9th edition of Besides the Screen Festival, Vitoria, Brazil September 9 – 15, 2019 LINOLEUM Animation and Media Art Festival this September in Kyiv, Ukraine September 4 – 8, 2019 Marienbad Film Festival, Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic August 28 – 31, 2019 2019 9th edition of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in Hawick, Scotland (World Premiere) May 2 – 6, 2019 2019 FRACTO - Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin, Germany May 23 – 26, 2019 "bearing" is a machine-like data based art video by Greg Marshall. It composes sampled Google 360° Sphere photographs from Yemen with recorded data from over 327 US military drone attacks in Yemen between 2002 to 2018. Almost all the attacks occurred between 2009 and 2018 according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The records of drone attacks were further researched according to their geographic location of longitude and latitude which is then remapped to a planar image that is used to create the image sphere. Hence, the camera reveals the rotational coordinates and timing of each attack, visualizing the 17-year period into about 2 and a 1/2 minutes of animation. The images from Yemen are assembled according to their time of day and weather, set within a synchronized spin of yearly revolution. A mirror-like sphere further reveals and obscures the environment beyond our field of view but also indicates the death toll severity of each attack according to its size while it is locked in the relation to the camera. The internet images date from 2016 to 2018 and depict various regions and cities within Yemen, areas of everyday common interest⁠—a kind of geographic snapshot of the country which for the most part do not depict results of civil war or drone strikes in the country. "bearing" performs and displays data through logical parameters as a silent witness, where the artist continues to examine the effects of technology, consequence, dislocation, militarism and the notion of empire. The video is a conceptual continuation of a previous animated art video “Drone,” from 2016 which uses news story data collected from Google Alerts dating back to 2013 that is coded and represented into 3-dimensional colour and bump data. "Drone" screened at exhibitions and festivals in both Canada and the US, as well as Germany and Russia, such as the European Media Art Festival in Germany and Cyfest 11 in New York, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, Russia. Here is the private link for "Drone". vimeo.com/161042552/7ed23b351c

Year

2018

Director

Greg Marshall

Duration

2 min

Country

Canada