Photos from eSights eSounds Event

eSights, eSounds was an exciting event. Live music performance, video installations, artist discussions, health food, and massage therapy. We plan on continuing events of this kind once Apogee@brandywine officially opens in 2010. Thanks to Caroline Savage for the images.

Congratulations to Camille Utterback on MacArthur Award

Congrats to Camille Utterback on being recognized for her work in interactive video installations. Her work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums internationally including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art; The Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art; The Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine; and the Ars Electronica Center, Austria. Utterback's work is in private and public collections including The La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona, Spain. Click on above headline to go to site with more information.

This Friday September 18th Fringe Festival Event at Apogee@Brandywine

For immediate release Friday, September 4, 2009 Contact: Boone Nguyen Email: boone@scribe.org Tel: 215 222 4201

Scribe Video Center Premieres eSights, eSounds New Media Documentary Art At Philly Fringe Friday, September 18, 2009, 8:00pm-10:00pm at Apogee@brandywine, 728-730 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA -- Scribe Video Center , widely known as a learning center for emerging documentary video makers, launches into the realm of new media with the premiere of four works of documentary art on Friday, September 18, 2009, 8:00pm-10:00pm, at Apogee@brandywine, 728-730 S. Broad Street . The three interactive websites, to be viewed at kiosks placed in the building's lobby, and a digital mural projected on an outside wall, were commissioned by eSights, eSounds, Scribe Video Center's new media initiative that supports artists and members of community groups in using new technologies as creative tools to explore social and cultural issues. eSights, eSounds expands upon the creative palette at Scribe without straying from the organization's focus on community-based media. The projects include an online museum of folk arts, a collaboration by FACTS Charter School, Asian Americans United and the Philadelphia Folklore Project; "Philly Homegrown," an interactive resource for holistic health designed by media artist, Serena Reed; "Faces of the Fallen," a website by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign built upon video testimony contributed by constituents living in poverty; and a digital mural animated by streaming stock market data, by painter and digital media artist, Timothy Portlock. "I chose to make a mural powered by data from the stock market because it visualizes the instability that many of our institutions are built upon," says Portlock, who resides in Philly but teaches at Hunter College in NYC. "I want the audience to make the connection between the ever changing stock market and the changing conditions in their lives." The premiere, part of the Philly Fringe Live Arts Festival, will further bridge the digital nature of these new media projects with their real-world elements through live performances by folk artists, the on-site filming of economic human rights testimony, and the presence of food vendors featured in the "Philly Homegrown" website. Scribe Video Center 's eSights, eSounds new media initiative is funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information about the premiere of eSights, eSounds call Scribe Video Center at 215-222-4201 or visit www.scribe.org.

DIY DAYS PHILLY A SMASH! AFTERPARTY WAS FUN TOO!

DIY DAYS Philly was a well run, provacative conference. It has inspired a lot of us to re-think the ways we create, distribute work and engage audiences/fellow artists. You can catch the keynote speaker Douglas Rushkoff at DIY DAYS website. Above are some images from the afterparty at Brandywine Workshop.

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

Internship Program for Students Attending Local Philadelphia Area High Schools

Apogee@brandywineworkshop programs connect career exploration and guidance with a cross-disciplinary, multicultural and multi-generational approach to learning.

Students spend 15 weeks or the equivalent in afternoon or summer employment learning skills and preparation needed to pursue a career in the creative economy.

Why apogee? Apogee means “the highest point in the development of something.” The internship program helps students focus on the rigorous requirements academically and skill wise that are necessary for them to be successful in the media arts, design arts and visual arts fields.

Why Targeted High Schools?

Unfortunately, many inner –city schools are not offering role models reflecting the ethnicity of students and courses, which require the kind of conceptual thinking and creative practice. Apogee will provide those eager for a challenge and professional mentoring.

Established in the spring 2009, Apogee@brandywine complements Brandywine’ s highly respected program in innovative fine art printmaking, while supporting creative initiatives in media and design arts for the region’s emerging professionals. Apogee serves as a content creation and presentation resource and will train high school students in the visual arts while also providing mentoring opportunities with local and visiting professionals in a diversity of creative fields⎯film, video, playwrighting, computer graphics and web design. Brandywine, through Apogee, is currently working with students from South Philadelphia HS, The Parkway Program HS, Roman Catholic HS and Imotepth Charter HS. Student hourly stipends are slightly above minimum wage.

Please contact npatterson@brandywineworkshop.com for more information.

why apogee?

apogee means “the highest point in the development of something”

Apogee@brandywine supports creative initiatives in visual fine arts, media and design arts for the region’s emerging professionals. Apogee is a new programming initiative of the Brandywine Workshop that will serve as a content creation and presentation resource. Programs will be housed in and around the restored nationally historic firehouse building at 730-732 S. Broad Street, Avenue of the Arts in Philadelphia. Programs will take the form of entrepreneurial and educational efforts in a cross-disciplinary, multicultural and multi-generational setting.

The concept for an arts incubator space at the Firehouse building at Brandywine Workshop came out of informal conversations (usually over coffee) between members of the fine arts and media arts community in Philadelphia. The consensus was there are collaborative spaces for visual artists, dance artists, music artists, but not for design and media artists. Media artists and filmmakers were drawn to the idea of creating such a space. The space could attract caterers, costume and set designers, camera and lighting technicians, designers, sound artists, writers, performers, etc. Why not create such a multidisciplinary arts space at Brandywine Workshop?

There are few places in Philadelphia (none centrally located) where young and established professionals from diverse cultural backgrounds can engage in lively discussions, share ideas and strategically plan solutions to concerns. The nationally historic firehouse building, through programs of Apogee@brandywine will become such a place.

The plan for Apogee@brandywine is to have a cafe/restaurant venue on the ground floor, a flexible gallery/studio/screening space on the second floor, and office space on the third and fourth floors.

• Time Share Office Space/Infrastructure
• Editing Facilities
• Screening Room
• Gallery
• Cafe Space for Face to Face Interaction
• Fashion Showcases/Performances
• Promotional Venue
  
• Workshops in Business Planning
• Seminars in Marketing & Promotions

We will host a number of activities as we prepare for our formal opening/launch in January 2010. Watch this space for more information.

Art 4 OUR sake

From 7 to 11:00 p.m on Saturday July 11th, 2009, Apogee@brandywine, a creative collective, will host a new, exciting collaborative event called ART 4 OUR sake. Admission is FREE.

ART 4OUR sake is so named because the main event will consist of several artists including Darrell Henderson, Boone Nguyen, lary moten, Nadine Patterson, and Ed Shockley providing samples of their projects and the sale of original limited edition fine art prints, produced by both national and local artists at Brandywine Workshop. Brandywine Workshop, an international recognized workshop founded in 1972, has agreed, for the first time, to provide a limited group of high quality prints to be sold for the amazing discount price of 25% to 75% off per print, for that evening only. The works to be sold will be selected by members of the collective who will be on hand to discuss their choice to prospective buyers and hopefully, complete a sale. At the end of the day, they will then split the proceeds of sales with half going to their particular project and the other half going to the new Apogee/Brandywine program.


Order of Events

7pm to 7:30pm Reception for art lovers and Brandywine supporters

Eat, drink and buy art!

7:30pm Introduction of Art4OURsake and the Apogee Concept by Nadine Patterson

Apogee@brandywine supports creative initiatives in visual fine arts, media and design arts for the region’s emerging professionals. Art4OURsake is a way for Brandywine to have a direct impact in the funding of new cultural production in the Philadelphia area.

7:45 Preview of Projects by Hipcinema by Nadine Patterson

A jazz opera, Touching Bass- feature film about music and family heritage, and a new dance version of Shakespeare's Macbeth are the next projects coming from this innovative Philadelphia production house. Go to www.hipcinema.net for more information.

8pm Formal Opening of Art4OURsake Event runs until 11pm

Meet some of Philly's most intriguing artists, filmmakers, and writers. Learn about the printmaking process, and what it takes to develop a screenplay from start to finish. If you are someone who loves the arts and wants to learn more about the behind the scenes process of making art, this event is for you.

8:10pm Screening and Discussion with Boone Thuy Nguyen about Contested Terrains

The use of Mifflin Square Park in South Philadelphia by Cambodian and Laotian residents has engendered racist discourses about crime, violence, and contamination. Through interviews and documentary footage, Contested Terrains exposes the incongruities between public perceptions and local media representaions of the park and its actual use by local Asian immigrant communities.

8:30pm Dramatic Reading of Slave Narratives Revisited; Screening of Stone Mansion; Radio Play sample
Mosaic Theatre Productions, founded by Ed Shockley and lary moten, is a professional play and film production company currently touring SLAVE NARRATIVES REVISITED and producing the dramatic radio series, THE LAST STAND OF MAN.

9pm Chat and Chew and Buy Art!

Proceeds of the sale of work will go to Apogee@Brandywine and to artist's projects. This is your chance to fund innovative work by some of Philly's best art practitioners.

9:30pm Computer Love Trailer presented by Darrell Henderson

9:45 to 10:45 Informal Rap Sessions with Artists about Projects and Process

The sale/reception is also the launch of a series of events leading up to the grand opening in January 2010 of the renovated firehouse facility at 730 S. Broad Street, which will serve as the home of Apogee@Brandywine and continue as the Brandywine Workshop's exhibition venue.