Here’s a review of my solo show in Front Room, CAM St. Louis. Thanks!
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March 2, 2012 • 5:32 pm 0
Magic for Beginners at Experiments in Cinema
Magic for Beginners will screen as part of Experiments in Cinema v7.9, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sounds like an amazing program!
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February 23, 2012 • 3:55 am 0
Remote at CAM St. Louis
JESSE MCLEAN: REMOTE
Chicago-based artist Jesse McLean’s witty yet empathetic videos and installations examine the manipulative power of mass media while acknowledging her own complicit role as an impressionable viewer and consumer. Through selective, deliberate editing, her works isolate uncanny moments or phenomena – like YouTube videos of people singing Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” (the theme song from the 1997 film Titanic) – to uncover deeper insights into human behavior.
For her Front Room exhibition, McLean heightens the horror film genre’s classic trope of suspense. Her video Remote (2011) presents a compendium of appropriated and original imagery, along with equally banal sounds. McLean further throws the video’s atmospheric qualities into relief by installing black-painted picture frames and a black door in the gallery alongside the video. Taken together, these elements suggest how seemingly innocuous matter can become sinister and foreboding when framed within a horror-like context.
Jesse McLean: REMOTE is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and is curated by Kelly Shindler, Assistant Curator, and organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
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February 13, 2012 • 3:34 pm 0
Getting ready for Remote at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, opens next week!
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February 4, 2012 • 12:07 am 0
Incite #3 – New Ages now available!
I strongly encourage you to pick up your copy of Incite #3 – New Ages (go to link for ordering details). This latest issue contains lots of terrific contributors including Thomas Beard, Brian L. Frye, Shana Moulton and many, many more! Also included is a conversation between Jacob Ciocci and myself. Plus Jacob created the beautiful cover. Very excited to get my copy…
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February 3, 2012 • 11:57 pm 0
Society of the Spectacular
I was excited to be a part of Society of the Spectacular, curated by Jake Myers of The Octagon but held at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago, IL. The show includes a line-up of terrific artists.
January 14 – 27
Reception + Performances: January 27
Simulated realities, virtual landscapes and digital social networks strongly shape our daily experiences and what we perceive as reality.
Society of the Spectacular is an exhibition about our constant connection with the hyperreal.
visual simulacra:
Theo Darst
Eric Fleischauer
Todd Mattei
Jesse McLean
Aaron Orsini
Steve Ruiz
Adam Rux
Morgan Sims
Doug Smithenry
musical stimuli:
Volcano
American Draft
Turntable.fm
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January 18, 2012 • 2:16 am 0
Bad at Sports Interview
I was interviewed by Jesse Malmed for Bad at Sports , you can find the interview here. It’s really an in-depth look into my work and practice, thanks to Jesse for all his insightful and thought-provoking questions!
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January 3, 2012 • 5:33 pm 0
Remote at Rotterdam!
My latest video, Remote will screen at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in late January 2012. I will be in attendance and can’t wait to see all the films and mix it up in the Netherlands.
Specific details regarding the program to follow soon…
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January 3, 2012 • 5:24 pm 0
Magic for Beginners at Transmediale
Magic for Beginners will screen in the Video Programme Satellite Stories as part of the 2012 Transmediale in Berlin, Germany in late January/early Feb. Very excited! A little about Satellite Stories:
The video programme Satellite Stories, curated by Marcel Schwierin, raises the question of the compatibility between human beings and the products they create. Whether we look to politics, the financial markets, architecture, traffic, fashion or – in particular – to the mass media: we create an environment that is intended to satisfy our needs, but one that also consistently makes demands upon us that we cannot achieve. The products seem to develop a life of their own, and are no longer adapted to suit human needs; instead, we are forced to adapt to them in order to avoid becoming incompatible ourselves.
Right up my alley! More about the program and other artists included can be found here
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January 3, 2012 • 5:19 pm 0
Magic for Beginners at Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Magic for Beginners will screen in Stuttgart, Germany as part of the Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media.
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