Steve Kurtz in Denmark - Lecture on critical art   [57min 18sek]
	Author : Jørgen Hedegaard
	Language : English
	Genre : Lecture
	First Broadcasted : 07.11.06

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FlatTV broadcasts a one hour lecture by star artist Steve Kurtz (USA). The lecture is recorded at the "International Digital Art Festival" Aarhus University Denmark 04.11.2006

Steve Kurtz is a member of the artistgroup "Critical Art Ensemble" and one of the leading artists in the critical art scene today.

Bagground FBI arrest on Steve Kurtz (Washington Post) :  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8278-2004Jun1.html

Critical Art Ensemble  http://www.critical-art.net

The International Digital Festival Aarhus Denmark  www.digitalfestival.dk

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	Deaf Throes   [6min 01sek]
	Author : Per Teljer (Sweden)
	Language : No sound (they are deaf)
	Genre : Art Video
	First Broadcasted : 25.10.05

FlatTV broadcasts the video "Deaf Throes" by Swedish artist Per Telje, now living and working in Berlin Germany.

It's recommended to watch the video in the "1024k" Windows Mediaplayer edition, because the video need a good picture quality. This edition demands a 1024K DSL connection (or better), if you only have 256k DSL/Cable please use this edition.

Flash Player edition is for Mac (and PC) users.

(for old fashion telephone 56k modems, use the 256k version, it will download but it will take some time ....)

Per Teljers comment on his project "South of Heaven" :

"The project South of Heaven, which was begun in autumn 2001, aims to bring together an as yet unknown number of self-contained video works. What all these works have in common (as the title suggests) is a particular view of, and reaction to, the collective and individual mental condition of the (western) world. In due course, these works will add up to a kind of spiritual odyssey.
South of Heaven, Chapter 1 (2003), the first of these independent videos, is a reaction to a society in which people live under constant pressure to prove themselves. In this society, egoism, indifference, nervous breakdown, heart failure, manic depression and self-abuse are the manifest building blocks of the temple we build as a place to worship ourselves". 

Per Teljers homepage  teljer.com 

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	Title : White Trash Girl - The Devil Inside [7min 36sec]
	Author : Jennifer Reeder (USA)
	Language : Engelsk
	Genre : Art Video
	First Broadcasted : 09.11.04

FlatTV broadcasts the video "White Trash Girl -The Devil Inside" by the American artist Jennifer Reeder.

Jennifer grow up in Ohio, but now lives and work in Chicago.

It's recommended to watch the video in the "(A)DSL" Windows Mediaplayer edition, because the video need a good picture quality. This edition demands a 256K DSL connection (or better).

The 56K edition is suitable for normal old stile telephone modems. The quality of the 56K stream is not as good as the (A)DSL version.
Flash Player edition is for Mac (and PC) users.

I first watched this video in 1996, it was broadcasted by satellite over Europe form 3Sat (German Culture TV channel).

The video was nominated under "The International media art prize" in Germany www.medienkunstpreis.de 
The video has screened on; PS1, Whitney, ZKM ++.

"White Trash Girl - The Devil Inside" is the first in a series of 3 videos. The Videos concerns the concept "White Trash Girl" and different forms of "suppression".
Jennifer has the idea that: "It is necessary to include both; sex, class (in a Marxistic manner) and race, to understand and overcome suppression.

The Videos:

Nr.1 "The Devil Inside" (This video) (1996)

        White Trash Girl get introduced, we get her unpleasant and scary history about her upbringing, and where she comes from.

Nr.2 "Natural Born Cocksuckers" (1996)

       A video about "Scrappy" A woman with a "bad attitude".

       Scrappy takes no shit ! But... . a big corporate retail chain, attempt to turn her land into a parking lot... . Jennifer say about this 

       video:  "This is my attempt to counter-capitalist story telling".

Nr.3  "Law Of Desire" (1997)
       A video about a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss, and a dead boyfriend.

Jennifer has a realistic understanding of suppression and power, witch I fully support. 

Without both; class, sex, and race in your analyses, it is without meaning to talk about misrepresentation and suppression.

In the many films/videos Jennifer has made, she shows special interest in; Hierarchy, power, histories, youth, sexuality, boredom, sadness, and sex.

Jennifer's homepage: jenniferreeder.com
Another upcoming project about sadness : thecloserstockholm.com  (not yet finished 09.11.04)

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FlatTV broadcasts the video "Smiling Suzy" by the Danish artist Soeren Martinsen.

It's recommended to watch the video in the "(A)DSL" Windows Mediaplayer edition, because the video need a good picture quality. This edition demands a 256K DSL connection (or better).

FlatTV shows solidarity to the poor (like FlatTV itself) and therefore broadcasts the video in a 56K edition too, this edition is suitable for normal old stile telephone modems.  

Gallery Asbaek wrote about this video:

This video is a chilling visit to an old ghost house.

The house which used to be a well known big marxist commune in the 70'es (called "Smiling Suzy" from the title of a pop song) is now abandoned after the demise of the commune and has completely fallen apart. Only the old ghosts from the past haunts the house now and it stands empty apart from the occasional drug addicts and transients who crash in the old house. 

The artist breaks into this house and films his experience, walking through the forlorn and scary rooms. The video shows the house as a strange and ghostly place, a universe with constantly changing and fluid contours and dream-like tableaux.

FlatTV's 3 years birthday is celebrated by showing the film "September 5:10pm" by Mitch McCabe.

Mitch McCabe grow up in Grosse Point, Michigan USA in the 70's and 80's. Her family was among the high middleclass. Mitch's father was a successful plastic surgeon with a special in breast re-construction, her mother a perfectionistic housewife, with a fascination for fine china, and

indoor decoration.

After high school Mitch moved to Boston, to study multimedia and photography at Harvard business school.

One day Mitch receives a telephone call, and have to take a plane back to Grosse Point, her father is dead.

Today Mitch McCabe lives and works in New York.