DoublePsycho + (1)

Exhibition by Andrew Neumann

April 22-May 6, Thurs-Fri, 5-9pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm,

Opening reception Sunday April 22, 5-7pm

Admission free: donations accepted.

Studio Soto presents an exhibition by Andrew Neumann.  “DoublePsycho + (1)”.  "DoublePsycho" is a video projection using real-time switching technology to synthesize the original film, “Psycho,” and it’s remake by Gus Van Zant.  By interlacing every few frames from both films, a “new remake” is realized.  This work may be considered  "a remake of a remake".  It is not as much about narrative as it is about the iconic nature of "Marion Crane".  Her face essentially defines this work; the fact that forty years later, Anne Heche replaces her almost identically within the frame gives this new version cause to reflect, as she now appears almost as her doppelganger.

The second piece,“Untitled”, is a wall installation that deals with the moving image as well as the moving frame.  Tracking video screens in conjunction with panning images will allow the viewer to confront a new kind of viewing space.

CyberPool

sound performance

Sunday, April 29, 2007

7pm

Admission free: suggested donation $5-$10

In conjunction with DoublePsycho + (1), Neumann is producing a concert, “CyberPool”, which will bring together musicians from Boston and New York who integrate electronics with traditional instruments.  The "Pool” concept allows musicians to confront each other in a number of short duet, trio and quartet improvisations, culminating in a grand finale with the whole group.   Musicians involved in CyberPool are Curtis Bahn, Michael Bierylo, Jorrit Dykstra, Stephan Moore, Andrew Neumann, and Vic Rawlings.

Bio:

Andrew Neumann is a Boston-based artist who works in a variety of media that includes sculpture, electronic/interactive music, film, video and installation. His current body of work integrates analog and digital technologies with sculpture. He also builds electronic musical  interfaces and performs electro-acoustic improvisations.   In January 2006 Andrew Neumann’s work was presented at FPAC Gallery in Boston. His work  was featured in 2005 in the South Shore Arts Center‘s Tech-Art II and at the Art Institute of Boston exhibition Science of Causes. He has had solo shows at bitforms gallery in New York, the DeCordova Museum, Artists Space, ArtSpace in Conneticut, Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, Brush Art Gallery and Kingston Gallery both in Massachusetts, and at the Boston Cyberarts Festival twice. He has participated  in group exhibitions at bitforms gallery in New York and Seoul, the Institute of Contemporary Art and The Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, Art in General, Art Interactive in Cambridge, Video Free America in San Francisco, Gallery Bershad and Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville,  FPAC Gallery, Experimental Intermedia, the New England School of Art and Design, The Cyclorama, the University of Massachusetts, and Montserrat School of Art . Neuman’s venues for music/video performances have included at both Experimental Intermedia and Roulette in New York, Rensselaer Polytech Institute in Troy, the Tremont Theater in Boston, MIT, First Night, the Eventworks Festival and Mobius in Boston. Neumann has released  4 albums on Sublingual Records and one album through Art In General. Neumann’s single channel videos have been seen on PBS, in the Netherland’s Worldwide Video Festival, and Artist Space.   In 2004 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a Finalist in Sculpture/Installation from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2003. He was a Finalist in the 1988 New England  Film/Video competition, where he was awarded a Fellowship in 1985. Neuman is also the recipient of a Andrew Mellon Faculty Enrichment Grant from the Boston Film/Video Foundation. He has held artist residencies at the iEAR Studio at Rensselaer Polytech Institute, the Visual  Studies Workshop, The MacDowell Colony, YADDO, Ucross Foundation, Steim, Atlantic Center for the Arts , Art/OMI, and the Experimental Television Center. His Bachelor of Science is from Emerson College. Neumann has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Art Institute of Boston. and the Boston Film/Video Foundation.  

webAffairs

reading and presentation

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

7pm

Admission free: suggested donation $5-$10

Join Studio Soto for a reading and presentation with artist, screen name Show-n-tell, from her book, webAffairs.  webAffairs is an artist’s documentary of an adult video web community. The artist, Show-n-tell, tells her story of being a voyeur and eventually becoming part of this community through a series of images and actual chat text. Initially shy, she asks men to show her their rooms. She finds naked men by their computers in their office spaces, living rooms and bedrooms. She collects images of their naked bodies juxtaposed with their surrounding computer equipment.

These three events are presented in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival.