July 1 — August 31, 2005 / No 312 offline exhibitions.

The Performing Video series will continue again in the month of September.

In 312 Online:
July 1 — August 31, 2005

Ryan Hughes, The Ahmed El-Tywil Project (2004)

Ryan Hughes’s “The Ahmed El-Tywil Project” is an experimental piece of film work edited in a formalist manner. Its subject and construction draw largely from Bruce O’Conner’s 1966 “Breakaway”.

Ryan Hughes is a film student at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts. Hughes’s film work has been screened at numerous festivals and events, including the Museum of New Art (Detroit), the City Museum of St. Petersburg, and at Media City 11: International Festival of Experimental Film and Video. In addition to his own creative projects, Hughes co-founded the Whippersnapper Art Gallery, a student and young artists exhibition centre in downtown Toronto (www.whippersnapper.ca). Presently, he is documenting the Trillium grant-funded “Dream Building” Project headed by Urban Arts Toronto.

Alex Killough, Ken Burns gives me mouth to mouth (2003)

Alex Killough’s “Ken Burns gives me mouth to mouth” is the story of a man surviving adversity, only to be driven mad by the insistence of the storyteller that he must do so. The narration is funneled through a filter that distorts and rearranges the video signal. The distortions in the video signal are analyzed to create noise to overlay and squelch the narration.

Alex Killough lives and works in Oakland, CA. His work and collaborative projects explore the mix of different signals (electronic and otherwise) within mass culture through videos, interactive multi-media installations, and net-art projects.