Artist Features at Film Cologne curated by Daata Editions

Jacky Connolly, Hudson Valley Ruins, 2015

For Art Cologne’s Film Cologne, Daata Editions has selected feature video artworks from artists on the platform including: Sue de Beer, David Blandy/Larry Achiampong, Jacky Connolly, Matt Copson, Keren Cytter, Casey Jane Ellison, Leo Gabin, Rachel Maclean, Jillian Mayer & Lucas Leyva, Takeshi Murata & Robert Beatty, Hannah Perry, Scott Reeder, John Skoog, Chloe Wise, Zadie Xa.

A Goth Life, the specially compiled curated programme of artists and their video & sound artworks selected from Daata Editions including: Larry Achiampong, Thora Dolven Balke, David Blandy, Jake Chapman, Jacky Connolly, Keren Cytter, Casey Jane Ellison, Tracey Emin, Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Yung Jake, Rachel Maclean, Jillian Mayer, Takeshi Murata, Rashaad Newsome, Tameka Norris, Hannah Perry, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Scott Reeder, Jacolby Satterwhite, Zadie Xa.

Daata Editions will also feature NAUSEA – A VR Exhibition by Metaphysics featuring artists: Eddie Peake, Florian Meisenberg, Anne de Vries, Rubén Grilo, Jack Strange and Anna K.E. www.metaphysicsvr.com

Art Cologne’s Film Cologne curated by Daata Editions – Schedule (features in bold)

Tuesday, 25 April
12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. A Goth Life & NAUSEA
Wednesday, 26 April
11:00 a.m. – 13:00 p.m. A Goth Life & NAUSEA
13:00 p.m. Sue de Beer, Ghosts, 2011
13:30 p.m. – 15:30 p.m. A Goth Life & NAUSEA
15:30 p.m. David Blandy/Larry Achiampong, Terra-Biters – Mix Tape, 2017 
16:20 p.m. – 18:30 p.m. A Goth Life & NAUSEA
18:30 p.m. – 19:00 p.m. Jacky Connolly, Hudson Valley Ruins, 2016
Thursday, 27 April
11:00 a.m. – 13:00 p.m. A Goth Life
13:00 p.m. – a double bill
Matt Copson, Sob Story, 2016 & Keren Cytter, Metamorphosis, 2015 
13:30 p.m. – 15:20 p.m. A Goth Life
15:20 p.m. – 16:00 p.m. Casey Jane Ellison, UR$, 2016
16:00 p.m. -18:25 p.m. A Goth Life
18:25 p.m. – 19:00 p.m. Leo Gabin, EXIT/ENTRY, 2016
Friday, 28 April
11:00 a.m. – 13:00 p.m. A Goth Life
13:00 p.m. – 14:00 p.m. Rachel Maclean, Feed Me, 2015
14:00 p.m. – 15:00 p.m. A Goth Life
15:00 p.m. – 15:45 p.m. a triple bill
Jillian Mayer & Lucas Leyva, Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, 2012
& Takeshi Murata, OM Rider 2013-14
& Hannah Perry, CRYDAGGERS, 2016
15:45 p.m. – 15:45-p.m. A Goth Life
17:30 p.m. – 19:00 p.m. Scott Reeder, Moon Dust, 2015 
Saturday, 29 April
11:00 a.m. -13:00 p.m. A Goth Life
13:00 p.m. – 13:20 p.m. John Skoog, Nosferatu, 2017 
13:20 p.m. – 15:15 p.m. A Goth Life
15:15 p.m. 15:30 p.m. Chloe Wise, Feral, 2016
15:30 p.m. – 17:40 p.m. A Goth Life
17:40 p.m. – 18:00 p.m. Zadie Xa, Mood Rings, Crystals and Opal Coloured Stones, 2016 

See the full schedule here in the Art Cologne Press Release

Image: Jacky Connolly, Hudson Valley Ruins, 2015 (courtesy the artist)

A Goth Life – A Stranger Love Playlist – Daata Editions

A Goth Life … (A Stranger Love Version playlist)
Curated by Daata Editions
Space Bar & Gallery, Folkestone 13/14 March 2017 

FREE continuous screening all day 11-5pm presented by David Gryn, DIrector of Daata Editions.

Strangelove Time Based Media Festival 9-24 March 2017

A Goth Life Playlist

Takeshi Murata – Witch Rises, 2015

Jacky Connolly – Anhedonia, 2017

Leo Gabin – Girlhood, 2015

Hannah Perry – PRINCES AND PRINCESSES, 2015

Rashaad Newsome – Put Some Respect On My Name, 2016

Ed Fornieles – Shoot, 2016

Larry Achiampong  –  The Ascent (100 Degrees), 2016

Yung Jake – How, 2016

Zadie Xa – Deep Space Mathematics // The Transfer of Knowledge 1, 2016

Tracey Emin – I Can’t Love Anymore, 2016

Jillian Mayer – Web Cam Love Song, 2016

Leo Gabin – Lips, 2015

Hannah Perry – what are you thinking about, 2015

Casey Jane Ellison – Do You Seem Wonderful Casey Automated Private Test (DYSWCAPT) 5, 2016

Jake Chapman – POODLES,  2016

Tameka Norris – i don’t feel anything, 2016

Scott Reeder – Bands, 2016

Hannah Perry – sick off smoke, 2015

Jacolby Satterwhite – En Plein Air Abstraction #7, 2016

Zadie Xa – Deep Space Mathematics // The Transfer of Knowledge 2, 2016

Rashaad Newsome – Banji In Da Basement, 2016

David Blandy – Moon, 2015

Rachel Maclean – Let It Go – Part 4, 2015

Hannah Perry – Waiting here, 2015

Leo Gabin – Awesome, 2015

Rashaad Newsome – SPICY, 2016

Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings – Vanila, 2015

Thora Dolven Balke – YD1, 2016 (sound)

Zadie Xa – Deep Space Mathematics // The Transfer of Knowledge 3, 2016

Keren Cytter – Terrorist of Love, 2016 (a Daata & Artspace co-commission)

Ed Fornieles – Poisoned, 2016

Hannah Perry – keep the peace, 2015

Jacky Connolly – Anorexia, 2017

Takeshi Murata – Plant Whisperer, 2015

VIMEO TRAILER

Image: Takeshi Murata, Plant Whisperer 2015 (courtesy the artist and Daata Editions)

Daata Editions on Artspace

 

Casey Jane Ellison 

Daata Editions now available to purchase on Artspace

https://www.artspace.com/partn…

Artists selected:  Larry Achiampong, Casey Jane Ellison, Tracey Emin, Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Scott Lyman, Takeshi Murata, Tameka Norris, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Jacolby Satterwhite, Saya Woolfalk, Zadie Xa.

Daata Editions commissions artists video, sound, poetry and web. Artworks on the website are available to view and acquire as digital downloads in a limited edition.

Daata Playlist:

Larry Achiampong, 1. The Beginning (19 Degrees), 2016

Casey Jane Ellison, Do You Seem Wonderful Casey Automated Private Test (DYSWCAPT) 1, 2016

Tracey Emin, You Must Have Hope, 2016

Ed Fornieles, Electric, 2016

Leo Gabin, Break Up, 2015

Scott Lyman, Pink Empire, 2016

Takeshi Murata, OM Making It Rain, 2015

Tameka Norris, immature tameka, 2016

Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Pink Rooms, 2016

Jacolby Satterwhite, En Plein Air Abstraction #4, 2016

Saya Woolfalk, Colour Mixing Machine 6, 2016

Zadie Xa, Deep Space Mathematics // The Transfer of Knowledge 1, 2016

 

Image: Casey Jane Ellison, Do You Seem Wonderful Casey Automated Private Test (DYSWCAPT) 1, 2016

Keren Cytter – Terrorist of Love

Daata Editions and Artspace have co-commissioned a new video work, ‘Terrorist of Love’, by artist Keren Cytter, available for Free download on the Daata Editions website!

The work continues the New York based artist’s experimental filmmaking practice that subverts cinematic tropes, layers multiple fractured narratives, and reflexively refers to the medium. Tapping into a viral strain of humour found on Tumblr and GIF-sharing sites, the video is as chuckle-worthy, as it is contemplative.

Keren Cytter has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, including: venues such as the Hammer Museum, New Museum, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, the 53rd Venice Biennale, Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Copenhagen and Kunst Werke – Berlin.

Download ‘Terrorist of Love’ for Free here!

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Frieze London, Reading Room – the Daata Editions talk features: Keren Cytter in Conversation with Andrew Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief, Artspace.

Artspace Editor-in-Chief, Andrew M. Goldstein, will be in conversation with Keren Cytter, on her new video artwork ‘Terrorist of Love‘ and her filmic artwork practice, which picks apart genre conventions and other cinematic tropes with sly, dry wit.

Frieze Reading Room, Frieze London
Friday 7 October 2016
12.30pm – 1pm
More info:
frieze.com
artspace.com

 

 

More links:

Frieze Reading Room https://frieze.com/article/reading-room-frieze-london-2016

Facebook Event Page https://www.facebook.com/events/1608517026108863/

FAD Magazine http://fadmagazine.com/2016/09/29/daata-editions/

Cultural Traffic http://culturaltraffic.com/

Cultured Magazine Interview – Daata Editions

DAVID GRYN INTERVIEW WITH LINDSAY HOWARD

Cultured Magazine – February/March 2016

http://www.cultureddigital.com/i/641424-february-march-2016/171

@davidgryn @lindsayahoward @daataeditions @cultured_mag @sarahgharrelson
LH: What are your priorities when positioning video and digital art for general audiences?
DG: The audience still wants an object to possess; they want to own it, see it and touch it. I specialize in working with film, moving image, video and sound, and have realized that these are similar to any other mediums. They can be shown, observed and collected like anything else. Ultimately it’s about developing ways to convey the artist’s intentions as clearly as possible.
LH: Are there specific strategies that you use to endear the art world to digital work?
DG: I use simple means to convey complicated, emotional or challenging works. I see my role as a conveyor, as being able to organize an exhibition, event or project without making any part too difficult. I want to be able to entice audiences toward a cinema or toward the Internet, which are two of the most natural venues for viewing moving image works. The Internet has evolved into everyone’s natural place for looking at art.
LH: How can we better empower digital artists in the marketplace?
DG: My perspective of the market has been through the lens of curating the moving image program at Art Basel Miami Beach, where I have encouraged gallerists to think about artworks such as video and sound-based pieces that they wouldn’t typically bring to an art fair because they’re difficult to sell. I’m tirelessly thinking about how to advocate for these artists and their galleries, which is what contributed to the development of Daata Editions, an online platform for video, sound and web art editions. My hope is that this will encourage more competition in the marketplace. Ideally, I would like to see galleries making their artists’ moving image work available online and do more with these works at art fairs. The inherent issue that we currently have is that the art world is led by the marketplace through art fairs and auction houses. I would like to see museums, institutions and galleries reclaim their power over what artworks and artists are most influential.
—Lindsay Howard

http://daata-editions.com

See FT How to Spend It …

http://howtospendit.ft.com/art/98161-daata-editions-an-online-gallery-for-digital-art

 

Daata Editions by Courtney Malick

DAATA EDITIONS LAUNCH – A REFLECTION

by Courtney Malick

Perhaps one of the most difficult merges to successfully forge within contemporary art is between the curatorial and the commercial. Often when we seek to place what, from a curatorial perspective, seem to be productive frameworks around a grouping of artists, their work, and the ideas that they share, we lose the quality of broad universalism and “timelessness” that collectors may seek in new acquisitions to the margins of site-specificity and the binds of “context.” What makes malleable and unique projects such as Daata Editions stand out in their attempt at the pairing of these two supposedly adverse spectrums, that of the curatorial and that of the commercial, is its specific interest in artists whose work yields to the diverse but nonetheless pre-framed, non-site of the Internet. Furthermore, as both a curatorial and commercial project that is presenting new and commissioned works in video, new media and sound, Daata Editions is able to set certain guidelines beforehand, which allows visitors to the site and potential collectors of the works available there, a levelled playing field. In this way the sometimes fussy issue of context, from a curatorial standpoint, can be seen as a benefit rather than a constraint, which thus furthers the meaning of the works in question.

This platform is particularly exciting to see emerging right now, as so many younger artists, including all of those whose work appears in the first iteration of Daata Editions that launched at NADA New York in May 2015, are working in ways that resist traditional modes of exhibition, reception and therefore of collecting as well. It is important that while we continue to find new artists whose work pushes the definition of contemporary art, that there are also ever developing formats through which such work can be accessed and best understood. Older, conventional formats often found within the white cube, in which paintings are still hung on white walls and sculptures still meticulously placed on white pedestals, need not be replaced, so long as alternate avenues through which to engage with art and the complex ideas that it generates, continues to expand along with the work itself – such is clearly the admirable aim of Daata Editions. Contrary to the well trodden paths canonized by the white cube, artists such as Ed Fornieles, Jon Rafman, Amalia Ullman and the many others that Daata Editions commissioned work from, all of whom are still in relatively early stages of their practices, are specifically trouble-shooting, so to speak, in order to produce work that operates on other levels that exist in various realms including on the internet, within mobile social media systems, as apps, and generally as circuit-driven pieces of a much larger whole, as opposed to creating singular, physically tangible works that stand on their own or make one digestible statement.

For example, Ullman’s video, White Flag Emoji 1 (2015), utilizes Youtube clips and a security camera system called Dropcam and is set in various Airbnb apartments. In this way, while the work itself manifests as a singular video, its contents are fragmented and reference the online world, in its similarly fractured and link-driven nature. Such complex work still finds itself in galleries and museums, but it is most at home online, where it exists within a broader milieu and where its potential audience and collector-base can continue to grow and grow over time. Daata Editions also allows for a new generation of collectors, by commissioning works that exist within a larger edition range and are thus more affordable than most work of any media that is found and acquired through commercial galleries.

It is clear that Daata Editions allows for many new ways to think about collecting video, sound and new media art, and this exciting turn is also extended with the project’s intermittent interjections into art fairs, such as their recent collaboration with NADA New York. Though Daata Editions home base will remain online, where it has the ability to seep most easily into more and more visual and discursive outlets where its commissioned works can be seen, partnering with other commercial organizations such as NADA and Frieze among others, continues to promote their curatorial agenda and at the same time allows more potential collectors to consider new strategies for collecting editioned and digitized artworks. The more Daata Editions spreads this new methodology both online and through ongoing collaboration with various exhibition and commercially oriented organizations, the more the project’s core model will mirror the nature of the work it presents, which functions on various levels simultaneously. It is this through-line between work and methodology that makes the project especially compelling to watch as it continues to unfold.

Text taken from the Foreward at Daata Editions https://daata-editions.com/info/foreword

Courtney Malick website http://courtneymalick.com/

Daata Editions – an Introduction by Lucy Chinen

Daata Editions website screen grab – image still from Hannah Perry artwork

DAATA EDITIONS SEASON ONE LAUNCH
text by Lucy Chinen

Daata Editions is a platform for collecting artists’ video, sound and web based artwork. Dedicated to supporting artwork online, Daata Editions commissions works available in editions for purchase and exhibition, while maintaining public access for research.

For the first phase, Daata Editions has commissioned 18 artists each to create six new video, sound or web based works. Each work is available for purchase in an edition of 15. Collectors are able to acquire editions of the works through the platform, where custom certificates of authenticity are provided. The percentage absorbed by Daata Editions upon purchase is used to host another phase of commissions. In addition to the editions for purchase, artists keep two editions of each work, two editions are donated to arts institutions for exhibition, and one is kept for the Daata Editions archive for continued public access.

Artists included in the first phase of commissions: Ilit Azoulay, Helen Benigson, David Blandy, Matt Copson, Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Daniel Keller, Lina Lapelyte, Rachel Maclean, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata, Hannah Perry, Jon Rafman, Charles Richardson, Amalia Ulman, Stephen Vitiello, Chloe Wise.

Daata Editions aims to serve the artists working in mediums for online distribution, while supporting further production by creating a market for the medium. Amongst the plethora of galleries, art fairs and institutional entities, Daata believes in the need for a multitude of models for art distribution online. The intention of the Daata Editions project is to be artist focussed, encouraging the creation, exhibition and collecting of artwork online.

Daata Editions is led by curator David Gryn. The platform has been built in collaboration with design agency Studio Scasascia.

The Tranches …

VIDEO

For artworks within the Video tranche, each artist has developed a specific approach to moving image which falls within a line of inquiry throughout their practice. Some create characters which evoke and complicate the familiarity of TV and movie narratives; some use found footage, isolating the context and environment which produces certain images and subcultures; while others utilise a point of view enabled by digital rendering and surveillance, making use of these technologies to imagine future scenarios. Artists who have been commissioned to create video works include: Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Daniel Keller & Martti Kalliala, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata, Jon Rafman, and Amalia Ulman.

SOUND

Throughout diverse approaches, artists have created works which reflect on the acoustics of spaces and conversations; investigate material evidence of digital processes, or utilise sound as a recording device for performance. Artists who have been commissioned to create sound works include: Ilit Azoulay, Matt Copson, Leo Gabin, Lina Lapelyte, Hannah Perry, and Stephen Vitiello.

WEB

This section of commissions is based on the sensibility of emergent technologies within emerging artistic practices. Amongst the diverse styles, many of the works dislocate online material from their source, digesting it and representing it as part of a collective and personal persona. Artists who have been commissioned to create works in the section of web include: Helen Benigson, David Blandy, Rachel Maclean, Hannah Perry, Charles Richardson and Chloe Wise.

Lucy Chinen http://lucychinen.com/

Daata Editions at LOOP Barcelona 4-6 June 2015

Screen grab of the Daata Editions website

Daata Editions

A new online platform for the sale of artist commissioned 

video, sound and web art editions

http://daata-editions.com

Daata Editions Season One 

Artists: Ilit Azoulay, Helen Benigson, David Blandy, Matt Copson, Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Daniel Keller & Martti Kalliala, Lina Lapelyte, Rachel Maclean, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata, Hannah Perry, Jon Rafman, Charles Richardson, Amalia Ulman, Stephen Vitiello, Chloe Wise.

at 

LOOP Media Lounge, Barcelona

Fair June 4-6, 2015

http://loop-barcelona.com/

Daata Editions is a new online platform dedicated to the support, promotion and collection of artists’ digital moving image and sound works. Founded and directed by curator David Gryn, and developed with London based web and design agency Studio Scasascia, this new and innovative way to collect art is designed specifically to be a native platform to a new generation of artists who are working with video, sound, and web. Daata was born of a need seen by Gryn via his work as Curator of Film, Art Basel in Miami Beach, noticing the concerns of galleries, institutions, and collectors interested in artists working in moving image and sound. Daata Editions remedies this challenge, a new venture and distribution model that commissions and empowers artists to develop new work, creating a seamless and playful platform for collectors and viewers to access and experience this material.

Screen grab of the Daata Editions website – featuring a still from Takeshi Murata’s OM Making it Rain

Daata Editions launched Season One by commissioning 18 artists to create six new video, sound or web artworks each. All of the works will be available online for sale and research in editions of 20.

Daata Editions Season One artists are: Ilit Azoulay, Helen Benigson, David Blandy, Matt Copson, Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Daniel Keller & Martti Kalliala, Lina Lapelyte, Rachel Maclean, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata, Hannah Perry, Jon Rafman, Charles Richardson, Amalia Ulman, Stephen Vitiello, and Chloe Wise. In addition to the commissioned editions available for purchase, all subscribers to the platform will receive a free Jon Rafman artwork, made specifically for Daata Editions. Art writer and curator Lucy Chinen has written the first texts for the website.

Daata Editions recently launched to great artworld acclaim in New York, at NADA New York and a Frieze Art Fair VIP event and a month-long related screening program at Soho House, New York (until June 15). In addition, passers by on the New York Lower East Side can view The Digital Revolutionaries – The Shiboogi Version program on the Salon 94 Bowery video wall, next to the New Museum and online at www.salon94.com/ (until June 30) 

Daata Editions Trailer https://vimeo.com/124940117

LOOP is an independent platform dedicated to foster video art, artitsts’ films and moving image practices. Founded in 2003, the platform is -since its creation- a pioneer experimental space open up to innovative attitudes and approaches that offers a specialized audience a curated selection of video-related content from challenging perspectives.

LOOP teams up with an international community of gallerists, artists, curators, collectors and institution directors to develop projects worldwide which aim to explore critically the capacities of video and film in today’s contemporary art discourses and contribute to the exchange of ideas that drive the artworld forward.

Every year, LOOP hosts LOOP Barcelona, the main meeting point and highlight for the international video art community that through its three sections: Fair, Festival & Studies, brings together an accurate selection of contemporary video art works, premieres new productions, features exhibitions, specific projects and screenings, and displays a large programme of talks dealing with current discussions and positions of video art. Throughout the year, LOOP undertakes a myriad of projects that develops in collaboration with leading international agents and that materialize in different formats and locations: from commissioned projects to touring exhibitions in leading venues, programmes of talks and screenings, among others. http://loop-barcelona.com/

Contacts:

David Gryn / Danai Papdimitriou info@daata-editions.com +447711127848

Media Contact: Molly Rowe / Andrew Huff at Third Eye

molly@hellothirdeye.com / andrew@hellothirdeye.com www.hellothirdeye.com