Seth Carnes in person, to present cinematic work from his series ORE, and Poetics, his app just launched by Apple for the iPhone A screening of the cult classic by Banksy [or is it?] compliments an innovative and open-form approach to art/life + language.

In the ORE series, Carnes has acted on works of art history using the technique of ‘sampling’ film-video to create spell binding and revelatory, original works of cinematic art. ART PROCESS MIRRORS is a “tracing” juxtaposing and focused on Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock during the years 1950-51 when they each were filmed painting on glass; it is a fascinating study of Pollock’s gestural painting and Picasso’s drawing with paint. TOTAL DISINTEGRATION was inspired by the avant-garde cinema of Man Ray and becomes new, “where everyday objects, bodies fractured and prismatic, dissolve into and through each other.” Each of these pieces were extracted from live mix performances by Carnes at the Emily Harvey Foundation in 2010.

Poetics is a visual poetry app combining movable text with photographic imagery, merging your journal, camera and pen into one. The project began in 2007 with physical, interactive poetry installations made up of steel plates and magnetic texts. Shown in Sweden, Miami, the Napa Valley and New York City, these and other R&D works informed ideation of the app. Poetics explores the concept of an infinitely editable, object oriented poetry.

Exit Through the Gift Shop, Directed by Banksy, 2010 1:27 min.
This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.

Curated by L. Brandon Krall