RE:CONVERSATIONS :: TRULY FREE FILM :: CREATING VALUE IN FREE FILM
Independent film is currently redefining investment, distribution, and business models in the light of changing world economic structures. New dynamics may make film a frightening place to build a career. However, it is important to acknowledge the creative advantages of taking a film from pre-production to self-distribution. I work with ornana films, and we recently took this journey with our first feature, euphonia. Here is my contribution... Read More
MAY 3-4 :: CHAPBOOK FESTIVAL and PRINT! DOCUMENT SERIES 1 READING at MELLOW PAGES
Poetry month has come to a close, but the poetry is still flowing all around us. This weekend will be packed full of amazing events. Exit Strata will be tabling at CUNY’s 5th annual Chapbook Festival. The two day event will have readings, workshops, and a book fair representing 60 organizations and publishers. In addition, Chapfest is putting... Read More
SUNDAY APRIL 21st :: HARMONIOUS TENSION / TRANSLATION :: the PRINT! VOL. 3 COllaborative COntent SALON!
“Whence did the wond’rous mystic art arise, Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? That we by tracing magic lines are taught, How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is The M(e/a)ssage —– GREETINGS COMRADES! If you’ve been receiving our emails and keeping track of recent announcements, you’ve probably already seen the announcements for our next Exit Strata Collaborative Content... Read More
LAYER TENNIS LIVE STREAM :: PRINT! VOL. 3 :: OLÉ!
Read this post from the bottom up for the full experience. Volley 10 – Eric Meyer Eric’s final volley stitches together pieces from the course of this long afternoon. The bee woman is back, though she has to be content with a little spot in the corner. The four icons reappear too, overlaid on a shimmering restatement of Aaron’s poster-inside-map. Strangely, and possibly unintentionally, it looks like money. Elsewhere, Lego Lincoln... Read More
THIS SUNDAY :: PRINT! VOL. 3 LIVE LAYER TENNIS COVER DESIGN VOLLEY
**Here to watch the match? you can go straight to this link from 3-8 pm EST. There’s always something cooking behind the curtain here at Exit Strata, and the pièce de résistance of this spring is most certainly the upcoming PRINT! Vol. 3, which we’ve nearly finished the curation of and are eager to birth into the world. Of course, perhaps it’s a more apt metaphor to say we midwife the thing into the world, as we like to think of... Read More
COMMUNITY :: LAUNCHPAD BK :: HARDSCAPE/ABC Release Party
Saturday, March 9th @ 8pm Hardscape/ABC Release Party Poet Andrew Spano and artist Ivana Masic present their new collaboration: a collection of poetry and art called HARDSCAPE/ABC, published by Atropos Press. There will be readings from the book, projections of the art, and several featured readers reading from their own work. Books will be for sale, and there will be a cash bar. ANDREW SPANO Andrew Spano is a poet, fiction writer, composer, and... Read More
ART :: HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS :: STRUCTURES of FEELING
HELIOPOLIS PROUDLY PRESENTS STRUCTURES OF FEELING //Painting, video, haptics.// An exhibition featuring SANDRA SITRON and TED KENNEDY with special guests CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MINOTAUR (in the Annex) Curated by RACHAEL RAKES and LEO GOLDSMITH OPENING: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 7-10pm CLOSING: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24. from curator Rachael Rakes: For this show, (and we had a similar idea with our past helio show, A Color Box, [July 2012] though with hue... Read More
PRINT! Vol. 2 :: UPDATES AND GENERAL AFTERGLOW
Oh, Exit Strata family. What an amazing journey it’s been! and what an incredible experience we shared just a month ago at our launch party for PRINT! Vol. 2, at the aptly named Launchpad in Brooklyn. We’ve been busy as little bees, getting the issue out to Bookstores (and available everywhere online Print on Demand), getting our first chapbook series ready to print in time for AWP in Boston in March, and the Chapbook festival here in... Read More
IN MEMORIAM, IN SOLIDARITY : AARON SWARTZ’s GUERRILLA OPEN ACCESS MANIFESTO
“With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?” - Aaron Swartz; Eremo, Italy, 2008 Here at Exit Strata, where we live and breathe the belief that Open Source is the answer — that freeing our creative processes and tools for open sharing and collaboration, leaving being the fear of a scarcity economy,... Read More
PRINT! Vol. 2 :: EVOLUTION AND GENESIS : THE PLAY’S THE THING
Ripe For Pleasure on Mysterious Mountain – TRAILER from Eliza Swann on Vimeo. In the 1960′s, Brion Gysin and William Burroughs developed a method which allowed them to free themselves, together, from the strictures of either of their minds, alone. ‘The Third Mind was meant originally as a kind of How-To manual for the use of the “Cut-Up Method” to free human creativity from what [Gysin] and Burroughs both called “Control”... Read More
WORK ONLY :: Breakfast with Laura Braslow: Street Aesthetics and Neighborhood Change
Happy New Year! Many new collaborations and partnerships will be coming your way soon — as a teaser we thought we’d take this opportunity to introduce you to artist Shanna Maurizi‘s terrific WORK ONLY series, which we will be hosting here for your enjoyment and inspiration. Maurizi’s been working on WORK ONLY for some years now, and has recently returned from a hiatus — to make her frank, hysterical film HOW TO MAKE... Read More
Independent film:: A New Year Re:solution
After an incredible 2012 it is time to look forward at the challenges and opportunities of 2013. The story of this new year is yet to be defined. I have spent the last few days thinking about what is to come. I am excited for it. I am more than a little scared by it. Most of all, I have been thinking about how to make the new year important—how to create a unique meaning for the course of this year. What directions do I most want to grow in? How... Read More
CoCo Process Course:: Eric Meyer’s FUCK THE MUSE Creativity Mini-Series : Lesson 1
We recently introduced you to polymathwunderkind Eric Meyer via his TECH/WORD Beautiful, Surprising Culture Battle profile. As this partnership came to fruition, it became a possibility for us to offer Meyer’s DIY Creativity-Sparking workshop, FUCK THE MUSE, the first iteration of which appears below. This is a terrific opportunity for creative people of any genre — as well as those who struggle with that adjective — to enter... Read More
ART: DESERT RAVEN PHOTOGRAPHY :: “For the Love of ART”
We are excited to share the next installment of Desert Raven Photography’s project For the Love of ART. We are even more excited to announce the first show for the project, this Friday (November 2nd) at Brooklyn Fireproof’s re-opening. The event will start at 8pm and the art will be accompanied by music from Christopher Botta, one of the featured creators pictured below. Come meet these amazing women and see their photographs in all their printed... Read More
ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS :: FRENZY INTO FOLLY VIRTUAL GALLERY VII :: CHEN, CRUZ, GRAHAM, FARRELL
This marks the second to last time the exceptional OPENINGS collective will be featured in our friday edition, and the last time that you can read up on this work and then go see it, as next Friday’s post will mark the final day of this terrific show. That being said: Frenzy into Folly closes October 26th. No more procrastinating, art lovers. Hie thyselves hence, to St. Paul the Apostle to see this forward thinking work installed! Frenzy Into... Read More
COCO ONLINE :: 3RD ANNUAL HAIKU MONTH :: HALFWAY THERE
The haiku form stands in a precarious place in the contemporary world. Our collective mindset has adapted appreciation of shorter and shorter gratification cycles, which should benefit the haiku. However, the powerful rise of short form media (yes, twitter) has changed the way we process. The haiku is not a sound bite or clip of a larger whole, nor does it represent a piece of the overall conversation. Haiku presents a self-contained image or idea—challenges... Read More
SPECIAL EDITORIAL / AWESOME CREATORS EDITION:: “RENDERING THE OLD MODEL OBSOLETE” : 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE
Arlene Francis Center, Stephen Rice – Santa Rosa, CA (photo: Max Kalkman) “history is a living weapon in yr hand & you have imagined it, it is thus that you “find out for yourself” history is the dream of what can be, it is the relation between things in a continuum of imagination what you find out for yourself is what you select out of an infinite sea of possibility no one can inhabit yr world yet it is not lonely, the... Read More
ART :: OPENINGS PRESENTS :: FRENZY INTO FOLLY VIRTUAL GALLERY IV : BARNES, MACK-VALENCIA, VANDERBERG, KNOUSE, AITCHISON
Frenzy into Folly continues! What a terrific run this show is enjoying. Exit Strata is so pleased to note that OPENINGS artists have been receiving well deserved attention, both from an actively engaged public, who continue to flock to St. Paul the Apostle to see the work installed, as well as from the media. From curator Michael Berube: You can hear a live interview with Frenzy into Folly artist Marjan Moghaddam on Virginia Reed’s “A... Read More
SOUND / MULTIMEDIA :: ROOM FOR STORMS
Exit Strata is pleased to invite you to the third installment of Birgit Rathsmann’s multimedia art and sound piece, Room for Storms, to be held at the East River Bandshell on October 5th, at 7 pm. Following screening/installations in Chinatown and Mexico City, and featuring richly textured visual and audio elements, this iteration of Room for Storms features live music by Alan Licht, Ben Vida and Doron Sadja. Asking the question,... Read More
ART :: GEORGIA ELROD : HERE AND HERE :: Now at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY
The paintings and drawings of Georgia Elrod invite poetry — or perhaps they are poetry? — in so far as in transmuting experience into visual form, they perform the inverse maneuver: asking more questions even as they answer the ancient riddle, “how do I see”? In 2009, in an attempt to verbalize this alchemy, I wrote that in Elrod’s work, “a palimpsestic suggestion of knowns creates a new language of juxtaposition,... Read More