Streaming Subconscious

Streaming Festival Student-Edition Invitation Card 2009, originally uploaded by The ART of Ryan Seslow Retrospective.

Ironic that in my previous post I praise the very artist who was kind enough to feature my student works in a online streaming festival he was curating. What am I talking about? The streaming festval is a platform for college level Art students (undergraduate and graduate) to exhibit, prepare, speak out and receive feedback for their works that examine the medium of video and experimental film. Ryan Seslow, the amazing prolific artist, has chosen some truly original pieces of video/audio art to be featured in this very cool concept including some of my early NYU films. The films will be streaming from November 13-19th here so please enjoy some streaming awesomeness.

Transcending Twitter Potential

"Transcending Situational Potential"
by theongoingrms

Ryan Seslow is an amazing multi-disciplined artists and professor who I've had the pleasure of meeting via the magical social networking tool, Twitter. Ryan was one of the earliest people I began to follow and he instantly blew my mind with a plethora of amazing artistic content. I also became fascinated with his personal artistic works which include a wide variety of Warhol-esque techniques and cultural references on iconic touchstones. I could go on and on about Ryan's art but am more inclined to direct you to his insane Flickr page which gives you more than a glimpse into this prolific artist's body of work.

"Transcending Situational Potential" is a new short art film Ryan made that is extremely evocative and insightful about the birth of creative impulses. It's a surreal journey of complicated ideas but if you focus and pay attention, I guarantee you will be able to relate to your own creative urges. As Professor Universe and the fragmented personality soliloquize, I was mesmerized by the images that the words evoked. My favorite section of the film is entitled "Expression is in Motion" in which Ryan dissects footage of a crowd of people walking down a street as an omniscient voice muses on in poetic verse. As the images slowly unfurl and the movement grinds to a near halt, we begin to see subtle distortions in the footage. As if they were waves radiating from invisible shadows, Ryan's beautifully shows us the potential in all of us even in the simplest subtle of movements.