Gregg BIERMANN

The hills are alive experimenteller Videofilm | dv | Farbe | 7'18'' | USA | 2005 © Gregg Biermann In "The Hills Are Alive" wurde eine ikonische Szene aus dem erfolgreichen Hollywood-Musical "The Sound of Music" durch einen kontrapunktischen Ablauf von split screen (geteilter Bildschrirm) Effekten, transformiert. Das daraus entstandene Mosaik offenbart unvergessliche Melodien und widerhallende Missklänge. Gregg Biermann was born in 1969 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated in Cinema from Binghamton University in 1991, and subsequently received an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has been making films, videos, and multi-media pieces since 1988. His works have been exhibited internationally. He has been collaborating with electronic music composer Ron Mazurek for the past several years on a series of real-time music and video performances. He was a member of the Chicago x-film group, which directed many avant-garde films in and out of Chicago. More recently, he has done programming for the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in New York. He has also written about avant-garde film including an article which was co-authored with his wife, Sarah Markgraf. Biermann has taught at Barat College, Horizons: the New England Craft Program, and is currently a Professor of Art at Bergen Community College. Künstlerische Absicht Meine Werke entspringen der Avantgarde-Filmtradition als visuelle Kunst. Avantgarde-Filmkunst ist ein relativ junges Kunstprojekt. Obwohl sie ihre bruchstückhafte Integrität beibehält und obwohl viele bedeutende Werke in den nachfolgenden Dekaden realisiert wurden, sind gegenwärtige Künstler nicht völlig aus dem Schatten der erstaunlichen 60ern und 70ern raus. Die Gestaltung und die grundlegenden Qualitäten des erzielten Filmbilds sind vertraut geworden und haben etwas von ihrer subversiven Kraft verloren. Infolgedessen war ich auf der Suche nach neuen Technologien, um weite unberührte Grenzen zu entdecken, die nicht verfügbar für Kleinkaliberfilmemacher waren. Die Entwicklung von neuen Instrumenten hat oft die wichtigsten Ästhetikentwicklungen in der künstlerischen musikalischen Komposition bestimmt. Die Bedeutung der Digitaltechnologie lügt in ihrer Fähigkeit zu kopieren aber auch in ihrer Plastizität. Ihre Eigenschaft zu modifizieren, maskieren, fragmentieren, remixen, verändern, reproduzieren, übertragen und zu wiederentwerfen sind ihre wesentlichen Strömungen. Liste, Filmographie, Ausstellungen... GREGG BIERMANN - AUSSTELLUNGEN EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN 2006 Millennium, New York, NY 2006 Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ 2006 Jersey City Museum 2006 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA 2005 Musee d`Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France 2004 Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY 2004 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts/San Francisco Cinematheque, CA 2003 Chicago Filmmakers, IL 2003 Binghamton University, NY 2003 University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD 2003 Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY 2002 Millennium, New York, NY 2002 Chicago Cultural Center/Chicago Filmmakers, IL 2001 Millennium, New York, NY 2000 San Francisco Cinematheque, CA 2000 Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY 1998 Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY 1997 Barat College Reicher Gallery, Lake Forest, IL 1995 Union Cinema, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, WI GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN 2006 Media Art Friesland, The Netherlands 2006 Pulsar, Caracas, Venezuela 2006, 2004 Florida Experimental Film Festival, Gainesville, FL 2006 Artists Television Access Festival, San Francisco, CA 2006 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ 2006, 2004 Black Maria Film and Video Festival, tour 2006 Musee d`Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France 2006, 2002 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL 2006 "Blur and Sharpen", University of Southern California, CA 2006 Local Filmmaker`s Showcase, Grace Van Vorst Church, Jersey City, NJ 2006 Echotrope, Omaha, NE 2006 College Art Association Conference, Boston, MA 2006 "Driver" and "Rhythmic Patterns" The Bathhouse Culural Arts Center, Dallas, TX 2006, 2005 "Resolutions", Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY 2006, 2002, 2001 "Composers Seminar", Lowe Theatre - New York University, NY 2005 "Recent Video from North America" Lecture/Screening by Fred Camper, Galerija Umjetnini, Split & Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia 2005 "Real Abstractions", Fordham University Lincoln Center, New York, NY 2005 "PatriART", Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ 2005 "VIDEOEX", Zurich, Switzerland 2005, 2003 "Athens International Film and Video Festival", Athens, OH 2005 "Martin Arnold and Gregg Biermann", Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY 2005, 2000, 1993 Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL 2005, 2004 "Extremely Shorts", Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX 2004, 2003 "Rencontres Internationales", Paris - Berlin 2004, 2003 Antimatter Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada 2004 Spark Video Canada, London, Ontario 2004 "Cinema2", Cinema Ritrovato Festival, Bologna Italy 2004, 2003 Super 8 - DV Film and Video Festival, New Brunswick, NJ 2004 San Francisco Art Institute Film and Video Festival, CA 2003 INVIDEO, Milan, Italy 2003 MeDiA Co-op Digital Film Festival, Memphis, TN 2003 "EXP 2", 14A Consortium, Chicago, IL & Grand Rapids, MI 2003 "Jersey Fresh Films", New Jersey International Film Festival, New Brunswick, NJ 2003 "Digital New School" Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI 2003 Light Plays Tricks, Kingston, Ontario, Canada 2003 "Magnetic Fields" New York Underground Film Festival, NY 2002 "In and Out of Control" Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, England 2001 "Not Still Art Festival", Brookline, MA and Brooklyn N.Y. 2001, 1999 "Works from Chicago" Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX 1999 "Film and Video From Chicago", Millennium Film Workshop, New York 1999 "Film and Video From Chicago", Cinematheque Ontario, Canada 1999 "Film and Video From Chicago", University of Wisconsin at Madison 1998 "The Central Region- Chicago Artists", Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA 1998 "Films at First Friday", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1997, 1996 "Pere Marquette Park Outdoor Screening", Milwaukee, WI 1996 "Chi-Fra Exchange", Kommunales Kino, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany 1996 "Chi-Fra Exchange", Stadelschul, Frankfurt, Germany 1996 "X-Films", Massachusetts College of Art Film Society, Boston, MA 1996 "X-Films", State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 1996 "X-Films", Orgone Cinema and Archive, Pittsburgh, PA 1996 "X-Films", Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y. 1996 "X-Films", Red Eye Cinema, Minneapolis, MN 1996 "Big Screen Research", Union Cinema, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 1996 "Big Screen Research", DOC Films, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1996 "John Arndt and Gregg Biermann", Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL 1996,1995 "X Film", Lunar Cabaret, Chicago, IL 1994, 1993, 1991Anthology Film Archives, New York, N.Y. 1994 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI 1993 "Last Generation Filmmakers", San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA 1993 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1992 "Gregg Biermann and Mark Street", San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA