Intercept 4:7 July 9th through August 30th Reception Saturday Friday August 3rd 2012 6:00pm to 8:00pm 520 Fremont Street Las Vegas, NV 89101 Gallery Hours 12-6pm Tuesday through Friday

Intercept

Multiplexer is proud to present Intercept a seven part series exploring the various approaches to video as a medium in contemporary arts today.

Intercept

Multiplexer is proud to present Intercept a seven part series exploring the various approaches to video as a medium in contemporary arts today.
Intercept began as a public call for art to create a panorama of genres,investigations, studies and endeavors of video artists today. The artists selected for this series span all continents and produce work with a wide variety of subjects and an even wider array of technical approaches. The Intercept Series will form the base from which the gallery expects to provide the opportunity to cultivate a discerning and critical audience of video art in Las Vegas going forward.
The context and approach varies from artist to artist but increasingly the outlook of video art continues to be dependent on how much it distinguishes itself from or is in opposition to the “broadcasted television” in its current commercialized form.

Intercept 4:7
July 9th through August 30th Reception Saturday Friday August 3rd 2012 6:00pm to 8:00pm 520 Fremont Street Las Vegas, NV 89101 Gallery Hours 12-6pm Tuesday through Friday http://multiplexerspace.wordpress.com multiplexer@visualart-soundart.com
Tina Willgren “Workout” Steven H Silberg “Cape Neddick, Maine – August 2007” Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub “Isle of Lox” Corey George “Sequoyah”
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Cindy Rehm “Hold, Wrap Bind”
About the Artists
Tina Wilgren “Workout” 2011 Duration 4 minutes 13 seconds
Born in Tierp, Sweden 1972. Lives and works in Stockholm, primarily with video, sound and installations. MA degree at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm 2005. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: No, No, I hardly ever miss a show, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland/WPA Experimental Media Series, USA/Animacall, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece/Visionaria, Toscana Video Festival, Piombion, Italy/Projetaveis, Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

In 2011 the video “The Polymoids” received the first prize in the Blubanana Video Art Contest, and the Best Experimental/Animation award in the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival.
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Steven H Silberg
“Cape Neddick, Maine – August 2007” 2009 Duration 4 minutes 45 seconds
Steven H Silberg is an image-influenced, pixel-based cross media artistwith a background ranging from photography to book conservation.Working in print, video, and interactive installation, he engage “new media” as a literalist. For him, the pixel and structure of the digital image is as important as the composition and content. Byhighlighting the construction of the image, Silberg; allows his viewers to both engage the work visually and engage with the technology creating it.
Created in Baltimore, his work has been enjoyedregionally, at venues including Baltimore’s ArtScape, the University of Maryland, and the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts nationally, at the University of Texas, Dallas, Missouri State University and Orange Coast College California; and internationally atthe Third Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium. He was selected as the Winner of the Washington Post’s 2010 Real Art DC competition and has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2012 Trawick Prize.
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Silberg received his MFA from MICA in 2004 and his BFA from the University of Delaware in 1997. He is a Lecturer in Foundations, concentrating in Photography and Video, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Leyla Rodriguez & Christian Straub
Isle Of Lox „The Face“ 2011 Duration 3 minutes 54 Second
Isle Of Lox „The Fruits Electric“ Duration 3 Minutes 44 Second
Isle Of Lox „The Pink Situation” Duration 3 Minutes 1 Second

Leyla Rodriguez ́s interventions in public space in form of a tempooary textil intallation, videos, films and Obejects have been exhibited in numerous galleries and film festivals. She was born in Buenos Aires/ currently lives and works in Hamburg/ Germany

Cristian Straub born in Bucharest, Romania. Many of his short films and artistic works were shown and awarded internationally at film festivals. He lives and works in Hamburg/ Germany
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The Isle Of Lox Episode “The Face” won the Kraft New Media Prize 2011.
Episode “THE PINK SITUATION” „The Pink Situation“ is the first film of the series not to feature Leylox & Krilox. This time, the focus is on the „Holy Donkeys“. It’s not evident if those creatures are a part of the past or of the future of Lox.
The exodus of the donkey tribe is in full effect, when something quite inexplicable takes place (which may or may not be a holy ritual). The donkeys blend into “The pink situation”, a higher and peaceful state of mind.

Episode “THE FACE”
In „The Face“ Leylox and Krilox return to action in the first „indoor“ film of the series. It also features for the
first time non-textile Artifacts such as „The Reflektor“, a crystal skateboard.
Leylox and Krilox are in a cathedral, which is full of mirrors. A mystery and identity play beginns, when they start walking over the mirror plates.
Episode “THE FRUITS ELECTRIC”

„The Fruits Electric“ is the first film of the series to feature another protagonist than Leylox and Krilox. Lending iconography from Greek mythology (Aphrodite’s birth from oceanic foam), the Bible (Eve and the forbidden apple) and Grimm’s fairy tales (Hänsel & Gretel), the film features a girl on her audiovisual quest for the primordial origin of sound.
A girl and “The Reflektor“ are washed ashore a beach. Strangely attracted by “The Flags” and uncanny sounds, she starts exploring the island she stranded on. When she picks The Fruits“ from “The Tree“ of sound she is instantly transposed to a mysterious house = “The Transformer“. This is when she becomes aware of her transformation: she is now the keeper of the sound crown, she has become the fruits electric girl.

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Corey George Sequoyah” 2011 Duration 1 Minute and 41 Seconds
Corey George grew up in upstate South Carolina surrounded by farmers, old pine forests, wildlife and Southern Democrats. His current work is a study of the rural landscape in the southern U.S. documenting how man and society have shaped and altered it-and continues to alter it. He currently teaches at the University of Tampa.
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Cindy Rehm “Hold, Wrap, Bind” 1 minute 54 Seconds
Cindy Rehm is a Los Angeles based artist and educator. She is the co-founder of the feminist art space, Craftswoman House. Rehm is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship in Media from the Tennessee State Arts Commission and a Learning to Love You More Grant. Her work has been shown at LACE, Los Angeles; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Consolidated Works, Seattle; Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn; Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC; and at Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece. Her work may be viewed at cindyrehm.com and she maintains a blog at themouthandtheknife.blogspot.com.

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Multiplexer Is a new art space Downtown in the City of Las Vegas. The exhibits will focus on the potential of video as a medium, and away from the over explored, web-based sensationalism, corporate media and Hollywood film industry. The space exhibits work that crosses the threshold from visual language to relevant and poignant explorations in a wide variety of subjects and motifs.
The interest in video goes beyond video artwork. Multiplexer will also focus on the detritus and artifacts of video technology and its relationships to changes and shifts in history, from analog to digital, broadcasts, video art and home videos. From the anthropological and scientific, to the exploratory and experimental; all genres and categories of video work will be considered for exhibition.
The art space is located in downtown Las Vegas two blocks from the 12 million LED screen Viva Vision, on Fremont Street, both a technological inspiration and an unsettling reminder of the power media wields.
Multiplexer is owned and curated by David Sanchez Burr. David has been curating exhibits sporadically since 1993, and this will be his first full time curatorial effort. He received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and his MFA from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His experience includes Graduate Programs Manager at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1999 to 2006 and has worked in the professional video software industry at Softron Media Services for the past two years. David has also exhibited internationally and has resided in Las Vegas since 2006.
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