Carl Brown: A Master Class Oct. 1

Working with Materials

free admission to Memory Fade screening.

Workshop is free but an Inc. membership required to pre register

Contact 905- 905-529-3355 or irene@hamiltonartistsinc. for pre registration & membership fee (only 8 places)

http://www.hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca/membership.shtml

Screening of Memory Fade : 11 a.m., Saturday, October 1, 2011 Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton Room, 55 York Blvd.

Workshop: 1- 6 p.m., October 1, 2011, The Print Studio, 173 James St. N, Hamilton

Hamilton Artists Inc. is honoured to present a master class with internationally acclaimed visual alchemist Carl Brown. Attention will be given to the theoretical and practical foundations of material-oriented filmmaking. The artist will begin with an introduction to chemical manipulation of film, providing a stepwise description of his techniques and showcasing them with excerpts from his own work. Further consideration will be given to the recent influence of digital technology on the art, again with many concrete examples from Brown’s new film and photographic work. A screening of his latest piece, Memory Fade, will then follow, accompanied by an open forum question and answer period. After the screening, there will be an optional hands-on portion of the class, in which the techniques outlined will be applied directly. No experience is necessary and all are welcome to come.

Carl will consider how new digital technologies can affect materially oriented work, specifically relating how these technologies have influenced the production process of Memory Fade, and his new photographic work.

“Memory Fade” 2009, 36 minutes, Carl Brown

Carl Brown: Bio
As Canada’s foremost specialist in materially oriented work, Carl Brown has been producing films and photographs since the age of fifteen. His visually stunning films have screened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Louvre, the Musée de Beaux Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, the Sao Paulo Biennale, the Madrid Bienal de la Imagen en Novimento, and the Kunst Gallery in Seoul (for a retrospective of his work). Carl Brown was bestowed the distinct honour of being the first artist invited to publicly screen a film at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.

Marked by breathtaking colour and a meditative rhythm, Carl’s unique style is celebrated in numerous reviews and publications. In France, Carl Brown’s text, After: Beginner’s Alchemy to Materials, is required reading for the MFA in History of Cinema programs. Universities in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Avignon routinely use Carl’s slides to study photographic techniques.

Carl’s dedication to materially oriented filmmaking is evident by the sheer number of emerging artists he influences. He has taught film theory and filmmaking workshops at the Louvre, L’École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, the University of Toronto, the Banff Centre For The Arts, York University, the California School of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the San Francisco School of Art and Design, Kodak House in Rochester, and Bard College in Anadale.

Please visit http://www.cebrown.org/

More information to come about Carl Brown’s Master session/workshop.

Location of 55 York Blvd.