Cartune Xprez

BUM EQUIPMENT The 2009 PDX FILM FEST joined forces with Cartune Xprez for a second year in a row, this time with Gallery Homeland's open warehouse and a stack of wooden palettes. Presented in 3 parts, BUM EQUIPMENT offered a heavy dose of the video-world unraveled. In Part 1: LOOPS, local design firm Von Tundra refigured dozens of monitors for 15 artists’ endless visions trapped in tubes. Part 2: GAMES featured an expanded arcade with side-by-side interactive video adventures. Part 3: BIG TOPS provided a home for opening night performances with tents, strobes, clouds, and rainbows. Check out this video, these images and these words to sense the show through other lenses. VDEO LYNE-UP
	Philippe Blanchard SPRINGFIELD ETERNAL Bart Simpson grows old and young again and again.
	Deelay Ceelay CHURCH OF THE NATURAL WORLD A double-drum set opening night performance charging the atmosphere for a 2-week video world.
	Marc Couroux ROCKFORD Material from the popular 1970’s television show The Rockford Files, that takes place in Los Angeles, is subtly manipulated so as to induce gradual semiotic slippage.
	Adrian Freeman SWORD SLINGER A darkly clad sorceress fulfills ritual demands by summoning a weapon of power and imbuing it with might.
	Sabine Gruffat MOUNTAIN Multiple sources of feedback-generated computer animations mixed with images and sounds from electronic oscillators via an analog video switcher.
	Lief Hall MOM AND BABE ON A ROCKING CHAIR An abstracted 3D portrait of a mother and her child accompanying acapella voice recordings sung by the artist.
	Emanuele Kabu PERPETUAL MOTION Produce, consume, die: a movement that goes on forever.
	Adam Keller EXPERIMENT INVOLVING THE DECENT OF LIGHT PARTICLES, PART 4 Light particles continuously trickling down thousands of swirling tendrils that engulf the viewer in colorful light. Slow the heart rate, deepen the breath, calm the mind.
	Evan Meaney TO HOLD A FUTURE BODY SO CLOSE TO ONE'S OWN 27 video portraits in which the files’ base-encoding are made viscerally apparent. In these pieces of digital video, the expressions provide visual insight into the file’s origination; akin to counting the rings on a tree’s trunk to see how and when it began.
	Shana Moulton PMS + RSI A series of vignettes presented on 3 monitors that exchange themes of the medicine woman and the medicalized female body.
	Mumbleboy, Karl Ackerman, E*Rock MUMBLEHOP Using the form and interface of a simple arcade game, players advance through various levels of vibrant color and childlike characters.
	Luke Painter WINDSOR A meticulous flash animation that recreates a bleak urban landscape.
	Seth Scriver BACKWARDSTIMES A looping spotted owl accompanied by free jazz saxophone by Brodie West.
	Stephen Slappe HOMING Google Street View + every home the artist has had since birth.
	TM Sisters DEBRIS An interactive video game in which your stomping foot propels a flying girl to annihilate trash propelled by gale-force winds.