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*new video added: Ive Never Seen*
Emerging experimental video artist and musician. Has exhibited in festivals in Canada, US, and Europe. Lives in Toronto.
Below are a few brief examples of some of my work.
About the Artist
Bellon’s video work addresses themes of urban space, and its affects on the subject through mimicking the jarring, repetitive, and fragmented nature of postmodern society. They combine the harsh reality of the world with the dreamlike reality in our minds, portraying simultaneously the actual and the idealistic.
-J. Schultz, The Lance, November 2006
Life Is Good is an urban postmodern nightmare for the anti-commercialists. A convincing illustration of why a strict regimen of rhythm and bright lights are instrumental in maintaining a positive outlook on life.
-Images Festival, Toronto, April 2008
Jarring images of layered signage, this felt oddly meditative and profound.
-moviemoxie.blogspot.com, April 2008
My current series explore the nature of contemporary urban space and perception. The everyday is revealed; where one not only navigates through the physical city, but also through one’s thought processes, afterimages, as well as the virtual information all around us.
My videos illustrate the world in which we live, as well as the world in which we live in our minds.
...What I like is the intense spatial disorientation it creates. Youre on the road, presumably going somewhere, but all directions seem to be equally favored...
-Fred Camper
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I also do commissions for businesses/storefronts/residences...etc. If you would like an eye-catching video projection that will be a beacon for potential customers, contact me asap.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ML-OMTAFM_Q
Artist's Videos
Queenspark (Nov 05-Jan 06)
(Duration: 00:01:00)
LG (January 06)
(Duration: 00:00:51)
West 33rd (2006)
(Duration: 00:00:34)
LG Again (2006)
(Duration: 00:00:57)
Riverfront (Windsor/Detroit) (2006)
(Duration: 00:00:45)
Queenspark No.6 [Tara Reid] (2006)
(Duration: 00:00:30)
Girls Never Stop (2006)
(Duration: 00:00:47)
I've Never Seen (2008)
(Duration: 00:02:04)
Education and biography
***MFA, March 2007, York University (Toronto).
***BFA, April 2005, University of Windsor.
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Past Shows/Screenings Include:
+ Derapage 09, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
+ 21st Images Festival, Toronto
+ 2nd Streaming Festival, online [www.streamingfestival.com]
+ Nuit Blanche 2007, Toronto
+ 1st Toronto Urban Film Festival, Toronto
+ @RedHead Gallery, Toronto
+ Projections @ The Griffin, London UK
+ MFA Thesis Exhibition, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto
+ Derapage 6 & 7, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
+ Media City 11 & 13, Windsor Ontario Canada
+ Detroit International Film and Video Festival
+ @ Detroit Film Center
+ @ Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
+ @ 64 Steps Gallery, Toronto
+ @ 17th & 18th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago
+ @ 4th London Canadian Film Festival, London Ontario Canada
+ Lecture-Screening by Fred Camper @ Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia
+ Lecture-Screening by Fred Camper @ Galerija umjetnina, Split, Croatia
+ @ Victory Hall, Jersey City NJ
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Sept. 2006:
The aim of the Athens Video Art Festival is to promote video art in Greece and to encourage artists to continue creating. It supports the communication within the artists and the public, making a parallel effort to be approachable from everybody. The most important selection criteria are originality, meaning and aesthetics.
The Video Art highlights of this year include...Canadian artist Jesse Bellon with Queenspark which combines typography, photography and moving graphics to give a modern and abstract feel.
-http://artfairsinternational.com/?p=12
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EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO ART ON THE RUN – BY JULIE HEFFERNAN
The realm of art is getting wider and wider, with each year more forms of expression are being accepted into galleries and museums. These newer forms of expression have not been around long enough to work out the kinks in how they fit into the art system. Video art in particular does not conform to the way art is typically displayed. The problem I have with video art is not a problem with the medium itself, it’s in the manner in which it is displayed.
Traditionally, galleries were designed for paintings and sculpture to be displayed to the public. The gallery was a large room with lots of wall space, so that people could spend as much or as little time as they wanted looking at each piece. The time discretion was the viewer’s decision. Now, with more technology and a very egotistical, and individualistic society, artists are more focused on themselves and producing biographical narratives with video. The problem with video art is, that the gallery, the video, and the fast paced society we live in today, do not associate together well.
The new millennium societies are multi-taskers, where time is valuable and they want to do everything quickly and efficiently. Most forms of communication and ways of living have adapted with the changing society. The media, now make advertisements quick and to the point with flashing lights or place them where people have time stop and wait, such as busses, subways, street corners, bus shelters etc.; this is because the new millennium individual can not be bothered or have time with things that do not pertain to their day to day life.
Most video art, in my opinion, has not found an effective way to display art to the new millennium individual. In a gallery, with paintings, the viewer can spend as much or as little time with the painting as they want. With a video in a gallery, it demands a certain amount of attention and a specific amount of the viewer’s time. When the video is repeated in a constant loop, the viewer is not only expected to watch the duration of the narrative but, wait until the beginning of the video to watch it in the proper sequence. The new artist tends to produce work that is egotistical, or self referential, in its narrative. The new millennium individual, with the same qualities as the artist, does not want to waste time watching something that does not interest them or catch their attention. The subject does not know the artist who the video is about and it does not relate to them so why should they watch it and why should it interest the self-centered, multi-tasking viewer? The fact that both the viewer and the artist are self-centered cancels out the appeal of the video. One form of video that the new millennium individual will spend time with is a Hollywood film. These movies in the theatre are acceptable for fast paced life because they constantly entertain the viewer with exciting plot lines, special effects, and character development which creates character empathy, which the egotistical viewer can relate to. The individual going to a Hollywood movie, is paying money to sit in a comfortable chair, with snacks, good sound quality, a large screen and two hours of entertainment where they loose track of time, because the movie caught their attention. When the individual goes to a gallery, however, they are not expecting to be entertained in the same way as a Hollywood film; they have the expectation of looking not watching or waiting to watch.
In my experience, I have seen many people pass videos by and not give it the duration it requires. Through careful observation I have noticed that people will enter a room where a video is being shown, watch it for less than 1 minute and leave. Usually the viewer leaves because they caught the video in the middle of the screening or because in the days of ‘Youtube’ the video does not entertain or pertain to themselves. The subject pays for duration of Hollywood narratives; on Youtube everything must be introduced, said, and wrapped up in under 10 minutes or 100 MB, whichever is less.
One artist that is able to overcome the difficulties of displaying video is Toronto artist, Jesse Bellon. One aspect of Bellon’s videos that appeals to the new millennium viewer is that they are non-narrative. Bellon’s videos function in the gallery and surpass this problem of screening because there is no beginning and no end to the video. People are able to look at it the way they are able to look at a painting; they can spend as much or as little time with it as they want. The video itself does not demand a specific length of viewing time. This non-narrative structure is also appealing to the new millennium individual because there is no wait time to watch the beginning of the video and no specific time that you need to stop watching. The repetition that occurs in Bellon’s videos creates the equivalent of a still image while still showing you a many different angles and movement through film. One might say that Bellon has perfected the problem with video in the gallery and also created something that goes beyond the preconceived notions of video and the still image (i.e. painting). Bellon’s work functions as a video in its movement, however it has no duration; due to this lack of duration, Bellon has transformed the medium of video itself, making the category of ‘time based art’ obsolete. Creating a suitable video for the gallery, Bellon has merged the appeal of the still image while still maintaining the movement of video through non-linear structure, and repetition. Thus, the viewer is able to look at it and still see the intention, or watch it and notice small changes in the sequence.
Jesse Bellon uses everyday imagery and juxtaposes them into an interesting composition, referencing the fast paced world that the viewer is experiencing day to day. Bellon places every day images in his videos the same way advertisers use imagery to get the attention of the multi-tasking individual. According to Fred Camper, what he likes is “the intense spatial disorientation [Bellon’s videos] creates. He says, talking about Bellon’s videos, “youre on the road, presumably going somewhere, but all directions seem to be equally favored\\\". The advertising quality of the videos grabs the viewer’s attention; however, the viewer does not feel burdened by a specific time length or an egotistical narrative.
Jesse Bellon has surpassed the problems with video art in the new millennium gallery. Using video in a creative and innovative way he is able to address the changing times and the issues with time and the modern viewer. Though his imagery he is able to have the viewer relate personally to the work, as it is about the (late-)capitalist society we live in today.
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