Center for Visual Music

A followup in connection with CVM's Belson/Vortex/Expanded Cinema seminar starting this week - flashback to some of the many museum exhibitions where CVM has displayed our restored Belson films over the past decades (working closely with Jordan). These are only a few - at D Museum Seoul, Chakra at Halle der Kunst (Graz), BAMPFA (we also had a still from Allures on the outside of the museum), Allures at Walker Art Center, Seoul Museum of Art, and Chakra at Raven Row, London. We don't have photos of the Belson room we did at MoCA LA/Hirshhorn (Smithsonian) in the 2005 Visual Music exhibition, does anyone have any of our Belson room?

Please visit our Belson research site (created with Jordan) for more about his films, our restorations and exhibitions. We're the only organization with his restored and preserved films authorized by Jordan himself. He was very specific about the conditions for his films, and the quality, and we continue to honor his wishes though sadly not all do now. Stills courtesy CVM, Halle der Kunst and Seoul Museum of Art.

June 4: Oskar Fischinger’s Muratti greift Ein! (1934) in a screening at Palm Springs Art Museum (California).

This ad for Muratti ci******es ran in first run theatres worldwide, becoming famous. After this Fischinger received commissions for cigarette ads for Muratti, Borg, Meluka and others.

CVM’s digital exhibition copy was scanned from one of Oskar’s own nitrate prints in our archive. This ad is on our Oskar Fischinger: Visual Music DVD. Visit our Fischinger site for more about his work, link in comments.

Herbert W. Franke exhibition and interview, 2022.

Herbert W. Franke on Art After the NFT As the Francisco Carolinum hosts a new exhibition of the artist’s work, Georg Bak talks to the father of computer art about how his theories became reality

Mary Ellen Bute, Abstronic. One of her short abstract films using oscilloscope patterns. See our Bute site for more about her films and work, including her oscilloscope test photographs.

CVM has playlists on youtube and vimeo of classics of Visual Music from our archive.

Careful, there’s other copies of this film floating around online of questionable quality.

https://youtu.be/SF-WRGQS5XY

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Brilliant light projection show in Tokyo, every weekend.

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