loadbang is a one-night blast of subversive, emergent video explored through mashup, video installation, net art and performance. Addressing the instability of authorship in new media art production, random and fragmented presentation of web-based video in a mashup asks us to question pre-existing ways in which we experience and curate them. How do time-wasting interactions such as web-cam performance, gaming, compression hacking, avatars and porn affect our appreciation of art? What is your erotic in terms of visuality on the Internet? How are vulgar uses of technology and appropriated images rearticulated as visual fetish? This exhibition aims to challenge expectations of art on the Internet and in real life.

The mashup shows randomized video by:

• Video installation of "swansong" by Adam Herst
• A screening of Artie Vierkant's Avatar in 3D at 8pm
• A SCANDALISHIOUS performance by Ann Hirsch at 9pm
• Death Star YouTube (http://www.deathstaryoutube.com) by Matthew Williamson

Included artwork was selected from an open call for “sexy, trashy video made for/inspired by the Internet” sent out by artist/curator Jennifer Chan. The jury consisted of Jeremy Bailey, David Frankovich, Cheryl Sourkes and Stephen Stanford.

This event would not be possible without generous technical assistance from Jeremy Bailey and Mark Pellegrino.

ARTUR AUGUSTYNOWICZ

Pixel Porn, 2010

Nude Glitch, 2010.

Nude Glitch and Pixel porn are colouristic data-moshed clips from porn movies accompanied by sounds of signals. As a collector of carcrashes and explosions, Augusticnowicz found the two pieces to be rather "soft" formal experiments with porn as medium.

ADAM CRUCES

Floppy Disk, 2010, 20 sec.

A found image of a floppy disk curls and unfurls in circular motion.

Healing Relaxation, 2010, 1:40 min.

A visual collage of a face against geometric filters that transition between scenes of waterfalls and sunsets.

ADAM HERST

swansong, 4:58, 2010.

An aging artist contemplates a dim future on the screens of the Internet, and muses on possible artistic triumph from restaging a suicide scene from Phantom of the Paradise.

ANDREA HITCHMAN

Oral Love, 2:03, 2010.

Beautiful girls shove edible and inedible objects into their mouth in a spoof mouthwash commercial.

ANN HIRSCH (SCANDALISHIOUS)

51 Things I found in my poon, 3:13, 2009.

A camwhore/artist seductively falsifies the extraction of random objects from her vagina.

caroline + heart, 3:43. 2008.

A shameless webcam serenade out to YouTube dance voyeurs by Caroline Benton

JORDAN LOEPPKY - KOLESNIK

Love That Sticks, 2009.

A man embraces and undresses himself within an infinite loop of televised mirrors. Images of his body translate from tape to TV, and the Internet.

IAN MACTILSTRA

SkyBlue, 2010.

Multiple layers of porn at the scene of a blowjob, accompanied with slow drones, chromakeyed into pulsating abstract compositions.

RAFT, 63 min. 2010.

Fragmented bodies from a porn movie fuck on a raft with an American flag.

MARK PELLEGRINO

Van Dam Frame Damage, 1:40, 2008.

A glitchy playback of an unedited fight scene from Bloodsport, played repeatedly and re-captured at different frame rates.

Skooma,
A lizard and a bald woman share a medicinal smoke.

Hunger
Two avatars sit in a boat and hate on each other.

NATHANIEL SULLIVAN

On Cute, 2010.

Two beautifully shot videos featuring two tropes of memetic cuteness: squirrels and cats.

LUCAS SOI

Portrait of Lust, 2:58. 2010

Found footage cut from Portrait Of Lust (Dir. Drea, 1985, USA) starring Traci Lords. A painter talks amorously at a painting of his own creation. The female subject appears and they make love.

JESSICA VALLENTIN

Horror Video, 58:27, 2009.

A response video to The Ring.

ARTIE VIERKANT

Avatar in 3D, 2 hours 24 min. 2010.

HD video. 164 min.

James Cameron's 2009 film Avatar mapped onto the surface of a slowly rotating sphere. Created in response to the popularity and availability of a pirated copy of Avatar on bittorrent, and re-released on the video's platform of origin on http://torrentz.com/06ba6eb51dbdbe
0b2acac4245ef2a3abf315e626. Excerpt included plays the manipulated found footage in 5 minutes.

MATTHEW WILLIAMSON

Death Star YouTube, 2010. www.deathstaryoutube.com.