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DLECTRICITY has invited five artists who are working in light, video and interactivity to present works at our inaugural event this October. The works will be strategically located along Woodward with the works chosen from the Open Call connecting the spaces to create the event area as a whole.

The DLECTRICITY website homepage features work by five artists who will be showing at this year’s event. The moving images are used to inspire calls for entry, and are used courtesy of:

Jacco Olivier

Based in the Netherlands, works primarily as a painter and creates animated video pieces that seem to be paintings come to life. A graduate of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, he was awarded a residency at Artpace, San Antonio, this year. Olivier has exhibited his works worldwide over the past decade at locations including Madison Square Park, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Marianne Boesky Gallery, and currently at the New York City Center, curated by the New Museum.
http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/artists/jacco-olivier/

Evan Roth – “Grafitti Analysis: Sculpture”

Evan Roth is an artist and researcher based in Paris who explores the intersection of free culture and popular culture, making work simultaneously for the contemporary art world and the “bored at work” network. His notable pieces include L.A.S.E.R. Tag, Graffiti Analysis and a collaboration with Jay-Z on the first open source rap video. Roth’s work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art NYC and has been exhibited widely in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including the Centre Pompidou, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Tate, the Fondation Cartier and the front page of Youtube. http://evan-roth.com

Annica Cuppetelli & Cristobal Mendoza – “Nervous Structure (field)”

Annica Cuppetelli (USA) and Cristobal Mendoza (Venezuela) began their artistic collaboration in the Fall of 2010. Their work has been exhibited in the Biennial of Video and Media Arts (Chile, 2012) and festivals such as FILE 2011 (BRA), FAD 2011 (BRA), video_dumbo 2011 (NYC, USA) among others. Cuppetelli obtained her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Fibers, 2008) and Mendoza at the Rhode Island School of Design (Digital Media, 2007). Mendoza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, where they are based. http://cuppetellimendoza.com/

Dawn of Man – “Endless Monkey Asbury Park”

Dawn of Man is collective of artists who collaborate on new media, films, and video art, Dawn of Man is “the culmination of eons upon eons of evolution and natural selection.” They have created projection works for the Museum of Modern Art and Heinz Ketchup, and collaborated on the Occupy Wall Street Bat Signal with artist Mark Read. Their “guerilla” mobile projection piece Space Monkey will cruise Midtown, unexpectedly interacting with Detroit’s architecture. http://www.dawnofman.com/

The Open Call for Entries deadline has been extended to June 11, 2012. We have received so much positive response during and after the Info Session from people just hearing about DLECTRICITY and want everyone to have the opportunity to apply. With this in mind we’ve extended the Open Call for Entries two extra weeks to June 11, 2012. Don’t delay, start your application today!

Read more about DLECTRICITY artist Evan Roth in the New York Times.

The Huffington Post  |  By Kate Abbey-Lambertz Posted: 04/24/2012

When it comes to light art, Detroit is the place to be.

In the fall, two festivals will transform the city’s nights with contemporary, multimedia art that uses the medium of light.

On Oct. 5 and 6, DLECTRICITY will bring artists, lighting designers and architects to Woodward in Midtown to create installations of light, sound, performance and video projection.

The outdoor, nighttime festival is a project of Midtown Inc., Art Detroit Now and other art institutions in the city. It’s tantalizingly described as melding “sci-fi technology with Victorian spectacle.”

Read more at the Huffington Post here.

By Michael H. Hodges, Detroit News Fine Arts Writer

Organizers of the Detroit’s new fall festival, Dlectricity – Detroit’s Nighttime Exhibition of Art + Light, said at a press conference this morning they’ve already gotten commitments from five sets of artists, both international and local, to create dazzling outdoor installations for the nighttime event that will take place Oct. 5 and 6.

In all, there will be about 30 art and light projects that planners say will turn Detroit’s Midtown into an illuminated urban spectacle.

The event is timed to coincide with similar light festivals that weekend in New York and Paris — Bring to Light in New York, and Nuit Blanche in Paris.

Dlectricity, which is the brainchild of members of Art Detroit Now, will take place between Kirby Street and Mack Avenue, and Cass Avenue to John R in Detroit’s Midtown. The plan is to focus activity and events at several major nodes that will attract enough in the way of crowds to draw attention.

“Our hope is that people will drive down to see the light,” said Dlectricity curatorial committee member Marc Schwartz, “see audiences in these two places, and feel comfortable parking their car and getting out.”

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120426/ENT01/204260451#ixzz1tFHo2IYn

By Louis Aguilar, The Detroit News

Detroit— A new nighttime, outdoor arts festival is being planned this fall that will illuminate Midtown’s Woodward Avenue corridor with light, sound, performance and video projections.

The two-day festival to be held Oct. 5 and Oct. 6. will be called “DLECTRICITY” and is the brainchild of a wide range of area cultural institutions and galleries, including the Detroit Institute of Art, Cranbook Art Museum, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and a host of others, according to a press release issued late Monday.

The press release describes the festival this way: “Midtown Detroit will be enveloped in a sea of light as a number of artists, both local and international, converge on Detroit to ‘light up’ buildings and spaces using various mediums that meld sci-fi technology with Victorian spectacle, including light, sound, performance and projection on a grand scale.

“The kick-off event will be buoyed by other programming and performances which should entice thousands of Metro Detroit residents and tourists to witness and participate in this monumental initiative.”

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120424/METRO01/204240376#ixzz1tFI4XskV