art – Mars Saude

MFA Thesis Exhibition opens Friday April 1st

Posted on 03/25/201108/29/2011 by marsdasilva

My new film, Sangre de Cristo, will be shown on a loop in the CU Art Museum video gallery as part of CU Boulder’s Spring 2011 MFA show, Beyond, which opens Friday, April 1 from 5-7 pm and continues through April 14.

The work in the show from my super amazing MFA brothers and sisters Amber Dawn Cobb, Jesse Ryan Kuroiwa, Shannon Lowry, Adrianna Marie Santiago, Thomas Spradling, Kari Treadwell, Lydia Young and Xi Zhang ranges from photography and digital art to installation, community-based practice, sculpture and painting.

still from Sangre de Cristo

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Sower Arepo in Germany

Posted on 03/15/201103/24/2011 by marsdasilva

The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel will premiere at EMAF, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrueck, Germany, on April 30.

The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel

Posted on 12/10/201002/27/2011 by marsdasilva

My new film.

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Photos: Rabun County

Posted on 12/10/201009/03/2011 by marsdasilva

This fall I took 5 rolls of Kodachrome 16mm with me on a visit to Rabun County, Georgia. These photos are portraits of each of those rolls, created by projecting each roll and making a long exposure onto 4×5 positive film. Five 17 x 22″ pigment ink prints.

(click on an image for an enlarged slideshow)

This Kind of Town at Boston Basement Media Festival

Posted on 08/03/201008/03/2010 by marsdasilva

This Kind of Town screens at the Basement Media Festival in Boston on August 21. They’re “a ‘meta-media’ festival specializing in work that focuses on the act of mediation. That means scratched film surfaces, warbly audio, and low-res imagery.” Ah, a festival after my own heart (and work). Wish I could attend!

The Counter

Posted on 08/02/201008/02/2010 by marsdasilva

More work-in-progress: stills from The Counter, a short video originally conceived as one part of a gallery installation, currently undergoing re-editing with an eye toward making a stand-alone single channel piece. The Counter deals with the relationship between words and numbers, abstract signifiers and concrete objects.

Exorcism of Metaphor

Posted on 03/30/2010 by marsdasilva

A 3-part, 24-minute version of “Exorcism of Metaphor,” an in-progress 5-part video installation, was on display at the 6th annual Brakhage Symposium. Each section consists of one year’s worth of metaphors and similes extracted from quotes in the New York Times Book Review “100 Notable Books” and rephotographed, hand manipulated Hollywood imagery.

Simon Starling

Posted on 01/30/201002/10/2010 by marsdasilva

So rad. At the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Chickenshack Village opens at BMOCA 9/25

Posted on 09/23/200902/25/2010 by marsdasilva

The Baseline Group’s Chickenshack Village project will be opening at the BMOCA this Friday, September 25 from 6:30 to 8 pm. I filmed the initial build last semester on super-8, and that documentation will be continuously playing (on video) during the exhibit- above and below are a couple of stills. On Saturday September 26 at 10 am BMOCA wil also host the Rural Art/Urban Agriculture Symposium in conjunction with the exhibit.