An exciting thing that is happening

[bironic]

Starships! is going to be in a museum exhibit next month!

The Vancouver Art Gallery is doing a four-floor exhibition on the recent history of mashups, and Starships! will be one of seven vids by six vidders included in a section on vidding curated by Francesca Coppa.

It's been in the works for a while, but it finally feels real now that the gallery has put up its web page for the exhibit. It's hard to convey how excited I am to think of a screen playing Starships! hanging on a gallery wall. And to have created something that someone thought worth including in this collection. And for the vid to be considered on a level with works by Kandy Fong and obsessive24 and here's luck and Lim and Shadow Songs. And, OMG, to see my screen name and theirs listed among global big-name artists, architects, musicians, choreographers—I'm dying a little inside with joy and disbelief. (Check it out at the bottom of the page at the link above, then do a tiny happy dance with me!)

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I thought that would be that, but a happy confluence of finances means I will be able to go see the exhibit in person when it opens in mid-February. Hopefully others I know will too. (???)

I didn't have a chance to see Cut Up when it showed at the Museum of the Moving Image a few years ago (the only other mashup- and remix-related exhibit I've heard of that includes vids), so this will be doubly pleasurable. Besides the personal connection, the collection and the story it promises to tell look fascinating.

None of you live in Vancouver, do you? For hangout purposes while I'm in town.

ETA Feb.: Write-up after visiting the exhibit

Comments

[giandujakiss]

That's fantastic- congratulations!!

[such_heights]

Omg that's so exciting! Yay!!!

[ellen_fremedon]

Eeeeeeee! How exciting!

[laurashapiro]

How delightful! I'm so happy for you! And the vid totally deserves it, as do you.

[(Anonymous)]

OMG, congratulations!

[siegeofangels]

sorry, it me, I got logged out between friendspage and replying

[violace]

THAT IS SO EXCITING. Congrats!!!!!

[seascribble]

OMG, that is amazing! Congrats!

[bironic]

Thank you! "I am excite," as they say.

[bironic]

*hugs you with many exclamation marks*

[bironic]

Indeed! \o/

[bironic]

♥ You are the sweetest. Thank you.

[bironic]

Thanks, Dreamwidth. :) But more important, thank you! Whee.

[bironic]

:D Thanks! I have not experienced something like this before and it is really neat.

[bironic]

Thanks! :D :D ♥

[chagrined]

whoaaaaa! that's awesome!

[jetpack_monkey]

Bad. Ass.

[bironic]

:D Thanks.

The only thing that makes me sad about this whole thing is that your remix isn't included also. Maybe if the exhibit were about remix and not mashup? I dunno; I wasn't involved in any decision-making. ♥ for you.

[bironic]

:D Thank you! It is awesome too to share in the exclamation marks with everyone here.

[bironic]

PS Did you have the opportunity to see your vid in Cut Up in NY?

[jetpack_monkey]

Pft. I'm not concerned. Honestly, if something I made was selected for something like this, I would want it to be something like All the Rowboats which is more wholly mine.

But this is not about me. This is about you and your fantastic vid and its well-deserved success and accolades. *hugs*

[laurashapiro]

Sadly, no, I haven't been there in almost 20 years. Apparently seeing one of my own vids in a museum isn't enough to get me across the country, but Hamilton is. (:

[bironic]

Ha! But no, I get you. I wasn't going to go to Vancouver until a couple of weeks ago when (a) some $ came in for airfare and (b) I learned that it's not as expensive as I would have expected to fly from here to there in February.

[bironic]

*hugs back* Thank you, that is sweet and generous; and even though I will continue to have a pang about the side-by-side remix-of-the-mashup opportunity lost, what you say about preferring such an inclusion to be a purer Jetpack Monkey vid makes complete sense.

[futuransky]

This is fantastic news, congratulations!!!!! Damn, I wish I lived closer to Vancouver.