The idea for the “Modern World” film screenings at Fab Lab ABQ came from the desire to explore different notions of what it means to be modern within a local and international context.

By exposing viewers to somewhat obscure films that are not easily found except in the Fine Art world, we can open up a larger discussion about how technology and its advances affect us as artists and makers here in Albuquerque and how we are connected to the world at large.

The films we will be showing at the first screening will be:

Mathieu Borysevicz – Taian Lu

Shanghai, China  2008

Excerpt taken from MASS MoCA’s screening.

“Mathieu Borysevicz's short film Taian Lu mixes documentary, fiction, and fantasy in a story that unfolds as a strange day-in-the-life odyssey of a young couple who are about to have a Euro-Asian child. Urban China comes alive in this melding of allegory, fact, and poetry that centers around the residents of Taian Lu, No. 6, In the artist's words, the film "is a frenetic impressionistic ode to China as a global concept: a nation and society enmeshed in an erratic attempt to do too much too fast".

http://www.mabz.net/

Marcin Ramocki – 8 BIT

Brooklyn, N.Y., USA.

Excerpt taken from The Museum of Modern Art’s Premiere release.

According to organizer Barbara London, “8 BIT ably chronicles the modernist and post-modernist tendencies in the relatively recent history of video game-based art, but also suggests that the bit- bending antics of the post-video game generation hint at a new current in the uncharted waters of 21st century art history.”