Video Box Workshop w/ Max Van Loan

Video art sculptures with Max Van Loan Inspired by peepholes and the early cinema technology the kinetoscope, participants will construct and decorate a cardboard box with a hole to view a screen (your phone!). Videos will be compiled from existing material or created on site. Before cinemas and movie theaters, where we collectively learned how and why to watch films together, there was the kinetoscope. The kinetoscope, invented in 1894 (the year before the first projected film) is a large box that sits on the floor and reaches tall enough for a standing viewer to lean over and peek inside. Inside the box, a viewer would see a 15-20 second loop of some of the first motion pictures. Kinetoscope parlors were open for a time, but went pretty much extinct once a projected movie could be seen. In a way, we have come back around to the kinetoscopic style of viewing; we are often watching moving images on small screens in our hands. In this workshop, participants will create their own modern