[Frameworks] Oskar Fischinger, Raumlichtkunst opened at ACMI, Melbourne

[C Keefer]

Dear all,
CVM is pleased to announce a new *Raumlichtkunst* exhibition, at ACMI
(formerly the Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne,
Australia, which just opened February 11.

*Raumlichtkunst*, c. 1926/2012

Oskar Fischinger

HD 3 screen installation

Reconstruction by Center for Visual Music

This exhibition presents one of the first multimedia projections ever made,
Oskar Fischinger’s *Raumlichtkunst*, a reconstruction of his
multiple-screen film events, first shown in Germany in 1926, and restored
by the Center for Visual Music (CVM) in Los Angeles.  Working with
Fischinger’s original 1920s nitrate film, CVM restored the 35mm film via
traditional photochemical processes, transferred it to HD, digitally
restored the colour, and reconstructed this three-screen version of his
performances. Originally accompanied by live avant-garde percussion, CVM
chose two version of “Double Music” by John Cage and Lou Harrison, and
“Ionisation” by Edgard Varèse.

CVM’s film restoration was supported by an Avant-Garde Masters Grant funded
by The Film Foundation, administered by The National Film Preservation
Foundation

(end museum blurb)

Details: https://www.acmi.net.au/works/118035--raumlichkunst

At present, only Australians and others living there now will be able to
visit the new museum, until Australia opens its borders to other countries
later this year. *Raumlichtkunst* is a looped installation, on view daily,
for months.

Previously, *Raumlichtkunst* was on view at the Whitney Museum, New York;
Tate Modern, London;  Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery/Len Lye Centre, New Zealand; Weinstein Gallery SoMA, San Francisco;
and QAG/GoMA, Brisbane.

More about the new museum: www.acmi.net.au/about/acmi-renew/

More about *Raumlichtkunst* on CVM's site:
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Raumlichtkunst.html

Fischinger site: centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger

Please note, the CVM email is cvmaccess (at) gmail.com

best regards,

Cindy Keefer, Center for Visual Music
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