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P1020046.mpg rr192 29 views Ron Rocco at Broziom Dance Workshop Berlin, Germany 26/10/2010
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Without You rr192 88 views Music by Marien Neulant, video by Ron Rocco, with special thanks to Sonya Barth & puppets. Made with PureData in Berlin, Germany. (4:55 min) © Ron Rocco 2008
Paganini's Caprice No. 24 performed by Julia Suslov rr192 723 views video by Ron Rocco A tribute to a fellow Scorpio, Julia Suslov performs Paganini's Caprice No. 24 4:56 minutes © RON ROCCO May 27, 2008
The Berlin Diary rr192 195 views video and text by Ron Rocco recorded in Berlin, Germany in 1998 and 1999. Narrated by Tom Nelis. Special effects produced by Ron Rocco at the facilities of The Experime...
Time Studies for Modern Dance rr192 189 views A collaborative work with Mel Wong and the Mel Wong Dance Company video by Ron Rocco 1986 Effects produced by Ron Rocco at the facilities of The Experimental Televisi...
Disrobe rr192 455 views video by Ron Rocco Effects produced by Ron Rocco at the facilities of The Experimental Television Center Owego, New York. 5:44 minutes © RON ROCCO 1983
Plötzensee rr192 6,822 views The memorial at Plötzensee honors the foreign and domestic victims of National Socialism. Between 1933 and 1945 some 3000 people were executed in this room as a resul...
TIME SHIFTS - Dreyblatt / Sprenger rr192 687 views Live at Ausland in Berlin, Germany December 2, 2007
Bather-Babel Embassy rr192 362 views A documentation of Babel Embassy's raw, savage power. Lead singer Broziom captivates his audience, employing the throbbing guitar rhythm provided by Marcin Dworski and an i...

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Ron Rocco's work as an artist has always employed mechanisms of sensation and perception, to open a larger social role. This was accomplished as a participant at the United Nations Conference on Communications Technology and Traditional Cultures where he presented a performance, A String Form for Binding Nations. With his performance, Zaroff's Tale at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mr. Rocco focused on the shamanic customs of the Inuit of Alaska.

Mr. Rocco's collaborative projects have included an interdisciplinary work with choreographer Mel Wong and the Mel Wong Dance Company to produce the computer/video dance performance, Buddha Meets Einstein at the Great Wall, presented at New York's Asia Society. This work was sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts Program in 1985.

As an artist-in-residence and guest faculty at The Banff Center in Alberta, Canada, with musician David Hykes of The Harmonic Choir, Mr. Rocco developed a computer assisted laser/video work which generated kinetic cycles of visual and audio phenomena for the viewer. The installation provided real-time graphic representation of sound, employing a laser scanner system to generate a digital processed, video feedback loop. This element along with superimpositions of digital artifacts from a frame buffer, created a visual tension with images that became abstract and strikingly calligraphic.

Since 1990, Mr. Rocco has undertaken two major European projects during his residencies at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany and Kunst & Complex in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Berlin Project, the fruit of his work at the Kunstlerhaus International Studio Program, was a body of art works which identified distinct facets of Berlin's evolving social dynamic. The objects showcased in this exhibition, referenced the socialist realism found in the eastern parts of the city, as well as commercial elements taken from the west. The project, parts of which are now in the permanent collection of the Berlinische Gallery, utilized images taken from the streets and transit system of the city. Historical references in this work alludes to the new rules and economic strategy being formulated in that city.

Private Parts, the product of his residency at Kunst & Complex, focused on self-examination. However, in this case self is not defined as limited to the individual. This group of art works, which delineate personal issues such as age, masculinity, and health take on more global meanings in this context, addressing questions of human frailty, genocide and social values in times of transition. In this body of works, I often refer to elements of control and order and to environments bordering on social cataclysm, with images of sinking ships, deserted streets and disoriented swimmers. This work functioned as a diary of thoughts and images from a year of painful transformation in Europe, the work posted warnings of all that is at stake in the search for peace and unification in Europe.

Ron Rocco's Internet projects, Rabinal Achi/Zapatista Port Action in collaboration with Ricardo Dominguez for the M.I.T/List Center Gallery's exhibition PORT/Navigating Digital Culture and Communicating Vessels with Dutch artist Arnold Schalks have provided a new stage for his ideas.
With Rabinal Achi/Zapatista Port Action, Ricardo and Rocco fuse high drama and social commentary into a work which spanned eight hundred years of Mayan history. The eight broadcast events we produced brought news clips from the Chiapas front, interviews, discussion groups and Mayan theater to the List Gallery and the Internet. Rabinal Achi/Zapatista Port Action was a composite work weaving a history of the Zapatista movement with a VRML bridge, live audio and video streams and chat text in an enactment of the Rabinal-Achi, classic Mayan theater of highland Guatemala.

Communicating Vessels, was presented as a maritime contribution to the Snug Harbor Cultural Center's program Ahab's Wife. As a site specific and Internet based project for the St. George terminal of the Staten Island Ferry, this project was based in maritime subjects, technology and historical circumstance. It explored Snug Harbor Cultural Center's past as a former home for retired seamen, along with the present refuge for sailors in Sea Level, North Carolina. Through interviews with the residents of the North Carolina facility, Communicating Vessels explored the ocean as a connective element between the Harbor's former location in New York, and its present location in Sea Level, employing the Internet, cellular phones, an information kiosk at the site, newspapers and other publications.

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