VIDEO: Over the past 10 years I have created large-scale video temporary installations designed for the public place. My creative pallet expanded to include collaborative contributions from the community, the City’s Cultural Affairs Department and educational and cultural organizations. In a number of them I collaborated with my wife, Joey Forsyte.
RISING TIDE / DON'T BLOW IT
Don't Blow It / A Rising Tide, Storefronts in the One Colorado block of Pasadena become canvases for an ambitious and awe-inspiring video-art installation courtesy of the husband-and-wife team, Alex Kritselis and Joey Forsyte. In their first official collaboration together, the visionary multimedia artists expose holiday shoppers and Rose Parade revelers to multi-channel works of public art that subtly address the environment. Kritselis and filmmaker wife Forsyte, (president of Velocity Filmworks), use 13 projectors to bring us a selection of original moving images that are rotated weekly. In an effort to unite the community through awareness, Don't Blow It / A Rising Tide simultaneously redefines the notion of public art. - Tanja M. Laden
PICASSO'S DILEMMA
Fight for Art. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist as one grows up." Pablo Picasso
“Picasso's Dilemma” is a public video art installation created by Alex Kritselis and Joey Forsyte featuring 60 artists from first grade to museum grade “fighting” for art in 5 venues across Pasadena, CA. It opened on June 25th at The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.
ABOVE THE FOLD
Pasadena Museum of California Art Sept 2011/Jan 2012
3 Multi-channel Video Installation
366 editions of L.A.Times newspapers, (Sept 12th 2001- Sept 11th 2002) + 2 additional monitors
Crated and ships from Los Angeles, CA.
Exhibition catalog available
“Above The Fold”: An inquiry into the behavioral changes the USA went through following September 11, 2001. The installation includes 365 daily editions of the Los Angeles Times, between September 11, 2001 and September 11, 2002, folded ABOVE THE FOLD and enclosed in transparent UV plastic to be exhibited on the gallery floor. In addition the installation includes all the LA Times newspapers of that year digitized and running on a continues loop on a separate monitor. On a separate screen a episode from the TV series Long Ranger has been split in two halves and edited to run, both from beginning to end and from the end toward the beginning. On the wall and above the newspapers three side-by-side 10 feet tall video projections are also running on a loop. The center video projection is of an open-heart surgery. The image is split into two tower shaped forms which eventually collapse and disappear one at a time. The center video projection is flagged on both sides by two dark blue rippling-water projections . A set of bleachers is erected next to the newspapers area and opposite to the projection wall to provide the viewer a bird eye panoramic view of the entire news-scape of that year, courtesy of the LA Times. Several binoculars are attached to the railing of the bleachers to assist the viewer explore texts and images, patterns and placement . Finally a slight whisper like sound of a heartbeat runs throughout the duration of the exhibition.
FLOATING ARMADA
ART NIGHT, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA., March 2005 Mirror pool installation + 16 video projections. In collaboration with Jim Gonzales, Stan Kong and dozens of college art students from the Visual Arts and Media Studies Department at PCC.
CELLS
ART NIGHT, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA., October 2005 32 Window Video Installation.
