Monday October 22, 8pm
Optipus: 8th Anniversary

Image courtesy of Bradley Eros

Join us for a celebration of the 8th anniversary of the film & sound group Optipus! Bradley Eros and other members will be in attendance performing live visuals and sound, as well as sharing documents from previous shows and presentations.

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Optipus is a nomadic group of chameleon artists, cine-scientists in search of a laboratory, shape-shifting according to site-specific requirements. The group embraces the ephemeral cinema of unfixed forms and open composition. Optipus’s members emerge in myriad collaborations, producing works and events, soundtracks and invented instruments, video edits and film loops, and expanded cinema and immersive installations. Optipus has been previously seen at various venues including The Kitchen, Anthology Film Archives, Participant Inc., New York University, Microscope Gallery, Parrish Art Museum, Bobby Redd Project Space (The Church), Millennium Film Workshop, and others.

Optipus

A many tentacled optical creature
Or, a many armed visionary beast
A creature of myriad (creative) branches or extensions

Perhaps something resembling an octopus, especially
in having “many centrally directed branches” of optical art
(that is, a group with a central idea with a core that looks outward)

opti-cal, from opti- (Gk., optikos, to see, or ops, eye)

ocular, seeing, visible, eye, vision, sight, visual

related to photography, film, video, or image-making

any of the lenses, prisms, mirrors of an optical instrument.

Relating to the science of optics, using light sensitive devices.

Also: opti, (L., best, optimus)
optimist = dreaming
optimism = enthusiasm, anticipation; a mysticism or philosophy of expectation
opt = to choose or decide

Since we began as 8 (octo-) & grew extra arms, that is,
8 with a vision who walk on their own (DIY), now octo+

so Optipus = eye foot = vision transporters = sight carriers = the multi-armed beast of trans-cinema!

(text by: eros, by any other name)