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  1. nervous system performances The Nervous System is the name given by Jacobs to the live projection setup that he developed and used for performances from 1975 to 2000. It consists of two identical motion-picture film prints on two 16mm analytic or 35mm filmstrip projectors capable of advancing one frame at a time and freezing single images on ...

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      Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ken Jacobs, was born in...

  2. In the 1970s Jacobs took this critique to another level, defining what he termed “paracinema,” a radical mode of moving image performance that included his Nervous System Performances, transformative film experiences that use two simultaneous 16mm projectors and a variety of live sound and music to explore those audio-visual dimensions ...

  3. www.artforum.com › features › the-ultimate-ken-jacobs-197389THE ULTIMATE KEN JACOBS - Artforum

    Still from the 16-mm film component of Ken Jacobs’s Nervous System performance XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX, 1980, approx. 90 minutes.. OF THE SENIOR AVANT-GARDE FILMMAKERS STILL working in New York, the three most prominent have been remarkably prolific in recent years. Jonas Mekas (b. 1922), Ken Jacobs (b. 1933), and Ernie Gehr (b. 1943) might owe something of their productive energies to release ...

  4. Ken Jacobs Collection Vol. 1 (Web Exclusive) Reviewed by Michael Sicinski. ... With his “Nervous System” projects, Jacobs created the 3-D parallax effects right in front of an audience, using two frame-motion projectors and a spinning shutter to provoke depth and movement from otherwise still images. These were major works, but they were ...

  5. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ken Jacobs, was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1933. He studied painting with one of the prime creators of Abstract Expressionism, Hans Hofmann, in the mid-fifties. ... (1969) and increasingly so in his subsequent devising of the unique Nervous System series of live film-projection performances. The American Museum ...

  6. Ken Jacobs is a master of avant-garde cinema. For more than 50 years he has inventively probed the nature of the moving image. “Ghosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead,” he wrote, fascinated by the power of cinema to coax reality from the flatness of the screen. ... Jacobs created the Nervous System, a live two ...

  7. Pioneering experimental filmmaker Jacobs’s various paracinematic performances, which include shadowplay as well as his Nervous Magic Lantern and Nervous System pieces, share many qualities with the light show. His shadow-play pieces of the mid-to-late 1960s, such as Thirties Man and Slow Is Beauty, utilized a back-projection system, mirrored lenses, strobe lights, colored filters, and a ...