In the Surrealist 'game', a paper is folded such that each contributor sees only a small portion of the previous contributor's work, and begins his own work from that small portion. When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to reveal a strangely divergent, yet contiguous form or figure.

Using the semi-blind, sequential method of the surrealists' game, ECVP participants create video art in response to the final ten  seconds of the previous member's work.  Each member is asked to incorporate these seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they please, until everyone's vision is threaded together into an instigating final "corpse."

Coordinated by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela, the ECVP project started in April 2008 with artists who met online at the networking site artreview.com, and, over time, other artists were invited to join in.  Only recently could such a fast-paced, pan-global, audiovisual variation of this exercise be produced. The inspiring process of exchange among 'strangers' from around the world illuminates the possibilities of globalized, collective creativity.

Volume 1 of the project was comprised of 9 videos and was released in June 2008. After several worldwide screenings and exhibitions of this volume, more artists joined the project  and the second volume was made, which includes 12 new videos made by more than 50 artists from 20 different countries. Each of the 12 videos of the ECVP Vol.2 has a theme, so the artists responded to these themes as well as to the pieces they received from the previous artist.

This evening's screening at Artist's Television Access, will screen the first six of 12 films, followed by a short videoconference Q&A with a panel of participating artists from around the world.  Doors open at 8 PM, show is at 8:30 PM.

See trailer here: http://www.vimeo.com/5329110