Announcing the screening of Screening of Icky Futures: Corporate Visions of the Future 1987- at X Initiatives this Friday (June 26, 2009) at 7:45pm, (map).

Natalie Jeremijenko’s archive of, Icky Futures, is a dark digital collage that presents a collective commercial vision for the future of technology. The digitally rendered analog tape is a part of the series Half-inch Half-life, curated by Migrating Forms,  in a semi-intimate viewing room showcasing personal VHS tapes from artists, critics, curators, scholars in a 43-hour marathon on a large, media-appropriate television set. The screening is a part of a larger exhibition at X Initiatives entitled No Soul for Sale that runs from June 24-28, 2009. The exhibition and screenings are free and open to the public daily from 1-9pm.

For more information, please visit the Migrating Forms’ facebook events page.

Icky Futures: Corporate Visions of the Future 1987- includes the following analog VHS clips:

1987 Ameritech – Electronic Homes (08:11)
1987 Apple – Knowledge Navigator (05:58)
1988 Apple – Future Shock (11:54)
1988 Apple – Grey Flannel (08:02)
1990 Motorola – 2000 A.D. (06:23)
1991 Pacific Bell – Concept Video (08:40)
1993 Andersen Consulting – Visions (03:37)
1993 AT&T – Visions of the Future (14:12)
1993 Sun – Starfire (15:42)
1996 Philips – Vision of the Future (13:27)
1996 Apple – Wireless Coyote (07:12)
1998 NEC New Ways of Communicating (02:43)