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  • Wheeler Winston Dixon – Serial Metaphysics


    Serial Metaphysics #1 (1984-86, clip, 6.4MB, 1:08 min)


    Serial Metaphysics #2 (1984-86, clip, 5.9MB, 1:08 min)

    Wheeler Winston Dixon is now a professor of film studies

    at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Before he did that he made
    a lot of (on the evidence of these clips & others) really great short movies.
    In particular these two clips from Serial Metaphysics, apparently almost
    entirely constructed from TV ads, whet the appetite for a viewing
    of the whole twenty minutes.
    Dixon conjures fever dream magic from commercial banality.
    Check in particular the end sequence of clip one:
    David Lynch eat your heart out.

    2 min
  • Joan Jonas – Waltz


    Waltz (2003, 55.9MB, 7:04 min)

    More ideas per second than many have in a lifetime & wonderful

    & haunting & evocative & engaging & smart ones too.
    She makes it look easy & natural. Think about it – bet it’s not.
    A fantastic piece by veteran video artist/performer Joan Jonas found
    on the invaluable Lumen Eclipse site.

    8 min
  • iligili – Lulu PIP


    Lulu PIP (2009, 194 MB, 12:10 min.)

    Iligili (1958- 2012), an Israeli artist who lived in the Republic of Colombia where he got most of his inspiration for the upbeat, ‘in your face’ extravaganza. Iligili was doing hardcore pornography art and music videos for over 25 years.

    13 min
  • ASCII Rock – Yoshi Sodeoka


    Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin (2003, 20 MB, 4:14 min.)


    Unchained by Van Halen (2003, 18 MB, 3:21 min.)

    Ascii Rock by Yoshi Sodeoka is a brilliant example of the genre of ASCII art, which creates still images and videos entirely out of alphabetic and numeric characters (ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a common format for text files in computers and on the Internet that represents alphabetic and numeric characters as binary numbers)

    5 min
  • Ruth Catlow -Time is speeding up


    Time is speeding up (2016, 11MB, 1:00 min)

    This is a beautiful piece, a distillation down to a minute of a three month installation by Ruth Catlow, artist and co-director of the marvellous Furtherfield.

    She explains its premise and construction better than I can, so I’ll hand over to her:

    This networked video performance and installation is about how life seems to speed up as we get older; based on the reflection that when I was one day old, a day was my whole life but on the second day one day was only half my life etc.

    The work was commissioned for ‘We Are Not Alone’, an exhibition for 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK.


    During exhibition opening hours between 23rd January -24th April 2016, viewers could watch a live looping video online. At the exhibition people could pose for the web cam, or might be caught looking at the video in which they were soon to be portrayed.
    Using a computer programme called Geological Time Piece that I created with Gareth Foote a still webcam image was captured every 3-5 minutes during exhibition opening hours. The camera pointed at a wall in the gallery, upon which a changing text was displayed. The software added each image as a frame to a looping video, of fixed 3 minute duration. The frame density increased every 3 minutes, as each images was added to the video.
    In the exhibition space full of movement – of light and shade and people coming and going – people could insert themselves into the video by standing between the webcam and the text. Over three months the human presences started to flicker and disappear and the moving image progressively conveyed a more geological sense of time, the arc of daylight moving through the space, the architecture, and other more static things came to dominate the image. The computer programme stopped running when the exhibition closed by which time the video contained over 3600 images. The final video runs for a minute at 60fps.

    0 min
  • The Yes Men – Vivoleum


    Tribute to Reggie (excerpt) (2007, 52MB, 2:51 min.)

    Vintage Yes Men from 2007, posing as representatives of Exxon-Mobil

    and the National Petroleum Council in Calgary, Alberta, to deliver a keynote
    speech presenting a new product – Vivoleum, a new fuel made from the
    deceased bodies of human climate-change casualties.
    ‘Tribute to Reggie” was a promo video for the event.

    0 min
  • Ben Pranger – my life is not a happening



    my life is not a happening (2007, 17.3MB, 1:31 min)

    I really like this genre of physical theatre/dance/happening/what-you-will

    put through the video mangler (apparently jitter does its stuff here)
    & the splendidly named Ben Pranger & his accomplices
    carry it off rather nicely.
    I gather this piece arose out of some workshops in 2007.
    I love the excitement of that sort of voyage of discovery; there’s a kind
    of frontier feel to it which is really captured here.
    It’s also a philosopher’s stone job – out of apparently prosaic fragments
    comes forth a small kind of magic.

    2 min
  • ‘running to catch a train’ – a performance by Paula Musgrove


    running to catch a train (2016, 103MB, 9:07 min)

    I’m gently waking DVblog up to post this extraordinary piece of work from Paula Musgrove, with videography from Yasmin Cox (both year two Art & Design students at WSD where – transparency! – I currently teach.)

    The performance took place at the private view of the end of year show and the video was then inserted as is,replacing the original performance soundtrack and joining the various physical outputs of the performance to form the substantive exhibition piece ( As you can see in the poster image.)
    I think it is marvellous, subtle and profoundly moving work and I hope we will all hear a good deal more from Paula over the coming years.

    0 min
  • ‘running to catch a train’ – a performance by Paula Musgrove
    running to catch a train (2016, 429MB, 9:07 min) I’m gently waking DVblog up to post this 300-370 extraordinary piece of work from Paula Musgrove, with videography from Yasmin Cox (both year two Art & Design students at WSD where – transparency! – I currently teach.) The performance took place at the private view of [...]
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