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  • Still Life: Gallery – Gareth Long


    Still Life: Gallery (2002, 3.5 MB, 3:22 min.)

    This piece was shot with a still camera. The images are ‘stitched’ together using

    a combination of specialized software and by hand; the stills seamlessly joined to
    create a new space. Because the space is made up of stills instead of video, any
    and all action contained within the frame is arrested. The two major precepts of
    video – motion and time – are thus implied but impenetrable.

    from Gareth Long.

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  • ‘Want’ by MTAA & RSG


    Want (clip) (2008, 74 MB, 2 min.)

    ‘Want was a new multiple channel algorithmic video installation as part of the exhibition

    ‘Live’ at the Beall Center for Art & Technology.
    The life-sized six-screen video display uses custom software to monitor real time
    Internet searches. When the software finds a programmed keyword, it triggers a
    video clip of one of several actors/avatars who translates the virtual request to reality.

    A soccer mom says,’I want French.’

    A rocker dude says, ‘I want Star Trek Enterprise.’
    A nondescript middle-aged guy says, ‘I want Little Girl.’
    A girl says, ‘I want Forever.’

    The six video screens are triggered almost concurrently, causing the voiced requests

    to overlap. The result is an audio-visual cacophony of desire; an online echo chamber
    of warped reality.‘

    By MTAA and RSG.

    2 min
  • Cohen, Tarantino, Goffman


    Dance Me To The End Of Love (clip, 1994, 0.5MB, 31 sec.)


    Dance Me To The End Of Love (1995, 34.1MB, 6:07 min.)

    Leonard Cohen’s work has always walked a fine line

    between kitsch & poetry.
    Don’t get me wrong – the kitsch is like a dash of chilli,
    gives the whole thing added piquancy & depth.
    Check out these two videos for ‘Dance Me To The End Of Love’.
    The first, the short clip, is the official video.
    Now look at the second.
    OK- first things first -just who is that playing the bridegroom?
    Then, consider if this whole unofficial one ( by Aaron Goffman)
    prolix & kitschy in some respects as it undoubtedly is,
    doesn’t somehow do more justice to Cohen’s world !’

    1 min
  • Sondheim – Prisoners


    prisoners (2008, 25.4MB, 2:36 min)

    Nearest thing to a Picasso we yet have, in my view.

    Whatever history decides, there’s no denying one point
    of Sondheim/Picasso commonality – an almost compulsive
    productivity.
    I’d push it further -they both constantly transform lead into
    gold. Picasso & his seat & handlebars, Sondheim, for example,
    these bits of video.
    The music, a kind of hallucinogenic, shredded-up
    slow funk/blues, is also particularly noteworthy.
    Here, for good measure, is Alan’s accompanying rubric:

    prisoners of motion capture, prisoners of west virginia

    prisoners of caloric, froid, prisoners of gravitation

    prisoners of art, mayhem, vandal, prisoners of desecration

    o to be a prisoner of life again (above the clouds

    o to be a prisoner of love again (within the waters
    o to be a prisoner of truth again (beyond the earths
    o to be a prisoner of dance again (before the fires

    prisoners of fires, froid, prisoners of aerostat and transport

    transport of prisoners, clouds, waters, earths, fluids

    yes, prisoners of fluids, prisoners of fluids and places

    prisoners of west virginia, of fluids, places, life, love,
    truth and dance again

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  • Jennifer Steinkamp – Mike Kelley


    Mike Kelley (2007, 7.3 MB, 15 sec.)

    ‘Mike Kelley’ are high definition video projections of individual trees

    with branches moving in a twirling pattern. Projected to fill the height
    of the gallery’s walls, the images interact with the architecture of the gallery,
    creating tension between the imaginary landscape and the physical space.

    by Jennifer Steinkamp.

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  • Liz Sterry – Borders


    Borders (2010, 201 MB, 3:59 min, silent)

    Worth every second of the download for this extraordinary

    piece from young UK artist Liz Sterry, a digital arts student at the design school in Writtle, Essex, UK.
    It’s an astonishingly assured bit of conceptual gorgeousness.
    I’m particularly taken with..what’s the word.. the ..um..rightness of judgement
    with which it was shot and assembled – on the surface thrown together
    but everything combining so easily & elegantly to create something of
    logic, power and great beauty.
    *Transparency – where I currently teach.

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  • Anarchy In The UK – Twittervlog


    Anarchy In The UK (2007, 45.4MB, 4:44 min)

    Anarchy In The UK has been a bit of a theme of late here on dvblog.

    Now, from the indispensable Rupert Howe comes this breathtaking version.
    Not only is it extremely funny, with an off the meter chutzpah quotient,
    (witness the animal terror in the eyes of the guys on the tube towards the end)
    but like a lot of Rupert’s work it’s a kind of contemporary London travelogue
    (of the best sort: hard edged, eyes wide open truthful & hence beautiful) too.

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