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  • Impactist – Nebraska


    Impactist – Nebraska – in single frames (2004, 16.9MB, 3:29)

    The simplicity of this piece resonates with me.

    A 2004 piece from the enormously talented Impactist duo,
    Kelly Meador & Daniel Elwing.

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  • Kerry Baldry – Fist


    Fist (2013, 5MB, 48 secs)

    Kerry Baldry is an enormously generous spirit – her curatorial efforts around the various

    One Minutes compilations have given a good many moving image artists reason
    to be grateful.
    She is also herself a maker of fine work with an intensity both of focus and of feeling.
    In this piece everything falls together.
    She touches the familiar with wonder and terror.

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  • GAC – Belgrades


    Belgrades (2013, 50MB, 4:04 min)

    Neat music video – for a D J Investor track – from Martin Rychicki a.k.a GAC,

    originally from Poland and now Paris resident.
    The bendy Sax is particularly fetching.
    Assured & engaging movie making.

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  • Lior Shvil – Rough Cut


    Rough Cut (2007, 54MB, 4 min.)

    Born in 1971 in Tel Aviv, Lior Shvil currently lives in New York and recently attended Columbia University’s School of the Arts MFA program.

    Shvil works primarily in video, installation and sculpture. His works are multi-layered, both poetic and critical; they tap into collective memory (cultural, mythical, historical), and are inspired by television, cinema and story telling.

    Shvil received his B.A. from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. He has had a solo shows at the Herzliya Museum of Art and the Heder Gallery in Israel. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel, Milliken Gallery in Stockholm, The 7th International Istanbul Biennial, and NGBK Gallery in Berlin. Shvil won the Samuel Givon Prize for Young Artists, awarded by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as the Israel-America Fund for Culture, Israel. – See more at: givon art gallery.

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  • Will Oldham & Harmony Korine


    No More Workhorse Blues (2006, 6.4MB, 2:55 min.)

    Will Oldham a.k.a Bonnie Prince Billy is a writer/performer

    of unusual talent & significance.
    Extremely smart, genuine skill with language (in many registers)
    a wide range of cultural reference, a sense of being part of a
    larger tradition, but also a rootedness –
    the mining of a very specific & personal seam.
    Then, still, within this – a capacity to surprise, even shock.
    An integrity.
    Here he teams up with Harmony Korine who matches the
    complex richness of the song with a roquefort of a video:-
    a sweet rottenness -simultaeneously intensely delicious
    & to the same degree inducing a certain queasiness.

    3 min
  • Steven Ball – Boundary Cyclone Transaction


    Boundary Cyclone Transaction (2013, 233 MB, 6:46 min)

    There’s an odd mixture, in varying quantities, of bone dry wit and

    a strain of almost ecstatic lyricism in the work of Steven Ball.
    This is combined with an interest in formal governing devices
    (how much they actually govern and how much it is part of the
    expressive character of the works that they should appear
    to so do I don’t know)
    Steven, I’m delighted to say, made this piece especially to
    be unveiled here on DVblog and it was something worth waiting for.
    I append some of his notes to the piece.

    ****************************************************************

    “Lists remind us that no matter how fluidly a system may operate,

    its members nevertheless remain utterly isolated, mutual aliens.
    Ontographical cataloging hones a virtue: the abandonment of
    anthropocentric narrative coherence in favor of worldly detail.”

    “…ontography is a practice of increasing the number and density

    [of things], one that sometimes opposes the minimalism of contemporary
    art. Instead of removing elements to achieve the elegance of simplicity,
    ontography adds (or simply leaves) elements to accomplish the realism
    of multitude. It is a practice of exploding the innards of things.”
    – Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomonology

    Imagine this as a premiss:

    the world as it appears is only as it appears to you

    and perhaps
    the world
    actually
    appears in arbitrary order

    Boundary Cyclone Transaction takes Ian Bogost’s characterisation

    of the ontographic list and uses it as a process by which to
    auto-construct a picture of a non-human, which is perhaps to
    say alien, world, or at least one such as can be constructured
    using material found on or through the internet. As such it
    also presents a fragment of what might be considered as th
    e consciousness of the internet as manifested in image, sound and text.

    The video consists of collections of image sequences, written words,

    spoken words and sounds. The order in which each of those elements
    presents themselves to the viewer has been determined randomly,
    therefore any juxtaposition of the elements is entirely arbitrary.
    The words used are nouns, i.e. they are things, objects, they
    were selected using a random word generator. The sounds consist
    mostly of recording of environmental phenomena, such as weather
    or recordings of cosmic energies, generally speaking non-human
    sounds. The image sequences are all found online and consist of
    landscapes, insects, animals, images of microscopic organisms
    and viruses, astronomical image, in other words also largely
    non-human. Both sounds and images were found through using
    keyword searches. It was important in the making of the work
    for the elements to be as removed from what I might customarily
    intentionally select, for them to be as far away from the
    familiarity of the (my) everyday, as possible.

    Alienation is a state arising from objects in the world, as they

    present themselves inevitably arbitrarily and without a coherent
    narrative. In this video the use of random processes aims to
    make coherence impossible, or as difficult as possible, while
    still, due to the linear and temporal nature of its reception,
    will still self-organise into a kind of self-coherent ecosystem.
    The longer term aim is for this video to be realised in performance,
    to perform itself, using software to randomly order the playback
    sequence of the discrete elements and media objects (images,
    words, sounds) for every iteration.

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  • Anastasya Koshkin – Reliving and All Falling

    Reliving and All Falling (2012, 206 MB, 4:42 min)

    Lyric moving image poetry that keeps on giving, in proportion to time

    spent with. I particularly admire the carefully structured and evocative
    soundtrack – there’s a moment towards the end where a deep rumble starts
    to suggest the rhythm of the waves we have been watching but never quite
    completely coheres and this specific ambiguity typifies the richness of
    the use of sound in general.
    Visually, the angled image makes us more carefully examine and really see,
    drink in, the casual beauties – in delicious high contrast B&W – placed before us.
    Lovely.

    Anastasya Koshkin on Vimeo

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  • White Glove Tracking


    White Glove Tracking (2007, 45.5MB, 7:34)

    At a televised special in March 1983, Michael Jackson

    debuted what would later become known as his
    signature Moonwalk. He wore a shiny jacket,
    cuffed pants, and a sparkling little white glove
    while gyrating around the stage. It’s nearly
    impossible to deny the brilliance of Billy Jean,
    and there it was – in some kind of larger than
    life, glittery manifestation of the zeitgeist.
    All very exciting, no?
    But tracking Jacko’s glove – this collection of videos
    known under the umbrella White Glove Tracking –
    is an unparalleled feat, as are the resulting
    remixes. 10,060 frames were tracked, the
    data was collectively gathered, and all of the
    source code was made available online.
    Coding ensued. Here are the highlights so far.

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  • Osvaldo Cibils – 2 Humans, 1 Paper


    2 Humans, 1 Paper (2013, 10MB, 3:38 min)

    I first stumbled across Osvaldo Cibils and his marvellously eclectic and well..simply marvellous work.

    So simple but so, so telling. Kind of Buster Keaton meets Bruce Nauman meets something hard to pin down but lyrical, grotesque and smart all at once.
    My kind of artist.
    +++
    2 humans 1 paper
    video art/soundart.
    performance with plotter paper 200 x 107 centimeters.
    performers: fiorella alberti architect and osvaldo cibils artist.
    place: artist’s studio. Via della Cervara, 55 – 38121 – Trento (TN) Italia
    22 march 2013, 20 hours

    4 min
  • Lucy Mills – Simply British


    Simply British (2013, 77MB, 4:03 min)

    Hi Lucy,

    I think it’s really good. Who did the Hard Day’s Night remix?
    I really like the way it is clearly a powerful comment on lots of things to do with the contrast between Britishness & flag waving and national hubris &c. and the actual situation for many people, but it’s never simply a piece of agit-prop.
    At first I thought its slowness in unfolding might be a problem but I like the way it makes us take the time to think, with the various repeated images (like the bus with the slogan on it) but also with different material developing against the background you establish, especially the ever present and heartbreaking Big Issue guy – it turns out to be slow burning as opposed to slow. I also like the 90 degree rotation of some of the stuff and the way that then fits rather nicely into empty-ish spaces in the other “channel”. Great work – congratulations!
    michael

    4 min

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