Out to Professor Bleep and Josh Datko and Ramona Moth.

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Late last year I wrote a grant for a video piece that was to involve interviews with seasoned (64-88 years old as it turned out) local residents, in which they’d be encouraged to talk about experiences from their childhood, and more specifically about the politics of this very rural area (NY-21, Stefanik’s district), and even more specifically about feminism and racism and the economy, and still more specifically about language as it relates to these.

When I’d filmed the interviews and started to work with them, I found that my usual procedural approach felt disrespectful to the source material (I posted some of this stuff a few weeks ago).

So I started a new stream of work that preserved the narratives while still being sufficiently “out” to satisfy the inner editor, and that’s this.

It’s semi-generative and semi-procedural, and also more edited and stepped-on than I would have normally put together, I think. But again, I had impulses to make it much more accessible than I’d initially envisioned, and I guess I’m glad I did that; it was accessible to the whole range of knowing-or-caring-about-academic-or-fine-art-b******t, and there were some good conversations afterwards.

I should note that the video above is only one possible permutation of the piece; that is, much of the work went into the engine which processes the source material — additional iterations of this were created, and this is the one I chose to do the final treatments on and premiere.

20 minutes of my normal video output in a public place would actively piss people off. (Unless in a club where I’m doing the A/VJ schtick.)

It premiered in Ives Park, our little town green, on August 16. The video of the performance was lost, but here’s everything that survived. That afternoon I mixed a really dismal DJ set, after which I showed a bunch of other related and unrelated pieces (this part went better), then tried to hold a dialogue about art and AI ethics (during which I had a hard time getting anyone to participate).

This piece took its name from one of the posters from ‘68 Sorbonne activities and its Frenchness added (I thought) somewhat to the grant application - to tie the work to local Francophonesse.

Everyone should try to get at least one grant. Especially if you’re intimidated by it. The process was surprisingly straightforward, and there was no point where I got any negative vibes about not having an MFA or about being an outsider. It was smooth going for this self-taught, maybe-senior-apprentice artist. If one could do, say, twenty grants per year, that’s a decent living. But is that feasible?

If your life is grant-funded I’d love to hear about how that works for you and what the administrative workload is.

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Live Recorded

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Video Clip!

* Industrial Complex - Parenti MIDI I

* Ramona Moth - Bird (Industrial Complex sound)

* Industrial Complex - Parenti MIDI II “Subdivisions”

* Industrial Complex - Idlikethemtolivewithus

* Industrial Complex - Simpsons’ Teen Spirit

* Industrial Complex - Date Ripper

* Ramona Moth - 1 (Industrial Complex sound)

* Industrial Complex - Movin’ Diana

* Industrial Complex - Bee Gees’ Double Dragon Juice

* Industrial Complex - Mellow EP Lofi

* Industrial Complex - High Brothers

* Industrial Complex - Discomix - Mix Visualizer Video

* Industrial Complex - Sinatra Flippers

* Industrial Complex - Howl Renderment

* Industrial Complex - Hundred Words

* Industrial Complex - Watts Dancers Bip Boop

* Industrial Complex - Blackmon Birthday

* Industrial Complex - Gundam Leap

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I should subscribe to this channel.

So much thought-provoking and humorous content is released each month.

I should subscribe to this channel.

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