Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT (2009, 23MB, 2:40 min.)
Jenny Holzer discusses the programming of her LED sculptures
during the installation of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
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Picot et al – Dr Hairy & the London Hospital
London Hospital ( 2010, 49MB, 9:59)
Writer & artist Edward Picot doubles as an administrator
in the UK health service & lets his hair down with this
deeply odd but amusing bit of lo-fi puppetry made in
collaboration with Julian Le Saux & Dr David Hindmarsh.
Just in case there are any knuckleheads out there
(and of course this is unlikely as you have the good taste
to read DVblog) who imagine this is an attack of any sort on
socialised medicine, the authors have kindly provided the
following statement:
“The creators of this piece would like to point out that they all work in
the National Health Service and are completely devoted to it.”
Verizon – Never Stop Working for You
Couldn’t figure out if this commercial is a spoof or for real.
Wreck & Salvage – Fun with Muybridge
Fun with Muybridge (2009, 18 MB, 1:30 min)
Conversations with Eadweard J. Muybridge.
By Wreck & Salvage – a package of three video producers:
Erik Nelson, Adam Quirk & Aaron Valdez
Music by Kevin Bewersdorf.
suppendapo – Wreck & Salvage
Grrrridwave – EXYZT and Boris Edelstein
Grrrridwave (2006, 60 MB, 4:26 min.)
Collaborative installation between EXYZT and Boris Edelstein
of team Modul8 as part of the METAVILLA project
at the Architectural Biennale in Venice 2006.
MAGMA by Rocketboom – TV Guide for the web
Magma by Rocketboom (2009, 53 MB, 6:22 min.)
The excellent new Magma.
Entry point and guide for online video.
Because Washington Is Hollywood For Ugly People – Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
A Sad Loss
We’re deeply sad to have to report the untimely death on Sunday of
Millie Niss, at the age of 36.
Anyone fortunate enough to have met her, either online or in person,
will have been struck by the combination of razor sharp intelligence,
a glorious sense of humour and personal kindness with a sense of utter
puzzlement at pomposity, bullshitting or self-agrandisement.
She just didn’t get the latter three.
In recent years, working in close collaboration with her mother, Martha Deed
she brought us the wonderful Sporkworld Microblog,
something that always felt to me that rarity, the invention
of a new form (or at least an unprecedentedly deep and
thorough realisation of the possibilities of a new medium,
effectively the same thing.)
It’s uncool to the deepest degree, being about domesticity,
illness, food, birds and animals glimpsed from a car or house window,
the life of a small blue-collar town -its problems and its festivals- and so much more,
but then cool -being a facade- was a concept lost on Millie and that’s why I
treasure all the more this beautiful work and I mourn her loss
as an artist, as a friend and as a marvellous human being.
We send our deepest condolences to Millie’s family but in particular to Martha.
As a small tribute we post once again their short collaborative film about Millie’s
attempt to deal with the absentee ballot form in last year’s presidential election.
Eileen Maxson – Tonite (Reprise)
Tonite (Reprise) (2009, 13 MB, 3:16 min)
By Eileen Maxson. Exhibited at video_dumbo 2009.