Egg Meat Cheese (2006, 11.6MB, 2:38 min.)
Aaron Valdez brings us this excellently
selected sampler from the American media diet.
(Videoblogging Week 2006, Day 2. Recorded 1:40 AM – 2 AM)
By Mica Scalin.
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Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority
Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority (50’s, 15MB, 1:35 min.)
Stumble upon this funny 50
Everyone I can think of who has died
Everyone I can think of who has died (2009, 49MB, 6:24 min.)
Edward Picot is writing the names of all the
people he can think of who have died onto leaves,
then floating them down a stream near his house.
The Path – a horror game by Tale of Tales
The Path (2009, 40MB, 2:34 min.)
“Probably the best independent game ever made” – Christopher Lim, “The Business Times”
“The Path is not a game, it is art” – Erwin Bergervoet, “Gamer.nl”
Trailer for “The Path“, by Tale of Tales.
Proust – The Interview – MTAA
Proust – The Interview (2009, 75MB, 5:52 min.)
The Interview (AKA Proust Questionnaire) MTAA.
more vids here.
A Taste Of His Own Medicine
talking asshole (2006, 1.5MB, 35 sec)
William Burroughs thou shouldst be living at custom essays uk this hour!
Not perhaps the most subtle of satires but
highly enjoyable nonetheless.
‘I commend your frontier justice’, or similar, said
a comment on Teddy Stern‘s blog.
Webchat with Andy – Oliver Laric
Webchat with Andy (2007, 31MB, 13:46 min.)
A conversation with Andy Warhol, contacted through a psychic with
mediumistic abilities via webchat. Sunday, September 2, 2007
Interview commissioned by Blend Magazine/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
by Oliver Laric.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: 1993-2007 Compilation
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Compilation (1993-2007, 172MB, 26 min.)
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is known for creating large-scale interactive
installations in public spaces. His
Wikipedia Art/Wikipedia Heart – David Kent Watson
Wikipedia Heart (2009, 36MB, 3:12 min)
Wikipedia Art (2009, 15.3MB, 1:32 min)
Being two songs by David Kent Watson inspired by the Scott Kildall/Nathaniel Stern
Wikipedia Art project, which has engendered some huffing & puffing amongst the humourless & imaginatively challenged.
The songs are neat – skillfully made, performed and recorded, & beneath the surface whimsy
there’s some depth ( in particular “Heart” seems to found a whole new hybrid discipline of
epistemological meditation through popular song).
This is in keeping with the whole WA project which unlike so many art projects which claim
to investigate something ( & usually my heart sinks when I see the word) actually does
and very effectively too.
Not only that (and I would expect this from anything involving Stern, whose work in whatever medium
or genre, is always touched with poetry) there’s a wonderfully twisted lyricism* to the WA project, which is very difficult to sum up in the usually one line required for much second rate conceptualism -the Duchamp epigone crew- which is possibly why it seems to have mostly drawn responses ranging from surly to mystified and back to grumpy in discussion in places like Art Fag City and Rhizome.
Now, generously & mischievously, Kildall & Stern have thrown the whole thing open for remixing, which is where these songs appear**.
The remixes in turn form an ongoing contribution to the padiglione internet of the current Venice Biennale -here’s the open call for contributions so what are you waiting for?!
And of course, coming back full circle to David Kent Watson, clearly one to watch. Bravo.
* & I use the term precisely & advisedly, not simply as a term of general approbation.
What I mean is this: it’s the very not-rightness, surface clumsiness
of the WA project that makes it resonate so much. This is what those who want their
art laid out like the ABC or like wonder pills, miss. It’s the failure, or refusal, of glibness,
the stimulus to real thought, that spawns the poetry of it.
Even the language the Wikipedia serf-bureaucrats use as they flounder blindly, hilariously and painfully
seems to have been dusted with a kind of magic satire brush.
** D.o.I – I have a couple of things in there also.
Smile Project by Jason Van Anden
Smile Project (2003 ongoing, 12MB, 7:14 min.)
Neil and Iona are sculptures that dynamically interrelate
with each other and their audience, expressing themselves with
body language, facial expressions and strangely compelling sounds.
Jason Van Anden and The Smile Project.