Walead Beshty – Whitney Focus (2008, 25 MB, 2:18 min)
2008 Whitney Biennial artist Walead Beshty discusses his photographs
of the former Iraqi embassy to the former East Germany (two nations that no longer exist)
and the complex ideas behind them. He also explains why his glass sculptures
have acquired multiple cracks and fissures.
Produced by the Whitney Museum.
Interview with Chen Chieh Jen (2008, 40 MB, 6:05 min)
Studio Banana TV interviews Taiwanese videoartist Chen Chieh Jen.
Chen
William Eggleston interviewed by Michael Almereyda (2009, 61 MB, 5:31 min)
This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film
director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of Eggleston
Interview with Kohei Nawa (2010, 50 MB, 4:32 min)
Studio Banana TV interviews Japanese artist Kohei Nawa
best known for his ideas of
Dream Song #14 (1967, 8MB, 1:43 min)
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told me as a boy
(repeatedly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored
means you have no
Inner Resources.’ I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes
as bad as achilles,
who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.
And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
Another Dream Song.
For details see original post
Circulation (2003, 56.1MB, 3:24 min)
ZDEN is a Slovakian artist and a pioneer in real-time
video performing – VJing. His live visuals are produced by a
self-developed post-production tool called CIRCULATION,
a software-based real-time 3 source video mixing engine.
Visit his site.
More vids here.
Dream Song #29 (1967, 11MB, 2:20 min)
There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart
s
Double-Taker (Snout) (2008, 7MB, 52 sec.)
“Double-Taker (Snout)” deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species
eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance.
The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to
resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant’s trunk, which responds in unexpected
ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity. Sited on a low roof above
a museum entrance, and governed by a real-time machine vision algorithm,
Double-Taker (Snout) orients a supersized googly-eye towards passers-by, tracking their
bodies and suggesting an intelligent awareness of their activities. The goal of this kinetic
system is to perform convincing “double-takes” at its visitors, in which the sculpture
appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers
![16 [R]EVOLUTIONS](http://dvblog.org/wp-content/images/16revs.jpg)
16 [R]EVOLUTIONS (2006, 3MB, 1:50 min)
I saw this piece from NY based group Troika Ranch a few years back
in deepest Essex, UK & it was utterly great –
took me about ten minutes to put my jaw back in postion after.
Certainly by far the most convincing & mature use of digital
technology/projection in a dance context I had then seen.
Much of the visual flavour comes from the Isadora real time video
manipulation software created by co-artistic director Mark Coniglio &
used together with motion sensing software.
It’s not just the tech stuff though – it’s great choreography & dance
somehow informed by the particular rhythms, logic, that the tech
feedback loop sets up, implies.
It’s the fact, too, that a company deploying cutting edge tech can
still use simple shadow & stillness to devastating effect.
documenta performance (1977, 6 MB, 1:35 min.)
The 1977 “documenta” show, which became known as the ‘media documenta’,
opened its doors with a live satellite telecast from Kassel.
Nam June Paik appeared together with Charlotte Moorman and used the slot
for a Dadaistic, allusive excursion through his performance and installation works.
from ZKM Videosammlung.
videoconstructions2 (1978, 5MB, 1:16 min.)
The Chair (1980, 36MB, 9:54 min.)
Buky Schwartz (1932-2009), an Israeli sculptor and video artist
who passed away last year, was known for his deceptive videos
that interplay between illusory appearance and the actual ‘reality’.
The 2 vids here were exhibited at the Whitney Biennial in New York in 1981.
From the splendid Videoart.net
Utterly compelling clip from a 1960s German documentary featuring a
spine tingling live performance in a Piraeus taverna by the great
rembetiko singer Markos Vamvakaris.
I could watch & listen all day.
PS I think atakti means ‘bad’ or ‘naughty’
Opto-Isolator (2007, 6MB, 46 sec.)
“Opto-Isolator inverts the condition of spectatorship by exploring the questions:
“What if artworks could know how we were looking at them? And, given this
knowledge, how might they respond to us?” The sculpture presents a solitary
mechatronic blinking eye, at human scale, which responds to the gaze of visitors
with a variety of psychosocial eye-contact behaviors that are at once familiar and
unnerving. Among other forms of feedback, Opto-Isolator looks its viewer directly
in the eye; appears to intently study its viewer’s face; looks away coyly if it is stared
at for too long; and blinks precisely one second after its visitor blinks.”
By Golan Levin and Greg Baltus.
The Lost Shoe (2010, 16MB, 4:35 min)
Martha Deed, one of our favourite people, & co-founder with
the much missed Millie Niss of the fantastic Sporkworld Microblog,
which we’ve raved about before & which we can’t recommend too
highly, has a paper publication coming out, a book of poems, for which
she created this chilling and beautifully made video “trailer”.
Watch the trailer then
“Eyecode is an interactive installation whose display is wholly constructed
from its own history of being viewed. By means of a hidden camera, the system
records and replays brief video clips of its viewers’ eyes. Each clip is articulated
by the duration between two of the viewer’s blinks. The unnerving result is a
typographic tapestry of recursive observation.”
By Golan Levin.
“Annie Abrahams (from the Living Room in Montpellier, France) In order to isolate them from their surroundings and make them There was no set duration. Interesting and affecting convergence of the performative work We feature here only a tiny extract from the 4 hour plus performance Jenny Holzer discusses the programming of her LED sculptures From Art:21 More from the splendid Vito Acconci, this time from Conversations with Eadweard J. Muybridge. By Wreck & Salvage – a package of three video producers: Music by Kevin Bewersdorf. From Ashley Watson, a truly poignant piece about H/t to my friend Deb A live performance by Julien Maire. Video documentation of “Infosphere Aesthetics” a solo show by Jeremiah Day is interested in resistance movements, as well as the flux of Utterly bonkers* & totally splendid video documentation of a performance * in a good way; committed, unafraid, vulnerable, generous. Collaborative installation between EXYZT and Boris Edelstein [DAM]Berlin Gallery will exhibit new software works by artist ‘Text Rain’ is an interactive installation in which participants By Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv. by Swiss artist Zimoun. A couple of installations by Swiss artist Zimoun.![Fragmente der Bilder einer Ber
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Annie Abrahams & Curt Cloninger -<em> Double Blind</em>
Double Blind (clip) ( 2010, 70MB, 5:38 min)
and Curt Cloninger (from Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center
in Asheville, North Carolina, US) repeatedly sang “love, love, love”
(a short excerpt from a pop song) as a kind of duet, in real
time/space and online.
more attentive to the other, they were both blindfolded.
While singing they evolved and mutated the original song excerpt,
collaborating and communicating in a space/time of alterity.
The artists have never met each other in the flesh.
They sang until the last one of them decided to stop.
In both places a space was reserved for the live performance
and another for the video and audio projection.
A camera was fixed on each of their faces singing to each other.
This live video of both faces was projected both in the
Living Room space and in the Black Mountain College
Museum and Arts Center space.
The performance was also visible on the web at http://selfworld.net.”
Curt Cloninger has been doing of late with the
strange, wonderful & categorisation denying oeuvre of Annie Abrahams.
of Double Blind – the complete documentation will be on show
as part of Annie Abraham’s first UK solo show at HTTP gallery
in North London, in addition to new works and performances.
The opening is on Friday night & all are welcome – if you’re in
or near London it’ll be well worth getting along to.Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT
Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT (2009, 23MB, 2:40 min.)
during the installation of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Vito Acconci #2
Advice (clip, 2006, 2MB, 58 secs)
Acconci Studio Presentation (2006, 36MB, 29:02 min)
his later architecture and design period.
One vid is a little lollipop -advice to the young-
extracted from a longer interview and profile on
designboom.com.
The second is a much more substantial
and utterly fascinating presentation given at the launch of
LAB magazine in 2006.
What an astonishing human being!
Wreck & Salvage – Fun with Muybridge
Fun with Muybridge (2009, 18 MB, 1:30 min)
Erik Nelson, Adam Quirk & Aaron Valdez
What makes for a grievable life?
What makes for a grievable life? – Ashley Watson (2009, 19.2MB, 5:39)
how we choose to value certain lives and not others.
Julien Maire – Digit
Infosphere Aesthetics – disney NASA borg
Infosphere Aesthetics (2008, 13 MB, 3:12 min.)
[dNASAb] at Cress Galleries, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Tarlabasi Crawl – Jeremiah Day
Tarlabasi Crawl (2009, 18 MB, 8:23 min.)
knowledge, stories and identity through the migration of people and histories.
Annie Abrahams – Squad
by Annie Abrahams, Colette Tron et Emmanuelle Delafraye.
Annie Abrahams performs the movements whilst the others
read texts on the subject of fear, garnered, I believe, from the internet.
Grrrridwave – EXYZT and Boris Edelstein
Grrrridwave (2006, 60 MB, 4:26 min.)
of team Modul8 as part of the METAVILLA project
at the Architectural Biennale in Venice 2006.
Mark Napier at [DAM]Berlin Gallery
Venus 2.0 (2009, 8 MB, 30 sec.)
Mark Napier from 5th of December 2009 to 27th of January 2010.
‘Text Rain’ by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv
Text Rain (1999, 12 MB, 2:34 min.)
lift and play with falling letters in real time. The falling letters
form lines of a poem about bodies and language.
Zimoun – 216 prepared dc-motors / filler wire 1.0mm
216 prepared dc-motors / filler wire 1.0mm (2009, 10 MB, 36 sec.)
Zimoun – Organic and Mechanical installations
Woodworms I (2009, 8 MB, 26 sec.)
Wind & Styrofoam I (2009, 10 MB, 29 sec.)
Woodworms I is a sound installation based on live sounds
of woodworms. In Wind & Styrofoam I, 5 stations generate
unpredictable movements of Styrofoam balls.
