A Walk Into the Sea (2006, 21.3MB, 3:55 min.)
Re-enactment by Zach Layton of Ben Vautier’s 1963
performance a walk into the sea.
Great!
Category Archives: conceptual
Holographic Wainscoting again
Jamie Allen – Killing Lena
Killing Lena (2007, 37.42MB, 2:13 min.)
Jamie Allen sent us a link to this Processing-utilizing piece
of work by him after having seen the post we did on Processing recently.
He explains it very clearly & cogently on his site so I’m just going to lift his text:
The “first lady of the internet,” was Playboy’s Miss November 1972.
Her turn-offs include “Men who wear shorts with white socks and black shoes.”
Lena’s issue was the most widely circulated issue of Playboy ever, selling 7,161,561 copies.
A single scanned image of Lena’s Playboy appearance subsequently took up favor
amongst digital imaging researchers. It has been used as a comparative standard
in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of image compression tests, publications and shoot-outs.
“Killing Lena” is a rendered video series in which Lena’s most famous photo is repeatedly
exposed to the compression algorithms she unwittingly helped to develop.
The videos presented are compression pornography, the suggestion of a
“compressivist art”, and a poetic digital demise.
Not much to add, dear viewer, except to observe the close kinship with
Alvin Lucier’s tremendous sound piece “I am Sitting in A Room”
3 with Heart from Brittany Shoot
Heart::Casing (2007, 3.29MB, 26 secs)
Heart::Arteries (2007, 11.9MB, 1:33 min.)
Heart::Break (2007, 5.35MB, 35 secs)
So first to the Elephant In The Room. There’s just no tiptoeing
round the fact that Brittany Shoot is just a top name
for a videoblogger. OK – we’re all feeling better now. To the work.
Take a look: kind of understated, yet smart;
concise, neat, but poetry to it too.
Sometimes the very-short-video form leaves you
feeling slightly underwhelmed, cheated almost.
This is the opposite, a slowburn in the mind.
More before long.
La Langue/The Tongue
La Langue (2007, 20.2MB, 2:06 min.)
Warning: this piece is genuinely somewhat disturbing…
Beautifully made & also deeply chilling work from French vlogger
jolipunk. Astonishing.
LA LANGUE est une tentative video sur notre rapport à la liberté d’expression.
Une succession de lents dézooms nous aspire dans une fatalité qui nous échappe
inexorablement.
Un songe qui nous confronte à notre rapport au language où la vision sanglante
de la perte de l’outil de communication est volontairement hypnotique et ésthétisée.
Le spectateur : il detourne le regard ou il contemple avec perversité et impuissance….
THE TONGUE is an attempt at a video about our relation to freedom of expression.
A succession of slow zooms-out draws us in to a destiny which eludes us inexorably.
A dream which confronts us with our connection to language and where the bloody
vision of the loss of our instrument of communication is deliberately hypnotic and aestheticised.
As for the spectator, either they avert their gaze or they stare, impotently and perversely…
Music : M83, Moon Child
Zur Farbenlehre/Theory of Colours
Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours) (2007, 23.6MB, 7:25 min.)
Luscious & painterly mobile phone derived piece from
Steve Jones’s Azimuth Films
Music: ‘Vladivostok’ by Sonmi451
Holographic Wainscoting
The Butter Skin Outtakes (2006, 12MB, 1:16 min.)
Haloweb (2006, 14.2MB, 2:04 min.)
Work from Carl Burton, trading as holographicwainscoting.
I love this stuff. It’s strange but not simply strange, you know,
not just something you grin or raise an eyebrow at and then move on.
There’s substance & there’s an austere lyricism (if that ‘s not too much of an oxymoron)
to the substance too.
We’re going to do three posts on this work & you’ll see an interesting evolution
from the first two to the final one.
Joseph Farbrook – Simulacra
Simulacra (2004, 24MB, 7:06 min.)
‘Shot from within a gaming environment, Joseph Farbrook takes a critical look at games that we continuously play. Just as virtual-reality is a consensual hallucination, structures such as money, power, and ownership are also consensual dreams.’
from 312.ca
2 from Sam Renseiw
Basic sound techniques involve pruning (2007, 3.53MB, 52 sec)
On interference fringe patterns (2007, 11.5MB, 1:38 min.)
From the excellent Spacetwo:Patalab of Sam Renseiw.
Smart, wry poetry.
OK Go in LEGO – Amy Fowler
OK Go in Lego (2007, 53.3MB, 3:11 min.)
Rather wonderful re-construction in LEGO by Amy Fowler
of the OK Go video for A Million Ways .
Kind of rendering the minimal..er..minimaler.
By Mica Scalin.