Category Archives: new media art

My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar – Carlo Zanni

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My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar (2008, 30 MB, 4:10 min.)

“Set in the city of Ahlen, Germany, “My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar“, imitates an amateur’s film of the landscape framed at sunset.
While the city strip is pre recorded the sky is captured in real time from a webcam shooting the sky of Naples (Italy) at sunset and as such, always changing.
The work, confronting themes such as exile, migration and border control, is enhanced by a poem by the esteemed author Ghada Samman and music by the international band Gotan Project and legendary composer Gabriel Yared.”

Clip from the beautiful project by Carlo Zanni.

Scenes of Provincial Life – A Generative QuickTime Movie by Michael Szpakowski

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Scenes of Provincial Life (2005, 3.5MB, each loop 25 sec.)

“Well, it does what it says on the box – let it loop and pretty much every cycle will be
different, both image & sound. #87 in a continuing sequence, my first but
definitely won

Jillian Mcdonald – Me and Billy Bob

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Me and Billy Bob (2004, 22.7MB, 7:04 min.)

Jillian inserted herself into existing film clips as the recurring
object of actor Billy Bob Thornton

L’un la poup

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One the puppet of the other (2007, 178 MB, 26 min.)

Video composed of a webcam streams captured during a performance
of Annie Abrahams and Nicolas Frespech in 2007 at the
Webflash Festival in Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Speaks French with English subtitles.

Flat Earth – Thomson & Craighead

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Flat Earth (2007, 22 MB, 7:08 min.)

“Flat Earth is a desktop documentary, which takes the viewer on
a seven minute trip around the world so that we encounter a series
of fragments taken from real peoples’ blogs. These fragments are
knitted together to form a kind of story or singular narrative.”
from Thomson & Craighead.

TRIPTYCH TV – the 3 maestros

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chocolate reign (2007, 600k, 10 sec. loop)

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lost highway jam (2007, 500k, 4 sec. loop)

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push up worm (2007, 600k, 10 sec. loop)

From hipdom’s answer to the three tenors,
a little taste of triptych.tv
Fearless (& peerless) trailblazers; continuing innovators:
abe linkoln
antonio mendoza
jimpunk

RED ATTACK – Computer Virus Project 2.0

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Red Attack (2001, 7MB, 1:38 min.)

Joseph Nechvatal‘s 2001 Computer Virus Project 2.0 follows along the same lines as previous viral works by Nechvatal in 1992 – works where an unpredictable progressive virus operates on a degradation/transformation of an image. Using a C++ framework, Joseph Nechvatal and his programmer/collaborator Stephane Sikora have brought Nechvatal’s early computer virus project into the realm of artificial life (A-Life) (i.e. into a synthetic system that exhibits behaviors characteristic of natural living systems). With Computer Virus Project 2.0, elements of artificial life have been introduced in that viruses are modeled to be autonomous agents living in/off the image. The project simulates a population of active viruses functioning as an analogy of a viral biological system.

jimpunk – DVblogH4ck

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heroine (2006, 1.3MB, 21 sec loop)

night at the opera remix
nato1 (2006, 422KB, 20 sec loop)

Christ! -if it’s not nailed down he’ll remix it.
jimpunk does the biz on dvblog.
The whole glorious sequence here.
We’re not worthy… we’re not worthy…

Guthrie Lonergan

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#3 (2006, 0.3MB, 4 sec)

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#5 (2006, 0.3MB, 7 sec)

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#6 (2006, 1.9MB, 4 sec)

Says Tom Moody: Recommended: Guthrie Lonergan’s 9 Short Music Videos.
Reminiscent of BEIGE’s cheesy blue (green?) screen vids,
each is built around some corporate sound
(ringtone, Microsoft boot-up noise, DVD intro)
that craps up our daily lives. Also good:

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Bricks (2006, 5.9MB, 1:12 min)

Mark Napier at bitforms gallery nyc

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smoke (excerpt) (2007, 7MB, 56 sec.)

‘A symbol of the human desire to monumentalize ideas in physical form,
the Empire State Building is a subject of Mark Napier‘s artwork in the past four years.
This icon of American hegemony is key to exploring shifting structures of power,
specifically the transition from steel to software as the medium of power in our time.’
In Smoke, a generative software installation projected on the bitforms gallery wall.
Images from the show –here.