Primary and other Remote Locations

Primary and other Remote Locations
Primary and other Remote Locations (2006, 44.5MB, 3 min)

We’ve featured the work of Brett Stalbaum & Paula Poole here before

*****Lewis Carroll like note – when I say before I might mean after
– I can’t remember whether we’ve reposted their other work yet –
something to look forward to perhaps!*****

a couple of times. I’ve been mystified in public here before (ditto)…are
the videos a work in themselves or merely the documentation of the computing/walking/painting/whatever that comprises the process?
I feel like it’s the former (no justification except my bones & the fact that
these vids are both clear & totally elusive..& it makes me a candidate
for Pseud’s corner but it seems to me no accident that the experience
-the way what seems initially straightforward somehow recedes
of watching them is not unlike that of reading Emerson)
You can check out the details of the work process on the paintersflat
site but watch the video first..it’s ravishing..it conjures up the richness
of the process so beautifully & excitingly & oh now I’m in a loop because
of course I don’t know what the process was like because
I’ve only seen the videos. But they are sticky & fragrant &
evocative & funny in my head…
These folks are doing something very right.

Midnight in The Deli – MTAA

MTAA in The Studio
MTAA in The Studio (2006, 33MB, 5:49 min.)

MTAA’s ’10 Pre-Rejected, Pre-Approved Performances’, was included in
Performa05. The work, selected by an online voting process is described as follows:
An installation is created with $100 worth of materials bought at the nearest
24-hour ATM-enabled deli or convienance store.
The materials are purchased at midnight.

In this video, Mica interviews MTAA in their studio &
gets the lowdown on this project and more.

By Mica Scalin.

Nathaniel Stern – the odys series

the storyteller
the storyteller (2001-4, 13.3MB, 2:24 min.)

Six pieces originally shown as a gallery installation.
Says their creator, the artist Nathaniel Stern :
‘The odys series consists of six short digital video poems / monologues for
small screen viewing in an intimate gallery space. By stuttering between
odys actions and words, listeners construct his person. As he attempts
to re-member, bringing the past back to his body and calling it his own,
listeners attempt to piece together a story for themselves. Viewers are
encouraged to re-visit and jump over juxtaposed media, and create a
shifting collage of, and in response to, his person.’

This is work of huge ambition both aesthetically & technically &
it’s brave and it’s edgy, sometimes to the point of being uncomfortable to
watch. Neither does Stern fear engaging with complex & difficult ideas.
Definitely worth more than one viewing.

noise
noise (2001-4, 11.4MB, 2:08)

they may be giant
they may be giant (2001-4, 12.3MB, 2:06 min.)

multiplicity
multiplicity (2001-4, 5.3MB, 1:17 min.)

upstandard
upstandard (2001-4, 14.2MB, 2:24 min.)

itown
itown (2001-4, 14.6MB, 2:32 min.)

8 BIT – documentary about art and video games

8bit.mov
8 BIT trailer (2006, 8.7MB, 1:28 min.)

“Premiering in New York at the Museum of Modern Art,
8 BIT is a hybrid documentary examining the influence of
video games on contemporary culture.

then and now – Antonio Mendoza

thenandnow
then and now (2006, 5MB, 20 sec. loop)

“although it’s only twenty seconds there’s a bunch of stuff from DVblog in it:
iggy’s hand, the gnarls barkley video, a piece from the nuclear attack video,
and the begining of another video from some guy called Moljevic.
and, of course, there’s that great riff from yes. “

Antonio Mendoza.