Category Archives: participatory

Opto-Isolator – Golan Levin and Greg Baltus

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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.

Morrisa Maltz – Girl Space

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Girl Space (2010, 22MB, 3:45)

Another great piece from Morrisa Maltz, whom we first showed here last week.
This puts me in mind, stylistically, of another DVblog favourite, Donna Kuhn.
I mean that entirely positively – the content & tone are clearly different but there’s
something of the same dynamism and confidence in working with very diverse materials
in both artists.

Eyecode – Golan Levin

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Eyecode (2007, 7MB, 52 sec.)

“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.

Julien Maire – Digit

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Digit (2006, 6 MB, 1:27 min.)

A live performance by Julien Maire.

SNABBEAS – GOTO80 and Ilan Katin

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SNABBEAS (2009, 107 MB, 4:36 min.)

Music video for the GOTO80 track ‘Snabbeas’ by Ilan Katin
of Team Modul8.

Grrrridwave – EXYZT and Boris Edelstein

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Grrrridwave (2006, 60 MB, 4:26 min.)

Collaborative installation between EXYZT and Boris Edelstein
of team Modul8 as part of the METAVILLA project
at the Architectural Biennale in Venice 2006.

Videography – Auto Exposure and White/Black BGs

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Auto Exposure and White/Black BGs (2009, 23MB, 3:53 min.)

Educational video by Ian Parks.

Subterranean Homesick Blues – Bob Dylan

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subterranean homesick blues (1967-2005, 7.5MB, 1:37 min.)

Clip from –

15 Minutes – Marque Cornblatt

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15 Minutes – clip (1997, 8.2 MB, 5:09 min.)

Early clip made for the web.
Over the course of several weeks, guerrilla-style film and video crews followed
artists 24 hours a day, and along with actual news coverage, tell the tale
of taking the media and the art world hostage in an effort to manufacture
’15 Minutes’ of fame.
From Marque Cornblatt.

The Yes Men Fix The World

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The Yes Men Fix The World (2009, 37 MB, 2:30 min)

Coming to theaters in October, The Yes Men – Fix The World.
They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives
of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits,
the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their
corporate targets in ever more extreme ways – basically doing everything
that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.

More vids here and here.