Soft Cinema – Interview with Lev Manovich

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lev_interview_1 (2003, 2MB, 2:12 min.)

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lev_interview_2 (2003, 2MB, 2:08 min.)

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lev_interview_3 (2003, 2.5MB, 2:14 min.)

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lev_interview_4 (2003, 2.7MB, 1:45 min.)

A 4 part interview on Soft Cinema with Lev Manovich
the Mecca of new media arts.
DEAF 03, Rotterdam.

Also: “On Database Driven Movies”.

Winds Across the Inner Sea – John F. Simon

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flip (2007, 3MB, 2:44 min.)

threshold
threshold (2007, 4.4MB, 2:56 min.)

This body of work by John F. Simon was shown in September 2007
in a solo show at the Gering & Lopez Gallery in New York City.
Playing between instinct and idea, this series of large-scale compositions
combine laser cut Formica and LCD screens with endlessly changing software.
Each composition merges the physicality of the material world with the fluid
inner world of code. The LCD screen functions simultaneously as a visual element
of the surface and a window into the system’s evolution.

Talan Memmott – land/wave


land/wave:02.08 (2009, 39MB, 1:10 min)


land/wave:03.02 (2009, 42MB, 1:17 min)

These pieces stand in stark and interesting contrast to the
magic realist whimsy of Memmott’s collabs with Sandy Florian
which we showed here a few months back.
I’d be interested to know whether these new works are completely,
as it were, synthesised or whether, lurking at the back,
there’s some real world footage.
The first piece puts me in mind quite forcibly of a journey by train
(as if the abstract shapes and images had been piled upon some
manipulated footage thereof..)
Dunno.
Good though! –striking. Talan?

Cinzia Cremona – Solo Show

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Solo Show (2006, 25MB, 6:22 min.)

Solo Show takes the viewer on a short trip in a complicit game of art making.
The image overlaps the body of the viewer with that of the artist. As the frame
moves from place to place, formats and titles are recalled in an attempt to
uncover the dynamics of making meaning by calling things art.

by Cinzia Cremona.