Videos on Art

Rhizome at Scope

In this short video, Marisa Olson, speaks about All Systems Go!, an exhibition she curated for Rhizome at this years Scope Art Fair. She does an excellent job of explaining the fun but complex works in the show and how they represent the concept of systems art. I found this idea particularly relevant to my work in this space. I truely believe that art can not only build tools to help us function in the donimant systems but that with it, we can build new systems for better living.

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SCOPE Art fair

Linda and Eric demonstrate how to re-recreate a valuable piece of video art by a famous artist in your own home!
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MTAA

Back in December, Doron sent me over to Artist's Space to film some of the works in this show. After which, MTAA was kind enough to let me come to their studio and find out what their project was all about.

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Knit Pro

This is a video I made for DVblog of Cat Mazza and her  work at Artist's Space .
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My Year in Art
Here are all the videos I made this past year, documenting and/or interacting with art.
I am looking forward to another amazing year in art

kicking 2006 off by making several videos on artists for Dvblog.
Coming soon!

NYC - Nov, 2005

At The Museum Of Modern Art. A large crowd had gathered to watch a smallish video screen, I was surprised to find that this is the work that has them riveted. Not because it isn't great, but rather, because it's available on Netflicks, my $20.00 a ticket museum going, friends?! I did pay $10.00 to see Christian Marclay's filmscore film with 3 different soundtracks perfomed live, a few moments of this are included in my video. Also, in this clip, Deiter Roth's video studio diary stored in VHS played on TVs in a room of shelves.

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Falling Water

Filmed on a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.

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Elmgreen+Dragset - July 2005

Jenai and I explore End Station, an installation by artists Elmgreen +Dragset at Bohan Foundation. The art becomes a space for an action, an interaction, a solo performance, an intstrument to be played.

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Barry Mcgee - June, 2005

Barry McGee's installation at Deitch Projects. I visited with Liza and my parents. We were all thrilled.
Music by Gorillaz seemd fitting. click picture to watch

Galleries NYC - April, 05

I always return to the galleries. Why?
Who cares what they put inside the white box anymore?
Still I go, and I look.

Caspar Stracke's turning video screens, Rob Fischer's structures of detritus, funhouse mirror in a gallery I can't remember, something by Ian Kiaer, and an epilogue of David Dempewolf at Columbia's MFA show.
There is something to it. Isolating the object, the moment and seeing it apart from what it is not. Step back, step aside, if need be, step inside and allow yourself to see differently. click picture to watch

Kayti Didriksen

Kayti Didricksen sketches as we watch Brendan Benson and band play.

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Caveh Zahedi

In this video, I watch a video by Caveh Zahedi as many times as I can continue to respond to it in a sincere manner.

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Sheryl Oring

Sheryl Oring's work I Wish To Say, invites you to send a message to the President of The United States.

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Bus Obscura

This is video from inside the Bus Obscura. It'll never really describe what that ride was like, but it'll have to do. The experience reminds me why I have been in love with photography for so long. There's magic in it. As much as I can learn about light and its properties technically, spending years in dark rooms absorbing it through a tiny hole, so I can examine every particle it reflects off of, there is still this mysterious value of X. Why does it work? Why should it work? It just does. It's magic.

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Douglas Fishbone

From the DIVA Fair. We find this video in a bathroom. The artist, Douglas Fishbone found all of the images on the internet and narrates it himself. HERE is another great video of his. It is called 'The Ugly American', again he uses appropriated imagery, and his own 'lunatic ramblings'. There is playfulness and critique at work in his juxtapositions - appying a personal perspective to the crazy over mediated world around you. I completly relate to this syle of working. It is empowering to take the thing you have the most comtempt for and reinvent it as your own. This is the cure for the sickness but only a few can provide the necessary 'spoon full of sugar' to make the medicine go down.
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DIVA - March, 2005

Beth and I went to every art fair this weekend in NYC. Some years this depresses me but this year I am very excited. She reminds me that really it's just a 'convention' for art people. I hadn't thought of it like that. But she's right. We get to 'geek out' together only every one is dressed really well. DIVA is all digital and video galleries. It's location in a hotel was odd but fitting.  The gallery ower has her shoes off, she sits cross legged on a couch with a glass of wine. We eat candy from a dish on the coffee table and watch TV with her.

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The Gates - Feb., 2005

Four videos from Christo and Jean-Claude's monumental installation in Central Park.
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We seem to have lost the enormous public art project we have come to see.

We are reminded just how big Central Park is.

Eventually, we find our way out of the forest and come upon The Gates. It's japanese tori gates. They have turned Central Park into a shrine. 

I overheard a few kids on the street in my neighborhood, one says 'you know this artist christo? he makes gigantic awesome art?', to which the other replies 'you mean the orange stuff?'. 

Last clip from The Gates. Most seemed to agree that the major affect of the peice was the effect on general mood of people who visited it.

If you want more gates videos look HERE.

Wooden Mirror

For this videos I cut up images of Daniel Rozin's digital mirror two friends having an analog ichat with the music of Ted Leo.

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Storm King, Sculpture Park

Fimed on a visit to Stormking Art Center. We see trees in an art context and art in a natural landscape. My friend Ellie describes her experience at the  Smithsonian museum of native american history and art.

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Paul Wirhun - The Skull Project

This video filmed at St. Marks Church in Oct., 2004. It documents my experience with Paul Wirhun's Skull Project.

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NYC Galleries - Oct., 2004

A video overview of the artwork I was inspired by this month.
Niagra Falls video by Wolfgang Staehle a pioneer in internet video art.
The the pure ingenuity of Julianne Swartz.
And finally, Brad Melhus' video installation.

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Juliane Swartz - Periscope

On my walk home from work, I stumble upon this work by Julianne Swartz.
It turns into a lesson in communication technology.

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