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Notes to Self

A friend recently reminded me that he comes to my blog and that I no longer explain my work here.
There is a reason for that. The reason is that I got tired of explaining my work.

However, I put the work in the public forum that is the internet, for a reason. And, I do have people that come here to check out what I am doing and, like my friend, they may feel a little confused, so I'll make an effort to start talking about art here again.

Right now I am considering how to develop the walkabout project. Thus far, the project consists of a mostly private practice and passive sort of distribution. I wanted to have a documentary project grow organically out of a simple action which I perform everyday, an action which is not unique or special in any way.

This is what I have learned about it so far:

It is sub-conscious and meditative.
It has to do with timing both natural rhythms and imposed patterns.
It is time travel.
It is figure ground relationships.
This is not so surprising because all are themes I have explored in other projects.

The project includes 2 types of moving images:

1) Nodes, hubs, scenes, events - In which, objects and people move through the frame horizontally and on occasion vertically. I/camera stand still for a minimum of 60 seconds to allow passage of bodies through the frame. I am observing the scene as these bodies are making exits and entrances. I am in stasis, rest state.

2)Passages, paths, scene changes  - In which figure/camera moves over ground. I am in constant motion for 60 seconds or more to. My feet move the ground beneath me, physically pushing it behind me and  into the past  and simultaneously moving my own body into the future, into the next frame, node, scene.

Possible ideas for further development:

Incorporate video clips from other contributors or existing media sources, but not sure yet how.
It must maintain the level of fluidity and lack of overt messaging - or must it?
Consider what is catalyst for change from stasis (of a node video) to movement (of a pathway video).
What might connect the two?

What should pop up in my feeds this morning but an interview (link) with prolific writer Will Self , talking about his own walkabout experiences.

That's all I got for now.

The Horror for Fear Revere 2007

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This is the video I made for the Fear Revere screening. I set out to make something very simple about the basic fun of scaring yourself. It became political due to the props I had at hand to made the video. This gave the piece a more layered and the same time more overt meaning than I had originally intended and I think it was ultimately good for the end result. What do you think?

Fear Revere Screening

I haven't had a chance to post video recently because I have been busy putting together a special Halloween screening event, here in NYC. If you are in the area please come if you are not.. don't worry there will be online tricks and treats for you, too!

FEAR REVERE, a screening of frightening creativity.

Tuesday October 30th, 7pm @ The Pioneer Theater in New York City

Artists and filmmakers present their reflections on the genre of horror and the general idea of making something for the purpose of frightening ones audience. Boo!
This event was organized by Mica Scalin for the Pioneer's Fourth Annual Month of Horror, Terror, and General Mayhem.

Videos by:

Michael Amter, Santiago Cohen, Bill Dyszel, Jenny Hyde, Bradley Hyppa, Raymond Kristiansen, Joe Nanashe, Rob Parrish, Memo Salazar, Mica Scalin, Noah Scalin , Melissa Schubeck and Wunderkrafthaus

Tickets available at the door or online:
http://www.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=109457

The Two Boots Pioneer Theater
155 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A and B) NYC
(212) 591-0434

Broadway at Times Square

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Ways to Leave (with live soundtrack)

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This video was created while I was an artist in residence at Makor. Much of our discourse was on the subject of wandering which was certainly relevant to my work at the time as a wandering videoblogger. This film is made up of video clips originally  posted here and edited in collaboration with a very talented composer, Oren Neiman, who created and performed the original soundtrack live at it's one and only theatrical screening in May 2005 in NYC. I am finally getting around to putting this online with the music!

Inspire and be inspired

"In the times of bigness, spectaculars, one hundred million movie productions, I want to speak for the small, invisible acts of human spirit, so subtle, so small, that they die when brought out under the clean lights. I want to celebrate the small forms of cinema, the lyrical form, the poem, the watercolor, etude, sketch, portrait, arabesque, and bagatelle, and little 8mm songs. In the times when everybody wants to succeed and sell, I want to celebrate those who embrace social and daily tailor to pursue the invisible, the personal things that bring no money and no bread and make no contemporary history, art history or any other history. I am for art which we do for each other, as friends."

click to read entire Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto by Jonas Mekas

1800 Frames on the Big Screen

t As promised the 1800 Frames Take 3 exhibition continues!
Next weekend we will be screening the entire hour long exhibition of one(ish) minute films in a real sit down movie theatre in NYC!
That's cool!
Tickets can be purchased online HERE.

Lee Wells (my co-curator), Ben and Will from CWow and many of the awesome artists, included in the show will be there. Hope you can make it!

1800 Frames now at Scope!

1800 Frames Take 3, an exhibition of one minute films which was curated by myself and Lee Wells for Cwow, will be hitting the road. First stop, the contemporary art fair Scope NYC, as part of Cinema Scope at Lincoln center.

55 videos by 30 artists
Michael Amter, Hackworth Ashley, Betsey Biggs,
Brian Caiazza, G. H. Hovagimyan, Beth Chucker,
Santiago Cohen, Maria Dumlao, Carla Edwards,
Merav Ezer & Adi Shniderman, Celeste Fichter,
Jesse Houlding, Jenny Hyde, Bradley Hyppa,
Jose Insua, Kensuke Koike, Beth Krebs,
Stephanie Lempert, Joe Nanashe, Matthew Nicholas,
Robert O'Connor, Arzu Ozkal Telhan, Jennifer Proctor,
Charlene Rule, Memo Salazar, Melissa Schubeck,
Claudia Sohrens, Dana Sperry, and Michael Szpakowski

1800 Frames online!

The entire 1800 Frames exhibition is available for viewing online!

I was invited by Ben Goldman and William Ortega to help curate this anual video exhibit with Lee Wells, of Perperual Art Machine.

These 55 one-minute videos by 30 artists were screened as an installation in the beautiful CWow gallery in Newark, NJ.
But the gallery also did an amazing job setting up this online version of the exhibition on their website. They have also made a full res DVD available for purchase. We will be setting up some additional screenings over the next few months, as well.

i.dent.it (y)

I am so thrilled that one of my videos will be included in a show in Dumbo, this Saturday, during the DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival. Check out this beautiful card...
Hope you can make it to the show!

Liquid Perception

I've been travelling a lot this month. I am not allowed to film anything new untill I deal with the 10 tapes piled up on my table. So, this is the story, picking it up in the early-middle part, like any good story there are many perfectly fine starting places and relevant vantage points throughout. Be sure to look here, here, here, here for more.

Special thanks to my dear freind Sara Heifetz who performed as 'the voice of Gilles Deleuze' in this video. The text is taken completely out of context, from his book Cinema 1 - the movement image.  

    a subjective perception is one in which the images vary in relation to a central and prevlidged image; an objective perception is 
    one where, as in things, all images vary in relation to one another, on all their faets and in all their parts. These definitions       
    affirm not only the difference between two poles of perception, but also the possibility of passing from the subjective to the    
    objective pole. For the more the privledged center is itself put into movement, the more it will tend toward an acentered system
    where the images vary in relation to one another and tend to become like the reciprocal actions and vibrations of a pure
    matter. What can be more subjective than a delerium, a dream a hallucination? But what can be closer to a materiality made up
    of luminous wave and molecular interaction? (on google )

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Jon Jost

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I met Jon Jost, this weekend, at the Woods Hole Film Festival. I watched his film Oui non. HOly SHiT- it was way too familiar in its conception and form to what I have intended from this space here. Here, where feel I  am always grasping and grabbing at the pieces of this puzzle. Feeling like I have clubbed hands, banging away at this keyboard every so often managing to contrive one second of grace from it.  And he made this film 2 years before I started this. Where will I be 10 years from now?  I will have to take some time thinking about how to write about this film, will certainly help me consider my film with new perspective.

Here is something Jost wrote:
This film is about how we turn reality into fiction, and create reality from fiction. Most visitors to Paris, a real city, arrive with a preconceived and in many senses fictional map, imprinted by history, politics, and the arts, so that the city seen has already been prescribed, just as the spectator’s preconditioning determines which film they will (or won’t) see.

Oui Non is also about the transition from celluloid film to digital aesthetics, from rigidity to plasticity, from filming with the burden of large costs to making of works almost without cost. It asks the viewer to set aside the habits of a spectator, the expectation and anticipation of “a story,” and instead to simply look and observe as in life. And to question.

For the maker it is very much a transitional work, a step from one place to another. It is a farewell to film. (link)

I am suprised his name has not come up in the world of 'videoblogging theory', only that damn (lovely) Trauffaut quote over and over.

Over the course of our short conversation, he said everything I want to tell people about filmmaking, or what isn't said enough, or what I need to be reminded of, and he has 40 years of experience to back it up. On my bus ride back to NYC, he and his wife were incidentally, seated infront of me, while I edited this video.  Kind of awkward but also fitting.

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Word Play

Re-edited the Tag video to fit more with a song by Kathy.
Watch.

Video Tag

Earlier this year, I was lucky enought to be asked to participate in a game of video TAG!
Scott (of the tremendous Sketch-it blog), sent me a tiny 'disposable'  digital video camera,
I was given simple instructions:
Record 5 minutes
Send the camera to someone else
This is the video Jenai and I made with the camera, it's an urban haiku.

The camera went to 5 different people, and travelled around the world.
All of the clips can be seen here.

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Ways to Leave

10 min video I made from clips collected on this site in 2005. It was originally, created for the big screen, durring my time as artist in residence at Makor. Last week, I featured this version of it on The PAN with a commercial I added in the middle.

Nice for me to see it again, right now, while I am going through all my materials, re-organizing deciding how to move forward.
Hope you enjoy.

Broken

This is a video for a song by House of Freaks.

I will be focusing on making videos for The PAN
Music Moments, using songs by bands I like, which don't have videos.

Filmed on the train down to Virginia and edited it on the ride back to NY. I have loved this train ride, in the past. It provided a much needed transition time from NYC to Richmond.

But this time is difficult. I have not visited since the murder of the Harvey family and I am still broken from it. I don't know if I will ever fully repair. I find myself crying most of the ride down and back. Making the video is difficult because of this, but cathartic, I am hoping...

Notice how the shift in the camera's perspective alters the way the land passes outside the train window. With the camera's lense parallel to the window, the trees pass by so quicky that they become an abstraction on a flat flickering screen. When the camera's lense is at a 45 degree angle from the window the world outside gains enough depth to become a doirama of streets lined with toy houses.

It is amazing how a small alteration in physical perspective can change so much.

Systems, Context and Memory

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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The other reason I am sharing this video is because, it is a good example of what a curator can do. In selecting individual works of art and placing them in a relevant context a good curator can give the work greater stregnth to communicate a message collectively.

I have been thinking much about putting the pieces together, it's what I do as an artist, regardless of medium. As a photographer , a collage maker a filmmaker, an image collector.
I am always collecting pieces and then finding the the ways they fit together. Usually I put them together in an order which pleases me more than their original organization.

This is part of what The PAN is doing with 'clip culture', selecting short video clips, putting them in a context and derive greater meaning from it. If somethimes it is chaotic and noisey, it means that in certain cases, chaos and noise is important.

I, for one, have a terrible memory for fragments and pieces alone, also, I can't memorize for shit.
I actually refused to memorize times tables in second grade because I felt it was a waste of time. In retrospect...would have been a good idea (what else could I possibly have needed to focus my 7 year old brain on?) In the present, my memory is tested most in my study of tap dancing.
I have been dancing for many years and I know how to do the individual steps, its the combinations of steps I can't remember.  As a non-beginner, the teacher no longer breaks the combinations down, you are expected to follow along and figure out where you are having a problem and then ask for help. As I said, I cannot remember the combinations of steps. It's not abnormal, it's just that I am not doing the important something to help me remember. The something that should be so natural. The key is to sing a song. Sing any song that fits the patterns of the dance. Sing a  song that you will remember. Sing Thriller or the Brady Bunch theme song or Beethoven's 9th, whatever!
When you physicallly sing or hum this song you will use you another part of your brain, which will help you will remember the fucking dance.

In this way, context, I believe, is the key to memory. We as a culture need to improve our individual and collective memories. Which goes directly into the idea of mnemonic decvices ( the method of loci  - introduced to me by Stephen when I was AIR at Makor ), which it what this site is for me. Ok, enough bloggy-ness, go to dvblog or PAN and watch some videos.

DIY Sexy Art

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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Shoot!

This is a video I made for DVblog of Cat Mazza and her  work at Artist's Space .
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Just cleaning house and gearing up beacuse,
it's almost that time again..Art week in NYC!
It's the geek con for art people, like me, there's the Armory show , Scope, and my new favorite DIVA.
Here are some videos I made at last years events.

 

Money Moves Me (free online porn poker sex)

At the museum, a large crowd is gathered to watch what is playing in a smallish video screen, I am surprised that this is the work that has them riveted. Not because it isn't great. I personally, love and have watched it many a time, 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. 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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Model Redevelopment

I take a walk down Main Street in Homestead, PA. and Daniel tells me about the buildings he is re-constructing and how they had to fight a million dollar lawsuit to fend off CVS.  It's all about setting a precedent. Also, some models, glide down the runway, allowing me to use them as a metaphor. I am not quite sure yet what it means, but it just seemed fitting. Maybe you can tell me.

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what I am talking about.

Something to watch

Much inspired by video I have seen in galleries this fall.

Omer Fast at Postmasters.

Daniel Pflumm at Green Naftali

Krzystof Wodiczko at Lelong

Candice Breitz at Sonnabend, not to be missed.

Laurie Anderson is always showing new work, and even my friend Champ, has video in a show.

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Fallingwater

The jewish new year and my birthday conveniently coincide. I am taking this week to clean house. I am watching each of the  tapes in the pile on my table. They have stacked up from the past months insanity. I was just doing things and documenting without the logging and editing which usually follows close behind. Last night, I had a dream that I had accidentally, remembered over my memories with new ones. I was a little annoyed with myself for having done so, but I was also happy with the new stuff. It occurred to me that the only reason I was even aware that I'd "recorded" over  olde memories was because a few seconds of it would pop-up here and there amidst the new ones. So, even though, it made me kind of upset, I was reassured and liked the overall randomness effect. So, I begin with the most recent and move backwards. This is last weekend's visit to Fallingwater.
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Play Station

We make art from the space around us. We make music from the sounds inside us. 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.
This is one in a series of videos documenting my interactions with other artists works, others are here.

Golly Gee, McGee!!

This is a  short video of a must-see exhibit by Barry McGee at Deitch Projects (by far, one of the best places to see art in NYC).
Music by Gorillaz seemd fitting.

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4.6MB?! Compression is not yet where I want it. I want 1 min. = 1MB. but at the encouragement of Drew I am trying to improve my audio/video quality. So, bear with me while I experiment. I find myself questioning; Why all the fuss for a one inch screen? why not? gotta keep up with the Joneses?
in other art news, Sheryl Oring presents a new work at Eldridge Street, opening this Thursday.

It's Sleeping

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every machine needs rest.
listening to the music of Garland of Hours for a lullabye, my own remix.

Wonder Twin Power

Christine and Fabio know how to use gravity but I think there's some wonder twin powers involved, too. First I saw them fly through the air and dodge cinderblocks as part of the  STREB dance company then I followed them to a club where they did this. 

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Art in April

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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.

Sketch Artist

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Kayte and I watch Brendan Benson and band play.

Beyond humor

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Melissa points me to Caveh Zahedi

i wish

Click Picture to Watch                                                                                              Sheryl helps me to send a message to the CEO of the USA. I don't know what to say. I make a joke. It doesn't feel very funny. 

 

Obscura

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Sometimes you go to see art and some times art comes to see you. On this occasion, the art pickes us up and takes us for a ride. 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.

 

Fishbone Art

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More 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. He tells me that he doesn't have a website yet, but maybe I can convince him to start a videoblog.  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.

Waking Dream

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Sometimes, very little happens and it is significant, still. Our states of stasis and motion define one another, cessation and continuance, starts, stops, interruptions and pauses.

Circuitous

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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.

Humidifier

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it's me, looking at you!

Having fun with all the new things I can do in my posts in typepad, since Andrew recommended (I think he actually said "WTF,Mica?!!") I use the firefox browser instead of the hateful safari. I must say, I really do love my typepad account. I am going to marry it.

I am in the texty mood and  this video could use a little explaining. I am being extra 'arty' this week in honor of Art Week here in NYC. So, if you've ever even called somthing 'arty' then this video is probably not for you. Then again, one of the reasons why I put my studio on the internets and expose my creative process for anyone who happens to stumble in, is that I truely believe that if artists make themselves available to people (any people, not just the ones who  can get them gallery shows or wret about them in a publication) then even the most challenging of work can become accesible. And since it is not possible to control the interpretation of my work, but if I open it up to the interpretations of many, it can take on a life beyond me. And this gives it far greater value.

I am being extra bloggy and name dropping/linking tonight because I am feeling inspired by the number of really exciting people I have been lucky enough to be in the presence of these days. Besides, working with Henry and Charlene (and the whole crazy world of Corrafilms) the past year on a film that I am so proud to have my name attached to, and getting to fire up Vaginavlog, this week with Emma and Sara, I have been smoldering from last Sunday's Makor Artist in Residence session, our discussion with David Lang was positively charged. And as you may have noticed, I am not that link happy here so, if I link it's an endorsment of it's utter goodness)
Speaking of which, tonight, I caught up with Jakob and met some really nice folks, several of whom are rather prolific bloggers. Looking at their blogs and thinking about the next phase of my work online( Jason and Jake ). I can only aspire to create such an amazing mini empire with my own videoblogs one day. Quality content and lots of it.

So FINALLY, about this video... This is part of The Emodicons, a project I have been working on for a few years now. Here you see me emoting with out any external cause. I am not thinking of a particular situation that would make me feel, that might be considered acting, and I do not claim to be an actor. I am playing with removing the situational context from the  emotional response. Can you just feel some thing? Because I can perform the prescribed emotive response does that mean I am validating my feelings. Are they validated when made publicl, and less so in private and undocumented?

The Gates pt.4

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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. One noted it as, the first major thing people have been drawn, en mass, to look at in NYC in years, that wasn't a pit of death. Noah likened it to the Dogs-in-Bonnets-Effect of our hometown easter parade. Henry nailed it, I think, when he said that it's a great place to take a picture of yourself.

If you want more gates videos we've been collecting them HERE.

The Gates pt.3

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Tonight I walk past a few kids on the street and hear one saying 'you know this artist christo? he makes gigantic awesome art?', to which the other replies 'you mean the orange stuff?'.  Got to hand it to Christo and JC, like the work or not but they are obscure, fringe thinkers and they got people talking about their art. It is proof that the avant guard (sorry to use the trite terminology but i have no other language for it) has something tangible to contribute directly to the mainstream. I am building a portal to make that happen more often.

The Gates pt.2

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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. 

The Gates pt.1

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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.

Be Mine?!

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I don't care for the cheap sentimentality of it but I do love the aesthetic. Love in plastic and pink and those heart shaped boxes! In honor of Fashion Week and Valentine's day, I decide to accesorize, think sweet, and take to the runway.  I borrowed the music from Fugazi, those damn drums sound so good.

Amercan Idols

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All that emotion. The pathos and performance, it is positively classical, greek even? To paraphrase Richard Wright, and the words of their souls were the lyrics of popular songs.

Squeaky Fingers

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An analog iChat, a digital mirror and the inspiration from Ted Leo

we live in the egg.

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The eye is a shadow made with my hand and a flashlight. Our electricity was frequently cut off. I wanted to make proto-photography with post photo tools or maybe it was the other way around. I am not sure anymore.  I was in the dark. I had a computer a mag light and a camera that could make small QT video.  The QT went onto VHS played through a busted TV and filmed in S8 and back into QT. I called it Transferrence because I seemed to always be struggling with the transfer between media. It was so difficult. Now it is so easy. The sound was recorded seperately. It is a theatre audience, a conversation and a live band.

Native American Abstract Expressionism

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Peak season for colors necessitates a visit to Stormking Art Center. We see trees in an art context and art in a natural landscape. Ellie describes her experience at the new Smithsonian museum of native american history and art.  Daniel poses a question.

Skulls

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St. Marks Church is an important part of my neighborhood. It is located on the only street in Manhattan that remains from the original (and geographically accurate) grid. And It feels like it, it feels solid- anchored. Its not a very large space but very lively. Sometimes a klezmer band plays in the plaza but more often it's a guy with a keyboard or boombox.  I've seen flea markets and free markets, meetings and meditation. On this day, I meet Paul, an artist, who invites me (and anyone else passing by) to participate in The Skull Project.

Art Comments

CLick here to see CommentsIt begins with nature, untamed and raw. Niagra Falls was once the most photographed (and drawn and painted and etched) place in the world. Looking at it in awe, a desire develops to control it, tame it for ones own benefit. Imagine the electricity. The video here was made by Wolfgang Staehle a pioneer in internet video art. What follows is pure ingenuity. Enchantment through lenses and the rythmic ticking of clocks, gears and gizmos. So many ideas to patent.Now the cities are dense and networked.  Anxiety is currency and its pulse is a comfort.  A parallel pulse of the mediated kind is made of vaguely familiar images and voices. Devoid of any content, they watch you and you watch them. It is a kind of dialog, kind of.  I have complained that art in galleries is stale but is it so good to be proved wrong.

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Yesterday, on my walk home from work, I get a lesson in communication technology. I had read about the project but stumbled upon this unintentionaly.  I am very happy with this video, makes up for the disconnectedness I felt in yesterday's post (though watching it again with sara last night, I think there is something valid there.)