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RELINE is a DVD from artists world wide employing custom software and modified hardware to create work that focuses on graphic abstraction, the broken output of dysfunctional systems, and the desire to re-vision both old and new technologies Bringing together a diverse array of work, this collection showcases artists engaged with the creation of new visual forms derived from experimental processes and techniques, often foregrounding the un-criticized role technology plays in our lives.

The image assemblages are created using everything from laptop-driven generative software, busted cameras, and hell-bent video mixers, all with a drive to heartily misuse industry standard production tools. Often seen lugging their projectors to and from venues ranging from dive bars to galleries, these video mavens have a pixel-itching desire to augment and enhance environments and static architecture.
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San Francisco based Reline, have compiled a diverse and edgy exploration of
contemporary video-bleed. Mapping out a wild range of glitchy yet compelling video-art pieces, some clips celebrate abstraction, some include narration, and others ride the pop-clip angle - usually with a twist. Threading the pieces together though, is a certain mark of quality, of originality, innovation. Artist bios and a synopsis accompanies each piece on the DVD and gives an intriguing insight into the processes and technologies each artist explores. Given the experimental nature of this project and the data capacity of DVD’s though, one might’ve expected this DVD to showcase some interactive pieces which stretched the capacity of DVD. As it stands, an excellent compilation though.

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Catalog Number: MC-146	Type: Shorts Compilation	Genre: Music
Copyright: 2002	Length:	Format: DVD Region: All regions
TV System: NTSC	ISBN:	UPC: 656605933122
Label: Reline

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Films In Compilation

ok.town re.work directed by Scott Pagano USA, Experimental, 2002, digital video, Color, 00:05:00 Rearrangement / restructuring of architectural forms and patterns found in downtown Oakland, CA. Custom image slicing & reforming systems create a lush graphic rhythm, transforming recognizable space into distant imagined cities.
Shadow of Digital Living, The directed by Phoenix Perry USA, Experimental, 0, 00:03:11 This film is about my experience with technology as it has evolved during my lifetime. I suffer from a condition called Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), caused by my constant and repetitive exposure to computers. Many people are beginning to break down biologically as a result of un-ergonomic, purposefully anti-body, input devices. As a result my interaction with technology is significantly different than the normal experience. I am seeing the fissures and breakdowns caused by breaking bodies and technologically obsolete machines. This film compares my hair to technologies unruly growth and development. RSI forced me to cut my long hair off because I simply could not physically comb through the knots. This happened simultaneously to the dot-boom/dot-bust economic crash. Using a broken DV camera, dropped during a political protest rally,and a circuit-bent video mixer, I created these re-processed images of my hair that become the metaphor for the way technology both positively and negatively integrates into society.
point.sys directed by Devan Simunovich USA, Experimental, 0, 00:00:00 The thematic background for this piece revolves around the inherent difference in point coordinate systems as a result of their physical substrate. The basis for a digital virtual space is a point coordinate system, starting with the finite point. Several points form a plane and multiple planes form geometric space. Additional coordinates are used to derive point of observation, and the environment can be displayed two dimensionally for human interpretation via a few simple equations. An organic recreation of space happens on a much more symbolic level, the human brain does not process mathematically accurate point coordinates but can infer this information more intuitively by advanced visual recognition, as neurons map color and light data, pass that on to larger neural groups for comparing geometry, shadow and parallax with associative memory structures. Sonic information, tactile information, atmospheric pressure and other sophisticated low level senses are also built into an organic system and contribute to deciphering the nature of a surrounding environment. It is then able gauge dimensions and place entities as symbols within a virtual world stored as a constantly changing neural state. It is, fundamentally, building an organic virtual space to represent the outside world - an abstract of it's surroundings with itself at coordinate 0,0,0. While 'point-sys' peruses these themes from a more artistic and playful vantage point, it's intent is to share an enthusiasm for the development of advanced man made environments that are able to blend and interact with the organic process we have come to take for granted.
seed() directed by seed( ) USA, Experimental, 2001, 00:00:00 ((the) (control) (collaboration) (regarding) (ponder) (hear) (product) (the) (silence) (and) (anthropoDecentric) (sounds) (live) (cross-modal) (messages) (without me) (is) (you) (military-entertainment complex) (of) (for) (and) (see) (sentience) (plant 's) (plant aesthetics) (media) (remapped) (experience) (are) (editing) (plant) (hello) (discourse) (to) (live) (seed) (images) (sensory) (the) (a plant made this) (spectrum) (early) (biosignals) (decisions) (sentience) (l-systems) (symbolic composing) (patterns) (attempt to communicate) (fit) (the) (a plant made this) (human) (testing))
77.012.mov directed by [spit] USA, Experimental, 0, Magnetic Stereo, 00:00:00 produced with videoscript(autorecord patch) and aftereffects audio snippet by "surgeon" videomaterial/copyright by eugen danzinger
ALIEN_FURY directed by SOLU Spain, Experimental, 2001, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:48 ALIEN_FURY was created with realtime video environment nato.0+55. It is a product of visual jamming, a clip taken away from a continuous stream of hours of nonstop play with videoloops. There has been no editing or cutting after the realtime session. Everything has been created with and within the sound. Text on ALIEN_FURY in the IMPAKT-festival cataloque: Starkly stylistic clip by a celebrated finnish VJ who's closely involved with the developments of the NATO software (software to edit live image and sound). By laying diverse layers of abstract images on top of one another, she creates a tension of depth against the passing landscape. On a big screen, this is certainly impressive. 3:48 Barcelona (SPAIN) 2001
"film me" directed by Sue and the Musorkians USA, Experimental, 0, 8mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:00:00 "film me" is an exploration of somebody else's home movie through aural and visual processes, both analog and digital. Made from 8mm film, a digital video camera and a powerbook running a max-based data processing program. the music is taken from agf's album "head slash bauch" released on orthlorng musork in 2002.
Niosumed directed by Mordka (Jarrett Smith & Jeffers Egan) USA, Experimental, 0, 00:00:00 The piece was performed live by controlling the image synthesizer using TouchMixer [live interactive 3d software] and an external Peavey 1600x slider box. I created everything on my Dell Laptop. When I was finished recording the animation in the mixer, I increased the resolution of the geometry and texture layers then created the quicktime. The most interesting aspect of all this is that the visual development was more like making music than making traditional forms of animation. It was a breakthrough in the sense this was the first music video ever created using TouchMixer and it was totally fun to do. Breaking software is really how I work. Although I've worked in the confines of reality for many years, attempting to recreate scenes for visual effects in film, today I spend my creative time putting silly numbers into parameters to see what they will do. I'd say you have the most freedom in Touch when you know how to break it but still have it under control.
mregh-u-linea directed by Chris Musgrave USA, Experimental, 0, 00:00:00 Material generated in real time from bru?mal, a 128KB MAX/MSP/NATO 0+55 patch. High db/low frequency sound reinforcement + dark room required for experiential reproduction.