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Aspect - The Chronicle of New Media, Volume II
Artists of the West Coast
MC-192, 2002
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Format: DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All) |
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Aspect is a biannual DVD magazine of new media art. The mission of the publication is to distribute and archive works of time-based art.
Each issue highlights 5-10 artists working in new or experimental media, whose works are best documented in video or sound. Each work can be viewed with or without an additional commentator audio track.
Further Information:
Included in this issue:
ANTHONY DISCENZA: Object 8242600
with audio commentary by Marisa Olson
CAROLE KIM AND JESSE GILBERT: Reverse House Kit
with audio commentary by Julie Lazar
SCOTT SNIBBE: Deep Walls
with audio commentary by George Fifield
SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY: e-motion
with audio commentary by Susan Joyce
BRENT WATANABE: Thrift Store Tape #3
with audio commentary by Bill Arning
Editor: Michael Mittelman
| Catalog Number: MC-192 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: New Media, Modern Culture |
| Copyright: 2002 |
Length: 74 minutes |
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DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 880198018090 |
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Films In Compilation
OBJECT 8242600 directed by
Anthony
Discenza
USA,
Experimental,
2001,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:09:02
Between the relentless spread of consumerism and rapid advancement of technology, we find ourselves exposed to ever-greater amounts of visual stimuli. From television, movies, and the internet, to and endless sea of magazines, billboards, and print media, a steady stream of highly mediated imagery assails us. In the escalating battle for viewer attention, more and more of our information, regardless of its content, arrives in the form of elaborately manipulated visual sequences formally and structurally indistinguishable from mass entertainment. This results in a gradual poisoning of our experience, a profound level of alienation produced as our own internal narratives are colonized by the logic of the spectacle.
As a visual artist complicit in the production and consumption of images, I find this situation both fascinating and deeply problematic. I’m particularly concerned with a a kind of violence which underlies our overexposure to mediated images-- a violence not necessarily linked to content, but rather to the dissociative effects produced by the quantity, speed, and disparity of content of the imagery we consume. My work attempts to expose this violence while acknowledging its seductive force.
I work mainly with material appropriated from commercial film and television. Using re-recording, compression, and signal degradation to break down the original information, I’ve tried to collapse this breaking down these media images, I’m trying to uncover layers of meaning not apparent in the original context. At the same time, I want to problematize the act of viewing itself, in the hopes of revitalizing our relationship to the visual.
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Reverse House Kit directed by
Carole
Kim
USA,
Experimental,
2003,
DV,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:12:48
REVERSE HOUSE KIT is a non-linear, spatial interpretation of a 15-part poem by the same name. Peering into a large room through windows that create long, tunnel-like portals through a multi-layered space, a fugue of live voices guides us through the poem, informing us that we have arrived at the cusp of critical and imminent change. All pre-conceived notions must give way to re-invention---new models, softer structures. The space beyond the observation windows is shaped by floating windows, doors and layered thin plastic--thrown into relief by video projections and lighting. A sense of the actual space of the room falls away and one is drawn into the illusion of a very vast projected space. The audio environment is a continuously shifting landscape, using techniques of real-time spatialization, sampling, and processing of text and instrumental sound. The architecture of this piece could be referred to as a reverse panopticon. No one in the room has a privileged, all-seeing vantage point. It is about multiple vantage points that are always on the move and must be sought out. This piece is an intriguing marriage between form and content and how this applies to a performative experience. It can exist as an installation with video loops that can be experienced in smaller groups over time and as a large scale multi-media performance. The video merges the performances and the footage that was projected, presenting an intriguing recombinant space of the actual installation and the space depicted in the footage.
“Thus, an immense cosmic house is a potential of every dream of houses. Winds radiate from its center and gulls fly from its windows. A house that is as dynamic as this allows the poet to inhabit the universe. Or, to put it differently, the universe comes to inhabit his house.”
[Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, p.51]
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Deep Walls directed by
Scott
Snibbe
USA,
Experimental,
2002,
Interactive Video Installation,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:02:09
Deep Walls is inspired by architect Christopher Alexander's "Pattern Language". His admonition to architects is to build the walls of homes thick, so that cabinets, drawers and windows can perforate the interior space, providing areas to store, display, and slice through and ultimately provide more meaning within the home. In the spirit of Alexander, this work gradually absorbs the contents of its environment onto its surface, creating a cinematic cabinet of sixteen silhouette recordings of viewers' own shadows. By collecting viewers' shadows, the piece destroys the fantasy and illusion of cinema, replacing these with a structured representation of an active audience. Since each small recording retains the duration of the events within, a complex musical relationship between the cinematic loops emerges.
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E-Motion directed by
Survival Research Laboratory
USA,
Experimental,
2002,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:06:00
Survival Research Laboratories engages new vocabularies by integrating machines, theatrical sets and props, with dramatic visual metaphors, bringing to life, large-scale mechanical performances for audiences that rival other popular cultural events. By taking things to extreme ends SRL attempts to create new levels of sensory and emotional intensity.
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Thrift Store Tape #3 directed by
Brent
Watanabe
USA,
Experimental,
2001,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:07:00
For the last several years I’ve been working on a “Thrift Store Tape” series. These videos are created from footage found on discarded home videotapes. On these tapes are fragments of the lives of people I’ve never met and most likely will never encounter. I’m fascinated by the fact that these memories have been lost or sold or traded, and the people that recorded these events have probably forgotten these tapes even exist. The attempt to understand or explain the people on these tapes is futile; they exist only as they filmed each other in a specific time and place. The weddings, graduations, birthdays, and everyday lives captured on these tapes have a fractured, dream-like logic. It is this meandering and seemingly aimless material that I begin with. My process for “finding” the structure of these Thrift Store Tapes is quite similar to my drawing process: I find a cast of characters, situations, and events, then arrange, distort, and attempt to distill the material down to its essence.
These found home video tapes are endlessly fascinating, subtle, confusing, tender, frightening… My intentions are not to exploit these tapes as a simple, voyeuristic curiosity. What I wish to share is my personal response to the quiet and complicated lives of "everyday" people.
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2004-05-14 Educational Media Resources Online
By Reviewed by Robert L. Wick, Fine Arts Bibliographer, Auraria Library, University of Colorado at Denv
Aspect Magazine provides a biannual DVD magazine of new media art which is available both in individual issues and as a subscription. This publication is designed to present and archive and works of time-based art. Each issue features between 5 and 10 artists working in new and experimental media that can be documented in sound and video.
Artists of the West Coast (Aspect, Vol. 2) features the work of Anthony Discenza: Object 8242600, Carol Kim and Jesse Gilbert: Reverse House Kit, Scott Snibbe: Deep Walls, Survival Research Laboratory: e-motion, and Brent Watanabe: Thrift Store Tape #3. Each selection in this Aspect edition provides a different approach to mediated, time-based art. These artists are developing new artistic genres, and are considered pioneers in the area of electronic art. The DVD has very good production values, and is relatively easy to set up and view. In some cases there are interactive elements which may or may not be used by the viewer. It is formatted for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
Highly recommended. |
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