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The artists on this compilation investigate modern mythology, examine environments, play with similes between machine and body, and explode form. Through the use of custom software, unique processing methods, and envelope- pushing applications of traditional production tools, these works push technical limits and the very boundaries of style and imagination. RELINE2 offers an insight into the current world and it's potential future as imagined through graphic re-interpretations, biotechnology, architecture, and the environment.
RELINE2 features the music of: AGF, Anon, Brian Jackson, The Knobs, Lusine ICL, Jake Mandell, Otto Von Schirach, QDepartment, seed(), Sewn, Solvent, Twerk, and Venetian Snares
ABOUT THE RELINE DVD SERIES
The goal of the RELINE DVD series is to compile an array of work showcasing artists engaged in the creation of new visual forms deriving from experimental techniques and the re-orientation of high- end production processes. Part video archive, part work of art itself, the RELINE DVD series serves the dual goal of contextualizing and developing an emerging media form.
| Catalog Number: MC-547 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Video Art / Film Art |
| Copyright: 2006 |
Length: 64 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC/EAN: 880198054791 |
| Label: Blackchair Collection |
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Films In Compilation
Wrangelstr directed by
Jeffers
Egan
Germany,
Video Art / Film Art,
2005,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:20
The visuals are a remix of a performance between Jake Mandell and Jeffers Egan at Tonic, in New York City from July of 2005.
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From Brown to Green directed by
Scott
Pagano
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:44
Spatial unfolding and shifting graphic space accompany a track from Twerk's latest Mille Plateaux release. Dense abstract fields, rhythmic architectural lines, and precision cut photography expand upon and illustrate the subtle and refined soundscape.
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E3 directed by
Robert
Seidel
Germany,
Video Art / Film Art,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
The movie seems to be a living picture without narrative structure, but it consist of different gouache paintings, that where created as a diary over the time of 3 months. First, in the beginning, everything is perfect, a exciting life, new people, positive chaos then the euphoric atmosphere fades away, everyday life and problems catch up fear, rumors, callousness and moody behavior decompose everything, leaving just different sized fragments and some dried out paths then you are ready to run again, starting the same thing over and over again, just in different shades and scales.
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Draw Down directed by
Arnold
Steiner
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
0,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:00:00
Drawdown: the process by which the dominant species in an ecosystem uses up the surrounding resources faster than they can be replaced.
Drawdown explores the relationship between man, machine, environment and the culture of greed in the world. Looking at the body as both a polluted system and a vehicle for enlightenment, we see the human form as an evolving machine empty of meaning in and off itself. In this context, the delusions of ego and self-importance become clear. Drawdown suggests viewers look beyond their own selfishness to see the vast abundance of the world around them.
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Untitled for Televisions directed by
Scott
Arford
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
0,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:57
Untitled for Televisions is a very simple work, designed to reduce your television to its essential form - a box which emits light and sound.
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Laptops & Martini's directed by
Motomichi
Nakamura
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:21
Laptops & Martini's starts with an evil monster pounding the floor with its hoofs in an attempt to awake the evil side of a little Cyclops. Once under the monster's spell the Cyclops, with the help of a machine gun that turns everything it hits into a copy of himself, sets foot to multiply and destroy the world. Under the vigilance of the disgruntled monster, not yet satisfied by having created an army of evil followers, chaos erupts before the master's ultimate desire reveals itself. Music by Otto Von Schirach.
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Regret directed by
Tronic Studio
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:01:26
Future Beauty focuses on a Creature who is loss and regret personified. The Character embodies the human's inability to let go. He is haunted by expectations. The organic formal qualities of the Creature are contrasted by its inorganic material qualities. This alludes to a future life form where the organic and inorganic form a hybrid that is no longer able to be separated from one another.
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3X6 directed by
Magnetic Stripper
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:02:00
Magnetic Stripper is the Noisecore/Electro A/V experiment of San Francisco Performer James F. Ellis.
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Musee Hofstdat directed by
C-TRL Labs
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:28
Musee Hofstadt is an exploration of how repetitive sets of actions lead to complex behavior within a biological system, both real and simulated. Deterministic actions were codified using Butoh performance techniques while instruction sets were carried out using programmatic manipulation; both of these processes loosely based on the Typogenetic theories of Douglas Hofstadter. Developed in the late 70's, Typogeneteics is a set of deterministic string manipulation rules that model the processes of genetic replication. Recently these systems have become important in the emerging field of Bioinformatics. The character s actions incorporated movements in sets of 4 and 16; correlating to the number of sting terms and total instructions used in the Typogenetic system. Typogenetics was also implemented in Perl and used to drive video processing in Max/Jitter as well generative 3D geometry in Maya
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Data_Flow directed by
D-Fuse
United Kingdom,
New Media,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:23
Data_Flow explores and tracks the spaces created by invisible information within computer circuits and systems, representing the pure data within computers and networks. In the hidden spaces generated by errant code and circuitry binary information emitted as a by-product. Video stimulates audio to produce a dynamic experience of a flow of data, using layered images and multiple angles within the Data_Flow space.
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Celluloid directed by
Jude
Greenaway
United Kingdom,
New Media,
0,
Super-8mm,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:24
Celluloid is a personal project that reflects on time any memories caught on super 8. Fragments of film that burn or get damaged eroded frames that we lose or forget. The audio track was composed just after the death of my grandfather which then inspired me to make this piece.
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ReGEN3ration directed by
Ben
Sheppee
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
2004,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:02:00
Audio by Sewn - Visual remix by Kevlar (BA)
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An Open Thought directed by
Owlandia
USA,
New Media,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:02:50
An open thought leaves the flock and discovers a strange and beautiful world. Creation techniques include ink and paper, 2D animation, and 3D animation performed in real time using alternative input devices. Set to algorithmic lullabies for plants by seed( ).
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For You directed by
Jaron
Albertin
Canada,
New Media,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:29
Two sides of an ego plagued relationship conflict in this silhouetted tale of self-obsession and distraction. Music by Solvent.
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still.not.still directed by
Sue
Costabile
USA,
New Media,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:57
still.not.still takes frozen moments in time and transforms them into moving pictures. the role of the movie still is reversed: photographic images are sequenced through a digital video camera and also by a scanning mechanism inside the jitter software environment. images are then composited through a series of delays. the piece was originally designed for an installation on an old admiral tv set. this version is a video recording of the piece played on that tv set with a new soundtrack scored to picture by agf (antye greie), a berlin-based musician.
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Span directed by
Chris
Musgrave
USA,
New Media,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:04:36
A camera was mounted to the hood of a truck, pointed down at the pavement and then driven from San Francisco to Oakland on the Bay Bridge. I have long been fascinated by the way light is modulated when moving through this architectural space in a vehicle. I had been waiting for a day like this, when the sky was a clear with good visibility, hard light and sharp shadows. I drove across the bridge, improvising, by seeking out the patterns that were most interesting.
The luminosity of this video image was then used to process the volume of the sound of a running motor, which reveals a sonic equivalent of the bridge’s structural rhythm. Where there is structure, where there are shadows, there is noise. No video edits were made.
Video to sound processed with Scott Arford at 7hz, San Francisco.
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Aditi directed by
C505
USA,
New Media,
0,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:05:28
Aditi is a noise video piece created based on one of the tracks of The Knobs. A far cry from music videos, the pieces are more analogous to experimental/abstract film and video art.
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Lazer Graffiti Writer directed by
Tenzin
Wangchuk
USA,
New Media,
0,
00:00:30
The point of this piece was to empower people with a quick and easy way to project digital images onto walls. In this case the text written is based off an ancient Tibetan Mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum." Out loud or silently to oneself, this invokes the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of compassion. Viewing the written form of the mantra is said to have the same effect.
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2006-10-31 Art Library, University of Maryland, College Park
By Louise Greene
The 18 short compositions that compriseReline2 continue the mission and vision of curators (and contributing artists) Scott Pagano and Phoenix Perry who released Reline in 2002. Artists and musicians included in this second international collection, as in the first, employ experimental media and technology to explore a multitude of themes from sensory to psychological. Among these: reflections on the flight of time and memory; the flow of pure data as an experience of sight and sound; visual modeling of the processes of genetic replication; architecture as soundscape; an ancient Tibetan mantra as digital graffiti; synchronous rhythms of light, shadow, bridge, and internal combustion engine. Clips and trailers are available at the Microcinema web site. DVD extras include artist and musician bios and a variety of descriptive material. Reline2 is recommended for libraries and educational programs with collections in emerging, contemporary, avant garde, and digital art.
| 2006-10-24 Neural.it
The vj culture is tangible in a lot of contemporary video works. The germs of the non-linear narrative (that were enabled and spread by PC post production software tools) has largely infected the video medium. As in the first Reline volume the integration of forms is here more sophisticated than the pure classical abstraction exercise. The flow of elements is usually linked through different degrees of transparencies, and transition effects are applied on parts of the (moving) pictures, continuously transforming the basic perception. This kind of germination of forms can then be experienced in the psychedelic architectures of Scott Pagano, in the sliding wings of Ben Sheppee & Sewn, or in the morphing organic signs of Robert Seidel. The digital culture seem to have radically transformed the visual space of video: from a sequential unicuum to a compositional and sometimes asymmetrical matrix, retrieving the structural elements of the printed graphic design and constantly moving them in a visual flux.
| 2006-09-28 Earplug
By SW
Although it's nearly impossible to trace the origins of the first remix, generations of artists have relied on the re-orientation of ideas to move experimental art forward. The goal of the Reline DVD series is twofold: First, and most immediately, it's an array of breathtaking audiovisual art, derived from cutting-edge techniques and high-end production processes that move effortlessly from the organic and anthropomorphic to the futuristic and machine-inspired. Second, Reline functions as an important snapshot of the ever-evolving video-art movement.
Each of the 31 artists featured on the series' second installment seem more than familiar — even enamored — with the unique relationship shared by experimental audio and video; many of the pieces here, especially "Data_Flow" by D-Fuse and Lusine ICL and "From Brown to Green" by Scott Pagano and Twerk, exploit the hidden architecture of wave forms and the visual geometry underpinning each medium. (If you've ever looked at an audio signal's graphic representation, you know how strikingly beautiful it can be in a purely abstracted visual sense.)
The artists on Reline2 also frequently discover new ways of interpreting the familiar. Robert Seidel's "E3" re-imagines children's finger paintings and illustrations through an eerie, kaleidoscopic Rorschach filter, while C505 and the Knobs collaborate on "Aditii," an affecting short that combines the psychedelic hallucinations of Vietnam-era military testing with the foreboding oscillations of a malfunctioning EKG. It's an apt metaphor for the artists themselves, who employ moody tones and arresting production methods to monitor the pulse of a world plagued by dangerously high blood pressure. (SM)
| 2006-09-26 skynoise.net
By Jean Poole
Another disc full-o-mutant pixels hoofs over the horizon, this next galloper into town being the ‘difficult second album’ follow-up to the acclaimed Reline DVD compilation.
Reline 1 contained a fantastic spectrum of lo-fi to hi-fi visual explorations, noodlings and generally provocative work. The sequel, co-curated and produced by Scott Pagano & Phoenix Perry, focusses much more on the expensive end of that spectrum, it still manages to provide quite a diversity of approaches, in line with the goal of showcasing “artists engaged in the creation of new visual forms deriving from experimental techniques and the re-orientation of high-end production processes.”
Clocking in with 64 minutes of abstract patterns and dense visual rhythms, black and white grains juxtaposed with saturated colours, and all manner of aesthetic invention, the disc veers from hypnotic to stroboscopic, turning a lounge room into something more akin to a nightclub or art gallery, than perhaps the party atmospherics provided by say a Resfest or music-video compilation. The niche being exploited here is a category blur of motion graphics, visual effects, sophisticated aesthetic manipulation and music video - at least where the audio and visual elements heavily interplay. The disc to that extent is an excellent collection of stunning visual experimentation, and those interested in any form of video manipulation will find much of it exquisite. Those same themes of visual play however, at times make the disc feel like a collection of clips in need of a stronger directorial hand - one which might better leverage the visual techniques in service of an overall idea, or overall momentum.
Highlights robert seidele3 by Robert Seidel is a delicious hybrid of organic and inorganic, morphing and at times sharply mutating the soft curves of a 3 month gouache painting diary, into gorgeous screen pulses of mesmerising shapeshifting. The music by Michael Engelhardt of 4memusic in 5.1 surround sound matches the piece quite well. There’s a hazy, mirage-like otherworldliness to this piece, the muted colours and dirty textural noise in constant ebb and flow.
judeOn first disc-viewing, Celluloid by Jude Greenaway of the Light Surgeons stood out for it’s relative warmth amongst the array of highly technical approaches. Coastal super 8 footage layered and processed, with the usual frame burns and jitters almost expected with film, washing delicately over the screen as fuzz-tones gently flare the speakers. It wasn’t until reading Jude’s bio on the DVD that I realised the significance of the time counter displayed XL on screen, ticking down to the song’s end, Jude describing how he wrote the track to commemorate the passing away of his grandmother.
scott paganoShould curators include their own work on a disc? In Scott Pagano’s case it seems justified, his piece ‘from brown to green’, wonderfully visualising the intricate layered precision of a Twerk release on Mille Plateaux. The rhythmic architectural lines, and precision cut photography are reminiscent of the Designers Republic cityscape cut-outs for Warp records, but extend the concept with more layers of visual complexity, well considered transitions, and a graceful sense of pacing and editing.
motomichiMotomichi, aka VJ Moto, matches the demented music of Otto Von Schirach delightfully with the limited palette of red, black and white 2d graphics, effortlessly managing continuous visual surprise with his reworking and remixing of shapes. Cute and brutal!
tronicTronic studio & Q department present a human-machine hybrid future-present, in the form of visualising an extension to the nervous system as a mangle-tangle of flowing cables… an idea executed very well a few years ago in a music video for a glitch artist whose name frustratingly escapes at time of writing ( drop a line if you can help re-direct the tip of my tongue ). Still done very well here though, if a little tantalisingly short.
Even shorter, and equally tantalising for it - is laser graffiti writer by Tenzin Wangchuck, with soundtrack by Venetian Snares, a buddhist exploration of rapid light-flared grafitti on an urban wall.
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