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RELINE2
A collection of 18 progressive audiovisual works by international artists
MC-547, 2006 microcinema exclusive

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RELINE2 artists 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 (All)
TV System: NTSC	ISBN:	UPC: 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
From Brown to Green directed by Scott Pagano USA, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:44
E3 directed by Robert Seidel Germany, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:00
Draw Down directed by Arnold Steiner USA, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Magnetic Stereo, 00:00:00
Untitled for Televisions directed by Scott Arford USA, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:57
Laptops & Martini's directed by Motomichi Nakamura USA, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:21
Regret directed by Tronic Studio USA, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:01:26
3X6 directed by Magnetic Stripper USA, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:00
Musee Hofstdat directed by C-TRL Labs USA, Video Art / Film Art, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:28
Data_Flow directed by D-Fuse United Kingdom, New Media, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:23
Celluloid directed by Jude Greenaway United Kingdom, New Media, 0, Super-8mm, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:24
ReGEN3ration directed by Ben Sheppee USA, Video Art / Film Art, 2004, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:00
An Open Thought directed by Owlandia USA, New Media, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:02:50
For You directed by Jaron Albertin Canada, New Media, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:03:29
still.not.still directed by Sue Costabile USA, New Media, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:57
Span directed by Chris Musgrave USA, New Media, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:04:36
Aditi directed by C505 USA, New Media, 0, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:28
Lazer Graffiti Writer directed by Tenzin Wangchuk USA, New Media, 0, 00:00:30

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
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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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MC-700, 2007

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