Title: NoplaceArtist: Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg
Description: When visiting Noplace online, people can input a current desire or future goal. The website constructs a downloadable movie based on a visitor’s ideal sentence. Images and sounds are pulled from the Internet and used as raw data in the creation of visual narratives.
Location: Online
Date: September 2008
Link: Click here
Title: Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective
Artist: Tony Conrad
Description: Billowing scrims on either side of the bridge function as projection screens for the performance activities enacted behind them. These actions will include the live music performance and re-enactments of alternative film production processes Conrad developed in the mid-1970s. While the audience occupies the floor below, Conrad’s back-projected, larger-than-life silhouette will loom large, swaying in response to the production of sounds which will generate a pressure-filled auditory environment.
Location: Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Date: July 2008
Link: Click here
Title: Abundance
Description: When visiting Noplace online, people can input a current desire or future goal. The website constructs a downloadable movie based on a visitor’s ideal sentence. Images and sounds are pulled from the Internet and used as raw data in the creation of visual narratives.
Location: Online
Date: September 2008
Link: Click here
Title: Unprojectable: Projection and PerspectiveArtist: Tony Conrad
Description: Billowing scrims on either side of the bridge function as projection screens for the performance activities enacted behind them. These actions will include the live music performance and re-enactments of alternative film production processes Conrad developed in the mid-1970s. While the audience occupies the floor below, Conrad’s back-projected, larger-than-life silhouette will loom large, swaying in response to the production of sounds which will generate a pressure-filled auditory environment.
Location: Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Date: July 2008
Link: Click here
Title: AbundanceArtist: Camille Utterback
Description: At night, Abundace transforms the city hall plaza into an interactive social space. A video camera mounted on the City Hall captures the movements of people in the plaza below. A dynamic animation generated in response to this movement is projected onto the 3-story cylindrical rotunda. Utterback’s colorful, fluid and delicate imagery creates a subtle subversion of the bold geometry of architect Richard Meier’s building – warming and humanizing its surface.
Location: San Jose, California
Date: September 28 - October 6, 2007
Link: Click here
Title: Screening Circle
Artist: Andy Deck
Description: Visitors to the site can enter the drawing area to compose loops of graphics and affect and edit each other's screens. The pieces can be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the segments can be haphazard or precise. In the screening area, the resulting motion graphics will be on view instantaneously
Location: Online
Date: 2008
Link: Click here
Title: Follow Through
Artist: Jennifer Crowe and Scott Paterson
Description: Follow Through is a mobile, audio-visual artwork that has been created specifically for the Museum's 5th Floor Permanent Collection galleries and is accessible to visitors on portable media players. The project is inspired by the discrepancy the artists found between the active and energetic art on view in the galleries and the rather passive and languid body language of museum visitors looking at that art.
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art and Antenna Audio
Date: Dec. 1, 2005 - Jan. 29, 2006
Link: Click here
Title: The Battle of Algiers
Artist: Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin
Description: The Battle of Algiers recomposes scenes from the 1965 film The Battle of Algiers. The original film is a reenactment of the Algerian nationalist struggle leading to independence from France in 1962. Lafia and Lin recomposed the film along a cell-based structure, in which French Authority and the Algerian Nationalist cells are represented by stills from the film and move according to different rule sets. When cells of different camps intersect, they trigger video cells displaying each side's tactics according to the rules of the system.
Location: Online
Date: March 1, 2006
Link: Click here
Title: Immobilité
Artist: Mark Amerika
Description: The story of Immobilite revolves around three pirate personas. Existing, as if in another time, looking back. The work critically reflects on the fluidity of emerging identities in digital culture from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Amerika mixes landscape, portraiture, mobile videography, poetic intertitles and subtitles, along with an original 75 minute soundtrack, to create a provocative story about a dreamworld within our own world.
Location: Cornwall in the UK
Date: 2007-2008
Link: Click here
Title: The Dumpster
Artist: Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg
Description: The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has "dumped" another.
Location: Online
Date: February 14, 2006
Link: Click here
Title: A La Mode, Science Friction, Breath Death, Poemfield # 2
Artist: Stan VanDerBeek
Description: This video art consists of four different movies called A La Mode, Science Friction, Breath Death, and Poemfield # 2. A La Mode is a rapidly edited, surreal collage animation. Science Friction is a stop-motion animation, a non-verbal political satire, reflecting society, the mass media and scientific inquiry. Breath Death is a surreal fantasy based on 15th century woodcuts of The Dance of the Dead. Cut-up photos and newsreels, reassembled into a black comedy dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Poemfield #2 is a number of cathode-ray mosaics, typically brief, non-narrative and abstract. All of these films explore fragments of text, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action with animation collage.
Location: Stony Brook, New York
Date: 1959 - 1966
Link: Click here
Title: 1st Light
Artist: Paul Chan
Description: 1st Light is a vision of Biblical elation – the ascending of the believers to Heaven – making reference to 9/11. The floor projection shows shadowy silhouettes of bodies and everyday objects falling to the ground and equally rising towards the sky. This evokes the 1969 images of floating astronauts as much as those of bodies tumbling from the burning towers – iconic images of hope and terror, of utopia and the apocalypse merge.
Location: New York
Date: 2005
Link: Click here
Description: At night, Abundace transforms the city hall plaza into an interactive social space. A video camera mounted on the City Hall captures the movements of people in the plaza below. A dynamic animation generated in response to this movement is projected onto the 3-story cylindrical rotunda. Utterback’s colorful, fluid and delicate imagery creates a subtle subversion of the bold geometry of architect Richard Meier’s building – warming and humanizing its surface.
Location: San Jose, California
Date: September 28 - October 6, 2007
Link: Click here
Title: Screening CircleArtist: Andy Deck
Description: Visitors to the site can enter the drawing area to compose loops of graphics and affect and edit each other's screens. The pieces can be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the segments can be haphazard or precise. In the screening area, the resulting motion graphics will be on view instantaneously
Location: Online
Date: 2008
Link: Click here
Title: Follow ThroughArtist: Jennifer Crowe and Scott Paterson
Description: Follow Through is a mobile, audio-visual artwork that has been created specifically for the Museum's 5th Floor Permanent Collection galleries and is accessible to visitors on portable media players. The project is inspired by the discrepancy the artists found between the active and energetic art on view in the galleries and the rather passive and languid body language of museum visitors looking at that art.
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art and Antenna Audio
Date: Dec. 1, 2005 - Jan. 29, 2006
Link: Click here
Title: The Battle of AlgiersArtist: Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin
Description: The Battle of Algiers recomposes scenes from the 1965 film The Battle of Algiers. The original film is a reenactment of the Algerian nationalist struggle leading to independence from France in 1962. Lafia and Lin recomposed the film along a cell-based structure, in which French Authority and the Algerian Nationalist cells are represented by stills from the film and move according to different rule sets. When cells of different camps intersect, they trigger video cells displaying each side's tactics according to the rules of the system.
Location: Online
Date: March 1, 2006
Link: Click here
Title: ImmobilitéArtist: Mark Amerika
Description: The story of Immobilite revolves around three pirate personas. Existing, as if in another time, looking back. The work critically reflects on the fluidity of emerging identities in digital culture from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Amerika mixes landscape, portraiture, mobile videography, poetic intertitles and subtitles, along with an original 75 minute soundtrack, to create a provocative story about a dreamworld within our own world.
Location: Cornwall in the UK
Date: 2007-2008
Link: Click here
Title: The DumpsterArtist: Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg
Description: The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has "dumped" another.
Location: Online
Date: February 14, 2006
Link: Click here
Title: A La Mode, Science Friction, Breath Death, Poemfield # 2Artist: Stan VanDerBeek
Description: This video art consists of four different movies called A La Mode, Science Friction, Breath Death, and Poemfield # 2. A La Mode is a rapidly edited, surreal collage animation. Science Friction is a stop-motion animation, a non-verbal political satire, reflecting society, the mass media and scientific inquiry. Breath Death is a surreal fantasy based on 15th century woodcuts of The Dance of the Dead. Cut-up photos and newsreels, reassembled into a black comedy dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Poemfield #2 is a number of cathode-ray mosaics, typically brief, non-narrative and abstract. All of these films explore fragments of text, computer graphics, and in some cases combine live action with animation collage.
Location: Stony Brook, New York
Date: 1959 - 1966
Link: Click here
Title: 1st LightArtist: Paul Chan
Description: 1st Light is a vision of Biblical elation – the ascending of the believers to Heaven – making reference to 9/11. The floor projection shows shadowy silhouettes of bodies and everyday objects falling to the ground and equally rising towards the sky. This evokes the 1969 images of floating astronauts as much as those of bodies tumbling from the burning towers – iconic images of hope and terror, of utopia and the apocalypse merge.
Location: New York
Date: 2005
Link: Click here
Title: Under ScanArtist: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Description: Under Scan consists of hundreds of video-portraits projected onto the ground in Trafalgar Square. The portraits were shot from above, as members of the public lie beneath a suspended camera. When visiting the installation, the portraits are not immediately visible because the space is flooded by white light. As people walk around the area, their shadow is cast on the floor, revealing the video-portraits.
Location: Trafalgar Square
Date: November 2008
Link: Click here
Title: Curing the VampireArtist: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Description: In Curing The Vampire, Hershman Leeson tackles questions of appropriation and distribution from a broad cultural and political perspective. Challenging authenticity through the personification of a surreal virtual world character, a discussion around free culture and a radical re-thinking about the essence of our genetic make-up.
Location: New York, Mexico, Italy, San Fransisco, and in a virtual world called Second Life
Date: October 2008
Link: Click here
