Bill Viola (b.1951)
Jul ::: offart
The Passing 1991
B/W 56 Min.USA
Bill Viola reworks the story of Christ’s death and resurrection in a modern medium but his pieces are dripping in classical heritage. He plays with Renaissance symbolism, drawing directly from early Renaissance compositions and poses - the original paintings on display may be less visceral but are much more mesmerising.
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Carson "Kit" Davidson
Jun ::: movie
Help, My Snowman's Burning Down (1964)
Fourteen international awards, including an Academy Award, Nomination and the Special Prize of the Jury, Cannes Intl Festival. Presents a surrealistic and humorous satire on the Madison Avenue image of the world through advertis
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Amon Düül
Mai ::: offart
Amon Düül / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Niklashauser Fart
Amon Düüls appearance in the 1970 Fassbinder movie Niklahauser Fart which connects a 15th century peasants rebellion with the political struggles of the 1960ties. Fassbinder (in modern clothes representing the present) discusses the chances of a revolution with one of the peasant rebels
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Amon Düüls appearance in the 1970 Fassbinder movie Niklahauser Fart which connects a 15th century peasants rebellion with the political struggles of the 1960ties. Fassbinder (in modern clothes representing the present) discusses the chances of a revolution with one of the peasant rebels
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ENDO
Mai ::: offart
Producer: Sara Tirelli, Valeria Palermo, Alberto Mussolini
ENDO takes the notion of the black-boxing of technology to a conceptual critique and poetic sculptural interpretation. We are offered an object â a black-cased digital recorder, equipped with various sensors â allegedly registering data from its surroundings such as sound, camera image, GPS coordinates, brightness, air pressure, humidity, and temperature on a terabyte hard drive. Once the hard drive is saturated, recording stops, and the data becomes enclosed within the object, transforming it into a monumental static artifact. ENDO is a data devouring device which yields nothing in return, and hence runs contrary to the idea that the recording and storage of data will produce additional information, or insight, or even in a time of data profiling: security. As viewers we are deprived of prying into, let alone understanding, the workings of the device before us. The maxim in data we trust is firmly put to the test. What is really happening with this information, if anything at all, becomes a matter of speculation.
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ENDO takes the notion of the black-boxing of technology to a conceptual critique and poetic sculptural interpretation. We are offered an object â a black-cased digital recorder, equipped with various sensors â allegedly registering data from its surroundings such as sound, camera image, GPS coordinates, brightness, air pressure, humidity, and temperature on a terabyte hard drive. Once the hard drive is saturated, recording stops, and the data becomes enclosed within the object, transforming it into a monumental static artifact. ENDO is a data devouring device which yields nothing in return, and hence runs contrary to the idea that the recording and storage of data will produce additional information, or insight, or even in a time of data profiling: security. As viewers we are deprived of prying into, let alone understanding, the workings of the device before us. The maxim in data we trust is firmly put to the test. What is really happening with this information, if anything at all, becomes a matter of speculation.
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Digital Slaves
Mai ::: offart
Video by Valère Terrier
Digital Slaves have worked on several installations for Visual System exhibition.
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Digital Slaves have worked on several installations for Visual System exhibition.
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Casey Neistat
Mai ::: offart
The Ethics of Stealing a Bike
between a movie in a movie and a performance with a subtle irony „new mediasmile“, Casey Neistat videos are a kind of conceptual brilliant dilettantism. On this movie he mixes different layer`s of perception into a state of question, what kind of ethic and social behavior are below pictures, words and the common value system.
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between a movie in a movie and a performance with a subtle irony „new mediasmile“, Casey Neistat videos are a kind of conceptual brilliant dilettantism. On this movie he mixes different layer`s of perception into a state of question, what kind of ethic and social behavior are below pictures, words and the common value system.
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Gypsy Rose Lee Remembers Burlesque
Apr ::: offart
According to Wikipedia,
Gypsy Rose Lee was born Rose Louise Hovick in Seattle, Washington in 1911, although her mother later shaved three years off both of her daughters' ages. She was initially known by her middle name, Louise… Louise's singing and dancing talents were insufficient to sustain the act without [her sister] June. Eventually, it became apparent that Louise could make money in burlesque, which earned her legendary status as a classy and witty strip tease artist. Her innovations were an almost casual strip style, compared to the herky-jerky styles of most burlesque strippers (she emphasized the "tease" in "striptease") and she brought a sharp sense of humor into her act as well. She became as famous for her onstage wit as for her strip style, and—changing her stage name to Gypsy Rose Lee—she became one of the biggest stars of Minsky's Burlesque, where she performed for four years.
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Jeff Mission (b.1963)
Swim
A live video feedback performance by VJ Jeff Mission. The smooth, colorful waves in this piece were generated by chaining together two pieces of equipment - an Edirol V4 video mixer, and a JVC JX-C7 Video Corrector - in a continuous loop, then making incremental adjustments to the settings on the JX-C7. The result is a digital organism, composed of pure feedback, that can be manipulated at will. The technique used in this piece is one of the core components of his live performances.
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Stelarc (b.1949)
Apr ::: offart
Entropy
Mrz ::: offart
A short film made for the Transmedialities course at the University of Amsterdam in 2006, the assignment being to produce an adaptation in the broadest sense of the word.
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Rich Ragsdale
Feb ::: offart
dance/movement test for experimental film
is a short intense work with an interesting combination of traditional dance moving scenes (expressionismus, butho, artaud, ect) and an atmospheric sound.
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Andrew Huang
Feb ::: offart
Doll Face
A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.
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Daito Manabe
Dez ::: offart
Electric Stimulus to Face -Test4
Daito Manabe stimulates facial muscles with small electric pulses, synced to music.
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Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T): Nine Evenings
Dez ::: offart
Robert Rauschenberg John Cage Deborah Hayes David Tudor Robert Whitman Oyvind Fhalstrom
Robert Rauschenberg
Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations.
The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells.
For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations.
The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells.
For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.
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Frank Reitenspieß (b.1962)
Nov ::: movie
The Murder (1987)
Musik for this piece made by Harald Blüchel, formerly known as Cosmic Baby
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Kenneth Anger
Okt ::: movie
Scorpio Rising (1963), Lucifer Rising (1970), Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome (1966)
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The Palm Tree Song Line
Sep ::: movie
Once again a nice clip from Dagie Brundert:
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"I walk through Los Angeles. I see palm trees everywhere, those long tall skinny ones, I love them. And I start to sing".
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PARADISO ORATORIO
Sep ::: music
Based on Dante's DIVINE COMEDY
Dutch composer Jacob ter Veldhuis's PARADISO ORATORIO welds contemporary classical and club visuals on musical journey in search of beauty to counteract the trend of "doom and damnation" that he sees as pervasive in contemporary art. Visuals by Studio Drupsteen with soprano Clare McFadden, tenor Thomas Allen, and the North Netherlands Concert Choir and Orchestra.
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Kathleen Supové
Sep ::: music
A fluid rush of pianistic virtuousity brought to visual life by images of clouds projected onto the grand piano lid.
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Liquid Sky (1982)
by Slava Tsukerman
The eclectic site of New York`s 80`s. A low budged production in tradition of Midnight Movies about the glamoures people around St.Marks Place together in a weird sophistic, "every one is a star", scene. Seems like a visual reminiscence to Klaus Nomi and Ziggi Sturdust playing Doctor Schiwago behind the forbidden door of warhol`s factory just a minute before aids become the main focus for the next years.
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Dagie Brundert (b.1962)
Aug ::: offart
Nightlight
Dagie Brundert, a german filmmaker realised a wide ranche of super 8 movie`s over the last 20 years. Based on narrative simplicity, she weave`s a complex visual pattern into a state of permanent, playful irritation.
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Aug ::: offart
The Way Things Go (1987)
Inside a warehouse, artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss build an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items. Using fire, water, gravity, and chemistry they create a mind-blowing chain reaction of physical and chemical interactions and precisely crafted chaos.
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Banksy
Aug ::: offart
The Punking of Paris Hilton (2006)
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head. A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK. She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in."
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Philip Glass and Robert Wilson
Jul ::: offart
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
Documentary, Interview`s about this legendary opera, sound and choreographie
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Jenny Holzer
Jun ::: offart
Jenny Holzer discusses her difficult relationship to writing during the installation of the exhibition "PROTECT PROTECT" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Featured works include "Red Yellow Looming" (2004), "Lustmord" (2007), "Protect Protect deep purple" (2007), and "For Chicago" (2008), among others. The exhibition remains on view in Chicago through February 1st, and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in March.
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Featured works include "Red Yellow Looming" (2004), "Lustmord" (2007), "Protect Protect deep purple" (2007), and "For Chicago" (2008), among others. The exhibition remains on view in Chicago through February 1st, and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in March.
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Nancy Spero
Dez ::: offart
Becoming an Artist
A pioneer of feminist art, Nancy Spero's work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Jun ::: offart
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous.
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Rachel Whiteread
Jun ::: offart
In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London's Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.
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Jun ::: photography
In her studio in 1986
This video is an excerpt of an episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. Filmed in Europe, the United States, and Australia in 1985-6, the six programs feature many key artists including Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, Eric Fischl, and Joseph Beuys.
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Virgine Marchand
Feb ::: offart
The Little Mermaid
filmed in 2002 Mathilde as the mermaid, Patrice Marchand and Jean-Louis Costes as the surgeon, thanks to the Woman to accepted to be filmed!
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Yasuchika Konno
Jun ::: offart
A performance by Yasuchika Konno held at Tokyo Gallery on February 29th, 2007, for the opening of Riichi Yamaguchi's solo exhibition "A sense of de-tach-ment"
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JENNIFER WEST
Jun ::: offart
Rainbow Party on 70MM Film
JENNIFER WEST Rainbow Party on 70MM Film (70MM film leader kissed with lipstick & impressed with teeth marks by Jwest and her former students: Mariah Csepanyi, Maggie Romano & Roxana Eslemiah), 2008, 39 seconds
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