Making of OffOn by Scott Bartlett

29.03.10
OffOn by Scott Bartlett Scott Bartlett made this documentary in 1980 of a recreation of OffOn that he created with a class at UCLA to use as a teaching tool. It is a wonderful insight into how the methods we take for granted today, were constructed with low-fi methods, along with snippets of what led him down the experimental video path. OffOn is a film by ...
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Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas on Collapse

28.10.09
B.Abbas and R.Abou-Rahme, Collapse (video still), single channel DV (2009), image courtesy of the artists Palestinian artists Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas spoke to APEngine about their sound and video installation, Collapse, which was exhibited at The Delfina Foundation, London, earlier this year as a work-in-progress. Can you explain what Collapse is for someone who hasn’t seen the piece? Collapse is a sound and video installation, which uses ...
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Shaun Gladwell at Spacex

08.10.09
Interceptor Surf Sequence, Shaun Gladwell Dates: 3 October-29 November 2009 | Location: Spacex, Exeter Spacex has staged a bit of a coup is securing the first UK show by Shaun Gladwell, who was a hit representing Australia at this year’s Venice Biennale. Gladwell’s video offers everything you might want from art… beautiful, considered, political… with some skateboarding and roadkill thrown in. Seven Year Linework presents a selection ...
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Army of YouTube by Rosemary Heather

07.10.09
Still from Jib Kidder's Heavenhurst Prophet Posse Faced with the awe-inspiring popularity of web-monoliths like YouTube, contemporary art risks becoming nothing more than a quaint relic of the 20th century. It’s probably not fair to compare contemporary art practice with YouTube; yet there is evidence to suggest that somewhere in the ulterior of its collective brain, the art world does just this, and finds itself ...
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Drei Klavierstücke op. 11 by Cory Arcangel

05.10.09
Drei Klavierstucke op. 11, Cory Archangel Here are three videos made by artist Cory Arcangel that recreate the Three Piano Pieces, Drei Klavierstücke op.11, composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1909, using something ubiquitous on the world wide web – footage of cats playing pianos. The films use around about 170 videos of cats and pianos taken from YouTube, that have been matched to the audio of ...
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Artists’ Film and Video at the London Film Festival 2009

29.09.09
FILM IST. a girl & a gun, Gustav Deutsch Dates: 24-25 October 2009 | Location: BFI Southbank, London At this year’s London Film Festival, Mark Webber presents a varied selection of international artists’ film and video works ranging from the contemporary ethnography of Mirza/Butler to Jim Trainor’s witty, naïve animation of ancient civilisations. Gustav Deutsch introduces FILM IST. a girl & a gun, a battle of ...
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