gravitymax in transition

Originally commissioned by the Arts Council’s DMZ festival, ’13′ consisted of 13 drawings sent out by email over 13 days traveling along the A13 urban freeway. The drawings will later become the basis of a short film commissioned by Channel 4 to be broadcast this autumn.

Errata (16mm, 2005) is an experimental film in which I used a photocopier to generate frames of animation. Each frame of the film is a photocopy of the previous frame. Both black & white and color photocopies were used to make this film, approximately 4,600 copies total.

just came across this insightful editorial piece by kosmograd from earlier this year (some would call this “pre-ipad’). in it, analogies between our current obsession with screen-based devices and the monolith in 2001 were drawn.

Unlike the computers of 2010, the computers in ‘2010‘ do not create space. The computers of the Leonov, and even HAL 9000 on the Discovery, are little more than tools or automatons, tactile and solid. Whereas HAL looked out into our world, today we look into the world created within the computer.

We’ve replaced the dreams of visiting other planets with the inner space of computer devices. Our focus has shifted from exploring outer space to the computer generated world of cyberspace.

as i see it, this trend could become problematic as we continue to ignore external investigations of the world we live in and focus on an internal escapism that diminishes impact on real social and economical problems.

directors discussing the impact of “pan and scan”, a technique used to fit wide screen into full screen.

a visually stunning piece that masters the language of film: light, depth, and timeline (or duration). via the truly awesome ubuweb.

the world’s first feature-length mobile phone art film. exhibitions and screening at chelsea art museum from april 8 – may 9, 2009.

A story about a future world where the dream of living in utopia can only be sustained by a nomadic tribe of artists and intellectuals, Mark Amerika’s Immobilité mashes up the language of “foreign films” with landscape painting and literary metafiction. The work was composed using an unscripted, improvisational method of acting and the mobile phone images are intentionally shot in an amateurish or DIY [do-it-yourself] style similar to the evolving forms of video distributed in social media environments such as YouTube. By interfacing this low-tech version of video making with more sophisticated forms of European art-house movies, Amerika both asks and answers the question “What is the future of cinema?”

The past 120 years saw some of the most rapid changes in how we record, collect, and use audio, visual, and now digital information. The pace creates in its wake, a long list of obsolete technologies, some of which, still exist, but for which equipment and storage technologies are not always available. This exhibit reflects this light-speed, developing technology world with a selection of media formats.

super comprehesive and potentially dangerous for ebay-holics. view the entire exhibit on university of buffalo libraries.

video tour can be found on theory.isthereason.