MOREHSHIN ALLAHYARI / In Mere Spaces All Things Are Side By Side I

“In Mere Spaces All Things Are Side By Side I” is the first in series of videos exploring the complex adoption and accessibility of the internet in a Developing country. Rather than thinking about technology from a position of privilege, it focuses on the gap, failure, limitation, and the frustration of access to technology.

The videos are primarily inspired by my saved Yahoo chat histories from a 4 year long online relationship when I lived in Iran… but rather than delving into the relationship itself, it creates an imagined space between physical and virtual to connect the failure of the relationship to the failure of technology and communication.

http://www.morehshin.com/2014/10/17/in-mere-spaces-all-things-are-side-by-side-i/

Peter Kirby - Binary Lives /Steina and Woody Vasulka - 1996

Jonathan Gillie // Analogue Compositions

http://jongillie.tumblr.com/

PETER CHAMBERLAIN / SQUARED TO DEATH / 1984

(or) Getting Even With Bad TV

Sightings: Littoral Zones, 2014

Really happy to announce the release of a new video series, Sightings, on the video label Undervolt &Co. 
A new video will be released for streaming every week, and some posters and DVDs are for sale as well!
Here is Littoral Zones, the first video of the series.  

Littoral Zones- Sabrina Ratté from Undervolt & Co. on Vimeo.

LE RÉVÉLATEUR / AFTERIMAGE SELVES

Here is a new video for Le Révélateur, Afterimage Selves, a track taken from the full-length Extreme Events, released by Root Strata on August 22nd (Europe) and September 2nd (USA).

PETER CHAMBERLAIN / BED TIME STORIES FOR THE INNOCENT / 1982

A while back I found this particular video on Youtube and I was thrilled; I didn't have much information about the artist, but this work alone was enough to be a great inspiration to me. A few months later, I realized that the video got removed and I was quite disappointed, but only until Mr. Chamberlain himself noticed the post on this blog and kindly wrote me an email about it. He gave me a little bit more insights about his work and very generously, he sent me a DVD copy including some of his video work from the same era.

He says that this video was produced at one of many residencies at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY. The center started up in late 70's as a grant funded research and production center for experimental video. The mandate of the center was to design and build equipment to be housed in a lab that was cheaply accessible to artists. They had very competitive prices and a lot of artists applied for this residency. David Jones designed and built most of the equipment which was during the hybrid analog/digital transition days. The totally synthetic imagery (no camera) of Chamberlain's work was produced by a system David Jones built for the center that basically converted analog waveforms from modified audio synth processors (8 analog inputs) into digital control signals (8 digital outputs). Apparently, he is still building as David Jones Design...video switching matrixes, etc.

Mr Chamberlain has been a musician for years, and he composed the music for all of his videos. He's also been teaching video art for the last 40 years and he even developed an electronic arts program at the university of Hawaii in 1991 where he is still today.

Mr. Chamberlain is quite aware of the VHS quality of the transfer for this work and to quote him: "The occasional Glitches resulting from old age actually match up with contemporary glitch aesthetics...sort of curious."

DEBORAH REMINGTON

“My work concerns the paradoxes of visual perception, the enigmas and quirks, and how it all forms the basis for our realities. The impact, excitement, and energies created by incongruity, juxtaposition and opposites all interest me.

The images are couched in paradoxical terms and must challenge the mind’s eye, must invoke opposites and hold them in tension. The work at times seems to refer to something in reality, but then the reference is denied. Identity; the fusion of so many experiences, so many inquiries, so many intuitions is also a primary issue.” -Deborah Remington

http://www.deborahremington.com/index.html

VISITES POSSIBLES

New video made for Computers Club, Visites Possibles embeds different electronic landscapes into the walls of an architectural space. "Entities" arise and disappear regularly throughout the visit, as if haunting this virtual environment.

Special thanks to Roger Tellier-Craig for this stunning electronic score.

COMPUTERS CLUB

http://www.computersclub.org/