Month: February 2010
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Live-Taped Video Corridor
In the closed-circuit installation «Live/Taped Video Corridor», a study from the Performance Corridor work group, Nauman set two monitors above one another at the end of a corridor almost ten meters long and only 50 cm wide. The lower monitor features a videotape of the corridor. The uppermost monitor shows a closed-circuit tape recording of…
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Essays – “Video Theory”
Instantaneity The most obvious departure the video image makes from its cinematic cousin is that it can be instantly available: recording and broadcasting can be simultaneous, and this technological possibility has offered a wide variety of uses from broadcast television to remote sensing, from the proliferation of security and surveillance cameras in the urban environment…
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Generali Foundation: Installation
Peter WeibelBeobachtung der Beobachtung: Unbestimmtheit, 1973© Generali Foundation, Foto: Werner Kaligofsky Closed Circuit Videoinstallation3 Videokameras auf 3 Stativen,3 Videomonitore auf 3 Metallgestellen,Bodenmarkierung aus schwarzem KlebebandGesamtdimensionen variabel, ca. Ø 400 cm via Generali Foundation: Installation.
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Yo, Mo’ Modernism… 1 @ CCNOA
Yo, Mo’Modernism 1 from ccnoa on Vimeo. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/2314677]
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Art Safari – Relational Art: Is It An Ism?
link ubu: http://www.ubu.com/film/relational.html
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Carsten Höller and Ranti Tjan on happiness and perception
The artist Carsten Höller has wide interests. He conducted biological research into how plants and insects communicate with one another. He put on Congolese music festivals and he pored over the hallucinatory effects of mushrooms. In a conversation with Ranti Tjan, director of the European Ceramic Work Centre, he tells about his fascination for the…
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Robbert Morris, Notes on Sculpture @ museum Abteiberg
Robert Morris, an influential theorist and artist, wrote a three part essay, “Notes on Sculpture 1-3”, originally published across three issues of Artforum in 1966. In these essays, Morris attempted to define a conceptual framework and formal elements for himself and one that would embrace the practices of his contemporaries. These essays paid great attention…