Category: Index & Index

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Yo, Mo’ Modernism… 1 @ CCNOA

    Yo, Mo’Modernism 1 from ccnoa on Vimeo. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/2314677]

  • Art Safari – Relational Art: Is It An Ism?

    link ubu: http://www.ubu.com/film/relational.html

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • max msp stuff Center for …..

    link: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/library/max_msp_jitter_depot/applications

  • Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers

    Filmmakers render aspects of nature, human activity and imagination visible. The documentary film continues to be a potent form in all its variety, from the personal video diary to “objective” fly-on-the-wall shoots, to the hybrid fact/fiction (“faction”) film. But the most prolific documentarists are no longer to be found in film schools and TV stations.…

  • Contact microphone

    A contact microphone, otherwise known as a pickup or a piezo, is a form of microphone designed to transmit audio vibrations through solid objects. Unlike normal air microphones, contact mics act as transducers which pick up vibrations and convert them into a voltage which can then be made audible. Often used as acoustic leakage probes,…