This is a video by artist KOKI TANAKA from the 2008 Taipei Biennale. It was on College Humor. I think I like that but I'm not sure yet.
TORONTO CASTING CALL for Sebastien Grainger video. Girls aged 12-16 (cousins and younger sisters!) email: planetofcasting@gmail.com
This was made in 1980 using fractal generators. I can't imagine the render times. It took me almost 8 hours or something stupid to render one of THESE.
Labels: NOBODY LIKES A NERD, VIDEO
Hollis Frampton's 1971 film Nostalgia is a recording of 12 photographs being burned on a stovetop one at a time while a description of each photograph is read. The descriptions, however, are not of the photograph we are watching as it burns, but rather of the next photograph that we will see. By the time we see the photograph that has already been described all we have is the memory of the story of this image. We somewhat desperately try to remember the description while listening to the description of the next image. Nostalgia (from the Latin nost meaning home and algia meaning pain) has us doing the same - desperately remembering in an achy way the lives we have lived while trying to pay attention to what is coming next. It's easy to get confused.
Labels: ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO
DRIVEMEINSANE.COM has been running since 1997. It is a webcam site where you can control things in the person's home - mainly lights. You can turn five different lights on or off (Christmas lights, regular lamps, plasma lamps, etc.). Every time I've gone over the past few days there has been someone there. It's really disconcerting. I feel like Buffalo Bill. It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again!
Labels: VIDEO
Since when did David Lynch get all NPR? I'm kind of over This American Life - too many "explaining the economy" episodes and borezystorezies. This series of people from THE INTERVIEW PROJECT will fill that gap for now.
As promised, I am now selling DVDs from the NEW RITUALS series:
New Rituals - 2009 - 9:00
DVD of 9 animated images on a loop. Plays in any standard DVD player. Each DVD is hand-stamped with the New Rituals insignia and comes packaged in a sacrificial refuse bag. A lock of the artist's hair is sparkled to the front of each package.
To order a DVD please send $30 via Paypal to graydon@graydonsheppard.com. An address request will follow. If you are ordering from the United States, the cost is $30USD including shipping. If you are ordering from Canada the cost is $30CAD including shipping. Please inquire for international rates.
Supply is limited!
Labels: ART, I MADE THIS. ME. GRAYDON., PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO
I like it when the birdy looks in the camera and cacks.
Video by SEMÂ BEKIROVIC who also does some beautiful photography and has made paper prints for gallery display, which is something I really want to do but have not yet tried. I think I'm learning that I am most excited by artists know the rules and walk around them - not so much by the ones who don't learn the rules in the first place or who feel the need to say "Fuck your rules, man!"
From the series Reflections
From the series (edition?) Paperprints
Via WLYS
Labels: ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO
One of my favourite photographers, BETTINA HOFFMANN, just had an installation up at the AGO. I think it's down now but you can see the videos on her site - the piece is called ÉMILE.
She is Canadian but I don't think of her as a Canadian artist. I really think her work is so exciting and progressive in how it straddles that line between art directed and believable. It's like Lukas Moodysson's film SHOW ME LOVE or the TV series Big Love - the art direction and casting and styling are so perfect and right and down to the detail but feel effortless and completely untouched - almost to the point of looking tasteless or devoid of aesthetic. I'm not sure how much Hoffmann "art directs" her staged portraits, but from the effort she appears to put into perfectly staging her subjects I would assume that she takes control of the mise-en-scène as well (if I may be a douche-bag and say "mise-en-scène").
I think I like her so much because her aesthetic is so much in opposition to the Canadian aesthetic of faux-awkward, tritely-contrived, flash-lit, over-styled, under-evaluated, over-appreciated photographs that we've all been over-exposed to. I mean, JIN-ME YOON'S series was great but we have to stop trying to recreate that, am I right?
Labels: ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO