New Releases
New Releases consists of the latest acquisitions to the VDB collections, be they contemporary works by artists, titles that are newly-preserved or edited that are now being made available to audiences, or recently released DVD Box Sets or compilations.
  Ouroboros: Music of the Spheres is Chapter 3 of Mysterium Cosmographicum. "Positing a linear continuum, with 'nothing' at one end of the spectrum and 'something' at the other, at what point does 'nothing' become...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: found footage, future/technology, technology |
The Physical Impossibility of Life in the Mind of Someone Dead is Chapter 2 of Mysterium Cosmographicum. I can’t live if living is without you, he said as his tear-stained cheek glistened in the glare of the klieg lights...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: found footage, performance |
The Prognosticator (Or, We Are All Pythagoreans Now) is Chapter 1 of Mysterium Cosmographicum.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: blu-ray, found footage, performance |
In part a remake of Hollis Frampton’s Gloria! (1979), in part a repurposing of hacked, 16-bit video game technology; The Well of Representation asks us to reconsider our fear of the liminal. Following the convergent narratives...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: found footage, image processing, media analysis, technology |
Fashioned out of home movies recovered from failing hard drives, this glitch-art video makes comparisons between different forms of memory - suggesting that, while error and decay may keep us up at night, they might also be the way we put our...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: found footage, image processing, memory, technology, youth/childhood |
Decidedly low-tech, this optical abstraction begins with a shot of an aluminum reflector inside a lamp; a lightbulb in the shot’s center flicks on and off. As the video plays on, nearly identical shots are superimposed, but at a steadily...
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, image processing, photography |
At the heart of Alone With You is the notion of impassioned avarice, i.e. the kind of motivated acquisitiveness that drives both erotic desire and obsessive collecting.
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles Tags: art collectors, body, found footage, gender, photography, sexuality, visual art |
Kevin Jerome Everson’s prolific body of work is grounded in formalism and combines scripted and documentary elements. The subject matter is the gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of African-Americans and people of African...
Collection: New Releases, Single Artist Compilations, DVD Box Sets Tags: african-american, documentary, experimental film, family, found footage, labor, mixed media, photography, race |
Welcome to The History of the Future: A Franklin Furnace View of Performance Art. This disc set is based upon a live event that took place at the Abrons Art Center in New York City on April 27, 2007. Within this box set, you'...
Collection: New Releases, DVD Box Sets, Single Titles Tags: activism, art history, documentation, history, performance |
